LALT 101 Outline

• Unit 1: Welcome to Your Information Environment
  1. Class Lecture
  2. Activity
  3. Readings: Login to WebCT and read the LALT 101 Course Syllabus , Information Cycles, Information Timeline , What is Del.icio.us? , Wikipedia "del.icio.us" , Sample Del.icio.us Site
• Unit 2: Managing Your Information Environment
  
  1. Class Lecture
  2. Activity
  3. Readings: AUC Library Website , AUC Library Catalog , Library Classification Systems ,  Call Number Tutorial , Library Organization
• Unit 3: RefWorks
  1. Class Lecture
  2. Activity
  3. Readings: RefWorks FAQ
• Unit 4: Finding News Articles
  
  1. Class Lecture
  2. Activity
  3. Readings: Databases Coverage , Selecting Keywords , Creating a Search Query
• Unit 5: Verifying Information – Finding Facts and Background Information
  
  1. Class Lecture
  2. Activity
  3. Readings: Reference Works
• Midterm Knowledge Review
• Unit 6: Academic Disciplines, Scholarship, and Sources
  1. Class Lecture
  2. Activity
  3. Readings: Wikipedia "List of academic disciplines" , Database Coverage , Popular and Scholarly Communication , Popular Magazines , Journals
• Unit 7: Finding Opposing Viewpoints
  
  1. Class Lecture
  2. Activity
  3. Readings: Using a Topic to Generate a Question , Broadening , Narrowing , Broadening and Narrowing Vocabulary
• Unit 8: Critical Reading and Evaluating for Library Research
  
  1. Class Lecture
  2. Activity
  3. Readings: Credibility , Usefulness , Citations , Reading Citations
• Unit 9: Ethical Use of Information
  
  1. Class Lecture
  2. Activity
  3. Readings: AUC Academic Integrity Policy
• Unit 10: Putting it all Together
  1. Begin work on Portfolio
• Unit 11: In Class Peer Review
  1. Activity
• Final Quiz
  
  
• Extra Materials
  
  • Finding and Citing Images, Maps, and Music

Finding and Citing Images, Maps, and Music

FIND IMAGES

Flickr’s Creative Commons licensed photos
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

Getty Images
http://creative.gettyimages.com

Free Images
http://www.freeimages.com/photos

New York Public Library Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org

FIND MAPS

Google Maps
http://maps.google.com

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps

FIND MUSIC

Classical Music Library
http://0-external.aucegypt.classical.com.lib.aucegypt.edu

Free Play Music
http://freeplaymusic.com

CITE IMAGES, MAPS, and MUSIC

RefWorks
http://0-www.refworks.com.lib.aucegypt.edu/refworks