information analyst

New from the 21st Century Information Fluency Project:

 

For a limited time, try the new Plagiarism Dropbox self-paced tutorials for free!

 

This is a flash based training experience: 

 

http://searchwhys.com/plagiarism-dropbox.swf

 

This game is designed to give you online interactive training in identifying and eliminating plagiarism.  

 

This Full Circle Kit features the first of a five part series by Dr. Carl Heine:  Five Things Today's Digital Generation Cannot Do.

 

The Curriculm section includes User's Guides to several of our online interactive games.  You'll also find links to our Popular MicroModules:

Search Engines Query: What is a Query? Using Keywords Effectively Synonyms Hyper- and Hypo- Nyms In the Action Zone you get links to 11 Search Challenge games.   Included is an Optimal Query Assessment and with a user's guide.  Click through and take a look? ~ Dennis

Via Jack Patterson

Eight Critical Skills for the Future

Equally as important as the social systems, we currently have very few rules for how to live our lives in a fully immersive world where explosive amounts of information are flowing to us and around us on a second by second basis.

Since each of us interacts with this information differently, it is up to us to master the “new rules of engagement.”

With that in mind, here are eight skills I see as being critically important in our future: