Plan for Fall 2018

August 23, 2018.

My name is Plamen Miltenoff and I will be assisting in your instruction today: Here is more about me: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/ and more about the issues we will be discussing today: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/
As well as my email address for further contacts: pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu

1. Social Media for 2018
   1. WeChat and the connection to other social media
      1. building a community on WeChat
   2. SCSU Edublog http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ci/
      1. the idea of a blog. the advantages compared to SM such as WeChat / Facebook
   3. Reflections
      1. Multimedia
   4. Connecting blogs to social media (WeChat and similar)
2. Digital Literacy instruction
   1. what is digital literacy and how does it differ from other literacies? Why is it important?
      What other literacies must be considered when speaking about DL? E.g. media literacy: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=media+literacy
   2. Internet Resources
      1. 1. How do we search?
            1. Google and Google Scholar (more focused, peer reviewed, academic content)
            2. Digg http://digg.com/, Reddit https://www.reddit.com/ , Quora https://www.quora.com/
            3. SCSU Library search, Google, Professional organization, (NASSP), Stacks of magazines, csu library info, but need to know what all of the options mean on that page
         2. Custom Search Engine:
            https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/11/17/google-custom-search-engine/
         3. Basic electronic (library) search information and strategies. Library research services
            https://www.semanticscholar.org/
         4. 
         5. –Strategies for conducting advanced searches (setting up filters and search criteria)Filters
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            Search criteria

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   3. citation management software to organize bibliographic information
   4. Refworkhttps://www.refworks.com/refworks2/default.aspx?r=authentication::init&groupcode=RWStCloudSU
   5. Alternatives to Refworks (currently retired):
      1. Zotero, Mendeley, Endnote
      2. Fast and easy bibliographic tools:
         https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2013/12/06/bibliographic-tools-fast-and-easy/