Digital Literacy for GLST 495

short link: http://bit.ly/glst495

Prof. Misha Blinnikov

What is Digital Fluency and how does it differ from Digital Literacy? Information Literacy? https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/11/01/preparing-learners-for-21st-century-digital-citizenship/

1. How do we search?
   1. SCSU Resources
      1. https://stcloud.lib.mnscu.edu/subjects/guide.php?subject=GEOG
   2. Google and/vs. Google Scholar (more focused, peer reviewed, academic content)
   3. SCSU online dbases
   4. Academia.com and ResearchGate.com
   5. Digg http://digg.com/, Reddit https://www.reddit.com/ ,
      http://smallbusiness.chron.com/difference-between-digg-reddit-68203.html
      Quora https://www.quora.com/
   6. Interlibrary Loan ILL http://lrts.stcloudstate.edu/library/services/illrequest.asp
   7. OER (Open Educational Resources)
   8. Big Data
2. Basic Research Resources
   1. Concept mapping (???)
      https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=concept+map
   2. Fast and easy bibliographic tools:
      https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2013/12/06/bibliographic-tools-fast-and-easy/
      Refworks: https://www.refworks.com/refworks2/default.aspx?r=authentication::init&groupcode=RWStCloudSU
      EasyBib: http://www.easybib.com/
      Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/
      Mendeley: https://www.mendeley.com/
   3. Setting up social networking to gather articles and other research information
      LinkedIn Groups
      Facebook Groups
      Pinterest Boards
3. Social media and its importance for the topic research and the dissertation research:
   1. Web 2.0 tools: e.g. Diigo.com; Evernote.com
   2. Facebook, Twitter
   3. blog.stcloudstate.edu
4. Academic Social Sites:
   https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/11/13/scsu-edad-scopus-vs-academia-vs-researchgate/