HNFE 3224: USING & CREATINGSOCIAL INFORMATION

Rebecca Miller

millerrk@vt.edu OR hnfelibrarian@vt.edu

540-231-9669

CLASS OVERVIEW

Touch base about research Evaluating social information & other web

resources Professional communication & blogging Citations Q & A

RESOURCES FOR THIS COURSE

I’ve created several resources specifically for this course:

HNFE 3224 Library Course Guide Social Media for Nutrition and Food ePortfolio

Basic information and resources about social media tools (books, journal articles, etc.)

Additionally, this will be available on Slideshare : http://www.slideshare.net/millerrk

SOCIAL INFORMATION Information is no longer housed in just books

or journals Web 2.0 = user generated content Information can be communicated by web

pages, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube…and it’s all easily searchable by Google

SOCIAL INFORMATION PROS & CONS

Pros: You can communicate with all sorts of people, in

all sorts of locations It’s easy to publish and create information Your digital actions can define your professional

reputation and image! Cons:

You can communicate with all sorts of people, in all sorts of locations

It’s easy to publish and create information Your digital actions can define your professional

reputation and image!

EVALUATING WEB RESOURCES

None of the old-timers—the professors—can really give us much advice on sorting through and evaluating resources. I think we’re kind of one of the first generations to have too much information, as opposed to too little. We’ve never had instruction really on navigating the Internet and picking out good resources. We’ve been kind of tossed into this and we’ve just learned through experience we have to go on a Web site and just raid it for information. So I would say that despite all that’s out there, it certainly is harder to find the right source and evaluate whether it’s good, or not, because there’s so much—you only have a little bit of time to spend on each source you find

[Engineering student from Project Information Literacy study]

EFFECTIVE SEARCHING & EVALUATING

Scenario: you are doing some research and stumbled across these sites: http://www.nutri-facts.com http://www.foodfacts.com/

Are these sites authoritative? What are you looking at on the sites? Identify four reasons why you think the sites are good

or bad

We will report back and discuss in five minutes:

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/online-countdown/

SURVEY SAYS…

Examination of these sites revealed:

WEBSITE & WEB 2.0 EVALUATION CHECKLIST: HTTP://WWW.LIB.VT.EDU/INSTRUCT/EVALUATE/

Authority Is the page signed? What are the author(s)’ qualifications? Is there contact information?

Coverage Is the information relevant? How in-depth is the material?

Objectivity Is there any bias? Are there advertisements on the page?

Accuracy Is the information reliable? Is there an editor? Is the page free of silly spelling/grammatical mistakes?

Currency Is the page dated? Are the links current? Is the design current, or outdated?

BLOGGING

Blogging can showcase: Your communication skills Your creativity Your passion and dedication Your ability to network The message(s) that you want to send to your

audience Example:

http://christinasielbeck.wordpress.com/

What sorts of blogs do you follow?Why? And how…?

NATIONAL NUTRITION MONTH

I blog: http://hnfelibrarian.blogspot.com Communicate library, technology, and research

messages to HNFE faculty, staff, and students Explore library issues that may be relevant to

HNFE and other colleagues in the library field Allows me to digest complex ideas related to

research and library science, and offer my own opinions in a public arena

http://www.eatright.org/nnm/

BLOGGING OPPORTUNITY

Extra credit: up to 20 points Due February 29 Will be posted on Notes from Newman blog,

which will appear on the National Nutrition Month blog roll for eatright.org—an opportunity for national exposure

Think about this as an opportunity for promoting your message AND promoting yourself, as an emerging professional

Questions or comments?

LET’S EXAMINE SOME BLOGS…

http://thepaleodiet.blogspot.com/

http://nutritionnibbles.blogspot.com/

http://www.foodinsight.org/blog.aspx

APA CITATION STYLE

http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/citation/apa.html

Trouble areas: Deciding what resource format you’re looking

at/for Web resources Government resources Others?

My favorite online guides: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/0

1/

http://library.albany.edu/cfox

NAME THAT SOURCE!

For the next three slides, you’ll be voting on what type of resource a particular citation represents—

Get out your cell phones* or laptops in order to vote

Text all answers to 37607OR go to http://PollEv.com to submit the code

*Standard texting rates apply

WHAT IS THIS?

Duncan, G. J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Eds.). (1997). Consequences of growing up poor. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

To 37607 OR http://PollEv.com

A book—416962 A journal article—416963 A chapter in a book—416964 A webpage—416965

WHAT IS THIS?

Harlow, H. F. (1983). Fundamentals for preparing psychology journal articles. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55, 893-896.

To 37607 OR http://PollEv.com

A book—416962 A journal article—416963 A chapter in a book—416964 A webpage—416965

WHAT IS THIS?

Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anderson, M., Soderland, L., & Brizee, A. (2010, May 5). General format. Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

To 37607 OR http://PollEv.com

A book—416962 A journal article—416963 A chapter in a book—416964 A webpage—416965

CREATING CITATIONS

In groups, create a citation for the document I’m handing out

I will collect the notecards and report back on any issues or major problem areas

Remember, great APA (and other style) resources are available: http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/citation/index.html

PROPER FORMAT…

Mustafic, H., Jabre, P., Caussin, C., Murad, M.H., Escolano, S., Tafflet, M., …Jouven, X. (2012). Main air pollutants and myocardial infarction: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA, 307(7), 713-721.

A FEW LAST WORDS

Review: Citations Evaluating sources Blogging opportunity Other research for this course

Questions?

Thank you!

Rebecca Miller

hnfelibrarian@vt.edu

5004 Newman Library

540-231-9669

Office Hours:

Atrium, Wallace Hall

Mondays, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

http://hnfelibrarian.blogspot.com