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This page houses Introductions, Solution Files, Reflections and Artifacts for ePortfolio Activities 1, 2 & 3.
INTRODUCTION TO ePORTFOLIO ACTIVITY 1 (Editable Block)
ePortfolio Activity 1 was about using different search strategies to find information in the form of blog post and scholarly article about orbital space debris using different keywords and phrases.
ePORTFOLIO ACTIVITY 1 (Embed ePA1 PDF solution file here)
MY REFLECTION ON ePORTFOLIO ACTIVTY 1
I learned various skills such as how to use different keywords and phrases to search for relevant scholarly journals , blogposts and wikipedia articles on the world wide web. This activity has also given me valuable experience that I will use in my projects for other units take at university level
ePA1 - CREATIVE CONTENT
INTRODUCTION TO ePORTFOLIO ACTIVITY 2 (Editable Block)
ePortfolio Activity 2 was about using different search strategies combined with various different techniques such as Booleans and allintitle features to effectively search for comprehensive information on the internet
ePORTFOLIO ACTIVITY 2 (Display ePA2 Excel solution file link here)
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MY REFLECTION ON ePORTFOLIO ACTIVTY 2
This activity included taught me how to source information from different search engines for academic information, search engines such as ProQuest and google scholar are essential for many types of resource work and this activity has given me the experience and skills necessary to utilise these search engines.
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Its search strategy is very refine and brought up an article directly related to the search which will save researches or students time and effort. |
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739,425 | Phrase search, Boolean operator OR, Default AND Boolean. |
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238 | Phrase search, default Boolean AND,proximity operator NEAR/x |
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| 46 | Default Boolean AND, Boolean OR, phrase search, truncation, terms in abstract, terms in title ,use of parethesis,year limiter |
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| “Information literacy in the digital age” | Phrase search | 106 | This search technique is not very effective since the user may have to go through multiple results to come to the book that was being searched for |
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| "Information literacy in the digital age" TITLE=Information TITLE=literacy TITLE=in TITLE=the TITLE=digital TITLE=age TITLE=: TITLE=An TITLE=evidence- based TITLE=approach. AUTHOR=Welsh |
Phrase search, terms in title and author search | 2 | This search is very effective since it brought up exactly what what was being searched ie the book itself and its digital copy(ebook) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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WELSH, T. S., & WRIGHT, M. S. (2010). Information literacy in the digital age: an evidence-based approach. Oxford, Chandos. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "Information Literacy Landscapes: Information Literacy in Education, Workplace and Everyday Contexts." |
Phrase search | 86 | This method is not very since there were many irrelevant results. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Information Literacy Landscapes: Information Literacy in Education, Workplace and Everyday Contexts." AND au(Cantwell, Kay) |
Advanced search using phrase and author limiters | 1 | This method of search is very effective since its one and only result is exactly what was being searched | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Cantwell, K. 2010, "Information Literacy Landscapes: Information Literacy in Education, Workplace and Everyday Contexts", Australian Academic and Research Libraries, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 221-222. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "The media and literacies" | Phrase search | 10 | This search technique returned some results not relevant to what was being searched |
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| allintitle: "The media and literacies: media literacy, information literacy, digital literacy." |
Advanced search using phrase and exact words in title function | 1 | This is a very effective result since it returned only the article being looked for | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0163443710393382?casa_token=n _4wMumz6B8AAAAA:2dMrc0se1IybNIrJ6ppfOby3SpAnSAobwRPw0yMkje_OznljRYP jox9Wo_UUXVRuiHAA0t0ScgLnqA |
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| Koltay, T. (2011) ‘The media and the literacies: media literacy, information literacy, digital literacy’, Media, Culture & Society, 33(2), pp. 211–221. doi: 10.1177/0163443710393382. |
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ePA2 - CREATIVE CONTENT
SYNTHESIZE (ICT)
The UU100 Course assessments, topics and content has been designed based on a set of learning outcomes. In point-form for each key Information Technology learning outcome below identify (i) which topic and or activities the learning outcome is related to (ii) and which skills have you acquired/developed to achieve the learning outcome:
1. Access and use USP’s ICT resources available on-campus and off-campus.
- Use search@USP to look for articles
- How to use advanced search on Search@usp
2. Identify and use different features of a computer system.
- Learnt how to convert word document to pdf
- Learnt how to use the automatic bibliography function
- Learnt how to automatically cite from ProQuest
3. Use computer applications for creating documents, presentations and spreadsheets.
- Create eportfolio 1&2 solutions in word and pdf
- Learnt different features of Microsoft word
4. Familiarize with emerging web-based technologies for educational and social purposes.
- Use search engines to look for information
- Learnt how to use ProQuest and Google Scholar
5. Recognise the legal, socio-economic and ethical issues regarding access to and use of information technology and information resources.
- Cover theory on the various aspects of ICT
- Improved knowledge about ethical issues surrounding ICT
- Discover the importance of ICT in legal and socio-economic aspects