1. Information Literacy for the 21 st Century Class 2 – What is information Erik Mitchell, PhD Assistant Director for Technology Services Z. Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University

2. What is the web about? Listen to hunch.com piece on NPR – http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010 /10/04/130327569/hunch-dot-com http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010 /10/04/130327569/hunch-dot-com Answer questions on webex poll

3. Class overview Listen to hunch.com piece & take survey Questions & recap from class 1 More about webex – Gretchen Talk about ‘what is information?’ Discuss hunch.com story Recap and wrapup

4. Questions from last class How do I do other stuff on webex? – to share information on the screen with the group – Can we cover webex in more detail, slower? – How do I do video streaming? Can we use computers in class? Have we officially decided how many classes will be online? Do we have to write a paper?, Will this help me with writing papers?, what goes into the blog? When we are doing these assignments, can we choose any topic of our interest?

5. Webex Tour A new way to approach muting Private & public chatting Question asking via the chat window

6. What is information? A physical thing – book, website, journal A state of mind – Knowledge, memory, ‘common sense’, Communication – Conversations, hearing/listening, sharing

7. Learning is the process of contextualization

8. Research in 1940

9. Information use in 2010

10. Information is embedded in technology

11. Information is published in different ways for different uses

12. Google works

13. How tech-heavy are we?

14. Impact on institutions http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/2010-61510-future-of-the-internet-nat-geographic?from=ss_embed

15. Impact on society http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/2010-61510-future-of-the-internet-nat-geographic?from=ss_embed

16. Impact on literacy http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/2010-61510-future-of-the-internet-nat-geographic?from=ss_embed

17. Hunch questions “social networking sites are much more performative - you portray yourself in an aspirational way.”

18. Profiles ”Goal is to map every person to every object on the net...The next phase of the web is how does a person take all of this knowledge about themselves and make the internet more useful for them"

19. Is this too invasive?

20. How about this? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130653328http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130653328, http://usatoday.com

21. Discussion time Have you heard about the Facebook/Farmville issue? What do you think about the online privacy issue? – Privacy is as important as it ever was – Who cares how many cows I own – Privacy is unrealistic on the web

22. Information issues Privacy Mobile technology and information Social networks and learning/work Digital divide Evolution of the electronic book Copyright in digital media Perception management Impact of location based services on information use

23. Plan for class 3 In person! Room 476 of the ZSR Library Goal – to begin answering the question “how do we find information now?” Preparation – be ready to talk how you find information

24. Questions & recap Recap – How has the definition of information changed in the last 300 years? – What do we think about privacy on the web Question – how did today go? Added webex observation questions http://bit.ly/lib100feedback

25. Instructor information Erik Mitchell – mitcheet@wfu.edu mitcheet@wfu.edu – 301 Reynolds Wing – (336) 758-5797 Gretchen Edwards – Technical support for Webex – edwardee@wfu.edu