Last week you each took the Trails-9 Assessment of Information Literacy Skills. We will have a chance to go through it together, but in the meantime you will complete some online challenges to practice searching and researching skills. This week, you will complete several keyword search challenges, as you try to identify the most important words in a research question.
Follow this link for the website "21st Century Information Fluency" http://21cif.com/tutorials/challenge/Q2Q/KeywordChallenge.swf
During the time that you have, complete as many of the challenges as you are able. Reserve the last 10-15 minutes to report in a comment below on your progress. Which challenges did you complete? How did you do on each. Which of the four word categories was easiest and which was most difficult? What strategies did you learn and/or improve? How might you apply these strategies to your own personal and academic use of the internet?
I finished all of the challenges. The easiest challenge was the Hollywood. I thought that the toughest categories were the stop words and the words with little effect. I had a hard time deciding what category they would go in out of the two.I tried to do it the first time by putting them where i thought they would go. The second time I put the words according to how many were supposed to be there. The third time I fined tuned it if I had not already completed the challenge. I could apply these skill for academic use because when researching i can take out the useless words.
ReplyDeleteI finished the key word game. This game thing thought me to really simplify my searchs down to one or two words.
ReplyDeleteI finished 2 out of the 4. I found the Hollywood one the easiest and the Intermediate words the hardest. I think that if you can understand how to categorize the words then it is easier.
ReplyDeleteI finished all of the challenges. The first and last one were the hardest in my opinion. The second and third were the easiest. The hardest category was the middle two because some of them have almost the same value. This game will help me decide which words I really need to use to search something.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with Claire that the "Stamper Challenge" was the hardest. I finished all the Challenges and I plan to apply this to my knowledge for the internet by using keywords and intermediate keywords when I am using search engines.
ReplyDeleteI finished all the challenges and I plan to narrow it down to key words for search engines. I think the Stamper Challenge was the hardest.
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