Needles in Haystacks

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Needles in Haystacks

• Information Skills and the Internet

Computing Studies 2000 Term 1, weeks 1 - 3
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Locating Information

• Information comes in a variety of forms
• print
• audio
• visual
• electronic
• From different sources
• Libraries
• Other people
• information hotlines
• the Internet
• Within sources
• menus
• indexes
• keywords

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Skills in using and understanding information

• Asking questions
• Selecting, evaluating and discarding information
• Combining information from different sources
• Presenting the most relevant information
• Presenting information suitable to the particular
  target audience
• Gauging the success of the presentation of the
  information

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The Information Process

• Defining the task for which the information is
  required
• Locating the information needed
• Selecting relevant information for the task
• Organising the information selected
• Presenting the organised information in an
  appropriate way
• Assessing how well the task has been performed

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Based on what you know about The Information
Process, what is wrong with Nathans approach to
finding information? List at least 4 concerns in
your book.