Learning activities

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This section provides a list of all Pilot activities, exercises, demonstrations and animations included in each module to help you access these resources easily, view text transcripts or alternative versions, and revisit activities for further learning.

• Module 1 - Determine your information needs
• Module 2 - Indentify and obtain information
• Module 3 - Evaluate your information
• Module 4 - Manage your information
• Module 5 - Synthesise and communicate your information
• Module 6 - Use your information appropriately

Module 1

• Define your topic - Animation: Analysing a sample assignment question (1.1)
• Understand your references - Self-test: What type of reference is this?(1.2.1)

• Locate your references (1.2.2)
  • Locate a book - Demonstration: searching the QUT Library Catalogue for a book
  • Locate a book chapter - Demonstration: searching the QUT Library Catalogue for a book chapter
  • Locate a journal, newspaper or magazine article - Demonstration: searching for periodicals in the QUT Library Catalogue
  • Locate a Web page - Demonstration: accessing a Web page
  • Self-test: How would you search the catalogue for this reference?

• Understand call numbers - Interactive exercise: Call number sorting (1.2.3)
• Map your ideas - Animation: Develop a concept map (1.3)
• Types of sources (1.6)
  • Animation: Why choose a primary source?
  • Activity: Test your understanding of primary and secondary sources
• Types of publications - Animation: From event to publication (1.7)
• Types of publications - Interactive exercise: Test your logic at the flight academy (1.7.8)

Module 2

• Understand your references - Self-test: How many alternative search terms can you identify for 'car'? (2.1)
• Keyword or subject searching? - Demonstration: keyword searching (2.3.1)
• Keyword or subject searching? - Demonstration: subject searching (2.3.1)
• Boolean operators (2.3.2)
  • Animation: The AND operator (2.3.2.1)
  • Animation: The OR operator (2.3.2.2)
  • Animation: The NOT operator (2.3.2.3)
• Nesting - Activity: Test your understanding of nesting (two examples) (2.3.4)
• Truncation and wildcards (2.3.6)
  • Animation: Truncation
  • Self-test: Where should you place the truncation symbol ... ?
  • Animation: Wildcards
  • Self-test: What is the wildcard symbol used in the EBSCOhost suite of databases?
• Prepare a search strategy - Interactive exercise: Build a search strategy game (2.3.7)
• Select an appropriate tool: Databases - Demonstration: a typical database record (2.4.2)
• Choose the right database - Demonstration: choosing a database (2.4.2.1)
• Tips for searching the Internet - Activity: Limiting your search by domain (2.4.3.2)
  

Module 3

• Evaluate your resources (3.3)
  • Reliability of the source - Demonstration: determining whether a periodical is refereed (3.3.1)
  • Validity - Activity: Are these images real or fake? (3.3.2)
  • Accuracy - Self-test: Considering an article in terms of referencing and authority (3.3.3)
  • Point of view - Self-test: What kind of language is used? (3.3.6)
  • Evaluate a Web site - Demonstration: evaluating a Web site (3.3.7)
  • Evaluate a Web site - Activity: evaluating a Web site (3.3.7)

Module 4

• Annotate and note take (4.3)
  • Activity: Suggested format for annotating and note taking
  • Text version: Suggested format for annotating and note taking
• Citations and references: Styles - Interactive exercise: Book, web, and periodical referencing (4.4.1)

Module 5

• Develop your information - Self-test: Draw a logical conclusion from a set of statements (5.1.4)

Module 6

• Plagiarism: Your responsibiity (6.5.1)
  • Self-test: What is wrong with this student's method of quoting?
  • Self-test: Which is an acceptable way of paraphrasing?