Information management system
A challenge you will likely face in your career is managing information. With the internet, access to information is usually not a problem. How do you manage new information you acquire in your courses? How do you convert this information into something that you know? What if a training program was required for your first job out of college; how would you keep track of what you learned in the program so you could find and use it in your job? How would you continue to acquire and manage information to enhance your knowledge and be successful in your career? (Do an internet search on the term: knowledge worker.)
This activity is an opportunity for you to develop and practice your information management skills. You will use Microsoft OneNote (free for students through MyMav). In OneNote you will keep track of your learning in this course. At the end of the semester I hope you will have met the learning objectives for this course AND developed your information management skills.
This is how to get started:
1. Go to https://skydrive.live.com and log into your account using the same email address and password you would use to log into your UTA email account. This will open your SkyDrive account. If you are not able to sign-in, reset your UTA password here.
2. Click on the “Create” button at the top of the page and click on “OneNote Notebook.” A new window will open, along with a dialog box which asks you to name the document. You may create as many notebooks as you would like for the class.
3. Clicking on the link to one of your notebooks will allow you to create titles, sections, and pages for each notebook. Note that there is not a save button- all information is saved automatically. A quick guide to using OneNote can be found here and here. And, here is more information on Office Web Apps.
4. This process will allow you to work with the OneNote Web App, which opens in your browser so you won’t have to download anything. If you are on a computer that has access to the OneNote program, you can sync your work on the web app with the OneNote software.
Each notebook should contain the following:
1. Your reading notes on assigned chapters and 1491. Just copy and paste these notes (the text of the notes, not the document file) into your OneNote notebook. This allows your notes to be searchable and accessible in one place. I don't expect you to have reading notes for all chapters assigned during the semester --- you will have notes only for the chapters you read and submitted. That is, you don't need to go back and complete Reading Notes for chapters you did not read or write notes for when they were due.
2. Research notes, ideas, drafts of your cross-cultural comparative study. I suggest you make your study one section and create a page for each component of your report (e.g., Introduction, Background, Expectations and Mechanisms, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, References Cited, Data table and coding sheet). This way you can access and work on the different components quickly and easily. You do not need to start writing your study from the first sentence and continue writing from the beginning to the end.
3. Class notes (optional).
4. Notes and resources on additional topics you are interested in related to the course.
5. A coherent organizational structure that makes logical sense of your notes and learning in the course. You should be developing sections and pages and titles for each that make sense. For example, "Snow CH 2" is less helpful than "How People Got to North America."
Search online to learn about and see examples of how you might organize your notebook.
Points will be assigned as follows:
5 points: All components present (reading notes, research notes, cross cultural study plus evidence of thoughtful design and logical usage of both sections (for books) and pages (for chapters) with descriptive titles of both (not "Chapter 2"), only one notebook
4 points: All components present (reading notes, research notes, cross cultural study) but little use of sections and pages and non-descriptive titles
3 points to 0 points: Some components present but little evidence of thoughtful design for logical use.
Copy and paste the link to your shared OneNote file into a Microsoft Word document or pdf and upload this file to Blackboard before each due date. You get the link using the "Share" command in SkyDrive. Select "File" "Share" "Share with People" "Get a link" "Create link". Copy the link in the box under Edit. Paste the link into a Word document or pdf and upload the document to Blackboard. Please test the link with a friend before you submit it! Click here for more information on sharing your notebook.
The activity may not be submitted late.
This activity is an opportunity for you to develop and practice your information management skills. You will use Microsoft OneNote (free for students through MyMav). In OneNote you will keep track of your learning in this course. At the end of the semester I hope you will have met the learning objectives for this course AND developed your information management skills.
This is how to get started:
1. Go to https://skydrive.live.com and log into your account using the same email address and password you would use to log into your UTA email account. This will open your SkyDrive account. If you are not able to sign-in, reset your UTA password here.
2. Click on the “Create” button at the top of the page and click on “OneNote Notebook.” A new window will open, along with a dialog box which asks you to name the document. You may create as many notebooks as you would like for the class.
3. Clicking on the link to one of your notebooks will allow you to create titles, sections, and pages for each notebook. Note that there is not a save button- all information is saved automatically. A quick guide to using OneNote can be found here and here. And, here is more information on Office Web Apps.
4. This process will allow you to work with the OneNote Web App, which opens in your browser so you won’t have to download anything. If you are on a computer that has access to the OneNote program, you can sync your work on the web app with the OneNote software.
Each notebook should contain the following:
1. Your reading notes on assigned chapters and 1491. Just copy and paste these notes (the text of the notes, not the document file) into your OneNote notebook. This allows your notes to be searchable and accessible in one place. I don't expect you to have reading notes for all chapters assigned during the semester --- you will have notes only for the chapters you read and submitted. That is, you don't need to go back and complete Reading Notes for chapters you did not read or write notes for when they were due.
2. Research notes, ideas, drafts of your cross-cultural comparative study. I suggest you make your study one section and create a page for each component of your report (e.g., Introduction, Background, Expectations and Mechanisms, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, References Cited, Data table and coding sheet). This way you can access and work on the different components quickly and easily. You do not need to start writing your study from the first sentence and continue writing from the beginning to the end.
3. Class notes (optional).
4. Notes and resources on additional topics you are interested in related to the course.
5. A coherent organizational structure that makes logical sense of your notes and learning in the course. You should be developing sections and pages and titles for each that make sense. For example, "Snow CH 2" is less helpful than "How People Got to North America."
Search online to learn about and see examples of how you might organize your notebook.
Points will be assigned as follows:
5 points: All components present (reading notes, research notes, cross cultural study plus evidence of thoughtful design and logical usage of both sections (for books) and pages (for chapters) with descriptive titles of both (not "Chapter 2"), only one notebook
4 points: All components present (reading notes, research notes, cross cultural study) but little use of sections and pages and non-descriptive titles
3 points to 0 points: Some components present but little evidence of thoughtful design for logical use.
Copy and paste the link to your shared OneNote file into a Microsoft Word document or pdf and upload this file to Blackboard before each due date. You get the link using the "Share" command in SkyDrive. Select "File" "Share" "Share with People" "Get a link" "Create link". Copy the link in the box under Edit. Paste the link into a Word document or pdf and upload the document to Blackboard. Please test the link with a friend before you submit it! Click here for more information on sharing your notebook.
The activity may not be submitted late.
