i2i Syllabus (news and links)
Weekly Topics
Weekly Topics
Breaking News and FYIs
- This is the obvious place to look for links to any new postings outside of the usual weekly assignments (they're on the specific "Week" pages)
- All content linked on this page that is time-sensitive (paper assignments, exam questions) will be from the previous run of the course until current content is posted
- Video podcasts and slides are linked to the "Week" pages, but slide files reflect the formal modules as noted in the table above, so the dates might not match exactly—go by topic.
- Please make sure to read the "Assignments" page carefully
- We will post paper topics well in advance of the due date and exam questions will be posted about
Information on Exams
Here is how we do this… We post the questions one week before the exam; you'll be informed by email of the posting. You have six questions to study. On the day of the exam, we will have cut two of the six remaining questions, so you'll see four on the exam, of which you'll answer three, plus a question you've not seen before, a "mystery question."
Here is how we do this… We post the questions one week before the exam; you'll be informed by email of the posting. You have six questions to study. On the day of the exam, we will have cut two of the six remaining questions, so you'll see four on the exam, of which you'll answer three, plus a question you've not seen before, a "mystery question."
- Midterm exam questions [posted 2008-02-10] Scheduled for 2008-10-28, in class.
- Final exam questions [posted 2008-12-01] Scheduled for 2008-12-09, in class.
| Week 1 | Course Introduction |
| Week 2 | Information in Democratizing Societies |
| Week 3 | Computer and Network Architectures |
| Week 4 | Intellectual Property |
| Week 5 | IT & Difference: The "Digital Divide" |
| Week 6 | In, Out, and Beyond: What's Hot, What's Not |
| Week 7 | Interfaces to Information |
| Week 8 | Catch-Up and Midterm Exam |
| Week 9 | Information Searching and Retrieval |
| Week 10 | The Info Biz, and Info in Biz |
| Week 11 | Work and Information Technology |
| Week 12 | Memory, Archives, and Records |
| Week 13 | Privacy |
| Week 14 | Cyberculture[?] |
| Week 15 | Final Exam |
Other Useful Items
We assure you that your time and effort spent on the above how-tos will yield a very high return over your academic career. Non-technical academic writing is a special sort of discourse, and if you read the i2i assignments in the way you might read a chemistry text. you'll have no time for the rest of your life.
- First and foremost, please, at any time, offer feedback on this course, either in your name or anonymously
- Here's a nice how-to making a written argument—how to write an academic paper
- Peeled out from the above document, here's one specifically on citation practices
- And here's a how-to on reading academic material
We assure you that your time and effort spent on the above how-tos will yield a very high return over your academic career. Non-technical academic writing is a special sort of discourse, and if you read the i2i assignments in the way you might read a chemistry text. you'll have no time for the rest of your life.
