Me & Literacy



♫ We In Literacy Class ♬
Wednesday 27 March 2013 ? 0♥Inform Me♥ ?


From In front (Left): Farahaina, Shahirah, Umie Nadia
From Back (Left) :  Suhana, Nahzatul (Me), Syuhada, Shafawati, Emilia


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♫ My First Words in this Blog ♬

 Hye? Anyeonghaseyo! My Name is Nahzatul Nadiah bt Zakaria! Ok, this is my first post! This blog for subject Introduction of Literacy. Before this I already have a blog for Introduction of Information Technology! My lecturer for this subject is Miss Asna. She's very cute just like Miss Nisha. And this is my first week in semester 2 study about Literacy. Miss Asna tell Us about what is Literacy and why we need learn for this subject! I dont wanna say this subject hard because like before this I say IT is really hard but after I study that subject, that not really hard just like I think before this. So, for this week we just have one class, and we will continue our class next week! So, that All! I hope this semester I can study more harder and seriously not just like in semester 1. 


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♫ Literacy & Big 6 - Week 1♬

Topic 1 : Introducting About Literacy & Big 6

            This week. I had learned about What does literacy mean?. This topic about, why we should learn this course and why this topic important in our daily life. There are 6 type for Information Literacy. Library, Media, Computer, Internet, Critical Thingking & Research Literacy. Literacy also is a framework for silving problems. After that, I had learn about Big 6. Big 6 is a process model to how people of all ages solve an information problem. There are 6 step;



              We also must selecting the most useful resources. Example for resources are print (Book, newpaper cte.), online ( Google, Bronze etc.) & Other ( People, Media etc. ). So, after I learned this topic now I already understand what is information Literacy and 6 Steps in Big 6.


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♫ Appropriate Tools - Week 2 ♬

Topic 2 : Describe appropriate tools & search stratrategies to find information

          This week, I learned about Primary, secondary & tertiary sources. Before I learned about this topic I don’t understand what is primary, secondary & tertiary sources. But, after that I already understand what that all means. J
          Primary Sources means original document (first hand Information). Also they are written after the fact. Next is about secondary sources, secondary sources usually interpret primary sources ( second hand Information). They usually do a examination & researchers again about what they found or know from primary sources. Usually in form of published works are journal article, books & radio and TV documentaries. 

          Lastly, Tertiary sources. Tertiary sources is collection of primary & secondary sources, includes most types of references. There are example for primary, secondary & tertiary sources:



              Biography also secondary sources. Biography is when you write about another person life. And Autobiography is when you write about your own life.  Example for tertiary sources are bibliographies of bibliography, Directories if directories & Guides to the literature.



          And after that we learn about DCC & LCC. DCC is Dewey Decimal Classification. They only number. And LCC is Library of Congress Classification. They have alphabet and number. From this topic I also know what is the function OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) use in my university library . J


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♫ Search Tools - Week 3 ♬

Topic 3 : Library Catalog

          This topic, Miss Asna teach use how to use OPAC more specific. From OPAC we can renew our book which is already expired their date. We also don’t need to go to library, we just sign in OPAC easily using internet. This also our main pages for OPAC. 


            The OPAC provides us details about the books, audiovisuals, and other materials can be found in our library.  From OPAC we also can found a record for each book, they also available for checkout, overdue of items and also provide information about the format of the resources.





There also have 4 types of searching; browse, keyword, reserve (an item that the instructor has set aside for use by his or her students only)  and expert.


           After that, I learned about Internat. Internet also have weakness and strengths. So, from this topic I can understand more about the internet and how to use it properly. Information in internat may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Internat also called as information Superhighway. Search Tools internat have search engines, meta-search engines, information gateways, subject directoris & specialized Database. There are example for search engines:


          So, from this topic I know all about internet and search engines. Know, I know a little bit how important this subject. They can help me more detailes and specific how to used IT in my daily life.



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♫ Online Databases - Week 4 ♬

Topic 4 : Online Databases

For this week, I learn about online databases. There are simple and advanced screen in databases. Also they have three types for onlines databases; subject, keyword and full text. From this topic we just nedd to know how these look when we opened browser, and try to search something from the internet.

 








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♫ Search Strategies Basics - Week 5 ♬

Topic 5 : Search Strategies Basics

 For this week I learn about keywords, subject headings, phrases & single words. What can I say; keyword and subject heading use a standardized vocabulary, and usually give you more specific resources on your topic. Subject heading can be 1, 2 or more words, a phrase, a city, a country, a person, etc. Next, we learn about Brainstorming for search terms. There 3 types Library Subject Headings, Science Subject Headings and the last one are Thesaurus of Pyhchological Index Terms.

After that, I learn about Boolean Searching.


Boolean searching allows you to group words together in an electronic databases or environment such as theWWW to receive a number of different types of results. It allows you to expand (return more information or matches) a search by using OR or limit (return less information) a search by using the word AND.
—  Example:
          AND, OR and NOT

 





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