In addition to the three required posts, you will also be asked to write a blog post of no more than 500 words that reveals your favorite enrichment workshop that you had attended and why this workshop/program/experience was your favorite. Be sure to address the ways in which this workshop/program/experience resonated with you from a personal perspective and, if applicable, if it inspired you in any way. You will have the opportunity to discuss your post in class on the last day that your Freshman Seminar class will meet.

Post 3: Memes

Create or find a photograph or some other image (a meme, an animated GIF, etc.) that represents in some way your experience at Baruch thus far. Embed your image in a blog post in which you reflect, in no more than 500 words, on your impressions of your first three months at Baruch. Your response should be personal and creative. If you use an image that you did not create yourself, be sure to credit the source with a name, if possible, and a URL!

Post 2: Monologue & Self-Portrait

For this assignment, you must (1) post the monologue you’ve developed in your seminar AND (2) embed a self-portrait, which can be a photograph, an image, a cartoon, a drawing, or some other depiction of how you see yourself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/education/edlife/the-new-student-activism.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Create a two minute video, an eight image slideshow, or a ten song musical playlist that represents who you think you are to your classmates. Embed your creation in a blog post and then write no more than 500 words that explains how what you’ve created speaks to who you are. Here are some free tools that you can use for this assignment, but you are free to use whatever services you like:

• Video Editors:
  • YouTube Editor: http://www.youtube.com/editor/
• Image Slideshows:
  • Blogs@Baruch built-in galleries (Documentation Forthcoming)
  • Flickr: http://flickr.com/
  • Flickr Slidr: http://www.flickrslidr.com/
  • Picassa: http://www.picasaweb.google.com/
  • Image Loop: http://www.imageloop.com/
• Musical Playlists:
  • Grooveshark: http://www.grooveshark.com/
  • Spotify: http://www.spotify.com/us/
  • Mixpod: http://www.mixpod.com/

Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information”[1] Information literacy also is increasingly important in the contemporary environment of rapid technological change and proliferating information resources. Because of the escalating complexity of this environment, individuals are faced with diverse, abundant information choices–in their academic studies, in the workplace, and in their personal lives. Information is available through libraries, community resources, special interest organizations, media, and the Internet–and increasingly, information comes to individuals in unfiltered formats, raising questions about its authenticity, validity, and reliability. In addition, information is available through multiple media, including graphical, aural, and textual, and these pose new challenges for individuals in evaluating and understanding it. The uncertain quality and expanding quantity of information pose large challenges for society. The sheer abundance of information will not in itself create a more informed citizenry without a complementary cluster of abilities necessary to use information effectively.

Information literacy forms the basis for lifelong learning. It is common to all disciplines, to all learning environments, and to all levels of education. It enables learners to master content and extend their investigations, become more self-directed, and assume greater control over their own learning. An information literate individual is able to:

1. Determine the extent of information needed
2. Access the needed information effectively and efficiently
3. Evaluate information and its sources critically
4. Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base
5. Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose
6. Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally