Instruction sheets for Fall 2010

Using Blackboard

Accessing Blackboard

LSC 551.2 Organization of Information

• Syllabus
• First assignment
• Link to Blackboard 8
  • If you are enrolled for this course in Cardinal Station you are enrolled in the blackboard course.
• Use your CUA network user name and password to log on to Blackboard
• Your CUA network user name and password are the same as your CUA email user name and password
• The course will start Sept. 4 on Blackboard
• This is class will be a blend of in person, 4 synchronous meetings via eslis a web conferencing application, and online asynchronous class meetings on blackboard.
  • The 2 in person meetings will be held Sept. 11 and Dec. 11 from 1 to 3 pm. The first meeting will be in the Information Commons in Marist Hall on the CUA campus.
  • Synchronous class meetings will be held on Saturdays from 1 to 3:30 9/25, 10/16, 10/30, and 11/13
  • I will also have office hours using eSLIS which I will announce soon.

 Research interests:

• End-user information seeking behavior
• End-user information behavior on the World Wide Web
• Assessment and measurement of end-user relevance evaluation behavior
• Scientific and scholarly communication
• Electronic publishing

Curriculum vita

      Cat pictures:

Dessie - Starving kitty who went hunting for food the only way she knew how: crying at our back door. Her forever home day is Aug. 29, 2009. Here she is a few days after we let her in. Dessie August 2009

Marsie-- niece of Terra and Carey, new kitty arrived home Dec. 30, 2007

        Terra and Carey -- sisters (We are Tonkinese if you please)

• Terra
• Carey
• Tired kittens
• Hunters
• Busted

Percy      

• Sleepy Percy -- Official course "helper kitty"
• Percy awake
• Ahhhh
• Percy Q.
  Percy (his baby picture)
• Percy in his kitty shrub 11-03
• Tired Percy 11-03
  

Flute: 

•  Judy and Joan playing the flute and cello