This assignment is due in week 15 at 2 pm Central on Friday, May 6 Begin reviewing it early to ensure success. When you have finished your proposal, submit an abstract as a blog post and submit the full paper (without an abstract) in Bb. You are also encouraged, but not required, to include a … Continue reading Informatics Applied Research Proposal
Deadline: Monday, March 7 at 2pm Central It’s that time of year again, almost the middle of the semester! That means the midterm is coming up soon, expect it next week. This week: Work in your small groups to check your article reviews. Finish the reading to begin preparing for the midterm. Look ahead to … Continue reading Week 7: Discuss and Prepare
Deadline: Monday, February 28 at 2pm Central First, we have some reading. After you finish reading parts 6 & 7 of our current text, move on to Part 8. There is a PowerPoint about this chapter on measurement. It’s a long complex chapter, so feel free to only go through about half of it this … Continue reading Week 6: Review an article and take a quiz
DEADLINE: Monday, February 28 at 2 pm CDT This Assignment Helps You: Practice finding peer-reviewed articles Identify the components and methods used for academic studies Instructions: Ideally, focus on a topic that would relate to your future career. Use the Forsyth library website to find an electronic version of a recently published study. The article … Continue reading Week 6 Blog Post: Review an Article
Before you continue to Week 5, please review the feedback I posted in Week 4 about the Week 1 posts. I used one post to discuss your research ideas and another to discuss best practices for post format. Weekly Overview: Once you’ve finished last week’s potential employer assignment, make sure to post it on the … Continue reading Week 5: Feedback, Another Quiz, and a Couple Easy Assignments
This assignment provides: Practice learning about a company before interviewing for a position, Practice using library resources, and Inspiration for potential research topics that can prove useful for future employers. Hint: Plagiarism is OFTEN an issue with this assignment. You can review “Examples of Common Mistakes” in the Bb assignment and try a plagiarism quiz … Continue reading Potential Employer: Week 4 Blog Post
Weekly Overview: You read about sampling in Part 4 of Patten and Newhart last week. Now, it’s time to move on to Part 5: Measurement. There are powerpoints available for this chapter in your Activity Checklist. And, five students are expected to create presentations on subtopics in the chapter. You also have your first research … Continue reading Week 4: Measurements and Job Prep
Weekly Overview: This week, you’ll have a quiz on Parts 1 through 3 of the current text and a new chapter to read. To help prepare for the quiz, those who had presentations in the previous two weeks will start a conversation about those presentations. Additionally, the subject samplers will create presentations on the new … Continue reading Week 3: New Reading & a Quiz
mcmurryjulie / Pixabay Hint: Take good notes from the textbook to help you in a couple of months when you start researching your project and writing your own literature review. Weekly Overview: This week, we move on to Parts 2 and 3 of Patten & Newhart’s text this week. Part 2 covers literature reviews and … Continue reading Week 2: Starting a Research Project & an Informatics Theory
DUE DATE: Monday, January 31 at 2 Central When reviewing the Diffusion of Innovations article, do so in the context of new innovations in Informatics. This could possibly be new technology or a new technique for doing something. Review with the intent to underscore the idea that valid theories should be applicable in multiple situations … Continue reading Diffusion of Innovation: Blog Post #2