Lesson 1-3

• Media


  Any channel of information. The physical objects used to communicate with, such as radio, television, computers, film, etc.
• Literacy


  The ability to interpret, identify, understand, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts
• Media Literacy


  The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in a variety of forms
• Information


  Processed data, knowledge derived from study, experience, instruction, signals or symbols
• Information Literacy


  The ability to recognize when information is needed, and to locate, evaluate, and effectively communicate information in its various formats
• Communication


  People or groups of people imparting or exchanging messages through speaking, writing, gestures, or even using symbolic forms by utilizing a variety of channels for sending and receiving
• Types of Communication


  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Mediated Communication
  • Organizational Communication
  • Public Communication
  • Mass Communication
• Message


  A form of communication (information, feelings and ideas) passed or transmitted using a channel. It is a collection of symbols that appear purposefully organized to those sending or receiving them
• Elements in the Creation of a Message

  • Sender
  • Encoding
  • Message
  • Channel
  • Noise
  • Decoding
  • Receiver
  • Feedback
• Pre-industrial age (Before 1700s)


  • Cave paintings (35,000 BC)
  • Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 BC)
  • Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC)
  • Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC)
  • Dibao in China (2nd Century)
  • Codex in the Mayan region (5th Century)
• Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)


  • Typewriter (1800)
  • Motion picture photography/projection (1890)
  • Telegraph (1849)
  • Telephone (1876)
  • Printing press for mass production (19th century)
  • Newspaper The London Gazette (1640)
• Electronic Age (1930s-1980s)


  • Transistor Radio
  • Television (1941)
  • Large Electronic Computers
  • Mainframe computers - i.e. IBM 704 (1960)
  • Personal computers - Hewlett Packard 9100A (1968), Apple 1 (1976)
  • OHP, LCD projectors
• Information Age (1900s-2000s)


  • Web browsers: Mosaic (1993), Internet Explorer (1995)
  • Blogs: Blogspot (1999), LiveJournal (1999), Wordpress (2003)
  • Social networks: Friendster (2002), Multiply (2003), Facebook (2004)
  • Video chat: Skype (2003), Google Hangouts (2013)
  • Smart phones (1994)
  • Wearable Technology
• Information


  Data that has been collected, processed and interpreted in order to be presented in a usable form
• Information Literacy


  A set of individual competencies needed to identify, evaluate and use information in the most ethical, efficient and effective way
• Stages/Elements of Information Literacy

  • Identifying/Recognizing information needs
  • Determine the source of information
  • Citing/searching for information
  • Analyzing and evaluating the quality of information
  • Organizing or storing the information
  • Using information in an effective and ethical way
• Plagiarism


  Using other people's words and ideas without clearly acknowledging the source of the information
• Quotation


  Using someone's words directly. When you use a direct quote, place the passage between quotation marks, and document the source according to a standard documenting style
• Paraphrase


  Using someone's ideas, but rephrasing them in your own words. Although you will use your own words to paraphrase, you must still acknowledge and cite the source of the information
• Copyright


  A legal device that gives the creator of a literary, artistic, musical, or other creative work the sole right to publish and sell that work
• Creative Commons Licenses


  • Attribution
  • Noncommercial
  • No Derivatives
  • Share Alike