All Blog Posts Tagged 'forensics' (4)

Investigative Searching 20/10

Dennis O'Connor and I have created a new online course in information forensics for students, teachers and librarians. It's called Investigative Searching 20/10, playing off the metaphor of 'better-than-average' vision. When it comes to locating and evaluating information from the Internet, students (on average without training) score in the 40% range. That means that more often than not, they cannot locate and determine the credibility of the author,… Continue

Added by Carl Heine on July 7, 2009 at 3:05pm — No Comments

Wiki Reflection/Goals

The wiki's went better today. Started the class out with a group brainstorm:



what do we know about handwriting analysis?

Why is it important in forensics?

Who are the people that do handwriting analysis?

Can we find some case studies where handwriting analysis helped to solve crimes?



We then delegated who wanted to post to the wiki about which topic. As they posted I checked each page and gave feedback about each student's wiki post (check spelling, put this… Continue

Added by Micki Fries on February 16, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Wiki's in Class

This is the first blog I have entered..trying to be more active here.



I really want to start using wikis in some or all of my classes. I took the first step right before christmas and had some students create a meteorology wiki for a final project. There wasn't as much original thought as I had hoped for, but all in all it turned out okay.



Last week, I created a wiki for my forensics class to unite everything we do in there. I think this could be a great resource for… Continue

Added by Micki Fries on February 16, 2009 at 12:45pm — No Comments

Information Fluency At Necc 2008

21st century information fluency

Necc 2008

Join Carl Heine and Dennis O'Connor in San Antonio for NECC 2008.


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Added by Dennis O'Connor on June 13, 2008 at 2:47pm — No Comments

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