Gender and Technology: ITI 340

Welcome to Your Research Guide & Discussion Assignment

What will I need to do?

To complete this assignment, you will watch three short videos. In each video, you will encounter questions that must be answered before you can continue watching. Some questions are meant to reinforce information presented in the video, some questions will walk you through research skill steps, and some questions will ask you to reflect upon your thoughts and practices. These reflective questions are designed to build your metacognition skills – your awareness about your thinking.

Why am I doing this?

The purpose of the videos and questions is to help you to further develop the research skills required for this class and all your academic pursuits, as well as the critical stance required for your interactions with information in and out of the academic setting.

Step-by-Step Lesson Instructions

1. Go to the Research Process pageHERE

• Scan the page.
• Watch the video, “The Experience of the Research Process” answering the questions in the video.
• Prepare your answer for Discussion Question #1 which you will post in Canvas at the end of this lesson.

2. Go to the Finding Sources pageHERE

• Scan the page.
• Watch the video, “Finding Resources Using the Library Website” answering the questions in the video.
• Prepare your answer for Discussion Question #2 which you will post in Canvas at the end of this lesson.

3. Go to The Scholarly Conversation pageHERE

• Scan the page.
• Watch the video, “The Scholarly Conversation & Citation Chase Challenge.” In addition to the three in-video questions, this video walks you through completing a citation chase.
• Citation Chase Challenge: Post in Canvas your One Great Article citation, reference list citation, and a Cited by article citation (if you found one relevant to your topic).
• Prepare your answer for Discussion Question #3 which you will post in Canvas at the end of this lesson.