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Introduction to Information Literacy (supplementary information)

Module 1: Introductory concepts

• Information Literacy — Wikipedia
• New Economy — Wikipedia
  • “The general idea is that a business should focus on those areas of its operation which are critical to its success and where it has a competitive advantage. Other areas of its operation should be outsourced, typically using technology as the facilitator.”
• Do a search in Google to read more about information literacy
• 二零零六年「有關資訊科技的使用情況和普及程度的住戶統計調查」及「資訊科技在工商業的使用情況和普及程度按年統計調查」的結果
  • 個人電腦及互聯網在住戶間十分普及。於二零零六年，約1 662 200個住戶家中置有個人電腦，佔全港所有家庭住戶的71.7%。家中有個人電腦的住戶中，約1 556 300個住戶(93.6%)的個人電腦已接上互聯網，佔全港所有家庭住戶的67.1%
• 港人生活數碼化 (AM730 12Sep2006) [Chinese version only]
• Wi-Fi access provided by HK government
• 香港學生資訊素養架構的制定
• Is Bit Torrent an Angel or a Devil? - A sample document for IL learnng activities

Module 2: Introduction to IT

Computer hardwares

• Motherboard
• Machine cycle
• A BIOS setup screen
• ROM from Wikipedia
• RAM from Wikipedia
• Hong Kong Golden Arcade
• The various types of RAM used in a computer (in Simplified Chinese)
• Glossary of computer hardwares (in Traditional Chinese)
• Structure of a computer

Operating systems

• Yahoo directory of operating systems

Macintosh

• iMac (Macintosh, Apple Computer)
• iMac from Wikipedia
• Mac OS X from Wikipedia

Unix

• Unix from Wikipedia
• A Unix screenshot, showing the CDE (Common Desktop Envoronment)

Linux

• Linux (from Wikipedia)
• Linux Online
• Redflag Linux (Linux developed by the Chinese Government)
• Fedora Linux
• An introduction to operating systems on PCs (in Simplified Chinese)

IT applications

• UPS (in Traditional Chinese)

Module 3: Information needs and sources

• An example of a scholarly journal paper
• Hong Kong Observatory
• Hong Kong Public Library
• GovHK 香港政府一站通
• Census and Statistics Department
• Office of the Government Chief Information Officier
• Intellectual Property Department
• Linux Pilot (Trade Magazine)
• Computer World (Trade Magazine)
• Advertising Age
• The Economist (Trade Magazine)
• ITSC newsletters at Lingnan
• Newsletter of our College (嶺點)
• Yahoo directory: newspapers
• Viewable with any browser (an example of advocacy)
• E-resources at Lingnan University Library
• The book “Who moved my cheese” classified in:
  1. Dewey Decimal (178.3 7625 1999, from Lingnan Library)
  2. Library of Congress (BF637.C4 J6412 1999, from PolyU library)

Module 4: Access of information

• Web 2.0
• Examples of newsgroup:
  1. newsgroup.talk.philosophy
  2. bt.tv
• Internet FAQ archives
• Newsgroup: Google Groups
• Popular search engines, meta-search engines and subject directories 
  1. Google
  2. Yahoo Hong Kong
  3. Altavista
  4. Google directory
  5. Open Directory Project 
  6. Info.com
  7. metacrawler
• answers.com provides direct answers to search query
• Online RSS reader: Bloglines
• Another online RSS reader: Google Reader
• Wikipedia also has a subject directory.

Module 5: Evaluation of information

• Evaluating information
• Do you trust newsapaper? 你相信報章報導嗎？ - 梁凱同（對報章立場作精采分析的文章）
• 黃禹錫教授在干細胞研究論文中作假
• Content analysis
  1. An introduction of content analysis
  2. Computer-Aided Content Analysis
  3. Two explanations of Content Analysis
• Tools for quantitative analysis
  1. SPSS
  2. SAS
  3. Minitab
  4. Maple
  5. Matlab
  6. Octave (a free Matlab clone.)
  7. Mathematica
  8. Lisrel
  9. Scientific applications on Linux
• Example of quantitative analysis (from Matlab)

Module 6: Communication and Presentation of Information

Reference sites in citation styles

• Citation style (McGill University Libraries)
• online!
• Citation style for research papers - contains citation examples with color codes
• Citing Sources
• Research and Documentation Online - with sample papers
• In-text citation: MLA
• In-text citation: APA
• Paper Writing Style Comparison - This site compares Turabian, MLA, APA and LSA styles.

“Call for papers” websites

• ESANN - “… Printing area must be 12.2 x 19.3 cm, centered on the A4 page. Left, Right, top and bottom margins will thus be respectively 4.4, 4.4, 5.2 and 5.2 cm. …”
• ACL-2000 - This conference requires that the authors use a specific LaTeX or Word template file for their papers.
• GP-98 - Again, a LaTeX style file is provided.
• Seventh European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering - This conference requires that the authors use the IEEE style in their papers.

LaTeX

LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality technical or scientific documents. It has many advantages over MS Word in this aspect. Some scholarly journals require that all papers submitted must be prepared in LaTeX.

• LaTeX - Wikipedia
• Introduction to LaTeX

Module 7: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues for Use of Information

1. Licensing and software piracy

• Software piracy protection (from Microsoft)
• Software companies use software licence agreements to protect their rights.
• 2005 風雲人物選舉 - 古惑天皇
• Creative Commons (also read the Wikipedia article here.)
• General Public License - also read the paragraphs on copyleft.

Opposite views

• Why softwares should not have owners

2. Privacy and security

• Office of Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong
• Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance in Hong Kong
• Personal Information Collection Statement
• Google Privacy Policy
• Yahoo! Privacy Policy

3. Intellectual Property

• Intellectual Property
  • Intellectual property laws confer a bundle of exclusive rights in relation to the particular form or manner in which ideas or information are expressed or manifested, and not in relation to the ideas or concepts themselves (see idea-expression divide). It is therefore important to note that the term “intellectual property” denotes the specific legal rights which authors, inventors and other IP holders may hold and exercise, and not the intellectual work itself.
• Intellectual Property Department, Hong Kong
• 中國知識產權網
• 常見問題 - 中國香港的版權 一般資料 Copyright Laws in Hong Kong - FAQ
• Copyright Website

4. Plagiarism

• What is Plagiarism?
• 專上院校教職員抄襲他人作品 - 立法會書面質詢
• 立法會十二題：大學生抄襲情況
• News cuttings related to plagiarism:
  • 大學生抄功課上學年增六成 - 20050504
  • 浸大2博士生抄論文 被罰停學逐出校 - 20050929
  • 理大網上資料庫防學生抄襲 - 20050930
  • 《達文西密碼》判沒抄襲 丹布朗﹕這是小說家重大一天 - 20060407
  • 市民眼中大學生 最欠缺品德誠實 - 20060727
  • 抄襲易查 請槍難防 - 20060805

5. Other ethical issues

• Four ethical issues of the information age

Module 8: Impact of Information to the Economy and Society

E-Commerce examples

• Amazon (B2C)
• Commercial Press online bookstore (B2C)
• Parknshop (B2C)
• Staples Link (B2B)
• ebay (C2C)
• Yahoo! Hong Kong Auction (C2C)

E-Government

• ESDLife Hong Kong
• GovHK 香港政府一站通

Accessibility of websites

• Viewable with any browser
• Introduction to web accessibilty - W3C
• Hong Kong Observatory is an example of website with good accessibility.

Law

• Electronic Transactions Ordinance (ETO) in Hong Kong(S5 and S6)

Electronic payment methods

• Hang Seng e-shopping Master card
• PayPal
• How PayPal works
• PPS
• Yahoo! PayDirect - this service is already dead
• 安全網上理財
• Nokia+Visa

Wireless communications

• Library2Go at Lingnan University Library
• 3G
• 3.com
• Wireless LAN at Lingnan University
• Two factors authenication 雙重認証 - HKMA 香港金融管理局
• Short Message Service for online banking - HSBC Taiwan

New Telecom services

• New Generation Fixed Line - PCCW
• Voice control of consumer electronics in intelligent homes

Ergonomics

• Ergonomic products from Microsoft
• Microsoft Natural Keyboard

Green computing

• 電腦 Mon 散佈大浪灣奇景 - 20061002
• 環境保護署 － 舊電腦及電器回收計劃

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