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In this slide, it explains the reason why the information came from authoritative sources but still not trustworthy. The possible reason could be (1) the way information is produced, (2)carelessness or loaded with secret intentions, (3) in favour of their hidden goal, (4)not spending enough time, (5) limited topic vocabulary, (6) limited by technical barriers, (7)information that fits with your knowledge & beliefs, and (8) from a source that you think is trustworthy.
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- Research -- Methodology Information resources -- Evaluation
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In this video, a year 3 LLB student who is preparing a term paper with a substantial research component regularly consults his supervisor. In a recent meeting, the supervisor queries why two pieces of information were cited in his draft. One piece of information is from a local real estate agent’s website summarizing the legal provision for the Hong Kong deed of mutual covenant agreements. Another piece of information is a court case covered in a Hong Kong land law blog.
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- Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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In this exercise, a team of students listed out a number of tasks that they have to complete when preparing the lesson plan. Which of the following task will be listed as the top priority on your to-do list? Will you start searching at this moment?
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- Lesson planning Teaching Information literacy
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce shares her view on "Why InfoLit is vital?" through the search & research they do every day.
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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In the video, it explains the criteria to use to evaluate legal information.
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- Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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In this slide, it introduces the six frames for informed learning, suggested by Prof. Christine Bruce, would help learners brainstorm about the research topic in all-rounded, comprehensive way. The six aspects of your research topic that you should brainstorm for are: (1) Content frame, (2) Competency frame, (3) Learning to learn frame, (4) Personal relevance frame, (5) Social impact frame, and (6) Relational frame.
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- Learning Information literacy
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In this video, it explains what secondary legal material are. Secondary legal sources often explain legal principles more thoroughly so it is good to start your research project with secondary sources.
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- Information resources Legal research -- Databases Legal research Legal research -- Computer network resources
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In this exercise, learners are required to distinguish the information belong to "primary sources" or "secondary sources". Primary information source are anything created at the time when the incident/event happened. They were created with the intention to record the incident/event. It could be a document, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, a diary, an artifact, and so on. Secondary information source is anything (e.g., documents, records, artifacts, objects, and so on) that discuss, relates, or refers another piece of information existing elsewhere.
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- Information resources Research -- Methodology Information literacy
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In this exercise, learners are required to match legal resources with the contents.
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- Information resources Legal research
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When Jacob receives his term paper assignment, he cannot find previous Land Law course materials. He and his classmates discuss what they should do next in the Library. They consult the law librarian who suggests they watch the this video to get an idea on how to plan and start legal research.
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- Information retrieval Legal research
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In this slide, it explains the 4-steps-method outlined by the University of Pittsburg and it illustrate the role information and information literacy play in each step to help learners to see the bigger picture.
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- Information retrieval Study skills Information literacy
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being information literate give you critical and strategic approaches to solve problems. It's you who need to decide using which type (e.g. research or non-research based) of information to support ideas, claims, and proposals that you propose in your research task.
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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This video is about the basics techniques of evaluating information.
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- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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This video is about "where does information come from?".
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- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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This video is about 'how to create high-quality ideas?'.
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- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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When preparing for research tasks (e.g. articles, essay, projects, reports, thesis,...), you have to go through a series of small tasks. In this slide, it elaborates and expands the research topic before carrying out the actual search.
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- Research -- Methodology
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains the seven things you should pay attention to when you plan the information needs of your research. (1) Use information and communication technology to be really up to date with what's happening. (2) Encounter different types of sources and knowing when it's important to use them. Not only academic literature but also people, social media, the environment, visual information, sound, anything that might inform you. (3) Create your processes to tackle problems or make decisions. (4) Connect information of all kinds that you encounter with specific projects, problems, or areas of interest. (5) Build your knowledge base about your fields of study. (6) Use your creativity and intuition to do something new. (7) Seventhly using information wisely for the benefit of others.
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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A Comprehensive Guide for EndNote, Mendeley and Zotero
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In this slide, it introduces different type of resource was created with a particular kind of purpose: to transmit facts, to interpret the findings, to put forward a viewpoint, to let fellow workers know some important idea, and so on.
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- Information resources Research -- Methodology
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In this exercise, learners are required to match the legal publication with its contents.
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- Information resources Legal research
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Besides case law, legislation is also important for Jacob's legal research! The law librarian suggests he refreshes his understanding about what legislation is, and how to develop skills in researching legislation.This video will help you develop your skills in researching legislation.
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- China -- Hong Kong Legal research -- Databases Legislation Legal research
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In this video, it explains what case law is, how and why to use it for legal research.
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- Information resources Judge-made law Legal research
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In this presentation, it explain three areas: (1) Law journals submission and ranking, (2) Information for submitting articles to law review & journal, and (3) Submission of law student articles for publication.
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- Law -- Periodicals Scholarly publishing Authorship Scholarly periodicals -- Ratings rankings
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One may try to publish in the best law review or journal as much as possible for various reasons, such as getting a teaching job. Journals are normally ranked by rates of citation, prominence of authors,reputation, etc. In this presentation, there are various law review and journal lists, some provide ranking information. The ranking is based on the mechanism adopted by the respective system.
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- Law -- Periodicals Scholarly periodicals -- Ratings rankings
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In the video, it explains why it is important to evaluate legal information.
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- Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: what do we need to pay attention to when using publisher's material in our lesson?
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- Information resources Lesson planning Teaching Planning
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: Why is it important to have a lesson plan?
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- Lesson planning Teaching Planning
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: what are the key ways to understand your student's progress of learning during a lesson.
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- Teaching Effective teaching
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: (1)What is a lesson plan? (2) What are the essential questions that we need to bear in mind when planning a lesson?
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- Lesson planning Teaching Learning Psychology of
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: Is it common we are not capable to fully implement our lesson plan in the classroom?
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- Lesson planning Teaching Planning
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In this video, Dr Rebecca Ong, at City University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights on how to decide whether an idea or argument is strong and relevant to your research
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- Legal research
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In this video, Dr Rebecca Ong, at City University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights on what ways do law researchers benefit from social media.
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- Online social networks Social media Legal research
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being able to evaluate information in leisure, home, or professional situations is an essential skill. Our information world is always changing, and shelf-life of most information is no more than two years!
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being information literate help you find creative and innovative ways of doing things, which is invaluably advantageous to your wider profession.
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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You have learned that it is necessary to evaluate legal information. And you have also learned some evaluation criteria. In this exercise, learners are required to match the legal information together.
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- Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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Apart from subject domain knowledge, there are some personal competencies and skills that learner may want to develop in university. The personal competencies and skills include, critical thinking, evaluating definitions, evaluating arguments, evaluating news & media, evaluating scientific studies, evaluating disagreement, and evaluating statistics & graphs.
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- Critical thinking Media literacy Journalism -- Social aspects Information literacy Press criticism
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In this exercise, learners are required to find the statement that best describes the publications or the type of law review and journal and match them up.
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- Information resources Legal research
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Learn how to successfully ace your job interviews to get promotions and secure a new job.
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- Applications for positions Employment interviewing
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- MOOC
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A subject encyclopedia contains articles (some short, some long) on the theories, events and thinkers that sum up the available literature about a discipline. Articles are arranged in alphabetical order.Indexes in the back of the encyclopedia can help you to determine if the encyclopedia contains an article on your topic, or if your topic is covered within an essay on a related topic. In this slide, here are some examples of subject encyclopedias that may available in your university library.
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- Encyclopedias Education Encyclopedias dictionaries
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being able to use information to learn, being an informed learner is about being able to maximize the potential of the information environment you have. It will make it possible for you to be productive, capable, and also innovative and creative.
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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This video is about 'what is learning?' at the university.
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- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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Here comes to the last episode! Let's check out whether they can realize the unfinished plan of Ah On.
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- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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In order to realize the unfinished plan of Ah On, some of his friends conduct the interview, some of them responsible for the on-site investigation while some of them do the background research. Do you want to know what are they going to do? Let’s check it out!
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- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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There are many strange things happened in the old building, is it a trick played by the developers? Let’s continue the story to see what happened on the 5 young people.
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- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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In facing the developer hegemony, Ah Bao’s convenient store is being forced to relocate. His best friend, Ah On gave up the opportunity to study aboard and insisted to stay in Hong Kong and film a documentary about the reconstruction of the old district. Why did he give up the study? Let’s find out the story of Ah On.
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- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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In the age of information, everyone is easy to be satisfied with the so-called "facts". However, a young man, Ah On believes that the truth-seeking spirit just like playing a trick, you can only one-side of the "truth". Let's check out whether the buddies of Ah On have this truth-seeking spirit or not.
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- Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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The way you put ideas together reflect your level of understanding about the issue you have inquired in your research, which, is what your professor looks for when she/he assess your work. In this slide, it introduces 5 level of research output and note the differences between different sentences, and the depth of idea you could get.
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- Research -- Methodology Report writing Academic writing
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In this slide, there could be as many as 12 types of biases that information user could fall victim when dealing with information.
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- Fallacies (Logic) Cognition Selectivity (Psychology)
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