Blog Post #2: Video/Article Review

The overall theme to these resources was information. How do we get information? How do we use it? How do we process it? And what do we do with? The days of having few and simple resources for information are long gone. Today we are bombarded with information and many much of it comes from resources that many people aren't familiar with. Social media plays a huge part in the sharing of information today. Online resources are everywhere.

There were several commonalities between our resources.

1. Information can come in all forms. Text, Audio (from Podcasts), Visuals 
2. Information can come from various resources. Social Media sites, blogs, Podcasts, emails
3. There is a process we all go through to find, decipher, and use information. Depending on what information we are looking for, we may chose to find information in various ways (already mentioned above). We must then decide what information is useful to use. Finally, we take the information we have processed and use it in ways that we need. 
4. It helps if we organize information. Given the vast amount of information to be found, having a way to categorize the information will help our research and processing steps. 

These resources are a good start on how to begin the process of studying information fluency and inquiry learning. They do help my learning goal of developing a simple and easy-to-use definition of these topics. I did not find them to be disconnected as I thought they were all introductory in their information and presentations.