Presentation for MLA.

1. Information Creation as a Process in
GEOG 203 - Economic Geography
GEOG 203 course objectives &
assignment guidelines analyzed:
• Use of library resources:
• Scientific articles
• Company profiles
• Annual reports
• Data sets
• Newspaper sources
• Critical evaluation of sources and reports,
• Ethical use of information,
• Synthesis of external data sets / data collected.

2. Students tasked to find company information, including:
• Company product
• Company market information
• competitors
• customers
• Company suppliers
• Industry information
• Local company-specific information
• how many employees?
• revenue situation?
• sunrise/sunset firm?
• product life-cycle location?
• employee skills – generalized or specific?
• agglomeration economy?
AKA Students had
to find:
 Scientific articles
 Company
profiles
 Annual reports
 Data sets
 Newspaper
sources

3. • Company product
• Company market information
• competitors
• customers
• Company suppliers
• Industry information
• Local company-specific
information
• how many employees?
• revenue situation?
• sunrise/sunset firm?
• product life-cycle location?
• employee skills –
generalized or specific?
• agglomeration economy?
Information Creation
as a Process
&
Authority is
Constructed and
Contextual

4. Authority is
Constructed and
Contextual
&
Information Has
Value
• Company product
• Company market information
• competitors
• customers
• Company suppliers
• Industry information
• Local company-specific
information
• how many employees?
• revenue situation?
• sunrise/sunset firm?
• product life-cycle location?
• employee skills –
generalized or specific?
• agglomeration economy?

5. • Company product
• Company market information
• competitors
• customers
• Company suppliers
• Industry information
• Local company-specific
information
• how many employees?
• revenue situation?
• sunrise/sunset firm?
• product life-cycle location?
• employee skills –
generalized or specific?
• agglomeration economy?
Information Creation
as a Process
&
Authority is
Constructed and
Contextual
Authority is
Constructed and
Contextual
&
Information Has
Value

6. • Company product
• Company market information
• competitors
• customers
• Company suppliers
• Industry information
• Local company-specific
information
• how many employees?
• revenue situation?
• sunrise/sunset firm?
• product life-cycle location?
• employee skills –
generalized or specific?
• agglomeration economy?
Information Creation
as a Process
&
&
Information Has
Value
Authority is
Constructed and
Contextual

7. Teaching Plan / Course Research Guide
Looked over assignment. Saw what the students needs
were. Realized to myself “this is a template class!”
Developed a library/course instruction guide using the
LibGuides platform, starting with the basic template
created by James.
DONE

8. No formal assessment done this time because instruction
session took place in the academic classroom.
• Informal feedback from faculty member was exceptionally
positive .
• Next academic year, instructor wishes for instruction session to be
taught in the library classroom, with each student logged into
their own computer so that active learning opportunities can take
place.
• Focused on the main frame that was the most obvious
(Information Creation as a Process), but after further analysis
realized that there are two other frames addressed within the
assignment (Authority is Constructed and Contextual -&-
Information Has Value)and within the instruction. Future
instruction sessions will be enhanced by additional incorporation
of these two other frames.