INFO 310 - March 30, 2004
Lecture: Introduction
Notes by: Egaas, Fortier, Prins

Prof. Harry Bruce

Course page: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/harryb/courses/INFO310/
Slides: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/harryb/courses/INFO310/Schedule.asp

Karen Erickson (karene@u.washington.edu) if you need to talk to Bruce and he is unavailable.

People turn to other people when they have an information need moving down the chain until they find what they are looking for.

Notion of Informatics as Information, Technology, & People
    >How they are connected is what is important

Reminder: Every Tuesday a few sentences are to be written about each article (on paper), based on your critical reading of the article, and turned in for class.

Also, in addition, there might be reading questions that will be posted on the web page for some of the articles. From what I understand these are more of a guide and not required.

Students' Work in the Course
    1) Reading assigned articles
    2) Participating in class activities
    3) Completing two individual assignments
    4) Preparing for a team presentation
    5) Participating in a team presentation in class
    
Grading
    35% = Model Comparison Assignment
    25% = Web site evaluation assignment
    40% = Group Presentation
    

Assigned: 
    >Get a group and send an email to Hayden (hbass@u.washington.edu) with your team members and the group of users that you have selected. [DUE April 8th]
    >Read: Bruce Chapter 3 (See course schedule). 34 pages
        Read all of the introduction
        Don't read Client-centered Marketing
        Don't read Learner Centered Education
        Do read User Centered Design and Cognitive Engineering
        Do read Information Science and the User Oriented Paradigm
    >Sign up to the class listserv.