Paseo 3.1 Personal Information Inquiry: Introduction (for LIS S574)

For Paseo 3 in my Information Inquiry Class, I'm supposed to do a personal inquiry using an inquiry method from our readings.  I am to choose a subject of interest and follow the steps the way we might teach students to follow them in pursuing their own research.  In the elementary school where I work, we would guide them in a certain direction with respect to topic, at least giving them a broad idea, but for this assignment, I can choose whatever I would like.  The irony is, at the moment I can't decide.

Fortunately, I've chosen a research method that allows me to wonder a bit before I decide.  In fact the method I am going to try, InfoZone (2004) from the Assiniboine South School Division of Winnipeg, Canada starts right off with Wondering.


I will link the webpage here for InfoZone.  The initial site I tried directed me to the Wayback Machine on the World Wide Web that archives old web pages so they can be found later.  The information on InfoZone can be found at 

http://web.archive.org/web/20040407021851/http://www.assd.winnipeg.mb.ca/infozone/

Here is a quick summary of the steps:

• Wondering
• Seeking
• Choosing
• Connecting
• Producing
• Judging

I'm going to focus on electronic resources for this inquiry.  According to the president of the American Library Association, Barbara Stipling, "Students must also acquire the skills of digital inquiry: connecting ideas to personal interests and a desire to know, asking questions that probe beyond simple fact gathering, investigating answers from multiple perspectives, constructing new understandings, expressing the new ideas through a variety of formats, and reflecting on both the process and product of learning." (Stripling, 2010)  The InfoZone inquiry process really fits with this philosophy.  

The instructions for Paseo 3.1 call for the creation of a blog to which I can post my inquiry musings as I go through the steps.  I created this blog a while back for a class with a similar requirement.  I have since used it for posts related to my education and I decided to keep on using it.  It's arranged the way I like it with pictures and links and a cool background.  It should suit this project just fine.  I will begin the title of each post with Paseo 3.1 to make it clear which ones belong to this assignment.  


Now to the wondering.  As the 10th Doctor would say, "Allons-y!"

Work Cited

Stripling, B. (2010, April). Teaching Students to Think in the Digital Environment: Digital Literacy and Digital Inquiry. School Library Monthly, 26(8), 16-19. Retrieved February 16, 2014, from http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ886977