Samuel Putnam | Engineering Librarian
Samuel R. Putnam is an engineering librarian at the University of Florida where he is the mechanical and aerospace engineering liaison and leads MADE@UF, a virtual reality development space. His work focuses on multimodal information literacy instruction, incorporating virtual reality, making, podcasting, and social media.
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This assessment asks undergraduate engineering students to review, rate, and explain their decisions relating to the credibility of information resources and information containers. Students are asked to review various resources as well as containers. After reviewing, students assign each resource or container with one of three ratings: green (always credible), yellow (potentially credible with further investigation), or red (never credible). Last, students explain their decision in relation to each resource or container. Ideally this task is given twice during a semester, before and after…