Each student will choose 2 health informatics terms this semester. One existing terms from the wiki and one new term must be completed. Post the information to the following wiki: http://healthinformatics.wikispaces.com/ (Links to an external site.).
Go to wikispaces.com and review the existing terms. Retrieve them if a term that you’d like to review is in the library. You can choose one from the existing terms. But you need to have two new terms for this assignment.
Once a student decides his/her three terms, post them in Google Drive LIS 4785 Wiki Term Selection (Links to an external site.) by September 24th, 11:59 pm. Students will be able to access the list of terms that their classmates choose. Every student needs to review a different term.
Students will then create a page for each term following the guidelines below.
Description: Provide a short description (a paragraph or two) of the term, including definitions, background or other related information.
Applications: Describe how the term is positioned or applied in the context of health informatics.
Web resources: Provide web resources where the additional information about the term can be found.
Related terminology: Provide related terms.
Citations/references: Provide citations/references of your resources of developing the wiki term. You need to properly cite this information in the text of the posting, as well.
Graphics: Provide images related to the term. Note the source of the image, as well.
You are not allowed to copy sentences or descriptions from original resources to the posting, even with quotations. You need to write your own description/definition of the terms and cite the resources in the text.
Additional Instructions.
One Existing Term
A substantial amount of useful information needs to be added to the existing term posting.
Add at least 4 additional resources to the posting.
Revising the original content based on what you find.
At least one third of information in the posting should be your writing/posting.
One New Term
Create a page for each term, including description, applications, web resources, related terminology, citations/references
Cite at least 4 resources in the text.