Coping with Information Overload

The Educational Technologies Department and Rice's Fondren Library will be hosting a brown bag lunch on Coping with Information Overload as part of the Teaching with Technology series.
Date: April 9, 2008
Time: 12-1 p.m.
Place: Digital Media Center (Herring Hall 129)

Summary: Recently business research firm Basex named information overload the
“problem of the year” and estimated that it costs $650 billion annually.
According to a 2005 UK study, information overload can lower IQ by as
much as 10 points. Feeling overwhelmed by the deluge of information?
Lisa Spiro, director of the Digital Media Center, will provide practical
tips for dealing with information overload as part of the Teaching with
Technology brown bag series, which is sponsored by Fondren Library’s
Digital Media Center and Information Technology’s Educational
Technologies group. She will discuss methods such as the “Getting Things
Done” approach as well as computer-based tools for finding information,
managing projects and to-do lists, organizing research, and more. Free
box lunches will be provided to the first 15 people who register online
at http://library.rice.edu/news-events-folder/infooverloadbb/view