organise yourself! an introduction to web tools
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InfoBites presentation created for University of Wolverhampton Learning CentresTRANSCRIPT
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Organise yourself!An introduction to web tools
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Introduction
• Why use web tools?• Time/personal management tools• Research tools• Tools for producing and storing
information online• Tools for collaboration• Miscellaneous tools
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Why use web tools?
• They require no specialist software• You can access them from any
computer with internet access• They are usually very simple to use• They are also usually free!
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Time management
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Calendars• Schedule lectures, tutorials etc.• Have multiple calendars with different
colours for different purposes• Add public calendars of interest (such as the
InfoBites calendar!)• Print and share calendars
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To-do lists
• Edit your to-do list online• Set deadlines and set up reminders• Print your to-do list or access it from
your phone/PDA/• Add widgets to your homepage
(more later!) or Google Calendar• Add tasks on the go
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Personalised homepages
• Bring together all your resources on one page and make it your default homepage
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Producing/storing documents online
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Online document storage
• Store documents online as an extra backup or to share with others
• Link from your personalised homepage
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Online document creation
• Create text documents, spreadsheets or presentations online
• Produce documents for numerous people to edit
• Produce online surveys for research
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Keeping up to date
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RSS feed readers
• Keep up to date with useful blogs, websites and journals articles relating to your research area.
Also available in some e-mail clients (e.g. Outlook 2007, Thunderbird)
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Social Bookmarking
• Save useful websites to refer to/read at a later date
• Use tagging to describe the resources• Share with other students• Find similar resources from others
Check out InfoBites at del.icio.us for useful resources from this presentation
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Learning Centre News
• See if your librarian writes a blog and subscribe if so
• Visit the UoW Learning Centres Facebook page to keep up to date with new services and events (including InfoBites sessions)
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ResourcesCalendar
Google CalendarTo-do lists
Remember the MilkToodleDo
Personalised homepagesPageflakesNetvibesiGoogle
Online document storageBoxSlideShareWindows Live SkyDrive
Online document creationGoogle DocsZohoSurveyMonkey
RSS feed readersBloglinesGoogle Reader
Social bookmarkingdel.icio.usdel.icio.us/tag/infobites
Learning Centre NewsUoW Facebook Page