How ICT Can Help Disability Group Learning Support
How ICT Can Help
Disability Group Learning Support
Did you know...?
•87% of items that are filed into a filing cabinet are never looked at again. {Stanford University}
Did you know...?
•The world is producing nearly two exabytes of new and unique information every year – an exabyte is a new term that had to be coined for a billion gigabytes. All the words ever spoken by human beings comes to five exabytes. {University of California, Berkeley}
Did you know...?
•More new information has been produced in the last 30 years than in the 5,000 years before that. {Information Skills for an Information Society – Carol Kuhlthau (1987) Eric Clearinghouse for Information, ISBN 0937597147}
Did you know...?
•A new blog is created every second. {Technorati}
Did you know...?
•10% of salary costs are wasted as employees search for information to complete tasks. {Computerworld}
How do you organise yourself?•How do you organise your...?
• internet bookmarks
•computer files
•paperwork (bills, licences, guarantees, receipts)
•books, CDs, DVDs, games
Reduce information
overload•Having no system leads to information overload. You may
•waste time
•lose important information
•end up with piles of physical and virtual files
The 5 Ds
1.Discard
2.Deal with it (make a DIN! Do It Now!)
3.Determine future action
4.Direct/Distribute it
5.Deposit it (file it) Adapted from Caunt 1999
Desktop Search Engines
•Much as you use a search engine (e.g. Google) to search the web, you can also search your desktop
•These use keywords to find your documents
•More powerful than search command in Windows
Using Folders•Use a logical system for your files
•Example: 2008/Courses/Psychology/PS101/Assignment 3/
•The X Drive (access your files on any computer on campus)
•Memory sticks (use for transfer, not storage)
Using Email
•Create sub-folders to organise your messages
•Apply the 5 D’s often
•Way of transferring/backing up very important files
•Create contact list
So, why bother organising your
files?•The keyword you use might not be in the document
•You may not know exactly what you are looking for
•Searches take time
•A good filing system complements these search tools.
Social Bookmarks•Online way to save sites, articles, video
etc
•Can be accessed anytime you are online
•Can be tagged to help you find items
•Can search other peoples tags/links
•Example: del.icio.us
•http://delicious.com/NUIMAccess
Online Calendars
•Google Calendar
•SMS notifications of events
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=womZ2771wpQ
Electronic Journals
•library.nuim.ie
•Electronic resources (Databases & catalogues e.g. JSTOR)
•Save as PDF for more control over printing, searching and storing
Disability Support Area
•Tips on managing files
•Backing up your data
•Printing
PowerPoint
•Open file in PowerPoint
•Reduce pages needed
•4/6/9 slides to a page
•http://moodle.nuim.ie/file.php/1/Students_Print_Tips.pdf
Do you need to print?
•Read cleverly!
•Preview, scan, reduce
•Print all vs print some
•Convert to audio with TextHelp?
What we’ve covered
•Danger of information overload
•Use ICT to manage our documents and time
•Desktop search, social bookmarks, electronic journals, online calendars
•Be a savvy reader & print less