Johnson County Community College ScholarSpace @ JCCC SIDLIT Conference Proceedings Colleague 2 Colleague 7-31-2009 Web 2.0: Academic Research & 10 Useful Tools Lissa Lord University of Kansas - Edwards Campus, [email protected]Follow this and additional works at: hp://scholarspace.jccc.edu/sidlit Part of the Instructional Media Design Commons , and the Library and Information Science Commons is Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the Colleague 2 Colleague at ScholarSpace @ JCCC. It has been accepted for inclusion in SIDLIT Conference Proceedings by an authorized administrator of ScholarSpace @ JCCC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Lord, Lissa, "Web 2.0: Academic Research & 10 Useful Tools" (2009). SIDLIT Conference Proceedings. 23. hp://scholarspace.jccc.edu/sidlit/23
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Johnson County Community CollegeScholarSpace @ JCCC
Web 2.0: Academic Research & 10 Useful ToolsLissa LordUniversity of Kansas - Edwards Campus, [email protected]
Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarspace.jccc.edu/sidlit
Part of the Instructional Media Design Commons, and the Library and Information ScienceCommons
This Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the Colleague 2 Colleague at ScholarSpace @ JCCC. It has been accepted for inclusionin SIDLIT Conference Proceedings by an authorized administrator of ScholarSpace @ JCCC. For more information, please [email protected].
Regents Center Library, University of Kansas, Edwards Campus
Web 2.0 &
Academic Research &
10-Tools
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How to find information for academic study using the Internet and Web 2.0 ? NOTE: Other quotes are on the class handout 1—Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. 2—Difficult and easy support each other. 4—The Tao is like a well: used but never used up. 8—In thinking, keep to the simple. 9—Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. 11—We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. 13—When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. 15—They were careful as someone crossing an iced-over stream. Alert as a warrior in enemy territory. 17—If you don’t trust the people, you make them untrustworthy. 22—Because he has no goal in mind everything he does succeeds. 26—Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. 28—The world is formed from the void, like utensils from a block of wood. 41—If he didn’t laugh, it wouldn’t be the Tao.�42—The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two givers birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things.�43—Teaching without words. . . Is the Master’s way. 47—Without opening your door. . .you can see the essence of the Tao. 48—In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. 53—The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. 70—My teachings are easy to understand 78—True words seem paradoxical.
Knowledge is constructed by learners as they interact with one another--(Dewey, 1916; Vygotsky, 1978)
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Web 2.0 is the social internet Communities of practice, study, interests Knowledge is constructed by learners as they interact with one another-- �(Dewey, 1916; Vygotsky, 1978)
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How do we keep track of all the bits and pieces of our research findings?
We need a place to store this Web 2.0 information.
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How do we keep track of all the bits and pieces of our research findings? We need a place to store this Web 2.0 information. We’re talking Tool #2
iGoogleA helpful tool in the organization of yourWeb 2.0
The concept of RSS used to be a big deal in Web 2.0 classes. Now? It is a no brainer. Basically, RSS is like an alarm clock that rings everytime a programmed site—blog, video, newspaper, websearch, database search, etc. If the administrator of the site wants to let folks know when new information is added, an RSS code is added to the site. If I wanted to follow the updates for the dissertation research blog, I’d look for the RSS icon, click and insert where I wanted to be notified—my news reader (bloglines, GoogleReader, iGoogle page) or via my email. Bloglines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloglines FireFox directly on the browser
http://AddThis.com Passing the word that DissertationResearch is a source of interest. The readers of this blog clicked on SHARE for notification on Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Yahoo MyWeb, Google Bookmarks as well as sending the blog link via Email.
Google blog search searches only blogsites. My search will result in hits from sites that are currently (hopefully) communicating information about “my topic” of research and not about <whandotte county kansas and casino and swine flu>.
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From my iGoogle:www.google.com/ig1. A twitter search2. An RSS for a blog3. Newsletter update
It is not all that obvious but here it is: RSS for this query now Click . . .
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A choice to save the twitter search to GOOGLE HOMEPAGE (iGoogle) or GOOGLE READER. Let us do both. And then, we’ll add it to the blog site on Blogger.
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Click on GOOGLE HOMEPAGE and the twitter search is immediately added to my iGoogle page and will continue updating the results until I change the settings.
Top Tools for Web 2.0 Research1. http://tinyurl.com
Tinyurl takes a long URL and makes it shortI’ve been using it for over a year and it has never failed my expectations as a dependable short URL that fits where I want to put it.
2. http://slideshare.comA convenient way to store your slide presentations and to
share them with colleagues. If you don’t want to share, there is a private setting.
3. del.icio.us http://delicious.comDelicious is a social bookmarking site in that your saved
weblinks are open and available for others to see, copy and use.
Google will update your search strategy and email you with updates.
5. Center for Learning & Performance Technology http://c4lpt.co.uk/learningtools.html
A wonderful learning technology site where I can pick up hints to do what I want to do, better!
6.iGoogle.com http://google.com/ig I use it like a story board for various bits of news, research facts, information I need for my current work. I can capture RSS widgets to keep me up to date with what the blogs and twitter and NYTimes and Whitehouse and the results of programed searches I have made for topics of research. Also, gmail and vairous documents via googledocs.
7. JingProject - http://www.jingproject.com/ I never heard of this wonderful little tool until I snooped around the c4lpt Tools site. It is a screen capture tool I use to copy screens and paste them into my slideshows
8. Worldcat http://worldcat.org - is a catalog that will find books and articles, e-books and e-articles in response to a search. Add your zip code and possibly the library down the street has what you’re looking for.
9. Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. http://www.wordle.net/
10. Dissertation Research Bloghttp://dissertationresearch.blogspot.com
Social networking has moved into the mainstream, and to maintain a presence in the communities they serve, the smartest agencies have established footholds on Twitter, Facebook and other such sites." Here is the latest: Great .Gov Web Sites 10 sites that take online government to the next level."
History of a new gadget installed at http://dissertationresearch.blospot.com AND/OR my iGoogle page. 1. email subscription to newsletters and alerts (in this case to
In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size. Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves.