Online tools - organizing and using what you find
del.icio.us -- online, social bookmarking serivce.
- To create linkrolls or tagrolls in del.icio.us, log in and then go to your "settings" page.
- Firefox 3 extension for del.ico.us
VodPod - aggregates videos from around the web into one channel, which can be displayed on other webpages.
Google Reader -- RSS readers like Google Reader let you pull content in without doing new searches every day. Then you can search your feeds, or push them out to other people.
Google Reader is only one of a whole lot of feed readers available -- Wikipedia is a good place to look for a fairly complete list of tools available
RSS - the basics
RSS in Plain English, by CommonCraft (http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english)
how-to: embedding a widget
Simply copy-and-paste the code for the particular video file or widget - most websites will provide you with detailed instructions on which code you need to embed. The snippet will usually start with object or embed tags.
Flickr
- Log in to your Flickr account
- Go to make a badge (http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne)
- Decide if you want a dynamic or static badge - you may have local restrictions to consider
- Choose your photos and your layout
- Preview and get code
- Copy and paste the code.
del.icio.us
- Log in to your del.icio.us account and click on Settings.
- Choose link rolls if you would like your widget to display a list of your recent bookmarks. Choose tag rolls if you would like your widget to display a ltag cloud.
- Choose your settings (how many links to display, order, etc.) - your widget will preview in the pane to the right.
- When you have what you want, copy and paste the code.
- Scroll to the the bottom of your Facebook profile, click the link Create a profile badge.
- Click "Create a new badge."
- Choose your layout. Choose "image" or "javascript" JavaScript may make your page slower to load. Image badges are more stable, but will not display dynamic information like status updates.
- Choose the information you would like your widget to display
- After saving, copy and paste the code.
LibraryThing
- Log in to your LibraryThing account and click on the Tools tab at the top of the page.
- Choose one of the options under put LibraryThing on your blog.
- Choose your settings - your widget will preview in the box to the left.
- Make it and copy and paste the code.
Meebo
- Go to www.meebome.com.
- Name your widget, and provide your Meebo username.
- Choose your display settings.
- Log on to Meebo.
- Copy and paste the code.
Google Reader
- from your Google Reader account (reader.google.com), go to Manage Subscriptions (at the bottom of the left-side column)
- Click on the Folders and Tags tab.
- Choose the folder, or the tag you would like to share, and choose "public" from the "Change Sharing" drop-down menu at the top of the screen.
- You should see 3 links - view public page, email a link, or add a clip. Add a clip will give you the code to copy and paste.
Plagiarism Information
Tutorials and other research tools
UCLA's Bruin Success with Less Stress tutorial has a wealth of information about intellectual property, citing sources, and more.
There are several citation generators available that make it easier to correctly format citations, and to make sure you have all of the information you need. If you don't like these choices, just Google "citation generator" for more options:
Oregon School Library Information System Citation Maker
BibMe - lets you create a bibliography by searching for titles, or manually entering information. Then generates a works cited list for you.
Oregon State University Resources
The Academic Success Center maintains a helpful page about academic integrity: http://success.oregonstate.edu/honesty.html
OSU's Student Conduct Office on academic dishonesty: http://oregonstate.edu/admin/stucon/stuacdis.htm
Research Tools by Subject
The Valley Library has created several tools to help you do in-depth research by subject.
"Get Help with a Subject" Research Guides. These include recommended databases, the subject specialist's contact information, and more.
Library Subject Specialists - organized by College/Department
Finding copyright-free images online
The Flickr Commons project was created to provide access to the world's public photography collections. OSU Libraries/Archives was the first academic library to join the Flickr Commons.
Oregon State University on the Flickr Commons
Flickr - Advanced Search Screen
Here you can limit to images that have been licensed by their creators with an appropriate Creative Commons license.
Yahoo recently added Creative Commons licenses to their advanced search screen. Yahoo! also provides a number of nice limiting options to help you get the image you want.
Search for audio and image files licensed with Creative Commons licenses.
Working with your images online
Picnik, edit photos the easy way, online
Picnik integrates with Flickr to allow you to search for photos with Creative Commons licenses -- then you can use Picnik to edit those images -- all online.
Learning Objects and Other Online Teaching Tools
Searchable/ browseable collections
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching -- "find peer-reviewed online teaching andl learning materials."Find
OER Commons (Open Educational Resources) - In a brave new world of learning, OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know.
peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Find peer reviewed
Intute -- a "free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners."
Wisc-Online - Wisconsin Online Resource Center. Registration required. Source code available for purchase.
Videos
(also see the Open Course Ware module below)
SciVee - "Using our patent pending “virtual studio” technology, scientists can easily enhance their journal articles with “pubcasts” by linking and synchronizing video explanations to their published text. Similarly, video summaries can be associated and synchronized with scientific posters to create “postercasts” highlighting the key finding of the research. We also provide easy upload and hosting of videos on topics in all areas of scientific research."
JoVe (Journal of the Visualized Experience) - this online journal publishes videos demonstrating scientific techniques so that protocols can be learned by a broad community of scientists. The videos are peer-reviewed.
TeacherTube - YouTube for educational videos. Anyone can post.
Finding scholarly and expert information on the web
With search engines like Google, you will definitely be able to find scholarly and expert information. But you'll have to sift through a lot of other stuff as well. Try some of these sources and sites as well --
CiteULike --
CiteULike is a service that allows you to create an online "favorites" list of scholarly sources. This is a great way to keep yourself organized. But it is also a great place to find information. Because thousands of other people are using the service to store their favorites, you can search within this pool of sources - and know you're finding stuff that at least some people would recommend.
ScienceBlogs : This project aggregates blogs on topics across the sciences, including some social sciences. Authors discuss scholarly and scientific research in a way that is accessible to general audiences. One of the best features is their "Blogging on Peer Reviewed Research" icon, which lets you see at a glance when they are analyzing information from the journals.
ResearchBlogging: (from the site) ResearchBlogging.org is a system for identifying the best, most thoughtful blog posts about peer-reviewed research.
Home: Nature Blogs : Nature, one of the most respected scholarly journals, also provides a wealth of more informal scholarly information on their website. This page will take you to a directory of Nature blogs, on lots of topics. These are a great place to find entry-level discussions of scholarly research, as well as expert conversations.
Google Scholar is Google's attempt at creating a scholarly search engine. Using complex algorithms, Google's computers can identify sites that look like they might be scholarly sources. It's a great place to scan a lot of different sources to see what's out there on a topic. Make sure that you set your preferences so it will connect you to the library's digitial subscriptions.
OpenCourseWare information
Many colleges and universities are participating in the OpenCourseWare initiative - making the content from their credit courses available on the web. This might include video or audio lectures, slideshows, handouts, assignments, or some combination of these different types of content. Here are some guides to browse:
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Open Courseware Project
Current courses from UC Berkeley
Free Learning resources from the Open University
A comprehensive list at the Open Courseware Consortium
Last Update: September 02, 2009 09:26
