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Internet tools for students
This document provides an overview of various free online tools that are useful for students' academic work. It describes tools for searching scholarly resources and blogs, keeping up-to-date using RSS feeds, organizing and citing sources, sharing media, archiving web pages, conducting research faster and brainstorming concepts collaboratively using mind mapping tools. Specific tools mentioned include Google Scholar, Google Books, WorldCat, Blogspot, Google Blog Search, iGoogle, del.icio.us, YouTube, Flickr, Internet Archive, Google Toolbar, Dipity, Spreeder, Comapping, Skype and SlideShare.
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- 1. Internet Tools forstudentsBenjamin García
- 2. IntroductionThis presentation providesinformation about web search tools and other web-based resources useful for academic work.
- 3. ContentFinding Scholarly ResourcesSearching BlogsCurrent Awareness via RSSOrganization and Citation ToolsMedia SharingInternet Archiving
- 4. Finding Scholarly ResourcesGoogle ScholarGoogle Book SearchWorldcat.orgSearches the collections of thousands of libraries worldwide and identifies local libraries that hold copies of items of interest.
- 5. Creating and SearchingBlogsBlogspot.comGoogle blog search
- 6. Current Awareness viaRSSRSS can deliver information easily to your browser and alert you to what's new on a particular webpage or in a particular database.Igoogle
- 7. Organization and citationtoolsdel.icio.usdel.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that collects and shares your own and everyone else's favourite bookmarks on the web. Useful for exploring bookmarks to resources identified by other users sharing similar interests.
- 8. Media SharingYoutubeFlickrA photosharing website that allows users to upload and share photos. In addition, content can be downloaded and, where permissions permit, used for other purposes.
- 9. Internet ArchivingInternet ArchivesItsWay Back Machine will often provide access to webpages that have been removed from the Internet or have been altered substantially over time. Also provides access to many file types, including moving images and audio.
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- 11. ResearchSpreeder to helpyou do all your reading faster.
- 12. Learning and brainstormingResearchis useless if you’re not actually learning anything. An ideal way to learn new material is by using concept mapping or mind mappingComapping. (Comapping offers real-time mind map editing from multiple users, which is ideal for virtual team brainstorming.)
- 13. Collaboration ToolsSkype (VoIP,chat and filesharing). Skype allows you to have an IM or voice chat with one or more classmates while simultaneously passing files to each other.
- 14. Presentation ToolsEmbed yourpresentations into a web page with SlideShare.