Organise yourself! An introduction to web tools

Introduction Why use web tools? Time/personal management tools Research tools Tools for producing and storing information online Tools for collaboration Miscellaneous tools

Why use web tools?

Time/personal management tools

Research tools

Tools for producing and storing information online

Tools for collaboration

Miscellaneous tools

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!

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!

Time management

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

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

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

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

Personalised homepages Bring together all your resources on one page and make it your default homepage

Bring together all your resources on one page and make it your default homepage

Producing/storing documents online

Online document storage Store documents online as an extra backup or to share with others Link from your personalised homepage

Store documents online as an extra backup or to share with others

Link from your personalised homepage

Online document creation Create text documents, spreadsheets or presentations online Produce documents for numerous people to edit Produce online surveys for research

Create text documents, spreadsheets or presentations online

Produce documents for numerous people to edit

Produce online surveys for research

Keeping up to date

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

Resources Calendar Google Calendar To-do lists Remember the Milk ToodleDo Personalised homepages Pageflakes Netvibes iGoogle Online document storage Box SlideShare Windows Live SkyDrive Online document creation Google Docs Zoho SurveyMonkey RSS feed readers Bloglines Google Reader Social bookmarking del.icio.us del.icio.us/tag/infobites Learning Centre News UoW Facebook Page

Calendar

Google Calendar

To-do lists

Remember the Milk

ToodleDo

Personalised homepages

Pageflakes

Netvibes

iGoogle

Online document storage

Box

SlideShare

Windows Live SkyDrive

Online document creation

Google Docs

Zoho

SurveyMonkey

RSS feed readers

Bloglines

Google Reader

Social bookmarking

del.icio.us

del.icio.us/tag/infobites

Learning Centre News

UoW Facebook Page