ONLINE TOOLS AND RESOURCES TO ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY a starting point

AIM To use a range of online tools and resources to improve your productivity

OBJECTIVES By the end of the session, you will be able to: To use Google search engine to find resources and information Find out about College systems to access online resources Find out about an online project management tool Find out about an online notebook tool Find out about an RSS reader to bring information together To create interesting documents and interactive posters

To use Google search engine to find resources and information

Find out about College systems to access online resources

Find out about an online project management tool

Find out about an online notebook tool

Find out about an RSS reader to bring information together

To create interesting documents and interactive posters

PRODUCTIVITY What is it for you? How do you know that you are being productive? What are the right conditions for you to be productive?

Have you heard this before? “ don’t work harder, work smarter!” Or something to that effect

“ don’t work harder, work smarter!”

Question How can online tools and resources help you improve productivity? Do you have any examples to share with us?

How can online tools and resources help you improve productivity?

Some examples…

plus much more that we don’t know about yet!

Today’s menu To use Google search engine to find resources and information Find out about College systems to access online resources Find out about an online project management tool Find out about an online notebook tool Find out about an RSS reader to bring information together To create interesting documents and interactive posters Google Athens Zoho Project Zoho Notebook Google Reader Wordle and Glogster

To use Google search engine to find resources and information

Find out about College systems to access online resources

Find out about an online project management tool

Find out about an online notebook tool

Find out about an RSS reader to bring information together

To create interesting documents and interactive posters

Google Search Definitions Currency converter Converter

Definitions

Currency converter

Converter

Google Search (cont’d) Statistics Local search In Title

Statistics

Local search

In Title

Definition Type into the search box: And then a word of your choice

Type into the search box:

And then a word of your choice

Currency Converter Type into the search box: So how many dollars?

Type into the search box:

So how many dollars?

Converter Need to know your height in centimetres? Try:

Need to know your height in centimetres? Try:

Statistics Do you want to know the population of a country?

Do you want to know the population of a country?

Local Search Do you want to find somewhere different to eat?

Do you want to find somewhere different to eat?

In title Search for all pages with a term in its title

Search for all pages with a term in its title

Athens Educational research tool with access to many journals and articles. You can obtain a login from the Library www.athens.ac.uk

Educational research tool with access to many journals and articles.

You can obtain a login from the Library

www.athens.ac.uk

Athens Great for images Restronguet Creek at Sunset © Getty Images Concorde © Getty Images 2008 Sculpture By The Sea Launches In Sydney © Getty Images Flower beds © Getty Images

Great for images

Any questions, so far?

Projects Share Planner Notebook Writer Sheet Challenge Show

Zoho Project Managing projects, individually and collaboratively

Managing projects, individually and collaboratively

Zoho Projects Chat Wiki Calendar Meetings Reports Forums Tasks/milestones What would you like to know more about? https://projects.zoho.com/portal/wingos

Chat

Wiki

Calendar

Meetings

Reports

Forums

Tasks/milestones

Chat

Wiki

Calendar

Meetings

Reports

Forums

Tasks and Milestones

Zoho Notebook Effectively, an electronic scrapbook https://personal.zoho.com/biz/login/personallogin.jsp

Effectively, an electronic scrapbook

Zoho Notebook

RSS Feeds Available where you see this sign:

Available where you see this sign:

Why? Feeds all aggregated in one place, rather than having to view each one individually

Feeds all aggregated in one place, rather than having to view each one individually

Google Reader

Wikihow and eHow Would you like to know how to do something? Try: www.wikihow.com www.ehow.com Let’s give it a go!

Would you like to know how to do something?

Try:

www.wikihow.com

www.ehow.com

Let’s give it a go!

You can create word images like this with Wordle.net

EVERYONE GO TO WWW.WORDLE.NET TO GIVE IT A GO

EVERYONE GO TO WWW.WORDLE.NET

TO GIVE IT A GO

How about an interactive poster? edu.glogster.com

edu.glogster.com

THANK YOU!