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    How to find information for academic study using the Internet and Web 2.0 ?

    Web 2.0 is the social internet Knowledge is constructed by learners as they interact with one another-- (Dewey, 1916; Vygotsky, 1978)

    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. Does anyone have an extra desk?

    Why iGoogle? I can’t think of a better tool to help me keep my current work up front and visible. Since I’ve discovered the research possibilities within Web 2.0, I have needed a place to keep the RSS alerts and searches. iGoogle’s many options offer organizational necessities to be added to your screen with the click of a button. Listen to this: fully functional calendar, gmail, twitter widget, GoogleBlogger and Twitter search results are shown in on the desktop. And, I can customize these tools to look and read as I so choose. My iGoogle page also includes a task list, weather conditions, newsletters I subscribe to, a customized search engine to compliment my research interests.

    Setting up your personal iGoogle page could be the most important step you take in performing academic searches in the world of Web 2.0

    Click on this video to learn more about gadgets you can add to your iGoogle page. There are many such videos for you to see on YouTube.

    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 every time specific sites (specified by you) are updated. 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 or a Share button, click and insert which reader I am using. Updates will then be sent to that reader. Usually, the option of receiving notice via email is also offered within the site of interest. A SELECTION of READERS: Google Reader  works with the Google system of login and password (same for all Google Web2.0 sites: iGoogle, Gmail, Reader, Docs, YouTube, etc.) Bloglines  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloglines FireFox  directly on the browser

    Adding RSS feeds to your iGoogle page is, by far, the easiest way to the specific research sites you are following at the moment. Why? It’s the up front thing with me—if I don’t see it I don’t do it. The iGoogle desktop is an organized picture of my office desktop. I save Google Reader for my lite reading.

    This is my iGoogle page. I use it as a desktop on which to place current work information. Custom search box I can use and modify specifically to search within a specific topic area. A search alert box from Google Blog Search: Wyandotte county kansas –casino –”swine flu” A topic for the Public Administration Urban Development class. 3. Dissertation Research Blog RSS 4. Google Docs access 4. A search alert box from Twitter search: academic library OR libraries OR librarian My research topic 5. NYT news gadget (widget). News stories are updated as published on NYT homepage. 6. Google Calendar gadget. I use this for my personal appointments and can switch to the public RCL staff calendar without anyone seeing my personal information. 7. ToDo List add on gadget.

    The Dissertation Research Blog has the SHARE button near the top of the screen. Click here and select how you would like to save the information found on the site and to be notified when updates appear on the blog. Another way to receive updates is Subscribe to Blog and receive notice in your designated email.

    http://AddThis.com Passing the word that DissertationResearch is a source of interest. The readers of this blog clicked on SHARE, or ADD This information Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Yahoo MyWeb, Google Bookmarks or to email.

    Without the desire to share information with others, there would be no need for Web 2.0. The Share Button, which can be shaped differently and originate from different companies and developers. As is demonstrated on the previous slide, sharing of information has a choice of vehicles to travel in all directions. The actual linking is programmed by the sharing service. I simply found

    Why is Google Blog Search a top tool for academic research on Web 2.0? It breaks in to the world of blogs. It crashes through lines of demarcation bringing academic research into the social web. Go to Google Blog Search http://blogsearch.google.com/

    The is so much more to Google than everything. Keep track of what is under “more”. Lets go to Blog Search by selecting http://google.com

    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. Notice that I can subscribe to an EMAIL Alert message if this search gains new results or RSS which I saved to my iGoogle page.

    Add blogurl:edu to the search and you’re looking at blogs connected with education. (edu, gov, com, web, org)

    This ability to keep up with stuff, lets you go out to eat once in a while!

    This is where I stopped on thursday

    Track that great twitter search on my igoogle page or blog HOW?

    It is not all that obvious but here it is: RSS for this query now Click . . .

    A choice to save the twitter search to Google homepage (iGoogle) or Google Reader—it is up to you.

    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.

    Twitter Search Engines http://www.Topsy.com http://search.twitter.com http://collecta.com http://crowdeye.com

    This is scholarly research on twitter with TOPSY.com

    Real-time search on twitter for “academic research”

    Johnson County Emergency is a dependable news worthy site to follow—even if there is no emergency. Why? The true cutting edge technology allows visitors to receive the latest word from JoCo Emergency and experience the latest in the uses of social networking tools.

    Twitter is as current as we write it and read it. Sometimes that is 24 times a day sometimes 1.

    SEPT 01, 2009

    Subscribe to a YouTube site that is on your topic and receive update notices until you unsubscribe. http://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryKUEC

    Tool #7 is YouTube’s Channels. For research, subscribe to a YouTube site that is on your topic and receive update notices until you unsubscribe. Very helpful for your folder of resources for a future presentation. This is very new to me, but here is how I use this tool. Register in YouTube as a user with a login and password. This creates a page for you to start uploading your own videos and maintain lists of your favorite videos from others. The page I want to share with others, as in RSS, is our Channel. Subscribe to LibraryKUEC’s Channel and receive notice of changes and updates to our YouTube holdings. Please, send us topics. . .Librarians love to find information for nice people.

    Google Alerts < http://www.google.com/alerts >   Use Google Alerts to repeat your good search automatically and when results turn up Google will email you and include the annotated links in the message. It is like having a reliable research assistant!

    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. GoogleReader http://www.google.com/reader/ the place where I read ongoing topics of interests that I have subscribed to, (like selected columns from the morning paper) I direct general RSS notices to Google Reader Addthis http://addthis.com/ There would be no need for Web 2.0 without the desire to share information with others. Addthis is a share button which allows you to send specific information from the sites what have the information to your site homepages like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

    4. Google Blog Search http://blogsearch.google.com/ Searching blogs may help you designate a source of information for your specific research. Academics write and follow blogs as an extension to scholarly communication that formerly may have been found in newsletters, bulletins, press releases. This helps us in finding information which may add to our research knowledge about a specific subject topic. 5. TinyURL http://tinyurl.com Tinyurl takes a long URL and makes it short. I’ve been using this service for over a year and it has never failed my expectations as a dependable short URL that fits where I want to put it. Twitter search engines Twitter is a unique and quite useful tool for academic research. The searches can be added to an RSS reader as well as iGoogle http://www.Topsy.com http://search.twitter.com http://collecta.com http://crowdeye.com

    7. del.icio.us http://delicious.com Delicious is a social bookmarking site. Save your weblinks here to share with others, organizenise your research and keep them in one place—so you don’t lose them. 8. SlideShare http://slideshare.com A 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. 9. YouTube Channels Subscribe to a YouTube site that is on your topic and receive update notices until you unsubscribe. http://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryKUEC Google Alert http://www.google.com/alerts Google will update your search strategy and email you with updates .

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    1. Web 2 0 2.0 & Academic Research & 10-Tools Lissa Lord llord@ku.edu Regents Center Library, University of Kansas, Edwards Campus October 2009
    2. Knowledge is constructed g by learners as they interact with one another-- another (Dewey, (Dewey 1916; Vygotsky, 1978) Vygotsky
    3. Ten Tools for Web 2.0 Research But wait! There’s more. . . 1. iGoogle.com 1 iGoogle com 6. Twitter search engines g http://search.twitter.com http://google.com/ig http://www.Topsy.com http://collecta.com 2. GoogleReader g http://crowdeye.com http //cro de e com http://www.google.com/reader/ 7. Delicious 3. Addthis http://addthis.com/ http://delicious.com 4. Google Blog Search 8. SlideShare http://blogsearch.google.com/ http://slideshare.com 9. 9 Keotag http://keotag com http://keotag.com 5. Tiny URL 10. GoogleAlert http://tinyurl.com http://www.google.com/alerts 11. Tedtalks http://ted.com 3
    4. 1. 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. 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 programmed searches I have made for topics of research. Also, Gmail and various documents via GoogleDocs. 4
    5. 2. GoogleReader http://www.google.com/reader/ the place where I read ongoing topics of interests that I have subscribed to, (like selected columns from the morning paper) I direct general RSS notices to Google Reader 5
    6. 3. Addthis http://addthis.com/ There would be no need for Web 2.0 without the desire to share information with others. Addthis is a share button which allows you to send specific information from the sites what have the information to your site homepages like Facebook o r Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. 6
    7. 4. Google Blog Search http://blogsearch.google.com/ http://blogsearch google com/ Searching blogs may help you designate a source of information for your specific research Academics research. write and follow blogs as an extension to scholarly communication that formerly may have been found y y in newsletters, bulletins, press releases. This helps us in finding information which may add to our research knowledge about a specific subject topic. 7
    8. 5. TinyURL http://tinyurl.com Tinyurl takes a long URL and makes it short I’ve short. I ve been using this service for over a year and it has never failed my expectations as a dependable short URL that fits where I want to put it. 8
    9. 6. Twitter search engines http://search.twitter.com http://www.Topsy.com http://collecta.com http://crowdeye.com 9
    10. 7. del.icio.us http://delicious.com 7 del icio us http://delicious com 8. SlideShare http://slideshare.com 9. Keotag Web 2.0 Search Engine http://keotag.com http://keotag com 10. Google Alert http://www.google.com/alerts 10
    11. 11.Tedtalks ed a s http://www.ted.com p // ed co 11
    12. Tool #11 Tedtalks Get b i ht id G t bright ideas f from th those who h h have th them Give power to your presentation To i T inspire you d i a d i ll i during dry intellectual phase l h Tedtalks are 15min video talks 12
    13. TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It S di started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together g g g people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Design 13
    14. How do we keep track of all the bits and pieces of our research findings? g 14
    15. Tool #1 iGoogle A helpful t l i th h l f l tool in the organization of your Web 2 0 2.0
    16. Google.com and click on g more ▼
    17. Setting up your personal iGoogle page, could be the most important step you ll take in you’ll performing academic searches in h i the world of W b 2 0 ld f Web 2.0
    18. Click! 19
    19. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) 20
    20. Google Reader
    21. Tool #2 GoogleReader G l R d the place where I read ongoing topics of interests (like selected columns from the morning paper) 22
    22. 23
    23. iGoogle http://www.google.com/ig I direct current RSS notices of research topics and searches directly to iGoogle. Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader I direct general RSS notices to Google Reader
    24. Where to put it? Wh t t iGoogle (even (e en GoogleReader goes on my iGoogle page) 25
    25. 1.Custom 1 search box 5 2.Google Blog Search 3. A Blog RSS g 2 4.GoogleDocs 5.Twitter 5 Twitter 6 Search 8 6.NYT widget 3 7.Google Calendar gadget 7 4 8.ToDo gadget
    26. Tool #3
    27. Dissertation Research Blog includes a “Share button” th t i it b tt ” that visitors use to t copy information to another shared site. This graphic details the choices visitors have selected.
    28. http://addthis.com/ p 29
    29. How to find Web 2 0 sites that 2.0 are valuable to your research? Google Blog Search TwitterSearch Blogsites 30
    30. Tool #4 Google Blog Search g g http://blogsearch.google.com/ p g g g
    31. http://www.google.com h // l More Blogsg
    32. wyandotte county kansas -casino -"swine flu"
    33. Health care debate blogurl:edu 34
    34. From my iGoogle: www.google.com/ig Blog Searches posted to my iGoogle page. This is how RSS looks when active. 35
    35. Tool #5 You want to copy the link and send it to a colleague? http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en &oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF- 8&q=wyandotte+county+kansas+-casino+- %22swine+flu%22&btnG=Search+Blogs You may want to try TinyURL
    36. TinyURL shrinks long URLs into tiny URLs
    37. Research using T itt ? R h i Twitter? Of course!
    38. Tool #6 twitter search http://search.twitter.com
    39. My latest, possibly greatest twitter search: academic AND library OR libraries OR librarian Track search on igoogle or my blog HOW?
    40. RSS feed for this query
    41. MORE Twitter search engines http://www.Topsy.com http://search.twitter.com http://search twitter com http://collecta.com http://crowdeye.com
    42. 46
    43. This search for “academic academic research” was on Sunday at 11:24pm, 11 24 and in 11 seconds there were 34 results 47
    44. Anatomy of an excellent tweet JoCo_EmergencyGot questions about H1N1 _ g y q Pandemic Flu? Give us feedback at http://tinyurl.com/mr6oyd (Facebook) or http://tinyurl.com/ngjjdc ( // / (blog)about 1 hour ago ) from TweetDeck Who? JoCo Emergency What? Info on H1N1 Where? links to Facebook AND Blog When? 1 hour ago How? TweetDeck 48
    45. “I’ve learned to follow the hunch but never assume where it will go ” go. Even Williams
    46. Web 2 0 Search Engines 2.0 http://www.keotag.com htt // k t It works: keyword social networks individually 50
    47. A twitter search brought up an academic resource I didn’t know existed! 51
    48. The second result i lt is exactly what I hoped to find find. A twitter statement leading straight to a presentation on academic libraries and Web 2.0
    49. Tool #7 de c ous co delicious.com social bookmarking website What i d li i h is delicious A collection of f ll f favorites - yours and everyone else's. Your favorites are assigned a specific URL See my site (RefLibrarian): http://del.icio.us/RefLibrarian/ http://del icio us/RefLibrarian/ Everything on delicious is someone's favorite
    50. Can I bookmark a result from a saved twitter search to delicious? Yes You are on twitter search result page Copy i URL and save i d li i C its d in delicious
    51. Tool #8 slideshare share your slides and borrow others’ y Sign-up for slideshare at www.slideshare.net Upload your presentation slides Your slideshare web address allows access You don’t need Powerpoint to show a Powerpoint presentation Example: http://www.slideshare.net/lissalord/web20-academic-research-ten-tools
    52. Tool #9 YouTube Channels Subscribe to a YouTube site that is on your topic and receive update notices until you unsubscribe. http://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryKUEC 56
    53. 57
    54. Google Alerts Tool #10 YOUR search alert Google Alerts <http://www.google.com/alerts> Use Google Alerts to repeat your good search automatically and when results turn up Google will email you and include the annotated links in the message. reliable It is like having a ٨ research assistant!
    55. There is No The End The j Th journey continues. . . ti 59
    56. Th k You! Thank Y Who knows what will happen in the information seeking world during 2010?. Stay t St tuned, it is sure to be exciting! d i t b iti ! . . . Lissa llord@ku.edu http://dissertationresearch.blogspot.com 60
    57. 61 www.bing-vs-google.com
    58. 62
    59. •http://www.hubspot.com/ 63
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