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Fear of missing important stuff, lack of time to find it read it use it, managing results & not losing things
WoK and Scopus focus on important peer reviewed sources including conference papers WoK includes A&H Scopus stronger on Engineering interface choices Subjects – check from your Liaison Librarians page link to subject guide Type ask Liaison librarian advice, overlaps with others eg patents in Scopus RSS useful time saver and management tool
Remind them that in WOK it was the orange RSS icon
Select the TOCs you would like either individually or click Select All and click Export. Select where you would like the file to be saved to "eg. My Documents." (By default the file will be called mytocs.opml) To import your OPML file into Google Reader ; Login to Google Reader Click Manage Subscriptions Click the Import/Export tab Browse for your OPML file Click Open Click Upload You will see the following displayed until the import is completed: Your subscriptions are being imported
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Broad outline of the information cycle Then ask them where their sources of information fit into it.
Will Richardson writes a blog called Webblog-ed and has written a book: † Richardson, W., (2006) Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms , Sage Publications Ltd. The following contains some useful extracts from the book for what we’re considering. Research has shown that blogs can †(p20): Promote critical and analytical thinking Be a powerful promoter of creative, intuitive, and associational thinking Promote analogical thinking Be a powerful medium for increasing access and exposure to quality information Combine the best of solitary reflection and social interaction Blogs allow for a wider participation beyond the institutional boundaries. They provide a useful archiving process for learning and interactions for the student. Using blogs can enhance the development of expertise in a particular subject: students blogging on a subject tend to focus their research and writing activities specifically to a topic leading to greater expertise. Combined with the archiving process, this can develop into a useful database-like resource for the student. The use of blogs can allow students to develop the newer literacies for an information society; where analysis and managing of information is a critical skill. †(p2 A spectrum of the different blog post types has been proposed †(p32): Posting assignments Not blogging Journaling Not blogging Posting links Not blogging Links with descriptive annotations Not blogging, but getting close depending on the depth of the description Links with analysis that gets into the meaning of the content being linked A simple form of blogging Reflective, metacognitive writing on practice without links Complex writing, but simple blogging - commenting would probably fall in here Links with analysis and synthesis that articulate a deeper understanding or relationship to the content being linked and written with potential audience response in mind Real blogging Extended analysis and synthesis over a longer period of time that builds on previous posts, links, and comments Complex blogging
At the last count Technorati was tracking 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media so how do you find relevant information for you without drowning in information? Tools like Technorati, Feedster and Blogpulse can be useful aids. Technorati general interest Memeorandum – political interest RSS compendium – everything you ever wanted to know about RSS feeds Tick Make sure you use the advanced search for your search engine and limit by format.
This may help when you need to publish your thesis electronically. You can tag which are your copyright materials and which belong to others, which you have cleared copyright and which you are still waiting for.
Google Reader is not the only feature that Google provide to keep up to date monitoring a developing news story keeping current on a competitor or industry tracking medical advances getting the latest on a celebrity or sports team watching for new videos that match a specific topic
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