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Archive forNovember 13, 2006
Zotero and NoteTaking Applications
Zotero and Notetaking Applications
Lucy Gray points to five notetaking applications to help students keep and organize notes from their research. In addition to those mentioned by Lucy, Kairosnews recently pointed to Zotero. Zotero is a free Firefox 2.0 extension/add-on that enables note taking organization from within Firefox.
…helps you gather and organize resources (whether bibliography or the full text of articles), and then lets you to annotate, organize, and share the results of your research. It includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote)—the ability to store full reference information in author, title, and publication fields and to export that as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software such as del.icio.us or iTunes, like the ability to sort, tag, and search in advanced ways. Using its unique ability to sense when you are viewing a book, article, or other resource on the web, Zotero will—on many major research sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for you in the correct fields.
Zotero is a production of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
Technorati Tags: Firefox 2.0, notetaking, Zotero
Chronicle of Libraria
More library video fun! A bit disjointed, but fun all the same!
Google Co-op
Putting this on my to-try list:
from http://tim.lauer.name/
John Pederson points to Google Co-op. Basically a build your own do it yourself search engine. John points out some educational uses including dumping your list of search links into Google Co-op and making the list of vetted web sites into a custom search tool using Google as the front end. For example a teacher who has researched and found appropriate sites for her students to visit could create a Google Co-op search tool that returned search results from those specific sites only. There is also a collaborate feature that allows you to invite others to edit and add to your custom search tool.
Below is an example I threw together this morning. It returns search results from several kid friendly search sites. I’ve invited our technology teacher, Tony Jamesbarry to also edit the tool with me, and anticipate sharing it with staff later this week.
One nice feature is that non-profits can turn off adwords, so the results returned are free of advertisements. Also there are tools for customizing the look of the search box and easy cut and paste javascript for including the search box in your own web page.
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