Organise yourself! An introduction to web tools
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The document introduces various web tools that can help with time management, research, collaboration, and keeping up-to-date. It recommends tools like calendars, to-do lists, RSS readers, social bookmarking services, and online document storage and creation services to organize information and work online. These tools can be accessed from any computer and require no specialist software, making them convenient to use. Examples of specific tools mentioned include Google Calendar, Remember the Milk, del.icio.us, Facebook, Google Docs, and SurveyMonkey.
Organise yourself! An introduction to web tools
- 1. Organise yourself! An introduction to web tools
- 2. Introduction Why use web tools? Time/personal management tools Research tools Tools for producing and storing information online Tools for collaboration Miscellaneous tools
- 3. 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!
- 5. 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
- 6. 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
- 7. Personalised homepages Bring together all your resources on one page and make it your default homepage
- 9. Online document storage Store documents online as an extra backup or to share with others Link from your personalised homepage
- 10. Online document creation Create text documents, spreadsheets or presentations online Produce documents for numerous people to edit Produce online surveys for research
- 11. Keeping up to date
- 12. 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)
- 13. 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
- 14. 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)
- 15. 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