I had fun using the google documents http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dddg6r34_2cv3gw6c9&hl=en - I managed to insert pictures, insert tables and use colours to create a simple document which was easy to create and looked OK. I think this would be a great tool when working remotely with others, or even if you wanted to work on a project at different times. I liked the ease of the creation.
Igoogle was very easy as well and I had fun changing the americanization into more aussie topics. http://www.google.com/ig?referrer=theme_ign Again you can go mad and add too many gadgets and I played with adding and then finding I did not like them, for instance the flicker photos took too long to download so I got rid of them.
Both of these were great to use, just need a bit of time to play and pick out the more useful gadgets.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Firefox extensions
I have to say I found most of the extensions a bit unnecessary, or perhaps I just don't like too much fiddling. However, I do like the LibX extensions, this looks really useful for students and staff. I also like the 23things toolbar, lots of quick links. My only problem now is I have so much "stuff" at the top of the screen that I sometimes find it hard to see what I am looking at.
The zotero software looks like it will need a bit of working on. Although I seemed to be able to do the basics I could not do much more than this and ran out of time to try a few different things. It looks interesting and may be an easier alternative to Endnote. The libraries Pam emailed about looked like they had embraced it and encouraged their students to use it.
The zotero software looks like it will need a bit of working on. Although I seemed to be able to do the basics I could not do much more than this and ran out of time to try a few different things. It looks interesting and may be an easier alternative to Endnote. The libraries Pam emailed about looked like they had embraced it and encouraged their students to use it.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
RSS feeds
I have set up a genealogical feed from Cyndi's list
- this is an American site which covers a huge amount of information on the topic. I thought I would join the feed to find out about new websites, new discussion about researching and useful hints. When you are researching family history it is easy to miss great sites so it should be useful to find out about better ways of doing things as they become available.
I have also sorted my RSS feeds into files, I have three files, News, Genealogy and Libraries.
- this is an American site which covers a huge amount of information on the topic. I thought I would join the feed to find out about new websites, new discussion about researching and useful hints. When you are researching family history it is easy to miss great sites so it should be useful to find out about better ways of doing things as they become available.
I have also sorted my RSS feeds into files, I have three files, News, Genealogy and Libraries.
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