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by Glenda Claborne - Thursday, 25 January 2007, 05:08 PM
  Welcome to Tools4Use! The courses below are not ready yet but the descriptions should give you an idea about what this Moodle site will be covering. I will be starting with some exploratory courses under each category to connect students to the general principles and contexts in which these tools will be used. Later, we will go more in depth with specific features of a specific tool or set of tools but always, always in relation to what functions they support. I'm focusing on functions in an academic environment right now, particularly those related to the production of academic papers but will cover other functions and contexts as the need arises.

Available Courses

Web-based groupware, social software, and online offices
This course requires an enrolment key		 Explores the potential of web-based groupware like Google Groups and BSCW in facilitating group work in academic settings. Also explores models of bolting together groupware with social software (blogs, wikis, video/photo sharing, virtual worlds) and online office applications (e.g. Google Docs & Spreadsheets) to support different kinds of group projects.
Bibliographic Software and Standards
This course requires an enrolment key		 Explores web-based and desktop tools for managing references/citations within the context of producing academic papers. Also covers standards for data/file formats used to import and export bibliographic data between applications.
Using Google Reader to collect and present feeds on a specific topic
This course requires an enrolment key		 We now have tools called aggregators or readers that we can use to collect content from news sites, blogs, and other kinds of websites and bring it into our own personal or organizational online spaces. How can we use these tools more effectively to deliver content to library users? This course explores the functionalities of one of the aggregators freely available on the Web, Google Reader. We will explore how to use it to search, add, categorize, filter, display, and share feed subscriptions.
Onfolio™ and Big6™: Integrating browser-based research tools and information skills process models
This course requires an enrolment key		 Using an information skills process model such as Big6TM as a guide, this workshop explores the use of browser-based research tools such as OnfolioTM.

Course categories

Miscellaneous
Collaborative Workspaces1
Reference Management1
Syndication1
Web Research Tools1



A sandbox to explore the use of course management systems for delivering library instruction. [A subsite of softtester.org by Glenda Claborne.]
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