03.05-11+Skype+Info.


 * Week 8 - ORGANIZING INFORMATION**
 * Skype 7:00 and 8:30 pm. - 20 points**
 * Wiki Additions 10 points**

A main component of our job is to help students and teacher be more productive in this digital environment. Read through the articles below and note how you could use the applications for your own as well as others to be manage your information sources.


 * READ/VIEW/SCAN/TAKE NOTES**

ORGANIZING INFORMATION
 * Richard Byrne. "15 Tools To Help Students Get Organized. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/12/15-tools-to-help-students-with.html
 * "7 Things You Should Know About...Collaborative Annotation." http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7054.pdf
 * "Scheduling Calendars" http://lplonline.org/scheduling_calendars.html
 * Jeri Hurd. "Organizing Research: Tools for Participatory Learning." http://bib20.blogspot.com/2011/06/organizing-research-tools-for.html

MIND MAP/DIAGRAM
 * //Gliffy//. http://www.gliffy.com
 * "Gliffy Demo Movie." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0UgI-FVIKo
 * //bubbl.us// https://bubbl.us
 * "Bubbl.us Basics: Brainstorming and Mind-Mapping Online" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AllXU_3nktU&feature=related

RESEARCH AND COLLECTING DATA >
 * Richard Byrne's discussion of online bookmarks: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/search/label/online%20bookmarks#.UPQ0JehTutg
 * "Diigo" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX8d701nzsk
 * "7 Things You Should Know About Zotero" http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutZoter/16321
 * Joyce Valenza, "On Research Transparency and Inadequate Containers." http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2010/09/30/on-research-transparency-and-inadequate-containers
 * Joyce Valenza, "Research Transparency: Shifting from Blogs to Wikis?" http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2008/09/17/research-transparency-shifting-from-blogs-to-wikis/
 * //EasyBib// http://www.easybib.com/

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/search/label/Note%20Taking.
 * WIKI ADDITIONS:**Look at this posting on "Top 10 Online Note Taking Applications." http://mashable.com/2008/08/19/online-note-taking-applications/ OR go to Free Technology for Teachers and search on the label "Notes"

Pick three note-taking applications and experiment with them and evaluate them for ease and usefulness for your students. Which would you recommend? (NOTE: Google Notebook is no longer available.)