Tools for Disseminating Information• Sharing Resources• Digital Curation Tools• Online Magazines• Social Media

–Twitter–Blogs

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Sharing Resources

Sharing Resources

Sharing ResourcesHeads up on Copyright ©

• Decide if you want to restrict use• Check terms and conditions• Consider adding creative commons

license• Check with your institution

Digital Curation

• Select & organise topic based, searchable collections using online tools

ZooTool

Online Magazines

Online Magazines

Online Magazines

Online Magazines

Online Magazines

Online Magazines

Online Magazines

Online Magazines

Tweeting, Hash Tags, Archives

Twitter is an online Social Networking / Microblogging service that enables users to send and read text based messages of up to 140 characters knows as “Tweets”

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Hash tags are used to filter or organise tweets by topic or event:• Advertised – organised for a conference or

event e.g. • Often spontaneous• Start your own

#

Use Twitter to disseminate news, links & images :• “Retweet” things you find interesting – your

followers may be interested too.• Add web links to tweets to provide context or

further reading.• Add images on the move.

Creates an archive of an event / add narrative and mediaEmbed in other social media tools

Blog – Short hand for Web Log• Online Postings of Information, Opinion or

Diary Entries• Chronologically ordered• Allow comments from readers & and provide

a mechanism for the exchange of views• Searchable by keywords• Designed to integrate with other web based,

social media

• Easy recording of relevant events• Informally written• Reflective and authentic• Scope to include new media• Searchable• Interactive & dynamic• Accessed through RSS feeds