Celeste McLaughlin

Finding, organising & sharing online content

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Strictly Digital Website.http://www.rsc-scotland.org/strictlydigital/

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Finding suitable resources

»Define your search strategy»Using search engines »Using your library’s resources»Creative Commons / Attribution

»Open Educational Resources (OER)

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Define your search strategy

»Do you need primary or secondary sources

»Popular or scholarly publications»Up to the minute information or resources that cover a specific time period

»Covering a specific geographical area or that were published in a particular place

»What language is the material required in

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Finding Resources

Finding, organising & sharing online content

Google advanced search tools

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Finding Resources

Finding, organising & sharing online content

Google offerings

»Advanced search tools»Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.co.uk/

»Google News - http://news.google.co.uk »Google Blog Search - http://www.google.co.uk/blogsearch?hl=en-GB

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Finding Resources

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Finding Resources – Licenced Collections

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Finding Resources

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What are Open Educational Resources?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world

JISC / Higher Education Academy OER infoKit http://bit.ly/oerinfokit

Last accessed 2013

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Finding Resources - OERs

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Finding Resources - OERs

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Finding Resources - OERs

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• An open resource-sharing service developed for the college sector in Scotland

• The platform developed in partnership with Jorum

• Will provide free access to a wide range of open resources (including Jorum)

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Finding Resources - OERs

Finding, organising & sharing online content

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Managing and Sharing Resources

»Organise topic based collections using online tools

»Add “bookmarklets” to you browser toolbar

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Bookmarking Alternatives = Digital Curation

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Managing and Sharing Resources

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Using the Cloud to Access your Information

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Managing and Sharing Resources

Finding, organising & sharing online content

»Scoop-it and Education

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Digital Curation

»Enables storing, organising & sharing favourite websites

»Meaningful keywords added so collections are searchable

»Bookmarks can be shared with students or colleagues

»Sets of resources can be presented in visually stimulating formats

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Managing and Sharing Resources

Finding, organising & sharing online content

iPad app

»Available for multi devices

iPhone app

Activity – Digital Cuartion

Create an account in Scoop.it and start to curate a selection of resources on a specific subject of your choice. Remember to tag your selections with key words and add some of your own insight and comments to contextualize, add value to each resource.

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