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ONLINE TOOLS AND RESOURCES TO ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY
a starting point
AIM
To use a range of online tools and resources to improve your productivity
OBJECTIVESBy the end of the session, you will be able to:
• To use Google search engine to find resources and information
• Find out about College systems to access online resources
• Find out about an online project management tool
• Find out about an online notebook tool
• Find out about an RSS reader to bring information together
• To create interesting documents and interactive posters
PRODUCTIVITYWhat is it for you?
How do you know that you are being productive?
What are the right conditions for you to be productive?
Have you heard this before?
“don’t work harder, work smarter!”
Or something to that effect
QuestionHow can online tools and resources help
you improve productivity?
Do you have any examples to share
with us?
Some examples…
plus much more that we don’t know about yet!
Today’s menu• To use Google search
engine to find resources and information
• Find out about College systems to access online resources
• Find out about an online project management tool
• Find out about an online notebook tool
• Find out about an RSS reader to bring information together
• To create interesting documents and interactive posters
Athens
Zoho Project
Zoho Notebook
Google Reader
Wordle and Glogster
Google Search
• Definitions• Currency converter• Converter
Google Search (cont’d)
• Statistics• Local search• In Title
Definition
Type into the search box:
And then a word of your choice
Currency Converter
Type into the search box:
So how many dollars?
Converter
Need to know your height in centimetres? Try:
Statistics
Do you want to know the population of a country?
Local Search
Do you want to find somewhere different to eat?
In title
Search for all pages with a term in its title
Athens
Educational research tool with access to many journals and articles.
You can obtain a login from the Library
www.athens.ac.uk
Athens
Great for images
Restronguet Creek at Sunset © Getty Images
Concorde © Getty Images
2008 Sculpture By The Sea Launches In Sydney © Getty Images
Flower beds © Getty Images
Any questions, so far?
Projects
Share Planner
Notebook
WriterSheet
Challenge
Show
Zoho Project
Managing projects, individually and collaboratively
Zoho Projects
ChatWiki
CalendarMeetingsReportsForums
Tasks/milestones
What would you like to know more about? https://projects.zoho.com/portal/wingos
Chat
Wiki
Calendar
Meetings
Reports
Forums
Tasks and Milestones
Zoho Notebook
Effectively, an electronic scrapbook
https://personal.zoho.com/biz/login/personallogin.jsp
Zoho Notebook
RSS Feeds
Available where you see this sign:
Why?
Feeds all aggregated in one place, rather than having to view each one
individually
Google Reader
Wikihow and eHow
Would you like to know how to do something?
Try:www.wikihow.comwww.ehow.com
Let’s give it a go!
You can create word images like this with Wordle.net
EVERYONE GO TO WWW.WORDLE.NETTO GIVE IT A GO
How about an interactive poster?
edu.glogster.com
THANK YOU!