Finding, Gathering, and Sharing Information Using the Internet
Stephen Cysewski

Morning

In the morning we will meet in a seminar room. I will explain and demonstrate many current web tools for finding, gathering and sharing information. All the tools that I demonstrate will be free, except for Dreamweaver.

Afternoon

In the afternoon we will meet in a computer laboratory to use some hands-on exercises that I have prepared.

I. Assumptions, Concepts, and Distinctions

Assumptions

·         Curiosity and Joy in Finding and Gathering Information!

·         Good Internet Access (At least a reliable dial up connection)

·         Basic Computer Skills (Creating, naming, and saving files and using menus and dialog boxes)

·         Basic Internet Skills (Browsing, email, and email attachments)

·         English (Sorry)

·         Patience (We will cover many topics quickly)

Key Concepts

·         Folders

·         Rummaging

·         Searching

·         Tags

·         Local Applications

·         Web Applications

Key Distinctions

·         Folders/Tags

·         Searching/Rummaging

·         Local Applications/Web Based Applications

Technical Terms (Jargon)

·         Web Log (Blog)

o       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog

·         RSS Feeds

o       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

o       http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000528.html

o           

·         RSS Aggregator

o       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator

·         Tags

o       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags

o       http://news.com.com/Yahoos+game+of+photo+tag/2100-1032_3-5630403.html

·         Social Bookmarking or Folksonomy

o       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

o       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy

·         Web Application

o       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application

·         Mailing List

o       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailing%5Flist

·         The Hidden or Deep Web

o       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_web

·         Wiki

o       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

o       http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000644.html

o       http://www.worldwidewiki.net/wiki/SwitchWiki

II Tools, Techniques, and Trends (Some are obsolete)

·         Searching History

o       Books and magazines (Top 100 web sites etc.)

o       Yahoo Directory

o       Excite

o       Alta Vista (Indexing Web Sites)

o       Google (Algorithm based indexing)

o       Future?

·         Browsing Tools History

o       Gopher (Obsolete)

o       Lynx (Text Based)

o       Netscape (Original Version)

o       Internet Explorer

o       Firefox

  http://www.mozilla.org/

o       Safari (Macintosh)

o       Future?

·         Email History

o       Text based email (Pine)

o       Netscape Navigator (Original Version)

o       Eudora or Outlook Express

o       Outlook

o       Web Mail

    o    Hotmail
    o    Yahoo Mail
    o    University or ISP based

o       Gmail

o    Storage

o    Searching

o    Tags or Labels

o       Future?

·         Techniques for gathering Information (After you have found the information what do you do with it?)

o       Bookmarks (URLs)

o       Saving Web Pages to the local computer

o       Creating personal web sites of valuable bookmarks

o            http://www.cysewski.com/UAF/technews/TechNews.htm

o       Copying and Pasting Information into local Word documents

o       Printing web sites and creating a clipping file

o       Saving selected information to an Evernote file.

o           www.evernote.com

o       Emailing web site URLs to yourself

o       Subscribing to email newsletters

o       Organizing URL’s for tabbed browsing using FireFox.

o           www.mozilla.org

o       Saving web sites to personal blogs

o       Subscribing to RSS feeds from web sites with an RSS aggregator

o            www.bloglines.com

o       Tagging web URLs using de-licio-us and Yahoo My Web 2.0

o            My Web 2.0 Review

·         http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1875188,00.asp

o            del.icio.us Review

·         http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1875195,00.asp

Trends

o       Web Based Applications

o            Office Applications

o            Examples

·         http://www.thinkfree.com/

·         http://www.writely.com/

o       Web Feeds with RSS

o            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed

o       Wikis

o            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

o            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction

o       Social or Community Networking (Folksonomy)

o            http://news.com.com/2102-1032_3-5630403.html?tag=st.util.print

o            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy

o       New ways of searching and presenting results

o            http://searchenginewatch.com/


III. Finding Information

Finding Information on your local computer

·         Folders (Rummaging)

o       Nested Folders (Windows Explorer Interface)

·         Google Desktop Search

o       http://desktop.google.com/

o       http://desktop.google.com/?promo=mp-gds-v1-1

o       http://desktop.google.com/features.html - quickfind

·         Yahoo Desktop Search

o       http://desktop.yahoo.com/

o       http://desktop.yahoo.com/faq

·         Other Choices

o       http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/desktop-search.ars

o       http://www.desktoppipeline.com/howto/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=161502317&pgno=2

Finding Information on the Web

Sources of information

o       Magazines, Newspapers, Journals

o       Colleagues and Professionals

o       Email

o       Web Sites

o       Email Newsletters or Email Lists

o       Blogs

o       RSS Feeds

Finding Relevant Sources of Information

o    Search Engine Watch

o    http://searchenginewatch.com/

o    Search Tools

o    http://lii.org/pub/htdocs/search_tools.htm

o     http://www.googleguide.com/

o    Directories

o     http://lii.org/

o     http://dmoz.org/

o       The Hidden Web

o     http://www.distance.uaf.edu/dls/resources/tt/teaching-tips-12.pdf

o     http://scholar.google.com/

o     http://www.invisible-web.net/

o    Blogs and RSS Feeds

o     http://blogsearch.google.com/

o      http://www.rsshut.com/directory/

o    Joining a Community of Professionals

o    Email Lists and List Servers

o     http://www.journalismnet.com/people/listserv.htm - Best

o    http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html

o     Posting to Email Lists and List Servers

o     Establishing a reputation

o    Sharing your knowledge

o    Tagging Communities

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

o     Following the sources (Links to Links)

o     Find an expert site and look for links and references

o    Magazines, Journals, and Newsletters

o    Clipping Files

o     Finding web links

IV. Gathering Information

Gathering information on your local computer

Documents

o    Windows Search Tools

o    My Documents Folder

Evernote

o    Clippings

o      http://www.evernote.com/en/

Gathering Information on the Web

Email

Outlook (Local)

o    Folders

Web Mail (Web Based)

o     Example (Gmail)

o     Folders

o    Tagging

o     Searching

Web Sites

Bookmarks (Local)

o       Browsers

o    Firefox

·         http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

·         https://addons.mozilla.org/?application=firefox

o    Internet Explorer

·         http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/using/howto/share/favorites.mspx

Evernote (Local)

·         Clipping web content information to a local Evernote file

o    www.evernote.com

Bookmarks (Web Based)

o     My Web 2.0 (Yahoo)

o      http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/

RSS Feeds

o    Bloglines

o               http://www.bloglines.com/

o    Subscribing to RSS feeds with Bloglines

o       http://www.bloglines.com/sub

o       Finding RSS Feeds

o    BloogZ:   http://www.bloogz.com/rssfinder

o     Syndic8:  http://www.syndic8.com

o     Technorati:  http://www.technorati.com

o     Daypop:   http://www.daypop.com

 

Email Newsletters or Email Lists

o       Professional or Specialized Publications

o    Searching

o    Finding

o    Subscribing

o    Managing

·         Email Application

o  Local or Web

·         Folders vs. Tagging

List of Distance Education Resources from the Center for Distance Learning, University of Alaska Fairbanks

o    Mailing Lists

o    Distance Education Online Symposium (DEOS) –

http://www.ed.psu.edu/acsde/deos/deos.html

o     TLT-SWG –

o http://www.tltgroup.org/listserv/tlt-swg.html

o    Newsletters and Journals

o     Sloan-C View –

·          http://www.aln.org/publications/view/index.asp

o     Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) –

·         http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/index.asp

o    Journal of Distance Education –

·         http://cade.athabascau.ca/

o    TechKnowLogia –

·          http://www.techknowlogia.org/

o    International Review of Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) –

·          http://www.irrodl.org/

o    Journal of Computer Mediated Communication –

·         http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/

o    Distance Education Systemwide Interactive Electronic Newsletter –

·         http://www.uwex.edu/disted/desien/

o    eLearn Magazine –

·         http://www.elearnmag.org/

o     “Meta” Sites

o    The Chronicle of Higher Education: Distance Education –

·          http://chronicle.com/distance/

o     Syllabus –

·          http://www.syllabus.com/index.asp

o     Distance-Educator.com –

·         http://www.distance-educator.com/

o    Distance Education Clearinghouse –

·         http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html

o    Educause - http://www.educause.edu/

o     American Distance Education Consortium –

·          http://www.adec.edu/

o     American Center for the Study of Distance Education (ACSDE) –

·          http://www.ed.psu.edu/acsde/

o     Distance Learning at About.Com –

·          http://distancelearn.about.com/

V. Sharing Information

Sharing Information on the Web

o       Email

o       Blogging

o       Web Sites

o     University

o     Own Domain

o       Communities

o     Contributing to Mailing Lists

o    Tagging, Social Bookmarking or Folksonomy

·         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

·         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy 

o    Wiki

·         http://www.wikipedia.org/

·         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction

·         http://www.worldwidewiki.net/wiki/SwitchWiki

VI. Demonstrations

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