Research-Organizing+Information

Here are some tools you can use to help you keep track of the information you find during the process of reviewing the literature:


 * BOOKMARKING USEFUL WEBSITES**


 * **[|De.licio.us]** - After you register to use this site, this free social bookmarking site allows you to create an annotated list of online bookmarks to your favorite websites, tagging your bookmarks with keywords that allows others with similar interests to access and explore them. This is particularly useful for people who use multiple browsers, access the internet regularly from multiple computers, or who wish to share their bookmark collections with others (you can make your collection public). user:chericem1


 * **[|CiteULike] -** This free, online service allows you to create a personal library of articles, rate them, tag them, export bibliographic information to Endnote, and subscribe to RSS feeds for particular pages or topics. An excellent tool for researchers! user:chericem1


 * **[|Bookmark Tracker] -** This free, very flexible web-based bookmarking service allows you to perform all of the functions listed above without advertising, and with the added advantage that it makes both public and private RSS feeds available (so that any time you update your bookmarks, others can be notified). It also has features that allow you to import existing bookmark collections from the web, to synchronize your web collection with the collections in your browsers, to feed your web collection into your blog, and to allow users to identify the ten most popular bookmarks from your collection. user:chericem1


 * **[|Google Reader]** - After creating a free account, students can use this service to keep track of the webpages to which they have "subscribed" (for free) using RSS technology. Instructors can also "subscribe" to their students' blogs and easily keep track of who has posted new content. [|Bloglines] is another free service that accomplishes this. user:chericem1


 * **[|Zotero]** - Free software designed to help you annotate, organize, manage, and "tag" qualitative data. http://www.zotero.org/ user:chericem1


 * KEEPING TRACK OF CITATIONS**


 * **[|Citation Machine] -** Choose the style you need, fill out the online form, press enter, and voila, the citation will appear! user:chericem1


 * **[|CiteULike]** - This phenomenal, free service allows you to search articles by topic, to organize the articles you find into libraries that you can annotate, rate, and tag (the program automatically imports the citation information and abstract into the library for you), and lets you search other people's libraries of articles (and the tags they attach to them). You can even view lists related articles in either a traditional list form, or in a visual concept map called a //TouchGraph.// A great way to connect with scholarly communities of interest to you. user:chericem1


 * **[|Endnote]** - This is a program you can purchase that allows you to input all of your references into a template and then import them into a reference list in Microsoft Word when you write papers. user:chericem1


 * TAKING NOTES**


 * **[|5 Reasons to Blog the Research Process]** - Short blog post that outlines key benefits of using blogs as a research tool user:chericem1


 * **[|Google Notebook]** – Lets you copy snippets from online articles, or create your own running notebook on the topics of your choice online user:chericem1


 * **[|Clipmarks]** - The free tools on this site will also allow you to "clip" words and images from websites and save them to your own personal notebook, where you can add your own notes to them user:chericem1


 * **[|Cmap]** - If you are a visual learner, you might like taking your notes using this free, online, collaborative concept mapping tool - [|Download the software here] user:chericem1


 * **[|Madcow Webnotes]** - The free software available for download at this site allows you to annotate the text, images, and multimedia content on any webpage you browse by highlighting it and adding comments or attaching multimedia files to it for later retrieval. You can make your annotations available for public viewing and searching so that others can add annotations to your annotations. Requires free registration. user:chericem1


 * **[|Protopage]** - Ever wonder what a Web 2.0 webpage will look like? Well, here's the answer! Register for free to get your own page, then customize the content by clicking on any of the tabs and altering their contents. Make as much as you like public or private. Like someone else's content? Simply click import and watch it all get added to your page! Useful for creating concept maps. user:chericem1


 * **[|Webnote Wiki]** - Allows users to collaboratively take color-coded notes in a space they create and organize them graphically. People can subscribe to your RSS feed. user:chericem1


 * ORGANIZING THE NOTES YOU TAKE**


 * **[|Annotated Bibliography] -** Tips and contrasting examples designed to help you write an annotated bibliography user:chericem1


 * **Article Summary Sheet** - An example of one way you might try to summarize key ideas from each article that you read. [[file:Article Summary Sheet.doc]] user:chericem1


 * **[|BubbleUs] -** Create your own graphic organizer using this nicely designed, intuitive interface and then share it with others on your research team! user:chericem1


 * **[|4teachers.org] -** Contains a variety of tools to help you organize information, including [|floorplan generators], rubric generators ([|Rubistar]) and more! user:chericem1


 * **[|Keep Toolkit]** - A free, online project planning template that allows students to input images, text, and video into different "boxes" to create a shareable "project portfolio." user:chericem1


 * **[|Scaffolds and Organizers] -** This page contains an extensive list of sites that offer free graphic organizers user:chericem1


 * **[|Tubes]** - Allows users to drag and drop content (audio files, bookmarks, documents, e-mail contact lists, spreadsheets, videos) into a "tube" that can then be accessed by all those who have been invited to share it. Invitees can also upload content to the tube, making project collaboration easier. The latest versions of content in the tube synch up when the user is online. Click on the Download link to see a 30-second demo. user:chericem1

See also: Social Bookmarking & Tagging

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