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collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively

ASU's "The Library Minute" YouTube channel - brief videos about library services and tools.

Crazy idea? ETC creates a YouTube channel and does a series of brief screencasts where one or more of us (once a month?) demos a technology or tool or service and how we are using it or how we might want to use it for instruction within SUNY.

micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Possible tool for integration into LMS platforms?

easy to use tool to embed documents on any website and can mark up the documents for otherts to see. Also provides usage analytics & access controls.

This might be a nice way to both attach more specific help to online handouts and tutorials, giving them more context. You might even place a video tutorial made by another organization, for example, in the context of your own environment so students can make better sense of it in relation to your own library's resources.

interactive tool you can plug a url into and it gives you questions to answer about the aspects of the information to evaluate it.

possible tool 4 info lit instr via creative, reflective, multimedia research topic posters?

edu-oriented tool using twitter and Facebook. Students can sign up with existing twitter and Fb accounts.

dead simple, collaborative whiteboard with some edu/tutoring functions (some math and physics widgets, for example).

I can see developing a branching adventure storyline that integrates elements of info lit (plagiarism, copyright, research, evaluation) using a tool like this. The student makes choices along the way that determines the outcome for their character (i.e., plagiarize and get demoted/fired as a journalist, or use biased information and offend a friend, etc.).

open source software to create own "choose your adventure" branching book.

Free file sharing and net meeting. No download req'd & includes doc & browser share, text editor and whiteboard.

zooming presentation editor

helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.

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iPhone Application Web Based Simulator. Can test how a website looks on an iPhone

free online post-it note board. Can use it as interactive way to gather feedback, ideas, etc. just for yourself or within a group or publicly. No user registration needed.

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Here is one idea for using twitter, perhaps in collab with a history or writing or acting faculty member: have students role play people from a specific event (e.g., Watergate from the eyes of several key players) or set of circumstances (e.g., ppl from different backgrounds observing a lynching, etc.). Each student is assigned (or picks) a different "character" and then is responsible for researching that event or issue and or person and to create realistic tweets that they imagine their character might be observing or thinking about during the event or about the issue. You could then also assign a reflective essay for them to think about how the process of emerging themselves in the persona and interacting with the other characters effected their perspective (or just do a simpler assignment where they reflect on their research process).