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

Google

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!