Zotero 101: Organize Your Research
March 24, 2011
Olin Library Arc Lab
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
To register, see http://zotero.doattend.com/
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your workâin the web browser itself. In this hands-on workshop, we will cover account creation, installation, gathering references, organizing your references, creating citations and sharing or working collaboratively. For more info, see http://www.zotero.org/
Paperless Reference Management with Mendeley
April 06, 2011
Olin Library Arc Lab
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
To register, http://mendeley.doattend.com/
Do you have file cabinets of journal articles that you dread looking through when you need a citation? Consider going digital! Mendeley is like iTunes for your papers. Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Zotero can:
- Automatically generate bibliographies
- Highlight within and add digital notes to articles
- Collaborate easily with other researchers online
- Easily import papers from other research software
- Access your papers from anywhere online
- Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app
- Automatically add references from Zotero
- For more info, see http://www.mendeley.com
Teaching with Twitter
April 07, 2011
Olin Library Arc Lab
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
To register, http://twitter.doattend.com
In a world where social media has become a part of our daily existence, Twitter has begun to make inroads as a classroom technology. Please join us as we provide tips and ideas of new ways to integrate the micro-blogging tool, Twitter into your teaching and classroom activities.
Online Image Editing With Picnik
April 19, 2011
Olin Library Arc Lab
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
To register, http://picnik.doattend.com/
Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart's content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. Other photo editing tools include auto- fix, rotate, crop, resize, exposure, color adjustments, basic sharpening, and red-eye fixing.
Picnik also has great Facebook-only features: show your photos on your profile page, browse and edit all photos tagged with you in them, or even browse and edit your friends' photos too! For more info, see http://www.picnik.com/
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