INLS261/461 Tools for Information Literacy
student starters | Summer Session I, 2008
- 12 June 2008 - Darrell Sandiford has a few to show us
- 11 June 2008 - we took a break to focus on databases
- 09 June 2008 - Ben Mabie showed us Yes.com, a site that shows what internet radio stations are playing and links to hear (or see) streams of the music, read the lyrics, or to purchase the music
- 06 June 2008 - Katie Herzog showed us a tool that can help keep your pointy-haired boss off your back.
- 05 June 2008 - Andre Watson showed us the TED talks video of Johnny Lee demonstrating his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.
- 04 June 2008 - Garnett Matney showed us one of his script creations, and the challenges that it offers us
- 03 June 2008 -Lee Smith showed us Authorpoint, an interesting tool that will allow us to incorporate powerpoint slides and videos into a single flash presentation. One can also try out the free version.
- 02 June 2008 - Rob Prim showed us BugMeNot, a way to avoid having to sign up for free services.
- 30 May 2008 - Mike Webb showed us Apture, a tool (it seems to be a server tool) that can enable you to add multimedia content to your website, but you do have to create an account with them.
- 29 May 2008 - Katie Herzog showed us Muxtape, a form of music social networking and a way to expand our musical horizons. She also showed us Muxfind, a recent add-on that allows one to search Muxtape to find music that one is interested in.
- 28 May 2008 - continuing with the Google theme, Darrell Sandiford reminded us of the virtues of Google Earth and some of the many ways it has been put to use to display information
- 27 May 2008 - Chris Perry showed us Google Analytics, a free tool to help you learn even more about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site.
- 23 May 2008 - Andy Cary
showed us several things
- Amazon Web Services - Elastic Computing Cloud: a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
- Alexa - Web Information: See what sites are getting a lot of traffic
- Stanford Technology Ventures - Videos and Podcasts: See and hear technology entrepreneurs and investors from Silicon Valley.
- 22 May 2008 - Garnett Matney showed us several things
- htmlPlayground, XHTML+CSS REFERENCE BY EXAMPLE
- popurls, the mother of aggregators to the latest web buzz and available on the these sites and platforms
- 21 May 2008 - we had three today
- Jennifer Boone showed us meebo, the web messenger that lets you access IM from absolutely anywhere
- Christina Lee showed us a useful tool to use when building your own website and trying to envision an aesthetically pleasing color scheme
- Andre Watson showed us some online CBT courses offered by UNC's Information Technology Services that might be useful for any of us
- 20 May 2008 - Chris Perry showed us some helpful design tools. We looked at Jakob Nielsen's homepage and at a site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that offers us research-based usability guidelines. One would find it worthwhile to have a copy of their manual.
- 19 May 2008 - Ben Mabie showed us a YouTube classic, Did You Know By Karl Fisch, that reminds us about the competition out there
- 16 May 2008 - Mike Webb showed us the New York Times article on the individual in St. Louis who has been indicted in Los Angeles on Internet fraud charges.
- 15 May 2008 - Garnett Matney showed us his Linux operating system, Ubuntu Hardy Heron. It is just that, an operating system, and it has both good and less than good qualities. Open source, however, may just be the wave of the future.
- 14 May 2008 - Darrell Sandiford showed us StumbleUpon, a form of a social networking tool that gives us a way to serendipitously discover web sites that we might find interesting
- 13 May 2008 - Rob Moore (from the fall class) showed the email riddler, one way to simultaneously give people an email link to reach you while hiding that link from spam link harvesters.
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