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To investigate. AcaWiki is like "Wikipedia for academic research" designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online.

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Various sources of RSS/email alerts for journals. Useful for teaching staff/students how to keep up-to-date.

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I regularly refer to this; it's a good way to explain what library skills training is all about to academics.

www.sconul.ac.uk/...headline_skills.html - Preview

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Lots of online graphic-editing tools, including taking website screenshots. Unfortunately don't seem to work in IE6, so I need to wait for work to upgrade before I try them out!

aviary.com - Preview

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Quick tool for taking a screenshot of a whole webpage (not just one screen's worth. Some options e.g. size, filetype.

www.superscreenshot.com - Preview

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Interesting ideas about preparing handouts for one-off info literacy/research sessions.

pegasuslibrarian.com/...-librarians-secret-weapon.html - Preview

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New animations and guides to using Web 2.0 tools for research, admin or teaching - likely to come in very handy for developing in-house training. CC-licensed. Topics include RSS, Social Media and Microblogging with more to come.

web2practice.jiscinvolve.org - Preview

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Short intro to Spotify. May use this in user training as work PCs don't have Spotify installed.

www.youtube.com/watch - Preview

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Another free web app for trying to organise a meeting. Seems pretty flexible as it allows free-text time entry.

www.meetona.com - Preview

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Handy for live demos - enter a URL and this will splash a shortened version across the screen so people watching can enter it on their computers. May figure out a user education function for it...

splashurl.net - Preview

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Free software for creating screencasts. Can export as Flash, .exe or even as a PDF for a printed manual. Highly recommended by my husband!

www.debugmode.com/wink - Preview

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Option for creating free online screencasts, but as far as I can see they have to be hosted on the Screentoaster website. Option for voiceover or captions which is nice.

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Nice Norwegian information literacy website (English translation) about the steps involved in researching and writing coursework/dissertations. Includes a student's diary.

www.sokogskriv.no/...index.html - Preview

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More tips on making good screencasts - covers audio, video codecs, style, etc.

mashable.com/...how-to-master-screencasts - Preview

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List of questions to ask students to assess their level of information literacy. May be useful if I get a chance to tailor usered to different ability levels, or with new research students.

markhepworthsblog.blogspot.com/...ation-literacy-diagnostic.html - Preview

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Interesting report about the current situation with university libraries providing information skills training to researchers. My college is starting a research degree programme next year so we need to learn about this sort of thing!

www.rin.ac.uk/training-research-info - Preview

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Lots of useful links to learn about screencasting for libraries - e.g. to teach use of the catalogue/online resources remotely.

oedb.org/...to-screencasting-for-libraries - Preview

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An alternative scheduling website to get multiple people to show when they're available.

whenisgood.net - Preview

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Tool where you can create an event with possible dates/times and invite people to say when they're available - handy for scheduling meetings, training etc. No logins needed - hurrah!

gathergrid.com - Preview

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This librarian blog post talks about teaching resources 'backwards', i.e. showing an end result and exploring that and then using that knowledge to inform using the resource's search function. Great idea which I'm hoping to use myself this year :)

pegasuslibrarian.blogspot.com/...results-before-you-search.html - Preview

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