2012.4.25

Topics we covered in today's class:

1. BibUp
2. Google Photos
3. Dropbox
4. Everenote

Today's class was focused mainly on productivity.

Personally, BibUp looks especially attractive to use--I borrow LOTS of books from the library when writing reports, so I always suffer through making bibliographies for books. This might make my life a lot easier. However, I often use Easybib instead (http://www.easybib.com/) and this looks up the ISBN and make the bibliography by just typing in the title. I'll have to  try which one is better... what do you think???

But anyway, I'm really excited to try out evernote the most. I've always been spotting the green elephant icon everywhere, but hadn't had the chance to actually use it.


I'm looking forward to next class as welll!!!!:)

Class 3

Things we covered in class:

1. google books
2. Amazon
     --> wish list
     --> look inside
3. Zotero

I like using google books, but I didn't know that by selecting "full view", it enables me to search only for books that give me all the pages. This was pretty useful.

What was most useful today was the Zotero. It's easy to add, view, search, and most of all, make bibliographies and citations. Every time I wrote papers for classes, the bibliography part was a real pain--it was really time consuming. It's so efficient to use this to make bibliographies! I'd like to get used to this during this term.

Some of the things we covered in class today:

- Linkedin

- Posterous - Life Streaming

--> Tumblr

- TinyURL

I had no idea facebook kept track of all of the information we browse online-- it's really freaky:( (Not that I'll close down my account, but perhaps I'll be more careful and keep this fact in mind..)

TinyURL is probably pretty useful!

I also have interest in Linkedin - I'd like to try this out.

2012. 4. 16

Today we used safari and firefox to search and add extensions. I usually use google chrome as my browser, and I use google extensions. So it was interesting to see how different extensions there are on safari and firefox.

The most useful tool seemed like the "read later list" (the glasses icon). I usually opened a new window for everything I wanted to read later, and then kept it in my menu bar for later. This made my desktop messy, so I hopeI'll be able to find a similar one on chrome!!