My experiences with searching for educationally relevant materials have been particularly easy. Through my past experiences, courses and current course with textbook link references various websites regarding education have been at my fingertips.
For example, one site, which offers helpful information, is Teacher Tips on Kelly Bear, http://www.kellybear.com/TeacherTips.html. The “Links of Interest” provides not only useful information regarding resources for teachers in academia but also links for personal growth, family, parenting and more.
Another handy website is Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) which assists users/students in finding journal articles, books, research syntheses, technical reports and more. This website is invaluable as it can be cumbersome finding papers which are appropriate for researching to write an informative paper for a course project.
Fore example, I ran a search for “Internet” which pulled data for two journals; one of which was Internet and Higher Education (Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)). This gave me the journal title, ISSN, Publisher, brief description and even let me know that it was a peer-reviewed journal. This is beneficial as many of papers written in higher level graduate courses require that they include peer-reviewed material.
The websites I find productive I choose to save directly in my browser, Firefox, on my laptop as bookmarks. This method is easiest for me as I use my laptop for homework, it’s portable thus goes everywhere with me and I don’t have to log into yet another website to maintain information.
I find using so many websites as tools to maintain documents and the like extremely cumbersome. This type of practice can become overwhelming and confusing at times as well. For instance, in previous classes I’ve been required to visit several websites, use the tools and then find myself in later classes asking myself “now which website did I save all that information in?” or “what is my password for that site again?” Although I keep a spreadsheet and detailed records of my websites and passwords, so many websites is overload. I find three simple things to benefit me greatly in maintaining websites and organization: (1) a protected workbook with visited sites & passwords (which I keep in dropbox) (2) bookmarks in my browser (which can easily be exported and imported to any other computer I choose) and (3) Dropbox.
Dropbox is a wonderful application, which I use for personal, work and educational purposes. I can access my files via the web or simply open the Dropbox folder on my computer. Dropbox has an application in which a user downloads, it automatically puts an icon on the top bar of my computer(s) and I can get my files quickly and easily no matter where I am. It’s great! It also maintains the latest version of all my documentation.
Dropbox features (Dropbox, 2010):
• File sync with 2GB of online free storage and up to 100GB for a fee
• Compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux computers
• Automatically syncs when new files or changes are detected
• Work on files in your Dropbox even if you're offline
• File sharing in which I can share any folder or file I choose with whomever I choose
• Automatic backup of your files, undelete files and folders, restore previous versions of your files
• Access files via the web on Dropbox's secure servers
• Access my files on my iPhone or iPad with the free Dropbox app
• And more…
References
For example, one site, which offers helpful information, is Teacher Tips on Kelly Bear, http://www.kellybear.com/TeacherTips.html. The “Links of Interest” provides not only useful information regarding resources for teachers in academia but also links for personal growth, family, parenting and more.
Another handy website is Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) which assists users/students in finding journal articles, books, research syntheses, technical reports and more. This website is invaluable as it can be cumbersome finding papers which are appropriate for researching to write an informative paper for a course project.
Fore example, I ran a search for “Internet” which pulled data for two journals; one of which was Internet and Higher Education (Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)). This gave me the journal title, ISSN, Publisher, brief description and even let me know that it was a peer-reviewed journal. This is beneficial as many of papers written in higher level graduate courses require that they include peer-reviewed material.
The websites I find productive I choose to save directly in my browser, Firefox, on my laptop as bookmarks. This method is easiest for me as I use my laptop for homework, it’s portable thus goes everywhere with me and I don’t have to log into yet another website to maintain information.
I find using so many websites as tools to maintain documents and the like extremely cumbersome. This type of practice can become overwhelming and confusing at times as well. For instance, in previous classes I’ve been required to visit several websites, use the tools and then find myself in later classes asking myself “now which website did I save all that information in?” or “what is my password for that site again?” Although I keep a spreadsheet and detailed records of my websites and passwords, so many websites is overload. I find three simple things to benefit me greatly in maintaining websites and organization: (1) a protected workbook with visited sites & passwords (which I keep in dropbox) (2) bookmarks in my browser (which can easily be exported and imported to any other computer I choose) and (3) Dropbox.
Dropbox is a wonderful application, which I use for personal, work and educational purposes. I can access my files via the web or simply open the Dropbox folder on my computer. Dropbox has an application in which a user downloads, it automatically puts an icon on the top bar of my computer(s) and I can get my files quickly and easily no matter where I am. It’s great! It also maintains the latest version of all my documentation.
Dropbox features (Dropbox, 2010):
• File sync with 2GB of online free storage and up to 100GB for a fee
• Compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux computers
• Automatically syncs when new files or changes are detected
• Work on files in your Dropbox even if you're offline
• File sharing in which I can share any folder or file I choose with whomever I choose
• Automatic backup of your files, undelete files and folders, restore previous versions of your files
• Access files via the web on Dropbox's secure servers
• Access my files on my iPhone or iPad with the free Dropbox app
• And more…
References
Dropbox. (2010). Dropbox Features. Retrieved November 14, 2009, from Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/features
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). (n.d.). Journals Indexed in ERIC. Retrieved September 06, 2010, from Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC): http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/journalList/journalList.jsp
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