Tuesday+Tips

The following was originally published March 1, 2011 at http://oit.drake.edu/2011/03/01/tuesday-tip-march-1-2011/ Wow! I just read a blog post entitled //“Twitter can SAVE You Time//” written by Bill Ferriter. In his post he talks about his //tweet// on Saturday in which he is actually just venting—wishing for “//a plug-in that will take an article that I find online and automatically create an APA citation for it.”// To his amazement, an hour later, he receives a response from someone he doesn’t and gets an answer—//Zotero//. Bill goes on to say that the information provided through the Tweet was exactly what he needed and saved him a ton of time when he was ready to reference his research for his book. You can read his blog post at [] I have heard of Zotero, but didn’t really know what it actually did as a Firefox browser plug-in. I decided to investigate. It appears that it could be a very useful tool for the students I teach as I am always telling them to record their sources some way so that they will be able to create citations later. This tool will save them hours of time and will be available wherever they have an Internet connection. There is a video at [] that is worth taking the time to watch—it is only 3:11 minutes long. It provides a good overview of what Zotero can do and how useful it can be. I hope you take the time to check it out and then comment below to tell me how you plan on using it—both personally and with your students. Zotero’s web site: [] Other Uses of Twitter in Education can be found at: []

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