25 IMPORTANT WEB 2 0 TOOLS FORSTUDENTS TEACHERS

25 IMPORTANT WEB 2. 0 TOOLS FORSTUDENTS, TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS We will cover in this Power Point: NEW SEARCH ENGINES / WEB EVALUATION RESOURCES OPEN SOURCE DATABASES GOOGLE’S ADVANCED SEARCH CAPABILITY GOOGLE CUSTOMIZATION: POWER UP YOUR OWN SEARCH ENGINE LIBGUIDES: FIND AUTHORITATIVE GUIDES FROM LIBRARIANS ON A TOPIC OF INTEREST TO YOU NETVIBES: CONSTRUCT A SOCIAL MEDIA LISTENING DASHBOARD -- to see what others are saying (about you? )

WOLFRAM ALPHA NEW SEARCH ENGINE: WWW. WOLFRAMALPHA. COM

HERE IS A TYPICAL GOOGLE SEARCH ON MARTIN LUTHER KING: NOTE THAT OUT OF OVER 11 MILLION RESULTS, A SITE CALLINGAITSELF TRUE HISTORICAL EXAMINATION IS RANKED 4 TH BY GOOGLE.

HERE IS THAT SITE: REMEMBER 4 TH RANKED BY GOOGLE. NOTICE ANY PROBLEMS?

GOOGLE’S ADVANCED SEARCH OPTION: WWW. GOOGLE. COM/ADVANCED_SEARCH IN THIS EXAMPLE WE ARE LOOKING FORPOWERPOINTS ON MLK FROM ANY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION (LIMITING TO. EDU AND FILE TYPE= POWERPOINTS)

WE NOW RETRIEVE MUCH BETTER SEARCH RESULTS IN THE ADVANCED SEARCH OPTION.

TALKING ABOUT GOOGLE, HERE IS A GREAT 45 MINUTE VIDEO ON GOOGLE SCHOLAR THAT REALLY EXPLAINS THE INS AND OUTS OF SEARCHING: HTTP: //WWW. YOUTUBE. COM/WATCH? V=J BBYIPRRTFE&FEATURE=RELMFU

OTHER NEWER GENERATION SEARCH ENGINES WE WILL EXAMINE INCLUDE WOLFRAM ALPHA, SWEET SEARCH AND IPL (INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY) AND TWURDY. COM All these give consistently more authoritative search results. Wolfram Alpha: www. wolframalpha. com Sweet Search: www. sweetsearch. com IPL: (Internet Public Library) www. ipl. org TWURDY. COM

EXAMPLE OF A CALCULATION INWOLFRAM ALPHA: THE LIFE EXPECTANCY IN GHANA

IPL: INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY WWW. IPL. ORG

A NEW SEARCH ENGINE WWW. TWURDY. COM

SEARCH ON “SOCIAL MEDIA AND LIBRARIES” IN THE NEW TWURDY SEARCH ENGINE: WWW. TWURDY. COM

SWEET SEARCH: HTTP: //WWW. SWEETSEARCH. COM/ NOTE RESEARCH TUTORIALS AVAILABLE

EXAMPLE OF A SEARCH ON S “ HAKESPEARE PLOT SUMMARIES”

WEB PAGE EVALUATION: SOME USEFUL SITES Checklist for Evaluating Web Pages http: //www. lib. berkeley. edu/Teaching. Lib/Guides/Int ernet/Eval. Form_General_Barker. pdf Class Handouts for Teaching Web Searching: http: //www. lib. berkeley. edu/Teaching. Lib/Guides/Int ernet/Handouts. html Internet Tutorials from SUNY ALBANY: http: //library. albany. edu/usered/

NEW LESSON PLANS FROM GOOGLE FOR EDUCATORS LESSON PLANS FROM GOOGLE: http: //www. google. com/insidesearch/searchedu cation/lessons. html GOOGLE LESSON PLAN SEARCH: LESSON PLANS USING GOOGLE ON MANY TOPICS: http: //www. google. com/edu/teachers/lessonplan-search. html

LIBGUIDES: AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE TO FIND (QUICKLY) THE BEST WEB SITES IN A SUBJECT AREA: HTTP: //LIBGUIDES. COM/COMMUNITY. PHP? M=G

PART II: SOURCES OF FREE ONLINE BOOKS Besides the ones noted in the following Powerpoint slides, also consult the U of Pennsylvania Online Books Page: http: //onlinebooks. library. upenn. edu/lists. html The Online Books Page includes 40, 000 free, online books and is growing rapidly. Also check out Free e. Books (the classics) hosted by the University of Adelaide, Australia: http: //ebooks. adelaide. edu. au/meta/authors. html One can search this collection by title, author and subject. New e-Books are listed every month

ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF FREE BOOKS FOR STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS BLOOMSBURY: http: //www. bloomsburyacademic. com/browse? mode=book FLATWORLDKNOWLDEDGE: http: //catalog. flatworldknowledge. com OER COMMONS TEXTBOOKS: http: //tinyurl. com/yeqd 28 w WIKIBOOKS: www. wikibooks. org CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY: http: //texts. cdlib. org/escholarship/ THE TEXTBOOK REVOLUTION: http: //www. textbookrevolution. org/index. php/Main_Page

EXAMPLE OF A FREE TEXTBOOK FROM WWW. FLATWORLDKNOWLEDGE. COM BUSINESS ENGLISH FOR SUCCESS

A FULL TEXT BOOK FROMBLOOMSBURY: THE DIGITAL SCHOLAR: HTTP: //DX. DOI. ORG/10. 5040/9781849666275

OER TEXTBOOKS (OER= OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES)

WIKIBOOKS

MORE ON WIKIBOOKS

UC PRESS BOOKS: THESE BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE FOR FREE: HTTP: //PUBLISHING. CDLIB. ORG/UCPRESSEBOOKS//SEARCH? BROWSETITLE=AA; SORT=TITLE; RIGHTS= PUBLIC; STYLE=ESCHOL; BRAND=ESCHOL

TEXTBOOK REVOLUTION

PART 3: OPEN ACCESS DATABASES: DATABASES FREE OF CHARGE, FULL TEXT RESOURCES DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals UNESCO’s GOAP Open DOAR LSE REPRINTS (London School of Economics) CALIFORNIA SCHOLARSHIP SSRN: (Social Sciences Research Network) covers Law, Medical Ethics, Business and Finance, Accounting, all Social Science Disciplines: must register, but registration is free

UNESCO’S GLOBAL OPEN ACCESS PORTAL: HTTP: //WWW. UNESCO. ORG/NEW/EN/COMMUNICATION-ANDINFORMATION/PORTALS-AND-PLATFORMS/GOAP/

THEMATIC AREAS IN UNESCO’S PORTAL HTTP: //WWW. UNESCO. ORG/NEW/EN/COMMUNICATION-AND-INFORMATION/PORTALSAND-PLATFORMS/GOAP/THEMATIC-AREAS/

THEMATIC AREAS IN GOAP: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

OPENDOAR: HTTP: //WWW. OPENDOAR. ORG/COUNTRYLIST. PHP

ELECTRONIC THESES AND DISSERTATIONS VIA OPEN ACCESS: HTTP : // ROAR. EPRINTS. ORG /VIEW /TYPE /THESES. HTML

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS: (DOAJ) OVER 7800 JOURNALS NOW COVERED: WWW. DOAJ. ORG

SSRN: OVER 350, 000 FULL-TEXT PAPERS COVERED; ALL ASPECTS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES: WWW. SSRN. COM

E-SCHOLARSHIP FROM THE U CALIFORNIA SYSTEM: HTTP: //ESCHOLARSHIP. ORG/GATEWAYRESEARCHERS. HTML

RESULTS OF A SEARCH ON GHANA

OAISTER: OVER 25 MILLION ITEMS: OAISTER. WORLDCAT. ORG

RESULTS OF A SEARCH ON THE“ARAB SPRING” IN OAISTER

COMPLETE TEXT OF ARTICLE RETRIEVED

PART IV: WEB 2. 0 TOOLS TWITTER SEARCH HOOTSUITE NETVIBES COMMONCRAFT VIDEOS ADDICTOMATIC (yes! ADDICTOMATIC!) GOOGLE CUSTOMIZATION

TWITTER: THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF TWITTER FOR ACADEMICS: HTTP: //CHRONICLE. COM/ARTICLE/10 COMMANDMENTS-OF-TWITTERFOR/131813/

HOW TO FIND PEOPLE OR TOPICS ON TWITTER: TWITTER. COM/SEARCH

RESULTS OF A TWITTER SEARCH ON “SOCIAL MEDIA AND LIBRARIES”

HOOTSUITE: MANAGE YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA: WWW. HOOTSUITE. COM CAN VIEW ALL SOCIAL MEDIA ASSETS IN ONE DASHBOARD: FACEBOOK, TWITTER, ETC

HOOTSUITE: CAN ADD A SEARCH AND ALL UPDATES ARE AUTOMATICALLY FOUND ON YOUR DASHBOARD

HOOTSUITE: HERE WE CREATE A SEARCH ON SCIENCE AND ADDED A TAB

FEED YOUR MIND: THE LATEST NEWS ON ANY TOPIC WITH NETVIBES: WWW. NETVIBES. COM INCLUDING LATEST ARTICLES FROM YOUR FAVORITE MAGAZINES. THE IRC ACCRA WILL OFFER MONTHLY SESSIONSNETVIBES ON BEGINNING THIS FALL.

ADDICTOMATIC: MAKES SOCIAL MEDIA SEARCHING EASY!!! WWW. ADDICTOMATIC. COM

ADDICTOMATIC: CREATING AN EASY WEB PAGE ON ANY TOPIC THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA ASSETS: RESULTS OF OUR SEARCH ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP

COMMONCRAFT VIDEOS EXPLAINING IN PLAIN ENGLISH LATEST CONCEPTS: NOTE THE VIDEOS EXPLAINING SOCIAL MEDIA WWW. COMMONCRAFT. COM

GOOGLE CUSTOMIZATION: CREATE YOUR OWN SEARCH ENGINE: WWW. GOOGLE. COM/CSE

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN SEARCH ENGINE: WEBSITE WITH INSTRUCTIONS: please go to www. tinyurl. com/6 dfaxn You will find a free POWERPOINT (in the POWERPOINT SECTION of the above web site) and step by step directions in a word document on using Google Customization to create your own search engine. The IRC ACCRA will offer monthly sessions on how to create your own Search Engine beginning Fall 2012!

LIST OF GOOGLE CUSTOMIZED SEARCH ENGINES THE IRC ACCRA CREATED. NOW, GO CREATE YOURS! CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE for Education and Locating Free Lesson Plans: http: //tinyurl. com/7 sserqx Custom Search Engine for Library and Information Science: www. tinyurl. com/7 vr 7 yle CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE FOR THESES AND DISSERTATIONS and THINK TANKS www. google. com/cse/home? cx=011094389090557246315%3 A-f 5 tlirivsw CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE FOR U. S. AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SOURCES http: //www. google. com/cse/home? cx=011094389090557246315%3 Afius hweyxgg Custom Search Engine for Free Distance Education Courses (FIND A COURSE WITH LECTURE NOTES AND VIDEO, AUDIO CONTENT): http: //www. tinyurl. com/8 xtsw 7 k Custom Search Engine for Economics and Economic Research: http: //www. tinyurl. com/88 rmasj (Constructed with the help of the American Corner at the University of Ghana at an IRC/IRO Accra Seminar)

IF YOU WOULD LIKE IRC ACCRA SEMINARS ON ANY OF THESE TOPICS, PLEASE LET US KNOW! You can find us through: FACEBOOK: http: //www. facebook. com/USEmbassy. Ghana IRC ACCRA EMAIL: ircaccra@state. gov OUR PHONE NUMBER: +233 302 741 919 We are located at the U. S. EMBASSY, ACCRA, GHANA, on 4 th IRO STEVE PERRY and IRC DIRECTOR, RITA AWUKU: YOUR FRIENDLY CYBERGUIDES TO SOCIAL MEDIA! Circular Road, in the Cantonments area of Accra.

NEWER VERSIONS OF THIS PPT WILL ALWAYS BE FOUND HERE: http: //www. tinyurl. com/6 dfaxn