practical use of the Internet

With tens of thousands of websites in the Internet, it is very difficult to find practical page for any purposes.
Rab taught several websites which enable you to watch or preview short movies online for free. Freedocumentaries and Media Education Foundation have lots of movies and documentaries categorized by topics. YouTube and Veoh can also be useful for academic purposes.
When searching information for one's essay, it is okay to use DVDs and documentaries as well as books. I'll check these websites above to see if there is any matching video for my topic :)

ZOTERO!

I already knew about the zetero from last year's ELP class and it has been very helpful when writing my essays, especially works cited. Today, however, I learned the latest zotero functions and was grateful to realize them. I always wanted to have an online-zotero with every source I put previously. I knew that there was a portable zotero , but it needed USB stick all the time, which is too bothering for me :(

Rab taught us today how to sync with zotero server online which enables to merge the online-zotero and the home computer zotero. With this function, I always can draw out information I liked from any computer in the world. THIS is what I wanted! Essay writing will surly be more efficient!

Also, there was a way to organize plenty books and documents in zotero by tagging them. You can also leave memos for each information to remind important pages and phrases.

Zotero has been my good friend when writing essays and will surely be so.

Stuff you better know!

I changed a design and a theme for my Blogger, and now it looks so pretty:) I was surprised with numerous numbers of fonts that you can apply for the blog! Everyone should check it out and re-design your page to make it attractive!

As always, Rab offered us some useful tools that we can use for the rest of our academic lives.

Instapaper(for safari browser) eliminates all the distracting ads and displays only the article you want to read. It simplifies the complicated web page into a sheet of paper with every information you need! It has a function to save pages that you wish to keep for your later review, which is very useful when you writing an essay.

Evernote Web Cliper(for firefox browser) is similar to Instapaper, but and also save photos and short movies attached to the articles. You can access to Evernote through iPhone, iPod Touch and any other smart phones you have.



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firefox addons

I have been using firefox as my browser for almost an year. Some of the firefox add ons offer comfortable environment when using the Internet. During the class, I had a chance to examine popular add-ons I didn't know and actually installed one to my home computer. It is Foxtab, a tab that you can display your most favorite websites just like pictures in an art museum. Its is a popular 3D tab and can be chosen from several layouts. It enables you to access your favorite sites only by a click. I found this very useful and attractive because it has this cool and simple display similar to Cooliris. I also found this firefox add on for strong password security, LassPass Password Manager. It creates strong passwords and the add-on automatically saves them , therefore you only have to remember one password. It also automatically fills forms so you can save time. I haven't used this LassPass Password Manager, but since I repeatedly use the same password, this certainly offers me a better security.

I want to take a full advantage from this Digital Literacy class to make my ICU life more efficiently and useful:)

SE with Rab Again!:)

I knew that Rab's SE class is popular that students are determined by lot, so I prayed to win the lottery ...and here I am! I had Rab for my ELP in spring, and since then I had been a fan of his way of teaching, making us question the media and introducing the world we never knew. (I love his unique Scottish pronunciation too lol) Anyways, I'm very looking forward to this Digital Literacy class.

I'm not quite sure what I need to cover in this post, but so far I learned that gmail system has upgraded, Safari has cool add-ons, and Cooliris enables us to do a research in a very stylish way. Cooliris's display was so much alike to that of iTunes!