Library and Learning Resource Centre
Research and Presentation Tools
Multi-Purpose Portals
Cool Tools for Schools - A Portal for Accessing WEB 2.0 Tools for Research, Presentation and Publishing
Evaluating Sources
Credible Sources Count - A Tutorial on Evaluating Sources from the Vaughn Memorial Library at Acadia University
Evaluation - A Resource Guide from Purdue University
Evaluating Sources - A Tutorial from the On-Line Library Learning Center of the University System of Georgia
Search Engines
For Search Engine Reviews visit Search Engine Showdown. Choose Chart to see a comparison of search features.
Ask - An Alternative Search Engine
Bing - Microsoft's Alternative Search Engine
SweetSearch - A Search Engine for Students
WolframAlpha - A Computational Knowledge Engine
Yippy - Clustered Search Results (Vivisimo / Clusty)
Zuula - Search Multiple Search Engines with Tabbed Results
Help with Research
Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need - Noodle Tools' Research Guide
AskON - Research Help from Knowledge Ontario
Ten Steps for Better Web Research - Advice for Internet Research from Dulcinea Media
Help with Note-taking
Forms for Taking Notes - Templates for Taking Notes
Help with Organization
Graphic Organizers - from edhelpers.com
bubbl.us - an On-line Tool for Brainstorming
diagram.ly - On-Line Diagram Generator
Gliffy.com - Chart and Diagram Generator
Mindomo.com - On-line Mindmapping Software
"Ten Awesome Free Tools to Make Infographics" - Advice and Applications for Generating InfoGraphics from makeuseof.com
Webspiration - an On-line Idea Web Generator
Tools for Content Analysis:
Wordle
Tagxedo
TagCrowd
ManyEyes
Help with Documentation
(Always ask your instructors what documentation style
they require!)
Video Transcript
Video on reasons for citing your work from University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries
Lisgar Style Guide
Parenthetical Citations
(or Notations) in Text (MLA)
Inserting Quotations (Lisgar English Department/MLA)
A Comprehensive APA Style Guide
A Simplified Chicago Style Guide
A Comprehensive MLA Style Guide
BibMe - A Fast and Easy Bibliography Generator
EasyBib - Commercial Bibliography Generator with Free MLA Generator
NoodleBib Express - the limited free version of the Noodle multi-format citation generator
Son of Citation Machine - A Bibliography Generator from the Landmark Project
Research and Documentation On-line - a multi-format style guide by Diane Hacker
CiteThisForMe - The Harvard Referencing Generator
Help with Presentations
Brain Rules for Presenters - A (Model) Presentation by Garr Reynolds
Giving an Oral Presentation - Academic Skills Program at the University of Canberra
Giving a Talk - Frank R. Kschischang at the University of Toronto
Handbook for Oral Presentations - Engineering Communications Centre at the University of Toronto
PowerPoint Presentation Guidelines - PowerPoint Presentation from ARMA (formerly the Association of Records Management Administrators)
The Problem Isn't Powerpoint... - A Slideshare Presentation
Alternatives to Powerpoint - Reviews from ReadWrite BIZ
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