Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: November 2012

• “Pinterest: Not Just for Academic and Public Libraries?“
• “List.ly As a Content Marketing Tool“
• “7 Things You Should Know about Microlectures“
• “7 Things You Should Know about Badges“
• “94 Percent Of Teachers Say Students Equate “Research” With Using Google“
• “Ten Geeky Gadgets Librarians Will Love“
• “Thinking about Multimodality“
• “First Teleportation from One Macroscopic Object to Another“
• “Human Brain Is Wired for Harmony“
• “The Unconscious Brain Can Do Math, Read“
• “40 Useful Tips For Anyone Taking A MOOC“
• “MOOC Brigade: Can Online Courses Keep Students from Cheating?“
• “eLearning: How to Incorporate Gamification Elements“
• “Einstein’s brain reveals clues to genius“
• “A Guide to Encouraging Online Discussion“

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: June 2012

• “Hands-on with Google Docs’s new research tool“
• “Find facts and do research inside Google Documents“

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: May 2012

• “Who Needs a Publisher? Exploring Self-Publishing From Content Creation to Distribution“
• “Turnitin: 10 types of unoriginal work #turnitin #edtech“
• “Turnitin Analyzes the Spectrum of Plagiarism“
• “5 Tips for Conducting Semantic Keyword Research“
• “Design Methodologies: Instructional, Thinking, Agile, System, or X Problem?“
• “Semantic Search Demystified“
• “Is Academic Plagiarism Truly on the Rise?“
• “7 Things You Should Know about Flipped Classrooms“
• “Exploding the Lecture“
• “[Infographic] The Flipped Classroom“
• “Flipped learning: Professor tested, student approved“
• “Flipping the College Classroom“
• “UDL and The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture“
• “Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture for Higher Education“
• “Why Flip The Classroom When We Can Make It Do Cartwheels?“
• Presentation:  “Flipping the College Classroom“
• “The Future of Undergraduate Teaching“

Changes to Zakta Website

Yesterday I received an e-mail message that included the following paragraph about changes to the Zakta website:

As you may have noticed, we recently updated the main Zakta.com site to provide a company overview of all the technologies and products we now offer.  The original Zakta.com search and guides functionality is still intact — it continues to be available at http://zakta.com/zakta but it is now branded zGuides.  There is no other functional difference whatsoever to this tool.

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: March and February 2012

• “How To Write Readable – And Retweetable – Tweets“
• “Searching the Internet – A Primer“
• “The Annotated Emma, by Jane Austen, Annotated and Edited by David M. Shapard – A Review“
• “Why Ebooks Fail as Research Tools“
• “A Few New Releases: An Unfaithful Queen, A Kingmaker’s Daughter, a Mistress and a Time Traveler“

Infographic: Get More Out Of Google

This infographic comes from HackCollege:

Created by: HackCollege

Web-Based Bibliography Builders

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Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: May 2011

• “Desire2Learn Product Updates“
• “The best bookmarking tools right now“
• “10 Ways to Use NYTimes.com for Research“
• “Online Education for Instructional Designers: Picking the Right Program“
• “A-Z Web Tools“
• “Landing Online Teaching Jobs“
• “Search Engines List by Types of Searches“
• “The Psychology of Color in Web Design“
• “HTML E-Mail: Text Font Readability Study“
• “12 Things to Do After You’ve Written a New Blog Post“

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: April 2011

• “Exploring the evolution of search engines and the effect on education“
• “A practical guide to creating learning screencasts: part 1“
• “Blogs, Self-publishing and E-books“
• “Research Skills: The Video Game“
• “7 Things You Should Know About Open Textbook Publishing“
• “8Ws of Information Inquiry“
• “10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics“

Resources for Keeping Up to Date on Internet Research

I subscribe to RSS feeds from the following sites to keep up with the latest news about internet research:

• Beyond Search
• Federated Search Blog
• Internet News
• Internet Search Challenge
• Pandia Search Engine News
• Phil Bradley’s weblog
• ResearchBuzz
• ResourceBlog
• SearchCowboys.com
• Search Engine Journal
• Search Engine Land
• Search Engine Roundtable
• Search Engine Showdown
• WebProNews