Keeping ahead of the Technology: Online Resources for Professional Development

Robin Fay, rfay@athenstech.edu@georgiawebgurl

Professional Development: A New Frontier

MOOCs OER (Open Educational

Resources) Tutorials (don't forget

slideshare!) Websites Manuals Forums / Helpdesk Listserv archives Google docs Academia.edu Vendors Journals Social media – Linked in, etc.

Tools

Mybase – downloadable, opensource – document management like (speaking of which> DocMan, KnowledgeTree)

Zotero Evernote Scrible Pinterest – even if Pinterest can be used Google sites/blogs IFTTT – a tool to use with most anything ;

feedmyinbox.com ; delicious is still around!

Tools to organize: Resources

Organize It : Resources

Organize It : Zotero

Zotero – just about any file format or type of content

Use as web based tool, download or plugin - Make sure to use one of the plugin or download for easiest use

Robust description features (can be tedious to manually enter in descriptions)

Started as a bibliography tool not as visual

Organize It : Zotero

Organize It : Zotero

Organize It : Resources

Organize It : Scrible

Organize It : Scrible

Organize It : Scrible

Scrible – lots of annotation tools Good for collaboration Free plan to 125mb Not as useful for saving and organizing

Organize It : Evernote

Organize It : Evernote

Organize It : Evernote

Use feedmyinbox.com to import from one rss to another account

Organize It : Evernote

Organize It : Pinterest

Pinterest – very visual Not as academic, embraced early on general

users Can share “boards” Works like a community or personal bulletin

board Needs an image !! 4th in social media usage

Organize It : Pinterest

Organize It : Pinterest

Organize It : Pinterest

Bundlr

Bundlr

Bundlr Import and export tools (even delicious!) Bundles of content, but can be public or

private (can be single user or groups) Free or premium Sync with dropbox Can subscribe and share links

Bundlr

Tools + organize learning + educational content = personal

learning network

Robin Fay, rfay@athenstech.edu@georgiawebgurl

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