This year's briefing will take place on Tuesday 27th and Wednesday 28th October.
For this year, the notes have been migrated from Pearltrees for as a shared OneNote notebook. I've done this primarily because Swansea University now has a site licence for Office 365 and so it's readily available for use by staff and students but also because I wanted to try using OneNote for a real purpose and to explore some of its sharing features.
Students of EG-353 and SR-311 may wish to consider the use of OneNote as an online digital logbook.
Sunday 25 October 2015
Monday 24 October 2011
A message from the digital giants – sell up or watch out | Technology | The Observer
A message from the digital giants – sell up or watch out | Technology | The Observer:
Will the release of Apple's new iCloud service that comes with iTunes 10.5 and iOS 5, Dropbox's USP becomes mainstream to the possible cost of a small startup that I had come to rely on and have been recommending to students and colleagues for years. Here, John Naughton of the Observer describes the Dropbox service and the dangers of being a little fish in a big ocean.
Will the release of Apple's new iCloud service that comes with iTunes 10.5 and iOS 5, Dropbox's USP becomes mainstream to the possible cost of a small startup that I had come to rely on and have been recommending to students and colleagues for years. Here, John Naughton of the Observer describes the Dropbox service and the dangers of being a little fish in a big ocean.
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Tuesday 18 October 2011
research tools 10/19/2011
PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives
A set of applications that you can carry around with you and run on any PC that you have access to.
- - By Chris Jobling
- Make every PC feel like your own
- Use your favorite software everywhere
- Carry your bookmarks and settings
- Edit your documents, photos and more
Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition
PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives. Recommended for EG-353 Research Project students by Dr Chris P. Jobling. Make sure that you always have a decent web browser!
- - By Chris Jobling
- Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.
Zotero - The Next-Generation Research Tool
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work - in the web browser itself.
- - By Chris Jobling
Alan J CAnn is a member of my personal network. An influential educatuional and science blogger here gives some good reasons for blogging which sets out as a good a reason for using blogs in research as any other I've seen.
- - By Chris Jobling
Google Chrome Portable | PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives
- Google Chrome Portable is a web browser that runs web pages and applications with lightning speed. It's designed to be simple and stylish. It's packaged as a portable app, so you can take your browsing experience with you.
DropboxAddons/DropboxPortable - Dropbox Wiki
Dropbox on an USB stick
- - By Chris Jobling
British Library - Growing Knowledge - The evolution of research - Tools
You couldn't get a better recommendation for online research tools than the British Library! Published as part of a new BL exhibition "Growing Knowledge the evolution of research."
- - By Chris Jobling
Research tool: finds journal articles, conference papers, etc by searching across comercial research databases.
- - By Chris Jobling
A new social network from google with a more fine-grained relationships model than twitter or facebook called circles.God sharing features and also useful connectivity features for collaboration such as hangouts. +1 button on web sites makes it easy to share when web browsing and control who you share with.
- - By Chris Jobling
The University catalogue. Access to books, e-books and journals.
- - By Chris Jobling
Mozilla Firefox Web Browser - Free Download
The open-source browser that, with the help of extensions, can be extended to become a valuable part of your research arsenal.
- - By Chris Jobling
Google Docs - Online documents, spreadsheets, presentations, surveys, file storage and more
Swansea University Assignment Calculator
Tool to help you plan your disseration.
- - By Chris Jobling
- Practical information on services offered by Information Services & Systems (ISS)
Swansea University - Digital Library
Home page for the Digital Library at Swansea University. Start your research here rather than Google.
- - By Chris Jobling
Swansea University - Athens Service
The Athens service provides students at Swansea University with a single username and password that can be used to gain access to digital resources such as online journals and scholarly online databases.
- - By Chris Jobling
iFind discover is the Swansea Catalogue search tool. iFind research is the University Research tool.
- - By Chris Jobling
Start your research here!
- - By Chris Jobling
An online journal (or e-journal ) is simply a journal available in a digital format. Some journals are now only available online; others are available in both print and digital format. This page gives advice on how to find and use online journals.
- - By Chris Jobling
Swansea University - Electronic Books
- Staff and students of Swansea University have online access to many full-text electronic books. Some book titles can be located by searching iFind Discover either by keyword (for books on a subject) or by author or title. The online book titles to which Swansea University has access are held in various electronic book collections such as JISC HistoricBooks, Dawsonera and the EBSCO eBook collection. These collections can be searched in their own right.
Swansea University - Search Engines
Finding general information on the Web
- - By Chris Jobling
Swansea University - Bibliographic Referencing
Why it's important and how to do it.
- - By Chris Jobling
Swansea University - Prifysgol Abertawe - Blogs
Create your own blog
- - By Chris Jobling
Best content in EG-353 Research Project SR-311 Research Dissertation | Diigo - Groups
A group for sharing resources related to the Swansea University College of Engineering's level 3 undergraduate Engineering Research Project (EG-353) and the Sport and Exercise Science Research Dissertation (SR-311). All relevant links welcome. Please tag all items eg-353 or sr-311 (or both).
- - By Chris Jobling
- A group for sharing resources related to the Swansea University College of Engineering's level 3 undergraduate Engineering Research Project (EG-353) and the Sport and Exercise Science Research Dissertation (SR-311). All relevant links welcome. Please tag all items eg-353 or sr-311 (or both)
Research Tools and Techniques: Welcome
A blog that is used to publish new curated links from the Diigo group of the same name and also provides a place to publish additional content related to the Swansea University College of Engineering modules EG-353 Research Project and SR-311 Research Dissertation.
- - By Chris Jobling
Library services for engineering postgrads
Because it's based on Netvibes, this resource for Engineering postgrads is bit more dynamic than the library web pages. Don't be put off by the title, most of the resources are applicable to undergraduate research and dissertation projects.
- - By Chris Jobling
EG-353/SR-311 Briefing 3 2011 - Research Tools and Techniques - YouTube
Video recording of the 3rd Briefing made on Thursday, 18th October 2011.
- - By Chris Jobling
Posted from Diigo. The rest of EG-353 Research Project SR-311 Research Dissertation group favorite links are here.
Library services for engineering postgrads
The Engineering library team has set up a Pagevibes page as a resource for Engineering Postgraduates. Much of this has application to Undergraduate Dissertion projects also. Library services for engineering postgrads:
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Pearltree to Accompany the Presentation on 18th October
Here is the Perltree of the presentation of Research Tools and Techniques to be given this evening.
Welcome
Welcome to the new "Research Tools and Techniques" blog. I created this as a target for link postings from a Diigo group but I and one or two selected authors may from time-to-time post editorial about Research Techniques and Tools, particularly as it applies to students in Engineering and Sports Science at Swansea University.
The content may have more general interest and your comments are welcome.
The content may have more general interest and your comments are welcome.
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