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Testing / Demonstrating Twitter and Blogger!

Four cavers found alive - CNN.com

Four cavers found alive - CNN.com: "Ken Cave said he was told it could take eight to 10 hours to free them from Rainbow Cave, which is entered at the base of a waterfall five miles west of Townsend, Tennessee, where one of the park entrances is located."

This is a test - EWS

ALA | “Librarian Salary Survey” reports median librarian salary up more than 4% to $56,259 in 2006

ALA | “Librarian Salary Survey” reports median librarian salary up more than 4% to $56,259 in 2006(3 Nov) The 2006 Librarian Salary Survey shows that salaries for the academic and public sectors are up 4.6 percent from 2005. "The median salary was $50,976. Salaries ranged from $22,000 to $253,500."

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html

About This Tutorial
UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops

What's new for Fall 2006?

Changes. Google is still the best place to start, and for a second opinion in Web searching, we now recommend Ask.com and/or Yahoo! Search. Although we do not recommend any meta-searchers in our classes to replace using a few good search engines, there are some newly improved ones worth looking at.

We have again updated the classes on "Googling to the Max" and "Beyond Google." They cover how Google "thinks," how to take full advantage of Google's hidden features and technical secrets, and what are the best search engines and directories to use after Google. They also cover web-page evaluation. The contents of the courses will be available on the Handouts page during the course (beginning August 24, 2006 - other times offered).

Be sure to check out the Handouts for 2006 "Research-Quality Web Searching" especially
"Googling to the Max" PowerPoint (.ppt) file
This web page also includes a Table of Contents, Handouts and a Glossary

-Eric

Final class!

Today we are going to start at the class page http://www.ericsizemore.com/classpage.html
Look at Lesson 2 for a quick review http://www.ericsizemore.com/lesson2.html

Images

Quick Image review
Create images folder
Links
Quick Link review
Link to your home institution

Edit link in Blogger
use Google toolbar to find "edit"

Tables in W3schools
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp

NVu - Tables

Using Tables in Nvu - Designing a web page tutorial 7 min 22 sec (video)
http://www.designyourownweb.com/nvu/using-tables-nvu.htm

Template (found using Google query )
http://www.lyris.com/resources/tools/html_template01.txt

1.) Go to the webpage above
2.) Using Internet Explorer, go the View menu and select "Source"
3.) This will open a Notepad document titled "html_template01[1]"
4.) Goto the File menu in Notepad and select "Save as..."
5.) Change the extension from ".txt" to ".html"

Now you have a template for an excellent webpage! Just edit using Notepad or NVu.

For an exercise try to add:

3 books - thumbnail images, a little descriptive text and some hot links (to a library cataolg or Amazon.com)

Create 3 articles links - a little descriptive text and some hot links (to favorite articles or news stories)

If you feel up for a challenge, add an RSS feed (See link below)

Put it all into a Table

Thats what I think we can cover in 2 hours! See you soon,
-Eric

Build a Feed You Can Cut 'n Paste: "The tool below will help you format a feed's display with the information you want to use on your web site. All you need to enter is the URL for the RSS source, and select the desired options below. Note that we now have a number of mirror Feed2JS sites that can provide the exact same service as we provide here. "

Thank you for showing me Slide.com!

Get Your Own! View Slideshow

Google Reader, Bloglines, NewsGator and Furl

Here are some links to articles, video tutorials, and more that may be useful:

How to Use Google Reader by Andy Wibbels
http://andywibbels.com/flash/google_reader.htm

In this tutorial, we get you started by showing you how to set up a free online RSS reader with NewsGator.
http://www.capturetheconversation.com/internet-marketing-training/setting-up-newsgator.php
( or use http://tinyurl.com/v5hyq )

Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday
http://www.preetamrai.com/weblog/archives/2005/04/25/bloglines-how-to-keep-track-of-hundreds-of-blogs-and-some-news-and-some-podcasts-and-some-flickrs-photos-etc-etc/
(or use http://tinyurl.com/yxjow4 )

Workshops - Furl Guide
http://www.classroomhelp.com/workshop/
Ten Reasons You Should Use Furl
1. Search your bookmarks by keywords and topics.
2. Save site found using multiple computers (home and school) to oneresource.
3. Access your bookmarks anywhere you have web access.
4. Share web sites with your students or peers.
5. Export your web sites into a bibliography for college or as a handoutfor your class.
6. Access your bookmarks as your computer crashes or you get a new computer.
7. Publish your saved web site links by category.
8. Learn about new sites from your “Furl Mates.”
9. Subscribe to other users' Furl who look for similar web sites as you do.
10. Furl saves a copy of the web page. If it is moved or deleted, youstill have access to the pages you bookmarked.

10 Cool Things to Do with Furl
http://contentious.com/archives/2004/06/22/10-cool-things-to-do-with-furl
This is just a quick list of ideas, and I’ll expand on the best ones later.
1. Periodical or blog support: Links die. That’s just the way the Webworks. Online publications include a lot of links, and print periodicalslist more and more URLs (for stories and advertisers). Creating a Furlarchive to support your publication can help preserve the value of olderlinks.

2. Discussion group support: Some online dicussions mention a lot of links– articles to check out, recommended sites or services, etc. Huntingthrough archives of postings can be exceptionally tedious, and oftenfruitless. If you designate a “furler” for your discussion group (someonewho creates a Furl item for every link referenced in the discussion),finding those valuable nuggets can be much easier later on.

3. E-learning reference: The e-learning experience often yields referencesto online resources and examples that come from both the instructor (orcourse creator) and the students. Why not save and organize all thatvaluable material in a Furl archive, where topics relate to specificsections of specific lessons?

4. Editorial planning support: Journalists and other writers who producestories for publications get their ideas from somewhere – often from itemsthey find online. Typically, writers gather their ideas in preparation fora story meeting for each issue, and then sit down in a room or conferencecall, pitch them, and get assignments. Often in this process a lot ofstories get e-mailed, faxed, or printed and passed around the group. Thatpart of the process might be handled more effectively through a Furlarchive.

5. Project collaboration or committee support: Similar to the editorialmeeting described above, in the planning phase of many kinds of projectscollaborators or committee members seek new ideas, useful resources, andrelevant examples. A Furl archive can be a good way to collect, organize,comment on, and share such material.

6. Rudimentary blogging: Many blogs are little more than link filters.That is, the authors mainly link to relevant items, perhaps with a shortcomment, rather than write article-style entries. If that’s all you wantto do with your blog, why not just create and syndicate a Furl archiveinstead?

7. Research support: Journalists, scholars, and others who conductproject-focused on ongoing research can use Furl to support their work.For instance, this is what my “drinking water” folders in my Furl archiveare for.

8. Telling friends about cool news stories: We all do it – see a coolstory in the news, copy the text, and e-mail it out to a bunch of yourfriends. Probably some of your friends are sick of getting those e-mails.Why not offer them a webfeed instead, that they can check out at theirleisure in a more organized fashion?

9. Online bibliography: Many white papers, research reports, theses, andother documents contain bibliographies or footnotes that feature Webcitations. Again, links can die – but you don’t want your audience to loseaccess to the source material. Creating a Furl archive for each suchpublication can help preserve your source materials for future reference.

10. Clips file: Many writers, designers, and others have samples of theirwork online, and they periodically want to show examples of their work("clips") to colleagues or prospective clients/employers. Organizing allthis stuff in a Furl archive is a more reliable and convenient way tostore and distribute such materials than keeping a filing cabinet stuffedwith paper and making lots of photocopies.

Furl Tutorial
http://www.timeatlas.com/tutorials/mos_furl.htm
5 minute Furl Flash tutorial 2004

Furl - Tutorial on Furl by http://www.newmediaworkshops.com/ >
http://www.newmediaworkshops.com/tripleAlecture/furl/furl.html
5:50 (min. : sec.) video Furl Tutorial with audio Canadian instructor

PassingNotes.com » Blog Archive » Say farewell to Blogs and Bookmarks andget your Furl on.
http://www.passingnotes.com/index.php/furlnet-say-farewell-to-blogs-and-bookmarks-and-get-your-furl-on/
(or use http://tinyurl.com/yj5m2v )

The basic idea behind Furl: focus entirely on organizing endless linksuncovered during the course of inquiry connected to any project (personalor professional) such that one might return later to easily search andretrieve findings. Does this sound similar to a ‘favorites’ folder withinyour browser - but one of Brobdingnagian proportions? It is not, and thiscolumn explains how any why within the following six detailed sections:

Archive everything and build your own “WayBack Machine” Visit a web sitetoday and you must always determine your fleeting interest in capturingthe screen before you. When you Furl a site, what you are actually doingis creating a cached version of the entire page on Furl’s server. Ifyou’ve ever clicked on a ‘cached’ link from within a search engine such asGoogle, then you understand the value of web fossils. If you’ve ever hadto use the ‘WayBack Machine’ (http://www.archive.org/) to find pages from the DarkAges of the Internet because Google’s ‘cached’ link is dead - or if you’veever clicked on bookmarks only to be welcomed back with a 404 error, thenyou understand the value of historical information within any researchproject (for example, comparing old and new product and servicedescriptions, management teams, etc.).You also understand the tediuminvolved in tracking down that same page at some future point

However, as a twist, Furl extends this capability to include all of your permission level access sites. This means everything that you are paying for from databases to subscription news sites to online receipts of purchase. Think about this for a minute. If you are bookmarking sites andterminating subscriptions, you are losing content. Furl removes thisinformation access obstacle. You are filing away your own permanent copywhen you Furl that screen, granting you digital access forever.

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This is not a comprehensive list, by far. Remember that more information can be found regarding just about any computer topic by searching for the applications name plus the keyword "tutorial." For example: 'Google Reader tutorial' or 'Furl tutorial.' Searching the Video search engines such as Google Video or YouTube will result in instructional video that can be very informative. Good luck! See you in class Wednesday,
-Eric