Research+Tools

=Web 2.0 Research Tools= //Dealing with Information Overload//

Information Overload...What's the Problem???
Have you conducted a web search lately? A Google search on George Washington will render nearly 67 million results. How do you to sort through so many sites to locate the answers to your questions? Imagine how your students feel. Take a look at some tools that will enable you and your students to effectively sift through the load.

The Tools

 * Yolink
 * Diigo

What is Yolink???

 * Yolink is a search assistant.
 * Use Yolink to find and take you to exactly what you're looking for, then export your findings to your choice of social networks, collaboration, or document generation tools.

Yolink & Education
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Yolink & Research
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How it Works

 * Search Inside Links:
 * Locate relevant information within a web page without reading through the entire site
 * From Search to Find:
 * Yolink can search for text within web documents and take searchers to the exact location
 * Save & Share
 * Save work to Diigo, Delicious, Google Docs, etc…
 * Link to EasyBib
 * Students can link their search results to EasyBib for easy citations

Getting Started with Yolink
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What is Diigo???
Diigo is two services in one -- it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other.

Diigo: Highlight and Share the Web! Social Bookmarking 2.0
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Diigo Features

 * Social Bookmarking:
 * Save and access websites on multiple computers
 * Research Tool:
 * Highlight web content
 * Create notes in web content
 * Save notes and archive web sites
 * Collaborative Tool
 * Diigo Premium offered to Educators for FREE
 * Create and manage students accounts

Getting Started with Diigo
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