Teaching for Information Literacy

Steps to Learning Success: A Research Planner Form

Hands-Up Research Planner (download from Flickr)

Google Notebook

Clip useful information.
You can add clippings of text, images and links from web pages to your Google Notebook without ever leaving your browser window.
Organize your notes.
You can create multiple notebooks, divide them into sections, and drag-and-drop your notes to stay organized.
Get access from anywhere.
You can access your Google Notebooks from any computer by using your Google Accounts login.
Publish your notebook.
You can share your Google Notebook with the world by making it public.

You will need to have a Google Account to set up your google notebook. See this screencast to learn how to create your account.

Zotero - this Firefox add-on is perfect for students and professionals who need to keep track of a heavy load of research sites. The add-on stores PDFs, files, images, links and records in any language; automatically saves citations; offers a note taking autosave feature and more. The best part? It all fits neatly in your Firefox browser without getting in the way.

Start Pages

Using Personalized Start Pages for your browser's home page is a tidy and efficient solution to keeping all your favorite and frequently visited resources on the Web on one handy and customizable page.  From:  Set Up Your Personalized Start Page with Netvibes, Pageflakes or Protopage

• PageFlakes
• NetVibes
  
• ProtoPage
• iGoogle:
  

  iGoogle themes: make your homepage more beautiful!

Other tools to be Organized

Remember the Milk - manage tasks