PLE components for bioscience students

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BibMe

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Makes short bibliographies. view entry > | edit entry >

Grazr

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Allows you to construct a widget that presents a RSS feed. You can also use OPML to present a set of feeds. view entry > | edit entry >

OneNote

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Useful for organizing and collating info, including web links and graphics. view entry > | edit entry >

Seminar RSS feed

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RSS feed for Bioscience seminars this week at the University of Liverpool. view entry > | edit entry >

Mindmeister

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Concept mapping tool view entry > | edit entry >

Engage in Research

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Web site designed to provide general guidance to students conducting biological research. view entry > | edit entry >

MindGenius

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Mind-mapping program on MWS view entry > | edit entry >

Google Reader

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RSS reader. Bear in mind that many feeds only serve the most recent 10-15 items. view entry > | edit entry >

What the heck is RSS?

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Tutorial on RSS. view entry > | edit entry >

Polldaddy

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Free app for incorporating simple polls into websites. view entry > | edit entry >

Pbwiki

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Site where you can create a small wiki for collaborative writing. view entry > | edit entry >

EBI MedLine

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Searched using SRS. Coupling to CiteExplore provides further information relating to terms in the Gene Ontology and protein-protein interaction databases. view entry > | edit entry >

NCBI PubMed

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Home of the web vesion of the MedLine database. view entry > | edit entry >

Frequently overlooked, the outliner can save you a lot of time in terms of encouraging a structured approach while writing, and supporting facile reorganisation, formatting of headings (including… view entry > | edit entry >

Library catalogue

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University of Liverpool Library Catalogue. view entry > | edit entry >

Wikipedia

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Google web search

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Probably the most popular general search engine. view entry > | edit entry >

EndNote

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Personal bibliographic database tool. Search and download references and incorporate them into Word documents. Available via WTS. view entry > | edit entry >

ManyEyes

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Visualization tool for uploaded datasets. view entry > | edit entry >

Diigo

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Permits annotation and bookmarking of web pages. view entry > | edit entry >

Google Scholar

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Bibliographic database. view entry > | edit entry >

Instacalc

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Multi-step calculator with basic charting. view entry > | edit entry >

Scopus

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Bibliographic and web search engine view entry > | edit entry >

Gabbly

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Adds a temporary chat function to any web page. view entry > | edit entry >

Del.icio.us

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Social bookmarking. Tag and save web page URLs. view entry > | edit entry >

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Description

What is in your Personal Learning Environment? Tell us your favourite software applications and databases. If yours is already there, leave a comment telling us why you like it. If you find good descriptions of how to use the tool, add those too. And vote! (NB some of the resources are specific to the University of Liverpool, the list is maintained in part by undergraduate students and the moderator is currently restricting contributors to members of his classes).

List Moderator: pmiller

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Last Edit: 10/06/07 at 6:22 AM