Tools

Promoting Quality Online Research

You want a quality product, right? Part of making sure that happens is starting with quality research.

Wordle

Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. They are great for visually capturing the "mood" of a peice of writing. Here is a Wordle of the Learning2 website.

Wordle

Prezi

Have you ever wondered about presenting your thoughts as free as they come? Ever got tired of creating a slideshow? It's been said, that the best innovations come from people who are unhappy with the tools they use. If your ideas won't fit into slides anymore, try Prezi! Here is an example:

 

Writing Prompts

Need something to write about? Why don't you try... .

NoodleBib Express

Just need one or two quick citations? No need to log in or subscribe -- simply generate them in NoodleBib Express and copy and paste what you need into your document.

Share Your Ideas

Many Eyes

Visualize data in many ways to get your point across or to just make sense of large amounts of data. We all deal with data that we'd like to understand better. It may be as straightforward as a sales spreadsheet or fantasy football stats chart, or as vague as a cluttered email inbox. But a remarkable amount of it has social meaning beyond ourselves. When we share it and discuss it, we understand it in new ways.

SlideShare

Upload your PowerPoints to share with others or get inspired by presentations created my others. Here is one of mine called Visualizing the Paragraph..

Visualizing The Paragraph