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| Blackboard |
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NYU Blackboard allows faculty to create websites that supplement their courses by facilitating communication and providing easy access to digital content. Instead of printing, faculty can go green by posting documents such as their syllabus, weekly readings, and images, as well as links to external websites and streaming multimedia files. NYU Blackboard also has tools for interactive assessment, quizzing, grading, and more. | |
| Diigo |
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Diigo is a social bookmarking website that enables users to bookmark and tag web pages, as well as to highlight portions and add "sticky notes" or annotations, which may be kept private, shared with a particular group, or made public. It enables personal and group research of web content. | ||
| Files 2.0 |
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Files 2.0 provides individuals and departments with 2GB of secure, web-based file storage, as well as sophisticated capabilities for accessing and sharing files among individuals and members of a group, including individuals outside the NYU community. Users can also activate their accounts (via NYUHome) for "public sharing," which allows them to create public web pages. | |
| FriendFeed |
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FriendFeed is a tool that brings together, in one location, any updates that have been made to sites that you select to watch or share, by consolidating these sites' RSS or Atom feeds (two standardized web formats that are used to publish frequently updated information). You can syndicate feeds from social media and social networking websites (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Last.fm), social bookmarking websites (Delicious, Citeulike), blogs and micro-blogging updates (Tumblr, Twitter), and any other content published with an RSS/Atom content feed. FriendFeed also has social networking functionality. It allows you to create public or private shared interest "rooms" that have commenting features, and can be used to create and share your own customized feeds with others. | ||
| Google Scholar |
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Google Scholar is a search engine for finding scholarly literature – such as peer reviewed articles, papers, thesis and books – across a variety of disciplines. You can set your Google Scholar preferences to indicate when NYU has a subscription to a source and be directed to its full text. You can also push Google Scholar citations to RefWorks and EndNote reference management programs. | ||
| iGoogle |
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iGoogle lets you create a personalized homepage that contains a Google search box at the top, and your choice of any number of gadgets. iGoogle gadgets include Gmail and Google Docs, web searching (Google, youtube, maps), RSS feed aggregators, reference and translation tools, and applications that allow easy instant messaging, SMS, blogging, and microblogging. | ||
| Jing |
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Jing is a fast and simple way of capturing screen shots or screencasts and sharing them through a link. Jing screencasts enhance written presentations of material online by allowing users to show their audiences ideas and concepts; they are useful for narrating slideshows, powerpoint presentations, and training/instruction materials. Jing is a free download, compatible with both PCs and Macs, that sits on the desktop ready to record segments of up to five minutes. | ||
| Meebo and Meebo Widget |
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Using Meebo, you can instant message/chat with friends and colleagues across multiple networks. Meebo is a free tool that supports connections to the following networks: AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, and Facebook chat. Meebo also provides a widget that allows you to embed chat functionality into any web page; for an example see http://nyu.libguides.com/mediaandcommunication. | ||
| Meeting Maker |
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Meeting Maker is a collaborative calendar and group scheduling software package available to NYU faculty, staff, and administration. Meeting Maker makes it easy to schedule meetings, invite attendees, plan activities, keep a prioritized to-do list, and coordinate one's calendar with other NYU faculty and staff members who use Meeting Maker. It can even be used to reserve essential meeting resources such as conference rooms and A/V equipment. Apply for a Meeting Maker account by sending an email to: meetingmaker.request@nyu.edu | |
| Ning |
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Ning is an online service that allows users to create their own social networks and join and participate in other networks. Users can determine how their network works and can make it public or private. This tool is appropriate for any group who wishes to share or collaborate (e.g., classes, researchers working on a project, alumni networks). Ning shells have easy-to-use platforms for sharing image, video, and audio files in addition to features such as discussion forums and blogs. |