The library explores online resources and new technologies to understand and help people search, use, and share information in an ethically appropriate way. The links below are either being used by the library or are listed because they might be a useful online tool.  Please send any comments or suggestions about any of the content below to ereferen@sinclair.edu

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Social & Collaborative Networks

Learn about new resources, events happening in the library, take polls and surveys, or simply ask us a question.

Tweet - Follow us on Twitter.

Audio, Pictures, and Video

Flickr: Visit the Library photo set, an experiment with posting images at Flickr.com. There are about 50 pictures here of Sinclair's Library.Flickr.com

Jing - Add visuals to your online conversations: Use Jing to make a screen capture of what you see on your computer and share it instantly as an image or short video.

Screencast-O-Matic - Free online screen recorder for instant screen capture video sharing: Online screen recorder for creating screen capture video recordings with your browser.

SlideShare:  A place to share and discover slideshows. Upload slides, share with links, embed in blogs, tagging, etc.

TeacherTube: An online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload your lesson plan videos or watch student video lessons at their website.

Bookmarking, Tagging, Cataloging

Delicious: Social bookmarking and website discovery. Access your bookmarks from anywhere, find out what pages people like on what topics, and create custom feeds.

WorldCat Find in Library: Automatic list for recently cataloged items at Sinclair

Collaboration & Productivity

Doodle: easy scheduling: Doodle helps scheduling meetings and other appointments. Simply set up a poll, send a link to all participants, watch progress online, and finally choose the most suitable date.

MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching: Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues.

Zotero - collaboration tool: A free online tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research sources.

Widgets

Hathitrust: A shared digital respository - Collection of digitized books, papers, government documents, etc., from several universities from around the country. Select Full View to search for items freely available to everyone online.

GovTrack.us: Congressional Legislation Widget - Tracks the last three pieces of major legislative activity, including the introduction of each new bill and all votes on legislation. Example below: