Once Again- Zotero

Last Dec (2006) I posted about Zotero, an open source bibliography tool to help you with your research.

“Zotero will organize your research, collect your links, manage and cite right from your Firefox web browser. Unfortunately, you still have to write the paper yourself.”

I am curently using Zotero to gather research for a paper and I want to remind you try it. Seriously. It is really a great free tool that runs as an extension in your Firefox browser.

The only thing I don’t like about Zotero is that needs to be downloaded on a computer. So you need to move files from computer to computer if you work on different computers. I don’t like moving things with a flash drive anymore, I have become lazy with all the tools readily available that allow me to work at the office and at home without transporting files or laptops back and forth.

The only thing that will make Zotero better is to be a web-based tool. That will also facilitate collaboration and working from a distance. Sharing research will then be just a ‘click’ away.

Wikinomics- How Mass Collaboration Changes the World

Finally getting around to reading the book, Wikinomics, I was just getting ready to post my thoughts, but I had a better idea. Watch Don Tapscott’s presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, and then read the book.

It’s a great book that reinforces the need for change in the way we teach to meet the learning characteristics of the new generation of kids in our classes. They won't go away, according to Tapscott, there are more than 2 billion "baby-boom echos" world-wide.

The web 2.0 has created great tools to use with these digital students, who are collaborative and participatory in nature by growing up digitally. Our task is simple, provide opportunities for students to use these tools in their course work.

Listen to Wikinomics: Winning with the Enterprise 2.0 (#11) and learn how the convergence of technology, globalization, and the changing culture of a new generation of workers are creating the 'perfect storm'.