Information  Literacy  Tools

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Bookmarking & ​Curation
  • ​​Blendspace - (F) Collecting all digital content in one place to help achieve learning goals with interactivity is easy with Blendspace.
  • Diigo - (FPU) Links to online resources can be stored in Diigo. Resources are organized by associating topical tags to the resource. Resource collections can be shared and groups may contribute collaboratively to a resource collection.
  • Google Chrome Bookmarks - (F) Click the star in Chrome browser window to add a page to a favorite site category or to your bookmarks bar.​
  • LiveBinders - (FPU) A 3-ring binder for the web
  • Pearltrees - (FPU) Collections are organized by tiles in categories and sub-categories; they are public and can be explored by other account holders. Users can subscribe and contribute to collections created by others.
  • Pinterest - (F) Visual pins of a website are stored on boards you create to organize a group of similar resources. Pins are searchable within Pinterest by all Pinterest account holders. 
  • Scoop.it - (FPU) Publish your topic page with curated content in minutes. Distribute it automatically with your network to build your professional brand.
  • Symbaloo - (FPU) Organize your favorite websites as linked tiles with symbols &/or captions in visual grids called web-mixes. These web-mixes may be private or collaborative.
  • Toby - (F) The Toby Chrome Extension is a visual workspace that lives on every new tab. Access all of your collections on any desktop with automatic sync. Use tags to organize your collections or create notes for your to-dos.
  • Wakelet - (F) Save links from the web, organize them into visual collections, and share them with the world! create and curate visually engaging collections of your favorite content from across the web. 
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Citation​​​​
  • ​Bibme - (FPU) An automatic citation creator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting. Resources may be located automatically using the search feature or entered into the citation creator manually.
  • Citation Machine - (FPU) Input basic resource information such as the title, author, publisher, type of work and so forth. Citation Machine will create a citation in the format requested. 
  • Cite This For Me - (F) Generate citations, reference lists and bibliographies. Search by book/journal article title, DOI, ISBN, ISSN or copy and paste any website URL into the tool.  ​
  • Citefast - (F) A web service that enables students and professionals the ability to create, organize and manage citations. Citations may be formatted in APA, MLA or Chicago style.
  • MyBib - (F) MyBib is a free bibliography and citation generator that makes accurate citations for you to copy straight into your academic assignments and papers.
  • Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) - (F) This resource contains information on in-text citation and the References page.
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Highlighters & Annotation
  • ​​Bounce - (F) Draw a rectangle around the area of focus on a website, then add notes.
  • Diigo - (FPU) Diigo allows users to highlight text, add sticky notes, bookmark sites, and share.
  • Genius Web Annotator - (F) Online bookmarklet that allows users to add line-by-line annotations.
  • Insert Learning - (F) More than annotation! You can insert sticky notes/content on any webpage. Scaffold your own questions with images, video, and more! And you can use your Google login!
  • Liner - (F) Liner is an Apple app that helps you collect interesting ideas! Highlight to save sentences on the web.
  • Super Simple Highlighter - (F) A Chrome extension that allows you to highlight selected blocks of text on a webpage.
  • Yellow highlighter pen for web - (F) You can point out important information in long webpages by highlighting text with your mouse. Share this highlighted version of a page in social media, e--mail, IM etc.; or just bookmark it with your favorite tool.
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Note & List Making
  • Any.do - (FPU) ​Create tasks, lists and reminders from any device. Can be shared easily for planning any activity.
  • Bamboo Paper - (F) Bamboo Paper is a digital notebook app to help you capture your creative moments and thoughts. With this app, taking notes, sketching, and drawing are as straightforward and as simple as using a real notebook.
  • Evernote - (FPU) Evernote apps and products make modern life manageable, by letting you easily collect and find everything that matters.
  • Google Docs - (F) Create and share your work online and access your documents from anywhere. Manage documents, spreadsheets, presentations, surveys and more.
  • Google Keep - (F) Quickly make color coded notes and lists that can be shared or kept private. Works across devices and are a great way to plan or prepare for any activity.
  • Google Tasks - (F) Keep track of your tasks on your computer or phone​
  • Note Pad - (F) Note Pad is a simple notepad application for Android.
  • Penultimate - (F) A handwriting, drawing and sketching tool that can be used like a pad and pencil. You can use colored ink to create natural free-form drawings.
  • Pinup - (F) Totally free use of sticky note type tool. Able to share with other through a link.
  • Todoist - (FPU) This perfect to-do list app is there wherever you need it: on your iPhone, iPad, desktop, browser, Gmail and more. Get 5 projects with 5 collaborators each for FREE.

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