Heather Chesters - UCL Institute of Child Health

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Thing 11: think back over the last 6 weeks and reflect on what you've learnt

Thanks. The course was really well organised and informative. It was good to make time to try out the sites and resources that were included.

Sites I hadn’t used before: Diigo; Twitter.
Other new things: uploading photos to Flickr; embedding images/slide shows from social sites.

I saw and liked Prezi at Umbrella, so was interested to find out a bit more about it and I might consider using it in future as an alternative to Powerpoint.

I had previously dismissed Twitter, but now think it could be useful as a current awareness tool, or to promote a service, and have enjoyed using it. I’m not sure I will maintain my personal account, but a few of my friends and family have started tweeting as a result of me trying it out!

Also – related to the 11 and a half things course – the free bibliographic software session was very good. Again this is something I have wanted to explore for a while, but it can be difficult to make the time. Our users already make use of these tools, so it will be good to be able to assist them and also to be able to make them aware of the differences between these types of tools and commercial products like Endnote and Reference Manager.

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Week 6: embed a Flickr image

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First attempt at using Flickr - first attempt at organic gardening!

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Thing 10: Contribute to the 11 and a half things wiki.

The 11 and a half things wiki is at http://11andahalfthings.wikispaces.com/

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