1. Biology Research Project & Tech Updates Brooke Carey Ahrens November 2008

2. My Docs and the H Drive My Docs and the H drive are NO LONGER connected If you save to My Docs, it will only save to that computer Please save to the H Drive! Here is how to find it! HINT: it’s the one with your name!

3. Drives You need to know about 3 drives: 1.H drive- this is where you save your docs 2.S drive- this is a shared folder for you and your teachers 3.X drive- drop boxes to submit work.

4. Email on campus You can use Outlook to get your email on campus You don’t have to go through the NDSJ website. Just click this icon on your desktop Outlook

5. Saving websites as a PDF Save a websites quickly and keep the formatting Print your website as a PDF Save it to your H drive Here is how it works

6. Website Validation- What sites to use The site. Is it well-know, reputable? –Does the site or company need user faith? The author. –Is an author listed? Can you contact them directly?

7. Things to Consider, cont. The web address- Watch out for ~ !! –.gov?.edu?.org? OR.com? Big differences! When was it written? Is it current? –Science research changes rapidly…

8. A valid website… US Dept of Agriculture Research Why is it so great???

9. What if you are feeling lazy? You can try this new search engine: www.hakia.com

10. Using Delicious to share info www.delicious.com is a great way to share information with your groupwww.delicious.com You can easily organize your bookmarks and get to them anywhere in the world You can label things with a “tag” and then put those “tags” in a “bundle” Sort of like binders/notebooks (tags) in your backpack (bundles)

11. My Delicious Account I have over 600 bookmarks, all organized with tags and bundles. This is a great way for you to share information amongst each other in a group. NDtech- a delicious site for your use

12. Create your own Delicious account Login to www.delicious.comwww.delicious.com Create a new account Don’t import bookmarks now, you can do it later. Choose a name that your group will be able to remember/find- your ND login would be a good one….

13. How to find other people’s bookmarks Click people- on right click Go to a User Type in ndtech This is the ndtech account I have created a tag for biologyresearch

14. How to add bookmarks Adding bookmarks- 2 ways Making bookmarks private Sharing them right away Ms. Huang’s wiki has 3 videos to get more information about using www.delicious.com