This document discusses tools and resources for organizing educational content to create a personal learning network. It provides lists of open educational resources (OER), tutorials, manuals, forums, listserv archives, and other websites that can be used. It also lists tools like Mybase, Zotero, Evernote, Scrible, Pinterest, Google Sites/Blogs, and IFTTT that can help organize this content. The document focuses in particular on the features of Zotero, Scrible, Evernote, and Pinterest for organizing different types of educational resources and sharing with others.

1. Tools + organized
learning +
educational content
= personal
learning
network
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2. Organize It : Resources for Learning
 MOOCs
 OER (Open Educational Resources)
 Tutorials (don't forget slideshare!)
 Websites
 Manuals
 Forums / Helpdesk
 Listserv archives (if publicly available)
 Google docs (if publicly available)
 GitHub, SourceForge, GoogleCode
 USG Web !

3. Organize It : Tools
 Mybase – downloadable, opensource –
document management like (speaking of
which> DocMan, KnowledgeTree)
 Zotero
 Evernote
 Scrible
 Pinterest – even if Pinterest can be used
 Google sites/blogs
 IFTTT – a tool to use with most anything ;
feedmyinbox.com ; delicious is still around!

4. Organize It : Resources

5. Organize It : Resources

6. Organize It : Zotero
 Zotero – just about any file format or type of
content
 Use as web based tool, download or plugin
- Make sure to use one of the plugin or
download for easiest use
 Robust description features (can be tedious
to manually enter in descriptions)
 Started as a bibliography tool not as visual

7. Organize It : Zotero

8. Organize It : Zotero

9. Organize It : Resources

10. Organize It : Scrible

11. Organize It : Scrible

12. Organize It : Scrible
 Scrible – lots of annotation tools
 Good for collaboration
 Free plan to 125mb
 Not as useful for saving and organizing

13. Organize It : Evernote

14. Organize It : Evernote

15. Organize It : Evernote
Use feedmyinbox.com to import from one rss to another account

16. Organize It : Evernote

17. Organize It : Pinterest
 Pinterest – very visual
 Not as academic, embraced early on
general users
 Can share “boards”
 Works like a community or personal bulletin
board
 Needs an image !!
 4th in social media usage

18. Organize It : Pinterest

19. Organize It : Pinterest

20. Organize It : Pinterest

21. Bundlr

22. Bundlr

23. Bundlr
 Import and export tools (even delicious!)
 Bundles of content, but can be public or
private (can be single user or groups)
 Free or premium
 Sync with dropbox
 Can subscribe and share links

24. Bundlr

25. Tools + organize
learning +
educational content
= personal
learning
network
Robin Fay, rfay@athenstech.edu
@georgiawebgurl
#usgweb