Monthly Archives: October 2008

Zotero bib software

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Alison McNab alerted me to the existence of Zotero in a recent email highlighting a lawsuit currently in progress between it’s creators and Thomson Reuters, producers of Endnote. As the Endnote support person here at Newcastle I thought I should know more about Zotero and at first glance, I can see why Thomson Reuters might be worried! It is a free Firefox extension which does pretty much what Endnote does and which lives in the web browser itself. So far, I have just listened to their audio tour, but I’m looking forward to exploring it more as it looks very user friendly (maybe not quite the outcome Thomson Reuters are hoping for from the lawsuit!)


Pont du Gard, France (summer hols again!)

http://www.zotero.org/

Learning outcomes

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Wow, a whole month since I posted a comment on my blog. I don’t expect there’s anyone still reading it now! I blame the fact that I’ve been too busy doing the job to spend time blogging about it, but I promise to try harder.
Anyway, I thought people might be interested in Phil Race’s blog on assessment, learning and teaching in HE. Phil has moved his blog and Google keeps pointing folks to his old site, but this link will take you to the new one and an interesting document on Making Learning Outcomes Work. Phil talks about eight factors which should be clearly evident to students – who, what, how, why, when, where, so what and wow (You’ll have to read his article to find out what they mean!)
It’s just a useful reminder for those of us just about to enter the busiest period of info lit teaching of the year.


The Tour of Britain in Durham

http://phil-race.co.uk/