Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Thing 16: Student 2.0 Tools

Certainly, the Web 2.0 tools presented in this Thing are very helpful for students to do research. The University of Minnesota Assignment Calculator and the Research Project Calculator are now being used by academic libraries. Both calculators are a set of steps that calculate the time to accomplish assignments and projects, and they present the option for e-mail reminders.

The Assignment calculator could be useful for public libraries and media center libraries to help students with their assignments. The Research Project Calculator can be used by librarians in the elaboration of library projects.

Both the Assignment Calculator and the Research Project Calculator help to manage the time and the use of resources. Also they provide supportive materials that could be useful for libraries, such as an instructional planning guide, student planning guide, plagiarism detection and proofing assignments.

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