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  • 1.  re Setting up a best practice library

    Posted 01-08-2003 10:28
    From: Sue Vickers-Thompson [mailto:sue.vickersthompson@btinternet.com]

    Dear All,

    I'm looking for some best practice advice that might also help us in
    this list. I have volunteered to set up a central, electronic collection
    of our workshops etc., which we run for tutors and would appreciate
    advice or experiences from those who have already tried this. Whilst
    conferences or listserves are often useful, they are difficult to index
    - I have major difficulties in saving valuable references from this one!
    - and I wondered how others saved and indexed/annotated information both
    for themselves and for others to use. I'd appreciate ideas on both what
    has been found useful and what hasn't worked so that I don't try and
    reinvent the wheel!
    Thanks - Sue

    Sue Vickers-Thompson,
    Open University Business School
    sue.vickersthompson@btinternet.com


  • 2.  re Setting up a best practice library

    Posted 01-08-2003 11:30
    I use Outlook Express to receive the individual messages from this list.

    When a message contains information relative to one of my areas of interest
    I drag the message to the folder I have created within my inbox for messages
    on that topic.

    OE has the ability to do searches, so I use that to relocate messages that
    contain a key concept I am working on.

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Charles Wankel" <wankelc@optonline.net>
    To: <MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
    Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 7:28 AM
    Subject: re Setting up a best practice library


    > From: Sue Vickers-Thompson [mailto:sue.vickersthompson@btinternet.com]
    >
    > Dear All,
    >
    > I'm looking for some best practice advice that might also help us in
    > this list. I have volunteered to set up a central, electronic collection
    > of our workshops etc., which we run for tutors and would appreciate
    > advice or experiences from those who have already tried this. Whilst
    > conferences or listserves are often useful, they are difficult to index
    > - I have major difficulties in saving valuable references from this one!
    > - and I wondered how others saved and indexed/annotated information both
    > for themselves and for others to use. I'd appreciate ideas on both what
    > has been found useful and what hasn't worked so that I don't try and
    > reinvent the wheel!
    > Thanks - Sue
    >
    > Sue Vickers-Thompson,
    > Open University Business School
    > sue.vickersthompson@btinternet.com
    >
    >


  • 3.  re Setting up a best practice library

    Posted 01-20-2003 04:45
    From: Jeff Kennedy [mailto:kennedj@lincoln.ac.nz]

    Sue Vickers-Thompson wrote:

    >Whilst conferences or listserves are often useful, they are difficult to
    index
    > - I have major difficulties in saving valuable references from this one! -

    >and I wondered how others saved and indexed/annotated information both
    >for themselves and for others to use.

    I use a programme called Zoot - a trial version is downloadable from
    http://www.zootsoftware.com . While reading MG-ED-DV, I can highlight a few
    lines (or a few 100!) and clip them to Zoot. Users of Outlook (and some
    other mail programs) can automatically copy incoming messages to a folder in
    Zoot where they take up much less memory, and are able to be searched and
    organised more quickly and flexibly than in Outlook. The downside is that no
    user manual is yet available, so it takes a bit of experimentation to
    discover the program's power. An active user group
    (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZootForum/) is full of very helpful people
    who will answer any questions.

    Jeff Kennedy kennedj@lincoln.ac.nz
    Commerce Division Ph: +64-3-325 2811
    PO Box 84 Fax: +64-3-325 3847
    Lincoln University
    New Zealand