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A-level - AQA Extended Project: How to...: Organise your sources

A guide to the research process for the AQA Extended Project - compiled by your librarians

Organising your sources

This page contains information on a selection of online tools which can help you to keep your information sources organised so you can easily refer back to them.

You could choose one which you think will best suit your needs.

Files

Symbaloo

Symbaloo is a simple online start page that lets you easily organize and access favorite sites and web services on one page.
The video below explains how a student has used her Symbaloo account to organise her work.

 Click here to access Symbaloo

(Source of video: you tube)

Netvibes

Netvibes is a free web site that lets you personalize your web experience. Take everything that matters to you while online — newspapers, blogs, weather, email, search, videos, photos, social networks, podcasts, widgets, games and funny applications — then bring them together in one single page, your personalized Dashboard.
 
Below is a basic introduction to using Netvibes and a video showing how a student (at Creekview High School in Georgia, USA) has used Netvibes to organise her work.
 
You can access one of the student's Netvibes here, which also focuses on research about war veterans.

[Source: Hamilton, B., 2010. In Their own words: students provide a video tour of their Netvibes learning portals. [Online] Available at: http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/ in-their-own-words-students-provide-a-video-tour-of-their-netvibes-learning-portals/ [Accessed 7 February 2011].]

Click here to access Netvibes

Social bookmarking

This video explains how social bookmarking websites work, such as Delicious:

Diigo

Diigo is probably one of the best bookmarking and organizational tools for the web. Diigo enables you to organise your sources, whether it is a website, a pdf file, or an online book. Useful features include highlighter, sticky notes, collaboration and tagging.
The video below is an introduction to Diigo.
 


Click here to access Diigo

Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember! from diigobuzz on Vimeo.

MindiT

 MindiT is designed to promote rapid collection, management, and access to online information.  Watch the video below for an introduction to MindiT.

Click here to access MindiT

(Source of video: you tube)