Table of Contents
Preface
1. Creating an online persona
Use an official email account
Adopt appropriate email conventions
Use informative subject headers
Avoid emoticons
Use an appropriate signature
Respect real-time lives
Beware mass emailings
Consider your overall web presence
2. A field guide to participating in online discussion
Class discussions
How class discussion works
Effective class discussion
Blog discussions
Finding a blog
Guidelines for commenting on blogs
Making your own blog
Forum discussions
Tips for using forums
Wikis
Contributing to Wikipedia
Guidelines for contributing to Wikipedia
Other wikis
Creating your own wiki
Sharing pictures and movies
3. Evaluating sources
Use the internet toinform your research
Evaluating resources
Dynamic versus static sources
Select sources based on the demands of your project
Evaluate all sources you use
Should you use a wiki in research?
Record all citation information for documentation purposes
4. Finding the right information
Searching with general sources
Using your library website
Using Wikipedia
Searching on the web
Searching with web subject directories
Searching with Open Directory
Searching with Yahoo!
Other subject directory indexes
Searching with web search engines
Narrowing your search
Advanced search strategies
Boolean searching
Using the Link command
Searching for individuals
Advanced browsing techniques
Conducting more specialized searches
Using Google Scholar
Using specialized research sites
Searching dynamic sources: Forums and blogs
Searching forums
Searching blogs
5. Managing the information you find
Building a document management system
Saving information about your sources
Using a research blog
Other ways to track research sources
Saving your source materials
Downloading helper applications
6. Giving credit to your sources: Copyright online
Make single copies of copyrighted work for educational use
Make many copies of copyright work or publish it on the web if it meets fair use guidelines
Find out if a work is copyrighted before you reproduce
Request permission to reproduce copyrighted work
Locating the copyright holder
Sending the letter of request
Using open source and open content
7. Giving credit to your sources: Documenting online sources
Determine how sources are documented for your type of project
Using the MLA style to document electronic sources
Collecting information about your source
Formatting your citations
Integrating source materials
Using the APA style to document electronic sources
Collecting information about your source
Formatting your citations
Integrating source materials
Appendix: How to make anything look good online
HTML
Font styles
Lists
Links
Inline images
Colors
Tables
vB Code
Formatting
Linking
Inline images
Other formats
A quick guide to putting your images online
Directory of URLs referenced in the text
Glossary
Index
