Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

Elisa starts the session - these are tools to love and hate. Zotero is fairly new and an ETS white paper will be available soon.

Zotero is a free Firefox plugin

• It's always there with you as you browse the Web - sits right on your Firefox status bar, can pull metadata directly from Web resources, filling in your reference information for you including abstract and url
• one drawback right now is that refs are stored locally, so it's not great for collaboration or working from different computers though Web-based collaboration is coming
• can export citations in various formats, can export in EndNote format. (elisa demonstrates this for us - looks very easy)

EndNote is a powerful citation management software

• drawback - costs $, about 100
• Integrates very well with Word, allowing in-text citation
• its training available
• users are typically grad students/faculty
• can do Web search but doesn't work as well as Zotero

Refworks is a Web-based tool - requires subscription but free for Penn Staters (pilot now)

• has nice collaboration tools - also ideal for undergrads, "RefShare", can share with collaborators who don't have RW login
• the future of research=collaboration, Refworks enables this
• RW at other university - spreads virally through training the trainers
• Attendee question about accessibility of RW - not accessible right now

Contact the presenters for more info!! :-)