Research
RE: Closing the Digital Research Circle (Using Zotero and NVivo for research)
The following is my response to Dr. Christopher Long's posting on Closing the Digital Research Circle.
Here are what I am doing:
1)Use Zotero to keep all references and PDF files on my main laptop (needs FF)
2)Change the PDF file names using the "Rename file from Parent Metadata" function
The Gladwell Effect
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/books/review/05donadio.html
I met Malcome Gladwell as his audience in 2003 when I first attended the ASTD international conference where he delivered a keynote speech on Tipping Point. I knew that he did some inspirational works, and I was just impressed by the title of his relatively recent book, Outliers without even reading the content.
Using a portable word processor without recharging throughout a year
I was searching for alternative keyboards (my keyword for that was "word processor") in order to make my writing work efficiently. I found some really good portable word processor in terms of battery life. They were from 50 to 700 hours with using three to four AAA batteries. I saw a Youtube video telling that a teacher used the device without changing batteries over a year.
Some of the links of the products are:
http://writerlearning.com/
http://www.renlearn.com/neo/NEO2/default.aspx
http://www.neo-direct.com/default.aspx
http://www.quickpad.com/Index.asp
Free DOI Lookup
http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/
One of my colleagues shared this wonderful site with his fellow students including me. A major change from the APA 5th to the APA 6th is the use of DOI. Unless the article doesn't have DOI originally, scholars using the APA 6th manual should provide each article's DOI.
Zotero
Zotero is far better than Endnote. Give it a try!
[Update] There was a nice introduction video on YouTube: