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Intute workshop How can I use Intute content?
Newsfeeds/MyIntute
ALISS – Web 2.0 in practice
2 April 2009
Angela Joyce, ILRT, University of Bristol
What is Intute?
• Intute is a free, national Internet service aimed primarily at higher education, providing the very best web resources for teaching, learning and research - and funded by JISC
Intute homepage
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Today’s workshop
2 choices:• Using Intute newsfeeds with Google
Reader• Building reading lists with MyIntute
You will be given a worksheet for each activity – please ask if you want help
What are newsfeeds?
• A newsfeed or RSS delivers content from one website to another
• Content is updated for you
• A bit like a current awareness service
• Blogs are often offered as newsfeeds
• You can put newsfeeds into an aggregator (a special service)
Example of a newsfeed in Google Readerhttp://www.google.co.uk/reader/view/
Intute has over 100 newsfeeds available http://www.intute.ac.uk/integration/rss/
• Is Intute’s customising service
• You can save Intute records in a secure space
• Tag records with your own keywords
• Export them to your Web pages
• Keep them updated with JavaScript option
• A simple ‘links basket’ version is being written
• New ratings service introduced
MyIntute
Angela’s MyIntute pagehttp://www.intute.ac.uk/
University of Edinburgh:MyIntute imported records for medicine & healthhttp://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resbysub/medicine/internetresources.shtml
Angela’s Web pageshowing MyIntute imported records
Finally….
We hope you enjoy the workshop.
But please email us later if you need further help.
www.intute.ac.uk/feedback.html
Thank you!