Edtechkat

Zotero is a Plug-In for Firefox that harvests and stores bibliographic data from many formats of web objects, including online journal articles, web pages, pdfs, images and video clips. It interfaces with a number of other programs including Wordpress and Endnote. It also helps you organize and store electronic documents.

I’ve used it a tiny bit for preparing conference papers, with my Zotero library saved on a thumb drive along with portable FF where I have installed the Zotero plug-in.

The web based collaborative version (Zotero Commons) - which would make it an absolutely killer ap - has been rumoured to go live in June, but it has been a long time coming. It is being developed in collaboration with the Internet Archive using a Andrew W Mellon Foundation grant.

This White Paper from the (rather better funded) equivalent of LTSG at Penn State University is excellent. 7 Things You Need to Know About Zotero: a white paper from Teaching and Learning with Technology at Penn State. http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/zotero_hot_team.pdf

1. What is it?
2. Who’s doing it?<
3. How does it work?
4. Why is it significant ?
5. What are the downsides?
6. Where is it going?
7. What are the implications for Teaching and Learning?