Useful websites

This list of useful websites and online communication tools was compiled by Andre Vellino.

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Here are some “generally useful web sites” that were briefly mentioned at the Orientation Day info-session:

Blackboard https://maestro.uottawa.ca/indexFR.asp
Some professors use Blackboard as a web-tool for communicating with students, distributing grades, quizzes, handing out course material etc.

InfoWeb
The InfoWeb site at the university of Ottawa is the web-vehicle for "secure" services (personal information / grades etc.) http://www.uottawa.ca/students/ -> InfoWeb

UOzone
UOzone is a personalized portal created by the University of Ottawa which provides personalized information and alerts from professors, faculty in a single-sign-one environment. http://uozone.uottawa.ca/

By all means familiarize yourself with UOzone via the YouTube Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uspA72DlFMc

Email
Last year, the School set up a Google Groups mailing list to which students, faculty and alumni could subscribe (or unsubscribe). This Google Groups mailing list will be discontinued as a method for faculty to communicate announcements to students. In the future, faculty announcements will be made via the school mailing list which only contains UOttawa mailing addresses. Therefore:

• Please use your U. of O. address (UserName@uottawa.ca)


• You may forward your U. of O. e-mail to your personal address if you want as well as change spam filter settings to allow for notifications from websites like “wordpress.com” from this location: https://web.uottawa.ca/cgi-bin/mailadmin/main.pl


• Note that alumni are given an “alumni.uottawa.ca” for life that can be requested at http://www.uottawa.ca/alumni/ to register

Miscellaneous
Some courses may use a blogs as a method of communicating course-material (as an alternative to Blackboard)

One such (commercial) blog site is http://wordpress.com/

Other courses will be requiring you to learn how to use Wikis so that students can collaboratively create documents or resources together, e.g. http://www.wikispaces.com/

Yet other courses may ask you to learn a variety of collaborative bibliography sites such as:

• http://www.refworks.com/


• http://www.mendeley.com/


• http://www.citeulike.org/


• http://www.zotero.org/

These will also introduce you to some important technologies in Web 2.0 such as social tagging, RSS feeds, recommender systems.