References tools on the Internet for Education

Shahirah binti Nazaruddin @ Rozailan

Siti Syazwani binti Ahmad Umar

Nur Izzati binti Mazrul

Amirah binti Abd Rohim

Ma Wen Fei

Encyclopedia

Wikipedia• A web application that allows collaborative modification,

extension, or deletion of its content and structure.

• it is a type of content management system, that differs from blogs.

• has no define owners or leaders. anyone can post, write or edit.

Pages / Websites

• A collection of web pages (documents that are accessed through the Internet)

• Contain any type of information (text, color, graphics, animation, sound) for educational purposes.

• e.g. Coursera, SlideShare, IIUM Library portal, E-Learning, iTaleem, Educational YouTubes, blogs/sites (Edublogs, online quizzes, exercises, notes, forums).

Google Scholar

• A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

• Can search across disciplines and sources (journals, bibliography, articles, theses, books, abstracts, court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, etc.)

Online Resources

Newspaper

• Online version of a newspaper - a stand-alone publication and online version of a printed periodical.

• E.g. NST Online, The Star online, Berita Harian online, Ted Talks(videos and news), BBC News.

Ebook

• An electronic version of a printed book which can be read on a computer or a specifically designed handheld device.

Glossary / Online Dictionary

• An alphabetical list of words relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary.

• An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet and a downloadable application.

• Consist almost all languages available and millions of translations.

• E.g. Collins American Dictionary, Thesaurus, Urban Dictionary, The Oxford, Cambridge online, Google translator.

Web Browsers

• A software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources worldwide.

• An information resource that is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI/URL) ,a web page, image, video or other piece of content.

• E.g. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Yahoo, Internet Explorer, etc.