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=Get 2 It! A Six-Pack of Free Online Tools for Collaborative Research=

==== In this global age of information, we are tasked with providing learning opportunities that promote contemporary scholarship. With the plethora of Web 2.0 tools available for collaboration, it’s hard to know where to begin to encourage digital literacy. The first step in that process is to be aware of the tools, the next step is to model their use. Only then can we guide our students toward the best resources to improve their digital literacy, encouraging them to grow adept at working and living in an age of global information. ====

This wiki will describe six free, online tools for use in collaborative research that faculty and students alike can apply to their scholarly endeavors:

 * 1) ====**Diigo** - provides a browser add-on where you can easily share your findings, complete with your highlights and sticky notes, with friends and colleagues. A project team, a class, or a club can create a group in Diigo to pool relevant resources, findings, and thoughts together.====
 * 2) ====**EyePlorer** - is a graphical knowledge engine that visualizes facts as well as relationships between facts.====
 * 3) ==== **Google Apps -** Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation form, and data storage service. It allows users to create and edit documents online while in real-time with other users. Google Groups is a great way to connect and share with a group using shared web pages, file sharing, team discussions, and task lists. Google also has a lot of other apps useful for research such as Google Calendar, Earth, Know, Buzz, and Sites. ====
 * 4) ==== **Wiggio** - is a free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. You can share and edit files, have a group calendar, poll each other, share links, chat online, and send mass text, voice, and email messages to your group members. ====
 * 5) ==== **Wiki** - a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone with access to contribute or modify content. ====
 * 6) ====**Zotero** - enables users to manage bibliographic data and to store web-page snapshots and other electronic objects, and collaborate with colleagues on ongoing research.====