Category: Web
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Link: Should your publications be web books?
https://electricbookworks.com/thinking/publishing-websites-for-impact/ This is such a great post from Arthur Atwell at Electric Book Works. I have so many thoughts on how I want to use these ideas, but the main one is that all of our teaching materials should be web-first. I’ve captured the list, but you really should read the full post by Arthur.
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OpenPhysio launched
OpenPhysio is an attempt to create a free, online, learning resource for physiotherapy students, physiotherapists and physiotherapy educators that anyone can edit (think, Wikipedia for physio’s). While I’m sure the idea of students creating content in a (*gasp*) non-accredited, non-peer-reviewed, unstructured and unsupervised environment is horrifying to some, I believe that this is partly where…
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Knol: a unit of knowledge
http://knol.google.com/k/knol and Wikipedia article on Knol Knol, described as “a unit of knowledge” by the project’s creators, is a new initiative by Google that allows anyone to write an article, called a “knol”, about any topic. It’s a bit like Wikipedia in that respect but is limited to discrete articles with no links between them.…
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Managing information 2.0
Edit (07/07/08): I need to include PDF Download, another Firefox extension that makes managing PDF documents within the browser a lot easier and more flexible. Up until the latest release, my main use of it was the option to automatically download any PDF document, rather than open it in the browser, a process that’s really…
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On Wikipedia as a reference
I’ve only just gotten around to reading the January 2008 edition of “Hands on”, the newsletter of the South Africa Society of Physiotherapy (SASP) and it was with interest that I noticed a citation by the editor (Editor’s note, page 2) for Wikipedia. Unfortunately, only the name of the website (Wikipedia.org) was mentioned and not…