Tag: Google Docs

The buttonification of writing

Nov 23, 2024

in AI, Writing

academic writing, AI writing, AI-generated writing, Gemini, Google, Google Docs

When you introduce a feature that makes it simple to use AI to generate writing, everyone is going to use the feature.
Weekly digest (05-11 Jun 2023)

Jun 11, 2023

in AI, Digest, Education, Research, Technology

algorithms, Allen Institute, bias, black box algorithms, collaborative writing, conversational framework, diana laurillard, Espanso, etherpad, Google Docs, hypocrisy, learning design, machine learning, semantic learning, stochastic parrot, text expander, trust

AI bias and block boxes I’m getting tired of reading about bias and the black box nature of AI (even though I’ve been guilty of this myself). Human brains are biased. Human brains are block boxes. We still trust the outputs of human brains. I’m not suggesting that we just start trusting algorithms. But I…
Podcast: Google Apps for teaching

May 5, 2023

in Note

Google Apps, Google Docs, google sheets, podcast, teaching

Useful suggestions for using Google Apps in a variety of ways to enhance teaching.
Writing about the software that I use to write

Jul 18, 2016

in Writing

draft, evernote, focuswriter, Google Docs, Google Drive, jotterpad, libreoffice, markdown, markdownpad, plaintext, retext, word

Note: I started writing this post more than a year ago and have regularly pushed it back in the queue. It began as a list of text editing software that I thought might be useful for people who are stuck using MS Word but has since grown beyond a simple list. I like to think…
Using Google Translate for international projects

Mar 4, 2013

in Education, Research, Technology, Workshop

gmail, Google, Google Docs, Google Drive, google groups, google sheets, google translate, research, thunderbird

In preparation for the FAIMER residential session in Brazil, the coordinators spent months sharing documentation and ideas, and discussing every detail that goes into planning something like this…and they’ve been doing it in Portuguese. Initially I thought that this would mean I’d have no idea what was going on until I got there, but then…
Sharing? Collaboration? No thanks

Aug 5, 2011

in Education, Learning, Students, Technology

collaboration, demonstration, Google Docs, groupwork, sharing, spinal cord injury, wiki

Last week I took our third year students to see a demonstration of the management of a patient with spinal cord injury as part of the Movement Science module that I teach. I noticed that during the demonstration many of them were taking pretty comprehensive notes, and thought that this would be a great opportunity…
Introducing the OSPE format to physiotherapy practicals

Jul 11, 2011

in Assessment, Curriculum, Physiotherapy, Teaching

assessment, collaborative writing, Google Docs, movement science, objective structured practical examination, ospe, practical, teaching and learning

Last year at our planning meeting (every year we meet to review the year and to plan for the upcoming one) we committed to conducting all of our practicals from now on in the OSPE format (Objective Structured Practical Examination). This format has the advantages of having all students perform the same assessment tasks, as…
Extreme writing

Jan 21, 2011

in Research, Technology

article, author, collaborative tools, Google, Google Docs, planner, publication, real time, sprint, study designer, Team, team member, twitter, writing

In February 2010 I came across this blog post discussing the possibility of writing a draft literature review in a short period of time i.e. 1 hour, which I found intriguing. I left a comment on the post saying I was keen to try, and also bounced the idea around on Twitter a bit, but…
UWC writing for publication retreat

Feb 24, 2010

in Research

academic writing, author, Docs, editor, feedback, genre, Google, Google Docs, Here’s mine, mont fleur, research, researcher, writing

I’m just finishing up the first day of a 3 day “writing for publication” retreat, hosted at the Mont Fleur conference centre just outside of Stellenbosch. We spent the first half of today covering some of the underlying ideas and concepts around the first sections of an article, which was useful for me because I…
Proposal coming along slowly

Jul 29, 2009

in Research

Google, Google Docs, Higher Degrees Committee, phd, proposal

I’ve just shared a third draft of my PhD proposal with my supervisors, using Google Docs. Within a few hours, they’d both submitted feedback, and even though neither is finished reviewing the document, I can already start addressing their comments. Why would you not want to use this tool? I’ll be presenting the proposal to…
Open research

Mar 27, 2009

in Open access, Research, Technology

blogs, collaboration, Google, Google Docs, internet connection, Jean-Claude Bradley, jon udell, methodology, open notebook science, open research, open science, peer review, publication, researcher, secrecy, social networks, social tools, wikis

I’ve been thinking about the concept of open research since listening to Jon Udell’s interview with Jean-Claude Bradley on his open notebook science project. The idea is similar to the open approach to writing software in that the process is transparent and open to scrutiny by anyone. This could have important implications for the soundness…
SAAHE conference 2009

Mar 19, 2009

in Conference, Physiotherapy

blogs, cape town, education, Google Docs, journal, peer review, physiotherapy, saahe, search engines, social media, South African Association of Health Educationalists in Cape Town, students, twitter, undergraduate research groups, wikis

I’ve noticed that I’m getting a few hits from search engines with people searching for “SAAHE”, so I can only assume that with the conference coming up in a few months time, interest is on the rise. The SAAHE conference is an annual meeting of the South African Association of Health Educationalists in Cape Town…
Google Docs for collaborative writing

Mar 13, 2009

in Research, Social media

buzzword, cloud computing, collaboration, copyright, desktop work processor, Firefox, Google, Google Docs, google gears, greasemonkey, journal, microsoft, microsoft office live, missouri, online version, online word processing environments, peer review, physiotherapy, publication, research, thinkfree, twitter, undergraduate, word processing, zoho

We’ve recently started using Google Docs for collaborative work in the physiotherapy department and it’s been great so far. There are other online word processing environments with different feature sets (Zoho, Thinkfree, Microsoft Office Live, Buzzword), but after playing around with all of them, I found that Docs offered the best mix of features, usability…