Tag: peer review

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-06

Feb 6, 2012

in Digest

elsevier boycott, empathy, good taste, peer review, personal development, siri

The Future of Peer Review http://t.co/OgSmcWph via @zite # Good Taste – The 2012 Vintage Approaches http://t.co/aBGDeCwi #goodtastemagazine #southhillwine # @USMCShrink Agreed, all that we can do is create spaces in which personal development can be facilitated # Elsevier Publishing Boycott Gathers Steam Among Academics http://t.co/RMxtFksU via @zite # New Virtual Helper Challenges Siri –…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-10

Oct 10, 2011

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papert, peer review, publication, realmdigital support, steve jobs

Imagine what else he could have done http://t.co/YepH4bNv #iSad # Professionally judgemental http://t.co/AjvJrsmT. Guidelines on reviewing a paper, as well as responding to reviews of your own work # Daily Papert http://t.co/xpwrFKN0. What do we teach in schools that doesn’t serve any useful purpose in the real world? # Daily Papert http://t.co/LpS9wDaH. “When they went…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-26

Sep 26, 2011

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academic journals, annotem, arxiv, ojs, open journal, open journal systems, papert, peer review, publication, technology, uncollege, writing

The Daily Papert http://t.co/hpkUkaCV. Technology doesn’t do anything. People do… # Academic journals remain unnecessary and unhealthy whilst open access archives such as arXiv continue to grow. http://t.co/dP2TyF1T # Procrastination: On Writing Tomorrow What You Should Have Written Last Year http://t.co/z1mHd2qb # UCLA Researchers Use iPhone to Track Parkinson’s Disease http://t.co/qHguaadG # Disgruntled College Student…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-08

Aug 8, 2011

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articles, artificial heart, collaboration, disrupt education, groupwork, helicopter crash, michael wesch, network analysis, online learning community, papers, peer review, research, research space, reviewing, sharing, social norms, uct, vision of students today

Designing for Social Norms (or How Not to Create Angry Mobs) http://ow.ly/1vmJzH # @alisa_williams Do u think it’s because no1 has shown them the value of collaboration? The system expects and rewards individual performance # Anatomy of an incident: Helicopter crash at UCT http://ow.ly/1vmlK3. Interesting analysis of how the info spread # Tell me again…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-25

Jul 25, 2011

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blogging, digital citizenship, facebook, feedback, flipboard, history boys, ipad, ken robinson, marshal mcluhan, medical smartphone apps, papers, paywall, peer review, research, social media policy

Watched “The history boys” (http://ht.ly/5LUce) last night at Theatre on the Bay (http://ht.ly/5LUdg). Was excellent # Don’t tell teachers how to act on Facebook, says union | Education | guardian.co.uk http://bit.ly/rth3x5 # Harry Potter Special: Evaluating Hogwarts Teachers http://ow.ly/1uRLRD # Killing Peer Review http://ow.ly/1uRLEF # Changing Education Paradigms http://ow.ly/1uRLpR. Presentation by Ken Robinson # Marshall…
Peer review of teaching activities

Jul 13, 2011

in Curriculum, Education, Teaching

learning, peer review, teaching, teaching activities, teaching portfolio

Last year at our planning meeting we decided to integrate peer review of teaching activities during 2011 as part of our departmental plan to engage with a scholarship of teaching and learning. A few of us developed a peer review form based on a few examples we found online and then submitted the form to…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-02

Aug 2, 2010

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art of community, assessment, BP, British Library, buddypress, communities of practice, cop, dept social network, diagrams, digital habitats, digital literacy, digital natives, e-learning, Europe, failure recovery, feedback, Google, Google Docs, journals, lectures, mobile literacies, mobile phones, net generation, networked learning, oer, open learning, peer review, reading, RT, rubric, social media, south africa, Tony Bates, twitter, UCT Centre for Educational Technology, uruguay, wordpress

A list of e-Learning Journals « Tony Bates http://bit.ly/bfs0Ej # Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities » Putting our diagrams to work http://bit.ly/acKbwI # @davecormier I like 4 🙂 in reply to davecormier # RT @malinkaiva: Using VoiceThread to Build Student Engagement: http://tinyurl.com/2clrtho # RT @johnnigelcook: “Google Gen “do not possess the critical & analytical…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-21

Jun 21, 2010

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american internet, Animation, author, backchannel, blooms digital taxonomy, BP, cars writing model, cent, Co-operative, collaborative learning, e-learning, facebook, Fast Company, FIFA, gilly salmon, Google, Google Docs, Google Earth, google search story, Harvard, http, Internet stars, journals, learning management system, lms, meego, mendeley, michael wesch, new media, oer, online world, open educational resources, otter trail, peer review, personal learning environment, player, ple, plearn, presentation, privacy, publication, reading, research, RT, Running stable, sajp, Salford, slideshare, social learning roles, social media, south africa, stephen downes, steve wheeler, swot analysis, tagxedo, twitter, uct, vygotsky poster, wordpress 3.0, world cup, world cup 2010, youtube

RT @dreamingspires: RT @stevesilberman: First time I’ve seen the phrase “the American Internet.” http://bit.ly/anZeIc # RT @barrykayton: Reading Blooms Digital Taxonomy v2.12 on Scribd http://scr.bi/cBGHrj #readcast # From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments, by Michael Wesch http://bit.ly/daChh2 # Gilly Salmon’s 5 stage model of e-learning http://bit.ly/c1MKHB # Social Media Explained Visually «…
Posted to Diigo 06/18/2010

Jun 19, 2010

in Learning, Note, Research, Teaching

5 stage model, e-learning, gilly salmon, learning objects, nhs, online community, peer review, personal learning, personal learning environments, ple, research, resources, scaffolding, vygotsky, zone of proximal development, zpd

Gilly Salmon’s Five Stage Model: a useful referrence « Mollybob Goes To School Salmon’s model moves away from the increasingly dated notion that the effective eLearning can be achieved through static learning objects (Downes 2005), and takes a social learning perspective with particular emphasis on communities of practice, providing a framework to support Wenger’s assertion…
Sharing my article for open peer review

Jun 14, 2010

in Open access, Research

academic writing, author, collaborative learning, Google, open, peer review, physiotherapy, research, south africa, south african society of physiotherapy, wikis, yeats

I’m interested in how changes in the internet are forcing changes onto institutions that haven’t traditionally responded well to change. One group that’s finding the transition especially hard are the publishers, especially the academic publishers. A little while ago I wrote an open letter to the South African Society of Physiotherapy, asking them to move…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-01

Mar 1, 2010

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authority, chatroulette, content, credibility, diigo, e-readers, formal learning, higher education, informal learning, medical students, mont fleur, open content, open science, open source, peer review, uct, writing retreat, youtube

Revisiting the Purpose of Higher Education and Courses. Why teaching content isn’t enough http://tinyurl.com/yg7ttj8 # First two weeks of OpenContent at UCT http://tinyurl.com/ygtm9wx # The Open Source Way: Creating and Nurturing Communities of Contributors http://bit.ly/bTDcGp # Why technology is not disrupting the university sector http://tinyurl.com/yhk3boy # @weblearning I like it, thanks for the heads up…
An open letter to the SASP: Opening up access to the journal

Nov 16, 2009

in Education, Physiotherapy, Research

author, british medical journal, copyright law, creative commons, free services, higher education, internet connection, Michael Rowe, open access, open archives initiative, open repositories, peer review, PLoS Medicine, publication, relatively inexperienced author, research, researcher and author, sajp, sasp, similar services, south africa, south african journal of physiotherapy, south african society of physiotherapy, the South African Journal, university of the western cape, Western Cape

Dear SASP I’m a young(-ish) and relatively inexperienced author who lately has had a few concerns about the direction of the South African Journal of Physiotherapy (SAJP). I’m proud of the high quality research that is being conducted in the field of rehabilitation and health sciences in South Africa, and like every other academic, researcher…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-07

Sep 7, 2009

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connectivism, image editor, peer review, pixlr, research, student, tweets, twitter

Pixlr online image editor, technically impressive but who edits photos online? Just use GIMP instead http://bit.ly/Y7k9B # Student fudged immunology data :The Scientist [21st August 2009] http://bit.ly/xQXL1 # It’s not peer review if you aren’t familiar with the subject « Connectivism http://bit.ly/1PIqDK # Powered by Twitter Tools
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-13

Jul 13, 2009

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open access, open licensing, peer review, publication, research, scholarship of teaching and learning, slideshare, tweets, twitter

Put 3 conference presentations on SlideShare a few days ago, why didn't I think of this before? http://bit.ly/NnQA3 # Spent 3 days on a writing retreat with no internet, wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be. Was productive, got a draft of a publication done # International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and…
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…
Blogging as a reflective tool

Dec 11, 2008

in Social media

blog, clinical placement, confidence, knowledge, language, peer review, reflection, reflective tool

As part of their clinical placements (short term working placements in either hospitals or health clinics), the students in our department must write reflective pieces on their time at the placement where they look at things like their strengths, weaknesses, learning opportunities and clinical situations that raised issues for them. This reflection is usually a…
Writing for publication workshop

Dec 1, 2008

in Research

peer review, physiotherapy, publication, research, workshop, writing

A few weeks ago my department began a “Writing for publication” workshop, in which each participant would both write and review an article for publication. In theory, this has two distinct advantages: 1) Everyone gets to submit a peer-reviewed article at the end of the workshop, and 2) Everyone gets to experience the process of…