Tag: research

Managing digital libraries

May 12, 2009

in Research, Technology

bibliographic, bibliographic tools, citeulike, digital libraries, fedora, generation web, kubuntu, mendeley, openoffice, research, word processor, zotero

I just re-installed Mendeley after moving from Fedora to Kubuntu and in the process came across a few other posts / sites discussing the problem of managing large numbers of research articles. Here’s a few of the more interesting ones I came across. Defrosting the digital library: bibliographic tools for the next generation web How…
Mendeley: research paper / PDF management

Apr 6, 2009

in Research, Social media

citeulike, collaboration, cross platform, data from both services, desktop tool, internet-enabled computer, Manitoba, mendeley, Mendeley library, online library, pdf, PDF library, reference management, reference manager, remote server, research, social media, social networking aspect, social networking tools, web service, zotero

A little while ago I wrote about Zotero and how I felt it came short of my expectations for a reference manager (my main contention was that it wasn’t very efficient at managing my offline content, for example, PDFs. Incidentally, see this interview, which also mentions this shortcoming of Zotero). Today I came across Mendeley,…
Zotero

Mar 13, 2009

in Research, Social media

addon, apa style, blogs, citation, content management, educational technology, Firefox, literature, open access, pubmed, real estate, research, semantic, standalone tool, zotero

I first mentioned Zotero a while ago but didn’t go into very much detail in that post. Since then, I’ve been experimenting with it a bit and am really starting to enjoy it. It’s a Firefox extension that facilitates the research process by streamlining the collection of information accessed through the browser. With more and…
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…
Twitter in undergraduate physiotherapy research

Mar 4, 2009

in Education, Physiotherapy, Research, Social media

bit.ly, communication, education, Firefox, laconica, micro-blog, micro-blogging, physiotherapy, plugin, research, students, tweets, twitbin, twitter, URL shortening

I’ve spent the past few weeks experimenting with Twitter, a micro-blogging service that allows users to post short “tweets” of up to 140 characters. I’ve been following it’s development for a year or so but never really got it. I finally saw it’s potential in education when I realised that it’s only a small leap…
Some activity at last

Feb 13, 2009

in Social media

academic earth, constructivism, eduspaces, elgg, ning, online repository, open research, openphysio, paediatric assignment, pedagogy, research, slideshare, social learning, social media, social media platform, social networking platform, twitter, video

It’s been a pretty busy morning so far, catching up on all the feeds that I’ve neglected over the past month or so. Here’s a list of a few things I found that might be interesting to you. Found Academic Earth, an online repository of video lectures by international scholars, which could be a useful…
HESS conference: a summary of my thoughts

Dec 19, 2008

in Conference, Education

Angela Brew, community of practice, e-learning, evidence based practice, HESS, higher education, martin oliver, research, scholarship of teaching and learning, summary, technology, technology changing

OK, so I’ve been back for a few weeks now and have had a little bit of time to gather my thoughts regarding the HESS conference, and thought I’d make a note of some of the highlights from my limited perspective. If anyone from the conference feels that I’m way off the mark, feel free…
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…
The semantic desktop and research papers

Nov 28, 2008

in Research, Scholarship, Technology

author, default search application, desktop search, documents, file using author, files, filesystem, ideas, kde, linux, metadata, Microsoft Windows, MP3, nepomuk, Ontology, operating system, Personalized, qt4, research, semantic desktop, tags, temporary solution, themes, thesis, usable solution

I’ve been following the idea of a semantic desktop for a few years now, waiting for someone to implement a framework that enables a user to actually do something that’s useful. I think that time has come. It seems as if KDE has managed to integrate the Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified…
Reference extract: credibility in academic searching?

Nov 19, 2008

in Research, Scholarship, Technology

credibility, credible search results, Google, information literacy, librarian, reference, refextract, research, search, search results

I’ve spoken before about the need to teach students how to search, not just by typing keywords into Google, but by being able to validate the search results in terms of credibility. Reference extract is a new project seeking to do just that, provide credible search results by using librarians (of the human variety) to…
Lyx: separating content and style through document processing

Nov 17, 2008

in Technology, Writing

document processing, document processor, html, lyx, openoffice, research, word processor, writer, writing, xml

It’s been a while since I posted anything here, mainly because I haven’t read anything interesting in that time, which is mainly because we’ve spent the past month or so gearing up for undergraduate exams. Now that exams are effectively over, we’re marking…sigh. Together with the exams, our department is on a writing workshop in…
Innovate (a journal of online education)

Jul 7, 2008

in Education

education, Fischler School of Education and Human, innovate, journal, online education, online journal, research, school of education, technology, technology in education

I just came across Innovate, an online journal published by the Fischler School of Education. It has some really great articles on the use of new technologies in education. If you register (it’s free, although you do need to provide some occupational information), you get full access to all the articles.