Tag: social media
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Thoughts on Geekretreat 2010
I got back yesterday from Geekretreat in Stanford Valley (beautiful, by the way) and these are some of my thoughts after reflecting on the experience. The theme of this year’s retreat was (broadly) the role of the internet in South African education, which is what motivated me to apply for a scholarship. I have to…
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Can established research methodologies cope with social media?
Yesterday I was talking to my supervisor about how I’m having difficulty designing a protocol for my systematic review. The guidelines I’m looking at are very good for designing a structured process for searching through the literature, but they’re not very good at helping me to define a search that includes social media. The JBI…
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Mendeley: research paper / PDF management
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, zoteroA 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,…
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SAAHE conference 2009
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…
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Some activity at last
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…
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E-learning colloquium
This morning I presented an overview of e-learning at a small colloquium at my university. I didn’t know who would be in the audience so I decided to take a step back and have a look at the e-learning landscape as I see it. I tried to look briefly at the following: Clearly with such…