Tag: undergraduate

Discussion on research supervision

Apr 14, 2010

in Research, Students

feedback, phd, postgraduate, project management tool, research, research supervisor, supervision, supervisor, undergraduate

In my department we have bi-monthly research meetings, where we report back on our research activities (we get dedicated research time and so need to account for how we’ve used that time). We’ve recently changed the format of the meeting to include a topical discussion or presentation, rather than simply reporting progress back to the…
International collaborative undergraduate student project

Sep 16, 2009

in Education, Physiotherapy, Students, Technology

collaboration, education, final products, physiopaedia, project leader, research, students, undergraduate, wiki

I’ve recently been invited to participate in a collaborative undergraduate physiotherapy project, hosted at Physiopaedia, for 2010. It will involve students from several countries and continents, and our students will be the only ones from a developing country, which should make for an interesting comparison of the final products at the end. Following the conclusion…
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…

Tag: undergraduate

Discussion on research supervision

International collaborative undergraduate student project

Google Docs for collaborative writing