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Our blog to accompany the 2013 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize asks top science writers about their craft. Today it's Wellcome Trust writer Penny Bailey
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Academics need to look at different ways they can communicate their research to policymakers, says Matthew Goodwin – here's his advice on not wasting their time, or yours
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
scrible is launching a brand new Student Edition with new features and perks for any student with a ".edu" email address. ... Capture citations in a snap and create bibliographies with a
single click. Summaries and Reports Compile your annotations from multiple articles into a simple summary or robust report. More Space250Mb Use 250 MB of space to save your articles (Invite others to earn even more storage). Shareable Libraries Collaborate with others by inviting them to group, topic or project specific Libraries.
It been a while since we've posted any content on using Twitter in the academic context, so this submission from Leslie Anglesey is welcomed. These suggestions
f all of the questions I get in my capacity as Evernote's ambassador for paperless lifestyle, the one asked most frequently is: "How do you organize your notes? ... Of all of the questions I get in my capacity as Evernote’s ambassador for paperless lifestyle, the one asked most frequently is: “How do you organize your notes?” I’ve written on this subject before, way back in May, when I provided some tips on organizing your digital filing cabinet. But if I have learned one thing about note organization in the months since, it’s that it is an evolving process. At least, that’s the way it has been in my case. So this week, I thought I would dive into more detail on how and why I organize my notes the way I do, and in doing so, take a closer look at note organization in general. ETA (1/30/13): I’ve created a subsequent post that annotates my actual notebook and tag structure because a lot of people asked for it.
Are you interested in becoming a better writer, but you don’t want to pay the high price for college writing and literature courses? You’re lucky day has arrived, because there’s a new option available to interested students all over the world. Thanks to this new online education method, you don’t have to worry about paying a dime to become a student at some of the top universities in the world. All you have to do is sign up and log on.
Michael Kerres hat die dritte Auflage seines Werkes “Multimediale und telemediale Lernumgebungen” vorgelegt, welches den neuen Titel “Mediendidaktik: Konzeption und Entwicklung me... ... "Zusammenfassend ist das Werk als sehr nützlich zu bewerten, liefert es doch einen guten Überblick sowie viele wertvolle Empfehlungen für die Praxis, ohne auf eine wissenschaftliche Fundierung zu verzichten. Es ist der anvisierten Zielgruppe “Studenten” ebenso uneingeschränkt zu empfehlen wie dem Lehrenden für die inhaltliche Gestaltung von Lehrveranstaltungen zur Mediendidaktik. Darüber hinaus kann die Zielgruppe durchaus erweitert werden: Das Buch ist auch für praktisch wie auch wissenschaftlich tätige Didaktiker ein hilfreiches Überblicks- und Nachschlagewerk."
It can also be used as a helpful tool for students who need to prepare a paper. Here are a couple dozen (or so) ways Twitter can help your essay writing.
Via Anat Goodman, Louise Robinson-Lay
Description ‣ Move and Match Lite is preloaded with 14 demo projects
‣ Move and Match Lite is for teachers / parents / students to see the great features of the full version: Move and Match Main uses: ‣ Match letters for younger learners
‣ Make phonics projects for younger learners
‣ Match words and images for vocabulary for language learners
‣ Make pelmanism-style / memory card activities for education or fun
‣ Use for math problems with any learners
‣ Use instead of Cuisenaire rods for language or math students
‣ Use gap fill activities for vocabulary or comprehension with a background image
‣ Move words to create sentences
‣ Move multiple words to complete sentences
‣ Move full sentences to create paragraphs
‣ Reorder paragraphs to finish a story
Via steph westwood
100 Search Engines For Academic Research... ... in 2010, we shared with you 100 awesome search engines and research resources in our post: 100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars. It’s been an incredible resource, but now, it’s time for an update. Some services have moved on, others have been created, and we’ve found some new discoveries, too. Many of our original 100 are still going strong, but we’ve updated where necessary and added some of our new favorites, too. Check out our new, up-to-date collection to discover the very best search engine for finding the academic results you’re looking for.
Via Louise Robinson-Lay, João Greno Brogueira
Vivek Wadhwa steals the show at ReadWrite mixer, predicting massive change for 2013 from $20 tablet
Vivek Wadhwa was a surprise guest of Dan Lyons yesterday night at the ReadWrite mixer in San Francisco.
Last year, Wadhwa made predictions for tech in 2013 that turned out very accurate: slowing growth in social media, Zynga and Groupon'd stock crash, etc... This year he brought in stage the $20 tablet that was recently announced and talked about the powerful change it could bring particularly in developing countries. He also blamed All Things D's Kara Swisher for not covering the news and missing the most important trend in mobile computing (you can see from the picture she's not exactly thrilled by his attack).
Education, Business, Commerce, etc... : bringing billions online will impact all these areas in a major way. As he pointed out, hundreds of million people in India already invested in a $50 cell phone which became their vital communication device. A $20 tablet could bring even more important change.
The revolution is going global.
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... vom copy/paste zur open science. neue möglichkeiten wissenschaftlichen arbeitens + schreibens in, mit, durch, über, unter, zwischen den sozialen netzwerken entdecken ...
Lange habe ich diese Kombination abgelehnt. Mein Argument: Teilnehmer können nicht plötzlich vom Vortrags-Konsumenten-Modus auf den aktiven Beitrags-Modus umschalten. Ein Vorurteil, wie sich jetzt ... ... Erste Versuche im letzten Jahr auf der Conference Tour Weiterbildung 2.0 des eLearning Journals von Frank Siepmann, der gern neue Event-Formate ausprobiert. Zu zwei Vortragsblöcken gab es bei vier ConferenceTour-Veranstaltungen die Wahl-Alternative der sogenannten „BarCamp-Foren“. Während im Saal vier oder fünf Vorträge liefen, konnten sich Teilnehmer im Un-Konferenz-Format BarCamp-Forum zu eigenen Themen im 15-Minuten-Takt austauschen. Das „BarCamp-Forum“ (Wortschöpfung von Frank Siepmann, weil ja kein richtiges BarCamp) bekam im Laufe der Tour immer mehr Zulauf, und die Teilnehmer äußerten Begeisterung für das Format. Regelmäßig wurden mehr Themen von den Teilnehmern vorgeschlagen, als in der Zeit mit 15 bis 20-Minuten-Sessions nacheinander abgearbeitet werden konnten (42 Sessionvorschläge / 19 durchgeführte Sessions). Damit war klar, es funktioniert doch.
There is nothing much rewarding for students than to see their accomplished work being published and celebrated with others. This is very much motivating and is a strong impetus for them to achieve more and work harder. Can you imagine how happy a student would be to share his classroom work with his parents in a neat and clean online platform that they access anywhere and anytime ? There are several online tools that you as a teacher can use to host your students work and share them with the whole class and as well as parents .Below are some tools that can help you do that. Check them out : - See more at: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/07/7-excellent-tools-to-publish-students.html#sthash.2iCtXn1Q.dpuf
Präsentation zum Workshop "Neue Publikationsformen in der Wissenschaft" beim Deutschen Hochschulverband ... "Gestern hielt ich in Bonn beim Deutschen Hochschulverband in Kooerpation und mit der innokomm-Akademie meinen Workshop zum Thema “Neue Publikationsformen in der Wissenschaft”. Ziel des Seminars war es, den Teilnehmern einen Überblick über elektronisches Publizieren, hybrides Publizieren, neue Publikationsformen wie Apps, Social Media als Instrument für Vernetzung, Informationsquelle und -fluß sowie für (Selbst)Marketing zu geben. Darüber hinaus führte ich ins Urheberrecht und in die alternative Rechtsform Creative Commons ein, wobei seitens der Teilnehmer zu diesem Teilbereich viele Fragen gab. Ein erheblicher Bedarf an Informationen und Aufklärung bei Wissenschaftlern zum Thema Urheberrecht stelle ich immer wieder in meinen Workshops fest. Dank einem guten Input-Videovortrag von Jöran Beel zu Akademischer Suchmaschinenoptimierung (ASEO) konnte ich mit praktischem Ansatz zeigen, wie Wissenschaftler ihre Sichtbarkeit im eigenen Netz steigern können." ... Wenke Bönisch http://digiwis.de/blog/author/admin/
Sente for iPad syncs seamlessly with your Mac and offers you the most feature-rich workflow for organizing and annotating your PDFs. ...The best things about annotating PDFs in Sente is, however, that all your Comments and Quotes will be listed in the overview page of the article. Hence, you can strategically quote certain elements of the text (e.g., purpose, research question, main findings) and later review the paper without flipping through the pages!
In den nächsten Tagen wird die letzte Nummer der Zeitschrift für E-Learning erscheinen. Seit über einem Jahr planen wir den Übergang zu einer Open Access Zeitschrift.
While many scholars debate 1) whether grammar is important and 2) when exactly we should be teaching grammar, the truth is: poor grammar is judged within academic and professional settings. To communicate well, you need to know your basics.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are all over the news at the moment, with mainstream media such as the New York Times, Forbes and the TES featuring it widely. The L&D and Higher Ed communit...
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Open Access Sourcebook:m Practi
Open Access repositories may be institutionally-based, enhancing the visibility and impact of the institution, or they may be centralised, subject-based collections like the economics repository RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) or the physics repository, arXiv. Institutional repositories are digital collections of the outputs created within a university or research institution. Whilst the purposes of repositories may vary (for example, some universities have teaching/learning repositories for educational materials), in most cases they are established to provide Open Access to the institution’s research output.
80 Online Tools, References & Resources for Educators http://ow.ly/5c7PS #k12 #edchat #education (via @edutopia) ... We all know that teachers are always looking for tools, references, and resources for classrooms. Well, here's 80 "must see" trial, free, and paid websites recommended by Edutopia community members. Keep this list in your back pocket! It might come in handy. (The list is not ranked and listed in any order.) =) What other websites do you think are missing from this list? Which ones do you use?
Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Dennis T OConnor
Education disruptor, Khan Academy, has released an iOS mobile application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, giving users complete access to its collection of over 3,500 videos. Now, students ...
Via Jon Samuelson
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