Empa Edtec Talk April 2010

Some useful (and simple) tools for Education (and Research) http://www.andrewmurphie.org/blog/?p=120 Monday, 12 April 2010

Tools—what to use, how to link them up • all of the links (and this powerpoint) are online at http:// www.andrewmurphie.org/blog/?p=120 • most of these tools are open source (and free) • all are simple to use, but can take a long way if you wish. • all are things that catalyse education (and research) engagements, rather than “replacing” them • I won’t show you how to use these .. they’re simple and instructions online .. but happy to chat any time • online you’ll also ﬁnd a simple list of tools (including some I won’t mention today) Monday, 12 April 2010

I’m not going to show you “how to do this ...” • I’m going to show you what you can use • And point you in the right direction to “DIY” ... Monday, 12 April 2010

you can think of all this as various combinations of apps, tags and feeds ... Monday, 12 April 2010

WordPress (and WPmu) [the latter is WP Multi-user] Monday, 12 April 2010

WordPress (single user) Monday, 12 April 2010

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the “back end” Monday, 12 April 2010

WPmu Monday, 12 April 2010

front page Monday, 12 April 2010

individual blogs on the WPmu site Monday, 12 April 2010

you might notice that these blogs often carry the same posts Monday, 12 April 2010

syndication—they syndicate with each other ... Monday, 12 April 2010

this is one kind of feed Monday, 12 April 2010

some course blogs on WPmu Monday, 12 April 2010

internal tags Monday, 12 April 2010

you can subscribe to a blog’s feed students (and staff) on Twitter, using the “hashtag” #arts1090 Monday, 12 April 2010

in passing, before retuning to WPmu—Twitter (which is indeed boring for socialising at times, but wonderful for research) Monday, 12 April 2010

my Twitter feed Monday, 12 April 2010

eco interests groups media interests music interests Monday, 12 April 2010

Research Collaborator (only know him from online) not quite sure who these are now! Monday, 12 April 2010

almost “real-time” search for Walt Whitman Monday, 12 April 2010

and, as everywhere, customisable feeds are here as well Monday, 12 April 2010

someone I followed and who followed me back, as a result of preparing this talk Monday, 12 April 2010

but where do feeds go? Well, everywhere you want them to (almost) Monday, 12 April 2010

you can subscribe to a blog’s feed students (and staff) on Twitter, using the “hashtag” #arts1090 or have a feed delivered from elsewhere Monday, 12 April 2010

Some other WPmu Sites (University of Mary Washington Blogs) Monday, 12 April 2010

some of the umwblogs courses Monday, 12 April 2010

feeds again! if I click here in Firefox ... this comes up Monday, 12 April 2010

one place these can go! Monday, 12 April 2010

Google Reader (integrates with everything else “google”) Monday, 12 April 2010

bringing this course feed into my personal Google Reader Monday, 12 April 2010

ﬁnally, a research blog, which can easily and quickly feed into course blogs (and vice versa) Monday, 12 April 2010

crucial point about blogs ... when you link to another blog, they get a “ping back” to their blog. Since they are usually curious to see who’s interesting in them, they check your blog out. Before you know it, you have new research collaborators! Monday, 12 April 2010

Delicious—online tagging Monday, 12 April 2010

two buttons I’ve added to my Firefox browser btw—the Firefox browser has lots of great add-ons! Monday, 12 April 2010

tag Monday, 12 April 2010

my delicious page Monday, 12 April 2010

RSS • all this happens via RSS ... Really Simple Syndication Monday, 12 April 2010

Firefox picks up RSS whenever it’s available Monday, 12 April 2010

but it’s more often than not there on the page anyway Monday, 12 April 2010

... at the bottom of the Guardian page there’s a good descriptions of how to use the Guardian’s feeds Monday, 12 April 2010

btw—another Firefox add-on replaces the given ads with environmentally sensitive ads Monday, 12 April 2010

but what‘s this other button? Monday, 12 April 2010

Zotero (basically an Endnote replacement, add-on to Firefox) Monday, 12 April 2010

the bottom right hand corner of my browser Monday, 12 April 2010

Clicking there brings up the Zotero windows Monday, 12 April 2010

click here and you automatically add the reference Monday, 12 April 2010

tags again Monday, 12 April 2010

you can add notes Monday, 12 April 2010

this goes for all of your references Monday, 12 April 2010

you can link references to each other Monday, 12 April 2010

you can export references in a wide variety of formats, and I think there is a Word plug-in, etc Monday, 12 April 2010

however, you can also upload and synchronize your Zotero library via the Internet, and share across computer whether these are yours or, via the formation of Zotero groups, others you’re collaborating with .. students, or other researchers (or both!) Monday, 12 April 2010

Zotero is courtesy of the Center for History and Digital Media at George Mason University ... Monday, 12 April 2010

They make other open access tools Monday, 12 April 2010

Omeka is one of these ... an online exhibition tool Monday, 12 April 2010

some examples—and this could be used for research, community engagement (eg oral history) and teaching Monday, 12 April 2010

http://www.andrewmurphie.org/blog/?p=120 Monday, 12 April 2010

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