The document discusses using blogs for academic communication. It defines blogs as dynamic, interactive and conversational online platforms compared to traditional static webpages. The document provides advice on starting an academic blog, including choosing a platform, finding readers, practicing an engaging writing style, and generating post ideas. Examples are given of popular academic blogs that cover research, teaching, and professional activities. Overall, the document outlines the pros and cons of blogging for academics and early career researchers.
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High Expectations? Why not !
A generic framework for achieving high quality in a student’s performance
Abstract:
High school students are used to a certain way of working in a protective school environment, closely supervised by their teachers. The collaborative partnership between Mediterranean College and the University of Derby involves a transition to the more demanding academic environment, which requires certain skills and specific ways of operating and working. This includes the need to discover and acquire knowledge, but also to critically evaluate all the information that is offered to them and it demands a well-defined working framework. As students themselves begin to understand the academic demands of the modules, the role of the academic tutor is vital in showing the way to these students and helping them progress, up to the level where their work can even become part of the academic community by publication in a conference or journal. If these requirements are met, we can definitely have high expectation from nearly all of them. This workshop is led by Mediterranean College and involves participation by a Programme Leader and a group of students studying Business and Computing undergraduate and post graduate programmes.
Disclaimer & Copyright:
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Mediterranean college
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Humanities 2.0 links work (see note on side)nancass1
links work on this one!!! Please read!!!
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http://jeopardylabs.com/
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Abeginnersguidetoblogging
1. Using Blogs for Academic
Communication
Dr Helen Webster
aka Rattus Scholasticus
Anglia Learning and Teaching
2. What is a blog?
Definitions and characteristics please!
static, broadcast web 1.0 webpage vs
dynamic, interactive, conversational web
2.0 blog post
And variations on a theme…
3. Who here reads blogs?
• Those who do:
▫ What sort? (hobbies, professional, etc)
▫ How do you find them?
▫ How do you know what’s the latest on them?
▫ How do you read them (how long, how much etc)
▫ What makes a good blog?
• Those who don’t:
• Why not?
• Everyone: what sort of academic blog would you
like to read?
4. Reading blogs
• It’s important to read blogs
because:
▫ You become familiar with the medium.
▫ You get to know what works (and doesn’t)
▫ You get to know typical reader behaviour
▫ You get to know other bloggers – at its best,
blogging is a reciprocal conversation
▫ They’re interesting! And might provoke thoughts
for you to write about and link to in your own
blog…
6. So why do you want to blog?
What do you want to get out of it?
7. Blogging as an Academic
Pros and cons
• Relationship to traditional publishing
• Networking and collegiality
• Professional profile and employability
• Impact and outreach, knowledge
exchange
• Your own development
9. What do you want to blog about?
• Who is your intended audience?
• Who exactly is your intended audience?
• How large an audience are they?
• What would they find valuable?
• What have you got to offer them?
• What else have you got to offer them?
10. Other than research, what could you
share?
Core
research
Profess-
ional
activities
Teaching
And
Learning
Adminis
-trationImpact
Publish
-ing
12. Genres of blog
• Vanessa Heggie, Guardian
• Mary Beard A Don’s Life, TLS
• Athene Donald: Occam’s Typewriter
• LSE’s Impact of Social Sciences
• Cambridge Science Festival
• Cambridge Centre for Health Sciences Research
• Ben Goldacre
• The Periodic Table of Elements
• Andy Mitchell The imature student
13. What to post about?
Three minutes:
• For your intended blog, jot down at least TEN
ideas for posts
▫ Titles?
▫ a brief note of what each one might include?
▫ Category and Tags?
• Review these: are they too large? can you break
each one down into more posts or suggest other
takes on them?
14. Types of post
• You could vary between:
▫ Instructional tips and how-to
▫ Explanation and information
▫ Reflection
▫ Advice and problem-solving
▫ Editorial commentary on a news story
▫ Account of an event e.g. conference
▫ Some ideas in draft for discussion
▫ A review of an article or book
▫ Top ten list (listicle)
▫ Curation of other people’s material
▫ A series of posts on a topic
15. Blogging style
• A blog is NOT an online journal article; it is a
different genre with different writing conventions:
▫ Snappy title (will also be URL)
▫ Conversational, personal tone (‘your voice’)
▫ ‘Shorth’ – 300 min - 600 words (1000 MAX and
RARELY depending on audience)
▫ Hypertext links instead of footnotes and references
▫ Multimedia – embed images, video, sound, slides,
documents….
▫ Scannable – no large blocks of dense text –
subheadings, bullet points, short paragraphs
16. Practising your style
• Take one of your ten ideas for a blog post
• Write ca. 300 words in a suitable style and tone
• See what others think – is it engaging and
accessible? (try reading it aloud as if you were
chatting to someone – if it sounds odd, the tone
may be too academic!)
17. Choosing a blog platform
• Wordpress.com (lots of functionality and
possibility to customise it)
• Blogger (from Google – integrates with your
other Google tools. Easy to use)
• Livejournal (often associated with fandom)
• Tumblr (in between a blog and a microblog –
good for getting used to posting short things or
commenting on media you’ve found)
• Twitter (microblog)
• Paid options
18. Finding readers
• Searching: Metadata – use tags and categories.
Linking to social media and authority sites. Post
regularly.
• Sharing: embed ‘share’ buttons for social media,
attention grabbing titles, memes, build relationships
with other bloggers
• Stumbling: Link from your other web presence, let
others use your content, use others’ content,
comment on their content
• Suggesting: that your readers share, follow,
comment, invite and include you, reuse
19. Start small
• “projects that will only work if they grow large enough
generally won’t grow large; a veritable natural law in
social media is that to get to a system that is large and
good, it is far better to start with a system that is small
and good and work on making it bigger than to start
with a system that is large and mediocre and working
on making it better”
Clay Shirky (2010), Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and
Generosity in a Connected Age
20. Too much effort?
• Consider:
▫ Writing guest posts on other people’s blogs
▫ Starting a group blog (good editing experience!)
▫ Vlogging
▫ Writing shorter posts!
▫ Posting over a set time period
Or if you’re really keen, set up additional
blogs!
21. Some of my favourite blogs for early
career academics:
• The Thesis Whisperer
• The Research Whisperer
• Pat Thompson
• LSE’s Impact of Social Sciences
• Steve Wheeler Learning with ‘e’s
Editor's Notes
Vanessa – journalism crossover
Athene – campaigning
LSE – case studies and how to
Cambridge science festival – public engagement
CCHSR - research and activties
Ben Goldacre –public awareness
Mary Beard – media don
Steve Wheeler – reflections on profession
Period table – vlog for interested public
Andy Mitchell - learning