Using Web 2.0 in your PhD

Peter Kraker and Marie Joubert@PeterKraker, @marievjoubert

#jtelss11

Warm-up

• Form groups of 4 (at least one should have a Twitter account)

• Discuss for 15 minutes which challenges/tasks in your research you accomplish with Web 2.0

• Tweet one or two using #jtelss11 (e.g. „TELeurope is a neat way to exchange materials among a dispersed research groups“ or „It would be good to have a platform to do xyz“…)

• We will then take a look at the tweets

Using Web 2.0 in research

• Dissemination via Preprints and Open Archives• Collaborative reference management• Mendeley: ~ 80 million papers• Opening up of the research process: Open

Science, Open Notebook Science• Knowledge Transfer in Social Networks • Use of “generic” tools such as newsgroups, blogs,

Twitter, Google Docs

The Web (2.0) shapes and changes research practices = Science 2.0

Example: Mendeley

Example: Twitter

Which instruments are out there in the TEL area?

• TELeurope• STELLAR Scientific Portal• TeLearn• TEL Thesaurus• Social Handle Archive (SoHarc)• More!• TEL Twitter Visualisations

TELeurope - Groups

http://teleurope.eu

TELeurope - Dashboard

http://teleurope.eu

STELLAR Scientific Portal

http://oa.stellarnet.eu

TeLearn

http://telearn.org

TEL Thesaurus

http://thesaurus.telearn.org

soharc – Social Handle Archive

http://soharc.upb.de

More!

http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/more/index.php?id=peter-kraker

TEL Twitter Visualizations

http://stellar.know-center.tugraz.at/vis

What are your favourite ways to use Web 2.0 for your research?

• Get back together in your groups• Make a hitlist of your 5 top practices• Use any tool you would like for writing

them up (as long as it is publicly accessible)

• Tweet the link using the #jtelss11 hashtag

• We will then take a look at the practices and discuss

Thank you for the attention!

Peter KrakerKnow-Center, Graz University of Technology

Marie JoubertGraduate School of Education, University of Bristol