Cædmon Citation Network – Week 9
Posted: July 18, 2016 Filed under: caedmon-citation, digital-humanities | Tags: anglo-saxon england, anglo-saxon studies, blogging, caedmon, citation, citation management, citation practice, citations, database, digital humanities, humanities, humanities research, old english, publication patterns, publishing patterns, Research, student blogs Leave a comment »Hi all!
I finally get to start reading this week!!! While I am still not 100% complete in my sourcing of all the books and articles, it is looking as though I will definitely be able to start reading by Wednesday if not earlier.
I also have a bunch of books from inter-library loans that I need to scan portions of. That will be part of my job today.
The database will be ready this week as well. Garret says that there will be a few improvements that he will want to make, but I will be able to start using it this week. Read the rest of this entry »
Blogging in Moodle
Posted: September 4, 2014 Filed under: Moodle, Teaching | Tags: blogging, digital pedagogy, Moodle, tutorial Leave a comment »In many of my classes, I ask students to blog within Moodle. Blogs within Moodle are visible to the whole community. It is also possible, using an RSS feed, to broadcast your blog outside Moodle.
There are two parts to using blogs in Moodle: composing blogs and reading the entries of others.
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World is a better place 3. Career 0.
Posted: December 2, 2015 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Research-and-comment, research-communication | Tags: altmetrics, bibliometrics, blogging, Research | Leave a comment »The last couple of days have been, by any measure, a huge success.
A visit by Dot Porter to Lethbridge got my DH class revved up and also led to a breakthrough in our understanding of the Visionary Cross project and a blog posting yesterday that seems to be making its way around the DHosphere.
Over the weekend, the executive and members of GO::DH led to the development of a report on diversity and intercultural communications issues that also seems to be hitting a nerve
And finally, there was some cool twitter chatter about my ongoing Unessay research.
Or actually, I shouldn’t say that it was a huge success by “any measure.” In fact, it was a wash, as far as career progress went, since none of these are official citations or refereed publications. Although, as I’ve argued elsewhere, Canadian universities are better than many in their ability to use non-bibliometric measures of success, we’re not that good at it. Read the rest of this entry »