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--- On Tue, 17/8/10, Lindsay, John M <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Lindsay, John M <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: (ll) scholarship 2.0, 1.2
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, 17 August, 2010, 11:22

I've left the following snip in as it is germaine to matters, for the RIN report on Web2.0 has landed on my floor.....


Sigh



Staying ahead of the game sounds like raising the game, and all the other jargon which comes out of US?  Which is notUS.



How can you stay ahead of the game if that is what you are playing?  Teams need rules.



But that wasn't where I started, I started with scholarship 2.0 and a continuing thread, which seems to me to show now the limits of jiscmail?   There were a whole stack of messages, in which clipping, snipping, was done in all sorts of ways, including not at all, so that streams had to be skimmed through to find out whether anything had been added other than havoc, dread, vire, but, I'm afraid, little which moves much forward.  Compare a thread such as lis-links' with threads in other social media ..


If I think back to the days when the research councils and the funding councils supported user groups, and we met periodically, at Abingdon most often, there was I think a group of people who sort of understood how to think about the ways the technology, the scholarship, the teaching and learning, the traditional skills, and future thinking could work together.  


The sort of thing we might have dwelt upon could have been how to do both and thinking rather than simply either or thinking?  (I've taken that one from Venturi, Complxity abnd Contradiction in Architecture.  It seems to me that when the technology has a leverage, there is an emphasis of either or thinking, along with p & np jujubes, Boolean algebra, Venn diagrams, and all these impose a material condition, after the manner of the contribution to a critique of political economy.


So, if we are to have study skills, how do we do both and study rather than either or? And would that change scholarship 2.0? and is RIn tin tin ready?




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Topics of the day:

  1. UKeiG course: How to stay ahead of the game with Web 2.0
  2. UKSG Usage Statistics Training Seminar, Oxford, 8 September 2010
  3. Study skills - online resources (2)

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Date:    Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:36:39 +0100
From:    Megan Roberts <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: UKeiG course: How to stay ahead of the game with Web 2.0

**Apologies for cross posting**

How to stay ahead of the game with Web 2.0
to be held at
The Learning Centre, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Tuesday, 7th September 2010, 09.30 - 16.30

Course Outline
The term Web 2.0 covers a multitude of sins - and many virtues! The terminology and jargon sometimes inhibits the take up of tools that can significantly improve the effectiveness of your services and the way you work. These tools enable you to share presentations to promote your own and your department's skills and expertise; use RSS to keep you and your users up to date or to publish/republish information; create brief "how to" videos and tours of your library; tap into social and professional networks for research. 

The workshop takes a down to earth view of how applications can be used in the workplace and participants will have ample opportunity to try out services for themselves. The areas covered will include:
*    Publishing and republishing information - alternatives to the static web page
*    Tools for collaborating on documents and projects 
*    Using video, audio and images to promote your services
*    "Presentation" sharing sites such, for example SlideShare, Authorstream
*    Social and professional networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
*    Creating and using mashups 

The sessions will look at technologies such as blogs, wikis, RSS, Twitter, social bookmarking and "widgets". During the practical sessions participants can opt to concentrate on just one or two technologies in detail or have a go at more applications to get a broader overview. The aim of the day is to help identify those tools that are going to be of real value back at work. There will be extensive notes and exercise sheets to guide you through the day, and all the information and presentations will be available electronically.

Course Presenter: Karen Blakeman
Karen Blakeman has worked in the information profession since 1978 and became a freelance consultant in 1989. Her company (RBA Information Services) provides training and consultancy on effective use of the Internet, social and collaborative web tools, and on accessing and managing electronic information resources. Prior to setting up RBA she worked at the Colindale Central Public Health Laboratory, and then spent ten years in the Pharmaceutical and Health Care industry before moving to the International management consultancy group Strategic Planning Associates. Karen edits and publishes a monthly, electronic newsletter called Tales from the Terminal Room <http://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/index.shtml>  and the 7th edition of Search Strategies for the Internet is in production. Her blog can be found at http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/. She is an Honorary Fellow of CILIP: The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, an active member of the
 UK e-Information Group (UKeiG <http://www.ukeig.org.uk/> ), and a member of the Association of Independent Information Professionals <http://www.aiip.org/>  (AIIP). 


To register your interest in this meeting, reserve a place, or request further details, please email [log in to unmask] Further details are also available via the UKeiG website at www.ukeig.org.uk 
    How to stay ahead of the game with Web 2.0
The Learning Centre, University of Birmingham
Tuesday, 7th September 2010, 09.30 - 16.30

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