Social Media & Student Use

I just want to say how proud I am of all of you and how well you're harnessing social media to further your learning and collaboration.

I thought I would highlight student work when it is brought to my attention. Here is a great example of an ALES204 students (Julianna Damer) using YouTube to broadcast her thoughts and connect with other classmates. Feel free to comment here to start a discussion with Julianna and/or to let me know what you've been up to. Perhaps you've made a video or a google doc that you'd like me to share with the class?

Lecture 20: Flickr, Image Citation and Copyright

In today's lecture we shall look explicitly at image citation (especially now that we all use flickr) and what creative commons means in terms of copyright.

Lecture 20: Creative Commons & Copyright

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E-Portfolio & Delicious Tag Clouds

Hi everyone!

Part of your e-portfolio requirements call for you to embed a tag cloud of your delicious sites.

However, delicious has been sold to another company that does not want to support the tag clouds! This means you cannot easily go on to delicious and find the information required to embed your tag cloud.

 You can read about the problems with tag clouds and why the new company is not supporting them: http://support.delicious.com/delicious/topics/where_did_the_tag_cloud_go?from_gsfn=true

So, the e-portfolio will *NOT* require you to include a delicious feed.

Should you want to try a work around.

Follow these steps:

 Log in to your blogger account
Go to your blog's dashboard
Choose to go to Layout
"add a gadget" to your sidebar
Choose the "html/javascript option
Paste the following information into the white box:
 [LEFT HTML BRACKET]script type="text/javascript" src="http: //feeds.delicious.com/v2.1/js/tags/USERNAME?title=TITLETEXT&icon&count=NUMERAL&sort=freq&flow=cloud&color=73adff-3274d0&size=12-20"[RIGHT HTML BRACKET][LEFT HTML BRACKET]/script[RIGHT HTML BRACKET]


 Make sure you CHANGE the USERNAME to your delicious name.



OR try pasting in this information:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2.1/js/tags/ALES204?title=My%20Delicious%20Tags&icon&count=100&sort=alpha&flow=cloud&name&showadd&color=73adff-3274d0&size=12-35"></script>

BUT change ALES204 to YOUR delicious username.




Click Save This *should* work but because it is not supported by delicious, it is not guaranteed to work.

Try this but don't worry if you are not successful!

#ALES204 Blog Stats

I thought you all would be interested to know that in this young blog's life (only 2 months old!), we have already had over 14 THOUSAND people coming to view your work! Congratulations!


Here is some information on the most popular blog posts, where people are coming from and how they find us.

Also of interest, are the words people use to search for us. The most common are:

ales 204
university of alberta blog
jessica laccetti class blog
science blog agriculture

Lecture 16: CV Writing Workshop

Today the TAs and I are going to show you our own CVs. I have had great luck with mine, landing an interview each time I've used it - so I'm an aficionado of this style. But, there are lots of different styles out there and some exciting ideas. Pamela has suggested looking at the templates over here. Another reminder that we'll be using the more academic version, a CV, rather than the North American version of a résumé:

A curriculum vitae (CV) provides an overview of a person's experience and other qualifications. In some countries, a CV is typically the first item that a potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker and is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview, when seeking employment. The curriculum vitae is comparable to a résumé in many countries, although in English Canada and the United States it is substantially different.

A résumé is a simpler document while the CV is expected to thoroughly outline your education and your professional history (think jobs, volunteer work, publications, presentations etc...). In the words of the University of Waterloo's Career Services:



What is a curriculum vitae?
 A presentation of credentials for a research/teaching position in a university, a research institute,
or company with R&D requirements. A résumé (two pages maximum) is prepared for employers
outside the academic and research environment
 An indispensable job hunting tool that represents an objective, factual, personal history of you -
an advertisement designed to market you by highlighting your abilities and future potential
 A summary of your career aspirations, educational background, employment experience,
achievements, and interests




Key headings to include in your cv:

• Name
• Address/Telephone/Email
• Citizenship
• 
  
• Research and/or Professional Inter ests
• Education/Professional  Training/Certifications
• Employment
• Publications
• Presentations
• Awards/Scholarships
• Professional Affiliations
• Volunteer Work
• Languages
• Hobbies

Here are some creative takes on CVs:

From McGill University, here is a useful video outlining the elements of a cv. Also from McGill, a very handy cv writing guide.




HOMEWORK due before Monday's Class:

Students will choose two researchers in their field who use delicious and write a paragraph (as a blog comment on THIS post) noting:

• The importance of each researcher
• The types of resources each researcher bookmarks
• The clarity and/or style of tagging that each researcher employs

Remember, if you post a comment under an alias, make sure I know who you are by sending me an e-mail!






For those of you who don't read the comments. Here is some additional help:



Some ways to find people using delicious.




You might check out the scientists you have followed on Twitter and see if any of them use delicious (look at their blogs)



You can also do a google search for researchers/key people in your field, have a look at their blogs and see if they have a delicious tag cloud.




I know I was involved with an creative writing new media online course and I was interested in their delicious links: http://www.delicious.com/cwnm


Howard Rheingold, a key player in my field and in new media in general (you might be interested too!): http://delicious.com/hrheingold


I mentioned in class (and on my cv) that I'm part of the Transliteracy Research Group so I keep up to date with those bookmarks too: http://www.delicious.com/transliteracy

Of course, our class is on delicious too: http://delicious.com/ales204






An interesting article on how to use delicious in research: go here




Note: delicious is still working out some bugs due to the move from Yahoo... you can read about it here.

Lecture 15: Folksonomy & Tagging

Lecture 15: Folksonomy and Tagging

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