Lecture 32: Open Peer Review

Today we'll be doing some group work using the reading that was assigned for homework:

Lecture 32: Open Peer Review

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Lecture 31: Google Docs

Lecture 31: Google Docs

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Lecture 30: Interview Analysis

Today's lecture is going to be in two parts. Those of you who have been following along on Twitter, would have seen that we'll have fellow student, Ian McNeill tall us about some software development he's made using what he's learnt in #ALES204. Exciting!

 This is what Ian says about his presentation:

LMS stands for "Learning Management System" and is used in one form or another by practically every company today.  LMS software has a large variety of different purposes, but they all follow the same structural format (Information presentation followed by Testing and online).  Over the last year and a half I have been making my own LMS software and you will notice much of what we learned in ALES 204 has been incorporated into the presentations!

For the second half of the class (if time permits), we'll practise analysing an interview. You will have the opportunity to find an interview related to your interest or field, and then you can analyse it using a google doc which can be found here.

Note: PLEASE make sure you *save a copy* of the google doc rather than simply writing in it! more like a workshop where you'll have most of the class to practise what we've been covering all week.

Lecture 30 interview analysis short version

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Using Google for Research

During the lectures I often noted how useful google can be to find academic research. We talked about using google scholar and the advanced search function. With that in mind, I'm sure you'll appreciate this infographic from Jenica Rhee.



Created by: HackCollege

Here is Xiaoming's and Arisha's post from Audioboo! Great work ladies!

http://audioboo.fm/xjia3

Courtney

CSL Lab's Audioboo's

Hello folks!

Here is my CSL lab's audioboo recordings. They did an excellent job (I am so impressed by these ladies!). Their interview was a journalistic style, since this made most sense based on aligning this work with what they are doing in CSL for their placements.

They interviewed each other and in small groups, sicne we have such a small class and this was great practice for them. What I have suggested, since they have done the itnerviews about their placements (the key pieces of info on their placements) is that they could perhaps offer these recordings to their placement coordinators to be used as a promo or info pweice for their actual placements.

Linking all their work in labs, and what they've learned from class, to the course assignments and their placements has been critical to them, and has offered them added value in practicing relevant tasks from learned skills so that they can use these in 'real life', in their placements.

Thanks folks!
Courtney Hughes

Kalin, Cassandra and Jamie on SustainSU
http://boos.audioboo.fm/attachments/1829913/sustain-su.mp3?audio_clip_id=557327

Tania and Angele on Writer's Guild
http://audioboo.fm/boos/557282-tania-boyko-s-interview

Wagma and Jiayue on U of A's Infolink
http://audioboo.fm/boos/557295-infolink-interview?utm_campaign=detailpage&utm_content=retweet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Arisha (Voices for Choices) and Xiaoming's (Alberta CareGivers Association) are TBA - I will post it once they get it done :)

Lecture 29: Interviews

During the first partner assignment, the article in which Alison Redford is quoted is below: AlbertaPremier on path to push province toward its potential


Lecture 29:   interviews

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Lecture 28: Podcasting & Interview Techniques

Happy Monday everyone!

Lecture 28 Podcasting and Interview Techniques

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Module 12 Labs

In labs this week you'll have the opportunity to practise the interviewing and podcasting information we're talking about all week. I know you just can't wait!

Some of the things you're going to be doing:

image from audio boo.fm

1. Find a partner
2. Together, read through this handout
3. Choose whether you will ask employment questions, behavioural questions or journalistic questions
4. Take a few minutes to create some questions for each other
5. Conduct your interviews and record it using audioboo (your TA can help you)
6. Remember, you have the choice to announce your real name in the interview or use an alias
7. Think about your voice, breathing and pacing.
8. Share the link to your audioboo recording with your TA.

Read more in the google doc here.

Lecture 27: E-mail and Professionalism

Today we have Marie-Claude showering us with another great presentation.

(will be see any photos of her cute puppy?!)

Mc lecture 27

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Lecture 26: E-Mail Etiquette

For fun, read this article by Ms. Mentor: "Don't E-Mail Me This Way"

Lecture 26 email etiquette

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Lecture 25: LinkedIn for Students

Welcome to a brand new week everyone!

Today we'll be introduced to LinkedIn and we'll have a little bit of time during the lecture to register and begin our exploration with LinkedIn and how it can be useful to you as students.




A reminder about the science article assignment which is due on Friday (the 18th) at 17:00. You must send your assignment via e-mail (yes, e-mail!) to BOTH your TA and myself. If you are doing option four and have chosen the poster option, you need to send your assignment to us via e-mail and then (if you have decided to do a physical poster) you can give me the poster on Monday before we start class (otherwise, an attachment with your e-poster is fine!).

Social Media and ALES204 Students

In academia there continues to be a lot (a lot!) of discussion about the pros and cons of allowing (or enabling?!) students to use social media in class. There are quite a few (the majority it seems) of professors and teachers who think students should NOT use laptops or smartphones in class. They are a distraction is the oft' touted reason. Well students of #ALES204, you know I think differently! And, in many of our lectures I've tried to highlight why it is so important that we all learn to become digitally literate. It is more than just using Facebook, but learning to use it for specific purposes (like to promote oneself for a job) and learning to make some aspects of our profiles private. We're also learning that tweeting about research-related information can generate new connections - possibly even with future employees.

So, it is with this in mind that I share with you an infographic sent to me from Jenica Rhee. It is called The Digital Promise. What do you think?

Lecture 24: Online Class

Photo by Jessica Laccetti.

Today is your opportunity to work on your Wikipedia assignment! Take this time to add to your stub. Remember, you need to write 300-600 words AND, since this assignment is also part of your e-portfolio, you need to follow those guidelines.

As a reminder, the Wikipedia assignment is here and the e-portfolio assignment is here and the rubric is here.

Lecture 23: Wikis & Writing

IMPORTANT: Online class on Wednesday so you can work on your Wikipedia assignment!!

Note: As discussed in class, after choosing your stub article, check the revision history to make sure no one is currently (as of today) working on the stub. Then, add an edit (perhaps a quotation or reference) so that anyone can see that the stub article is now being worked on. Also, if you wish, you can add a comment on today's blog post noting (with a link) which stub article you are working on.

Although Wikipedia does use a WYSIWYG editor, you might want to use Wiki MarkUp. You can find out more about Wiki MarkUp Language (in order to add bulleted lists or bold and italicise your work), look here and here.

Read about our Wikipedia assignment here. But here is a short summary:

In this assignment, each student will update one "stub," or incomplete article in Wikipedia, to a complete encyclopedic article. Ideally, we would like your article to qualify for "Good Article" status. For reference, less than 1% of the articles on Wikipedia achieve this status, so this is no small feat!
Here a few caveats to keep in mind for this assignment:

• You will need to learn some basic wiki code. The code is not difficult, and there is a graphical editor with buttons to insert links and the like.
• Others can (and will) alter your contribution. In most cases, other users will add to and occasionally correct your work. But your work could be vandalized or deleted. You can always change the page back to what it was before, but such "revert wars" are frowned upon.
• The entire Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which means you do not own the articles you work on.
• There is no standard length for a Wikipedia article. For the purposes of this assignment, a reasonable article will contain 300-600 words, which correspond to 1.5-3 pages of standard double-space text.

Part 1: Select a stub (needs to be done BEFORE your lab)

• Read the Wikipedia Getting Started page.
• Create an account .
• Find a "stub" that you would like to complete to a full article. Here is a list of stubs. Particular stub categories that may be of interest include Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic disease
•  stubs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Endocrine,_nutritional_and_metabolic_disease_stubs) and the Alberta Research Council stub (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Research_Council) . Here are tips for picking a good stub.

Lecture 23 Wikis & Writing

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Lecture 22: RefWorks Workshop

Today we have Angie, TA to some of you, here to guide us through a hands-on workshop with RefWorks. Diane showed this to us on Wednesday and today we get to really practise using it.

Remember, please tweet three reflections on today's lecture to both myself
(@JessL) and to Angie (@charleston_chiu)

Here is Angie's lecture:

Ales 204 presentation nov 4

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Labs Module 10

Remember all, those of you in the Thursday lab will need to try to join Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday's lab next week because the university is closed on Thursday so no lab will be running then!!!

Please e-mail your TA for any further help on locations and/or times of labs.

You can also see this blog post about the labs and locations.

Flickr and Image Citation

After yesterday's lecture (thanks again Diane!!), I've had lots of questions about how to cite Flickr images that you find using a Creative Commons search and how to cite your own images.

Well, please take a look at this very thorough document that Diane made for us. Here is the link to it on google docs.

Remember, this is the format you will use in your e-portfolios when you include images. You will also use this citation method if you include any images in your assignments (such as your science article assignment).

Lecture 21: APA, Citation & Science

Image from the University of Alberta library guide profile.

Today we will have the pleasure of a lecture from Diane Clark, ALES librarian at the University of Alberta. Diane will wow us with all things APA.

During Diane's talk, please send three tweets reflecting on her talk to both of us: @JessL AND @di_clark. Also, feel free to ask Diane, via Twitter, any questions you might have. Be prepared too, as Diane might ask you to respond to her during her presentation using tweets!

Read a bit about Diane here and here.

More Student Social Media Use

Wow! I'm so proud how you students keep learning and showing how you're developing your communication skills. In response to Julianna's vlog the other day, here is Annalise Young and Kelsey MacDonald:


 



Why don't you have a try at making a vlog or using another social media tool and I'll share it here! Keep the conversation going!