Laura Blankenship at Faculty Academy  Â
How do students do research? Â Start in library only 10% of the time. Got to Web – Google OK, but many start at Amazon or Wikipedia.
Using social software tools for  research
- without peer review , Â transparency – commentary on work is important
- provide a means of feedback built into a course
- a blog can serve this purpose, often works
- Connecting with research and researchers
- highly recommends research blogging http://researchblogging.org/
- the academic blog portal, http://www.academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
- blogscholar  http://www.blogscholar.com/
- open class notes to students, make them a wiki!
- Give ownership of the notes to the students.
TransparencyÂ
- Examples from wikipedia that are usually not in a peer-reviewed article
- revision history listed
- version comparison
- discussion page
- faqÂ
- but possibly no credentials
- peer-review may lack this transparency
Questions from the audience
- is it reasonable to set up a protected environment/network for people to use
- The speaker mentioned a journal requiring articles that are printed be posted on wikipedia. How common is this?
- Since some journals get revenue by making  articles available through proprietary sources, such as JSTOR. Do you encourage students to use that source.
- A comment was made extolling the benefits of using the bibliographies in wikipedia.
- Require a group of students to take notes, and present them to the class for comment – in my opinion a wiki would be perfect for this.
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