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
- 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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Tracking our bombs; Bob Graham and the CIA
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Our Bombs – Air Strike Tracker
The Air Strike Tracker chronicles every reported U.S. air strike that has affected civilians since September 11, 2001. The visual interface makes information about each incident from numerous sources highly accessible, often providing the ability to view online videos and other relevant media. You can browse incidents by location, date, or tags (e.g. unmanned drones, official investigations, local protest). The Air Strike Tracker is an ongoing project, and we will continue to update the underlying data as new information is obtained.
(tags: bombs airstrikes documentary)
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Bob Graham’s much-scoffed-at little notebooks are more reliable than the CIA’s records – Boing Boing
The CIA claimed that Pelosi had been briefed in detail about the torture, and didn’t make any objection until long afterward. Therefore, if there is to be any kind of sanction for torture, it should hit the top Democrat who approved it as well as members of the Republican administration who ordered it. Pelosi, though, denies having been briefed about the torture.  Â
(tags: CIA torture graham pelosi)
Tagged air strikes, bob graham, bombs, cia, tortureWell, it turns out that Bob Graham was also supposed to have been briefed on these topics, and the CIA forwarded to him the dates of the meetings he supposedly attended. But the CIA records were inaccurate, according to his own personal records. Such was the respect for Graham’s notebooks, that this line of attack was closed within 48 hours.
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