Collaboration technologies for EREN 2014

This wiki page holds notes, links, and comments for the June 2014 EREN meeting.

 

1. What ERENites are currently using for teaching and research 

LMSes

Video production

Videoconferencing

Social media: wiki editing

ResearchGate

Google Scholar and Alerts

WordPress: University of Mary Washington's 

Confessions page

Pinterest

Panopto

Dropbox; easy sharing; forking

Google Fusion Tables

 

 

2. Technologies

Video: creation; conferencing

• examples: field trips, student presentations + mock interviews, lab techniques (very small!), training summer research students; Macalester Write Well
• research: recording subjects (ants)
• students creating video (conservation) 

Collaborative writing: wikis, Google Docs.  Blogs.  Social resource sharing. Pinterest

     examples: MicrobeWiki, Encyclopedia of Life

Data sharing:  Figshare.  Drupal Ecological Information Management System (DEIMS).

 

Issues: technology standards; local support. 

Examples: Sunoikisis, the ACS Vietnam class.