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WS17: Becoming a digital scholar

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Facilitators: Daniela Gachago, Centre for Innovative Educational Technology (CIET)

Date and venue

  • 28th of September 2017, 13.30-15.30, lab 303, IT centre, Bellville

Description of workshop:

Connecting and engaging with fellow academics online using social media has become an important part of an academic’s research practice. Academic reputations today can be considerably enhanced by developing an online profile or ‘academic digital identity’, broadening the reach of your research beyond conventional publishing channels or conference attendance.  Academic social networking sites such as  www.academia.edu or www.researchgate.net are important platforms to increase one’s academic visibility. Platforms such as the Conversation allow you to reach a broader public and increase you research impact. These workshops will introduce some of the tools that can help you maintain, look after and monitor your online academic identity while setting up a personal research environment, such as Twitter, Slideshare, Google citations, Academic.edu, Researchgate, Mendeley and blogging.

To book your place please use our online booking system.

Becoming a digital scholar – workshop

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Facilitators: Daniela Gachago and Izak van Zyl, Center for e-Learning/ETU

Dates and venue

  • 3rd of March 2016, 13.30-15.30, Lab 303, IT center Bellville
  • 10th of March 2016, 13.30-15.30, e-Learning building, Cape Town (repeat)

Description of workshop:

Connecting and engaging with fellow academics online using social media has become an important part of an academic’s research practice. Academic reputations today can be considerably enhanced by developing an online profile or ‘academic identity’, that brings your work quickly to the attention of larger numbers of people than you can reach through conventional publishing or conference attendance.  Academic social networking sites such as www.academia.edu or www.researchgate.net are important platforms to increase one’s academic visibility. These workshops will introduce some of the tools that can help you maintain, look after and monitor your online academic identity while setting up a personal research environment, such as Twitter, Slideshare, Google citations, Academic.edu, Researchgate, Mendeley and blogging.

To book these workshops please use our online booking system or email gachagod@cput.ac.za.

October seminars: tablets and academic visibility

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Workshop 1: Experimenting with  Tablets in Higher Education

Facilitator: Ryna Cilliers and Veronica Barnes, FID and Gerhard Griesel, Applied Sciences
Date and time: Thursday, 16th of October 2014, 14.00-16.00
Location: Mowbray Campus

Seminar description:

CPUT has recently acquired a set of tablets to experiment with their use in the classroom. In this seminar lecturers who have experimented with tablets this year will reflect on their experiences. Veronica and Ryna introduced tablets to their Industrial Design students in a History of Arts class, while Gerhard used tablets with his ECP Horticulture students to reflect on a field trip in the form of a digital story.

 

Workshop 2: Academic Visibility – working towards search engines listing your publications

Facilitator: Prof Melius Weidemann, FID
Date and time: Thursday, 30th of October 2014, 14.00-15.30
Location: Cape Town Campus

Workshop description:

The use of search engines to find information has become very common, and many users rely on them to find even academic documents for their own research. Academic databases are often limited to subscription-only access, resulting in many users expecting that academic outputs are available at no cost via search engines.

Participants in this workshop will be shown how to create a network of their publications across the Internet, how to build a set of cross-links, and how to submit webpages for indexing, ultimately increasing the potential for their work to be accessible, known and cited.

Prerequisites include: familiarity with an Internet browser and with basic interpretation of search engine result pages, and access to at least three of your own research outputs (conference paper, thesis, journal article, etc).

 

To book your place on these workshops please use our online booking form.

For any questions please email gachagod@cput.ac.za