Facilitators: Daniela Gachago and Lovemore Nalube
Dates: WS1: 5th of September 2013, 13.00-16.00 and WS2: 19th of September 2013, 13.00-16.00
Location: WS1: training room, eLearning Center, Cape Town, WS 2: lab 303, IT Center BV
Description of workshops:
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.
Workshop 1 will focus on academic social networking tools, while in workshop 2 will look at the setting up of personal research blogs. It is highly advised to attend both workshops, as they will build on each other, although you can also book individual workshops.
To book these workshops please email gachagod@cput.ac.za.