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Research 2 (Student)

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Research 2.0

 

The resources presented in this wiki take the perspective that the merging of technology, writing, and research has brought new opportunities for involvement, collaboration, and distribution as well as new challenges for conducting responsible research.  These challenges require one to understand what is happening online where vast amounts of information are not only accessible, but the space between users, audience, and authors has merged and blurred and content is shared and mashed-up.  Consequently, this wiki embraces the ideas and technologies of Web 2.0 as we present responsible research resources for the GW community. To get a better understanding of what Web 2.0 means, watch this informative video titled "Web 2.0, The Machine is Us/ing Us," by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.

 

 

Researching with Web 2.0 Tools

The tools presented below assist the researcher in taking advantage of the collaborative and socially connected nature of online information gathering and sharing in a Web 2.0 environment.

 

  • Browsers

    Tabbed, extension-rich browsers offer features and client-side applications that make a browser more than a screen to online content. These browsers help the user interact in customizable ways with the content.  Here are links to three such advanced browsers

  1. Firefox - Mozilla’s Firefox 2 is an open source browser that offers a fully customizable experience for surfing the web with tabbed browsing, spell checking in the browser, RSS feeds, integrated search, live bookmarks, built-in accessibility and access to over 1,000 add-ons. Firefox is installed on most GW computers. You can locate the browser in the Browser folder under Programs.
  2. Flock - Flock calls itself the “Social Web Browser” because it facilitates easy sharing of photos and content as well as a search feature than anticipates your search by pulling up search results before you finish typing.
  3. Opera- The Opera browser is available for desktops, mobile phones, and other devices. It offers features that allow the user to customize everything from features to make surfing faster and more efficient to security and privacy issues as well as customizing the browser itself.

 

 

  • Chat, IM, and Voice Chat
  1. Chatzy - A free private chat serve
  2. Meebo  - Allows user to see instant messages from AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and Google Talk all in one window
  3. Skype - Voice chat service with the ability to make calls to regular telephone numbers anywhere in the world.

 

 

  • Wiki and Content Collaboration
  1. PBwiki - This is the wiki service behind the GW Plagiarism Project wiki. The name implies that making a wiki using pbwiki is as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich.
  2. Vyew   - An online collaboration tool that allows a group to author new content or collaborate on PowerPoint, Word, Excel, pdf files, audio, and video.
  3. Wikispaces - Popular wiki tool for making web pages that groups can edit together.

 

 

  • Social Bookmarking, Tagging & Web Archiving
  1. del.icio.us - This is a social bookmarking service allowing you to store your bookmarks online for access from any computer. With del.icio.us, you organize your bookmarks through a keyword system called tags that are more flexible than folders. You can also use del.icio.us to see other people's bookmarks
  2. Furl.net - Furl.net allows you to bookmark any site and share your bookmarks with others. You can also annotate the bookmarks and more.
  3. WebCite - An archiving system for web references (cited web pages and web sites), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited web material will remain available to readers in the future.

 

 

  • Social Note-Taking
  1. BackPackIt - A web-based service that allows you to make pages with to-do lists, notes, files, and images. Backpack also features a Calendar and Reminders that can be sent via email or to your cell phone at predefined times.
  2. Carmun - Carmum makes building a bibliography a social act. The service allows you to bookmark URLs and save citations you find online and create bibliographies. An interesting feature is the ability to rate and review sources.
  3. Diigo - This is a social annotation service that allows you to highlight or put an online sticky-note annotation on any webpage and share your notes with others.
  4. Google Docs & Spreadsheets - A web-based word processing and spreadsheet program that facilitates sharing documents as well as live editing and revision by multiple users simultaneously.
  5. Google Notebook - A web-based tools that allows you to clip and collect online information such as text, images and links as well as take notes as you browse.
  6. Stickis - Allows you to put virtual sticky notes with comments on web pages and others Stickis users can read your comments and you can read theirs.

 

 

  • Podcasts
  1. GW on ITunes University - You can listen to podcasts of select GW courses.

 

 

  • Videos
  1. Google Video - An online video marketplace where you can search for TV shows, movies, music, videos, documentaries, and personal productions.
  2. YouTube - The premier destination for watching and sharing original videos.

 

 

  • Images
  1. Flickr - A photo management and sharing service with millions of creative commons licensed photographs.

     

 

  • Specialty Search Sites
  1. Google specialty search sites include Scholar, U.S. Government, News, Books, and Blogs
  2. Quintra is an innovative search site that represents the possibilities of the semantic web by using natural associative search principles through a visual mapping web of text.

 

  • Tracking and Delivering Information
  1. Bloglines - Online service that allows you to make a personalized news paper with information you choose from news feed, blogs, web sites. You also can share your bloglines.
  2. Google Alerts - Notifies user on new Google results based on query or topic. Good for monitoring a developing news story or any topic.
  3. Google Reader - Monitors all your favorite web sites and blogs and then aggregates the new content into one reader page. This page can be shared with other users.
  4. Pipes - Interactive feed aggregator.
  5. Suprglu - Allows you to gather content from del.icio.us, flickr, blogger, typepad to one place.

 

 

  • Community Driven Content:
  1. Digg - A user-driven social content website where community members submit content and if the more popular the content with the community, the more prominently displaced the content
  2. Technorati - This service searches and organizes blogs, blog links, and other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, etc.)
  3. Wikipedia - The online social networking encyclopedia.  Wikipedia has sparked much controversy with its user-generated content approach to information gathering. Below are links to examples of the challenges presented with user-generated and free access content.

     

     

 

 

Organizations

Founded in 2001 as a response to the tensions caused over copyright with digital developments, this organization developed the Creative Commons License to provide creators a way to protect their work while at the same time encouraging open and creative use of it through a "some rights reserved" licensing.  In addition to explaining the Creative Commons license and proving a easy system for using it, the site also offers links to Creative Commons-licensed media

 

 

The Digital Future Coalition strives to find "an appropriate balance in law and public policy between protecting intellectual property and affording public access to it."  Created in 1995, this 42-member group monitors and advocates on intellectual property issues and is made up of academic and professional organizations

 

 

 

Comments (4)

Anonymous said

at 12:09 pm on Apr 19, 2007

How can a better understanding of Web 2.0 help you become a more responsible researcher today?

Anonymous said

at 3:09 pm on May 8, 2007

We need to address the fact that during the research stage, students "cut and paste" quotes and other content. Sometimes they forget to turn these direct quotes into proper paraphrasing and summarizing. Some faculty say that this is not the way to do research, but in many ways this is the modern day equivalent of taking notes on 3x5 cards.

Anonymous said

at 8:31 pm on May 10, 2007

If that's the case, then we need to show students how to save notes, most likely as "direct quotes," from which they can then interpret arguments, summarize and cite, or whatever is needed.

Anonymous said

at 8:00 pm on May 31, 2007

more practical approach is needed if this section is intended to help students

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