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Category Archives: Academic use of the Internet
Ofqual plagiarism guides for students, parents and teachers
Ofqual – the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator – has issued advice to students, parents and teachers on citing information sources appropriately to avoid plagiarism. Produced in association with PlagiarismAdvice.org this series of guides is aimed at those … Continue reading
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Advent calendar – Twits a wonderful life
Where are we with Twitter and Intute? The subject of the today’s advent calendar post. Twitter is the word of the year for 2009 according to some and the Google Zeitgeist for 2009 says that it is the fastest growing … Continue reading
Advent Calendar – Wikipedia and academia
Today’s online Advent Calendar post about Wikipedia has been written by Martin Poulter. Martin (User:MartinPoulter) has made more than 2,000 edits to the English language version of Wikipedia, including a rewrite of the Confirmation bias article, and new articles on … Continue reading
Information Literacy Month anyone? Yes, we can!
President Barack Obama has proclaimed October 2009 as the first National Information Literacy Awareness Month. The proclamation says that “an informed and educated citizenry is essential to the functioning of our modern democratic society” and “we must also learn the … Continue reading
A brief history of whatever
The recent ALT-C conference in Manchester included a keynote presentation from Michael Wesch, the social anthropologist from Kansas State University who is perhaps most famous for his work on YouTube and his viral videos A Vision of Students Today and … Continue reading
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What's next in Economics education?
Intute will be at the DEE (Developments in Economics Education) conference in Cardiff over the next few days. We will be part of a session called Economics 2.0 that will be looking at how Web 2.0 developments such as podcasting, … Continue reading
Don't believe the hype?
Some of you may be familiar with the Gartner Hype Cycle that is a graphical representation of the maturity, adoption and business application of specific technologies. The latest incarnation recognised the rise of Twitter / microblogging and even spotted the … Continue reading
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A beginners' guide to Twitter
Recently, I was asked to write up my experiences of using Twitter for ALISS – the Association of Library and Information professionals in the Social Sciences – for their journal ALISS Quarterly. The good folks at ALISS have kindly agreed … Continue reading
Follow Intute on Twitter
Loyal readers may well have spotted that Intute has been experimenting with Twitter for a while, now we are going to be Twittering on behalf of the service as a whole. Up to now we have been providing a range … Continue reading
The Intute Twitter 500
The Intute Economics Twitter channel recently acquired it’s 500th follower – this seems like a good opportunity to reflect on this Twitter experiment. The world seems all a-quiver about Twitter at the moment – whether it is Twitter-bashing viral animations, … Continue reading