By popular demand, answers to those burning questions….

What’s In It?
An essential guide to getting the most out of using the internet and internet technology for studying. Areas covered include: web 2.0 technology (wikis, blogs, Podcasts and RSS) that students may encounter at university, good web practice (netiquette, tagging, online writing) and using external resources for educational use (citeulike, Google scholar and delicious).

How Can I Obtain It? (UK)
If you are a UK customer, all titles in the Palgrave Pocket Study Skills series are exclusively available from Blackwells Bookshops or at their website.

How Can I Obtain It? (Rest of the World)
If you are an International customer, you can purchase all titles in the Palgrave Pocket Study Skills series directly from Palgrave or your local bookseller.

About the Pocket Study Skills Series
For the time-pushed student, the Pocket Study Skills pack a lot of advice into a little book. Each focuses on a single crucial aspect of study – giving students step by step guidance, handy tips and clear advice on how to approach the important areas which are continually at the core of their study ethic.

Want More Information?
To request an inspection copy or download a sample chapter from the book visit the publisher Palgrave Macmillan.

Contact Author
To contact the author for an interview.

This handy guide shows students how to get the most out of using the internet and internet technology. Areas covered include: web 2.0 technology (wikis, blogs, Podcasts and RSS) that students may encounter at university, good web practice (netiquette, tagging, online writing) and using external resources (citeulike, Google scholar and del.ici.ous).

Now set for release on 7th August 2009 !

More Details from the publisher or you can order a copy from Blackwells here….

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and More (Pocket Study Skills)

Social media on the Internet is empowering, engaging, and educating health care consumers and providers, according to a new report, The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Online Social Media, published by the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF)……

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Source : www.asahp.org

Excellent online article by Howard Swains from the new Wired UK Site on how some online tales of death and suffering are fictional – “pseuicides”. Some are contrived to titillate or garner attention, some result from something more serious, and some are the result of a uniquely modern psychiatric disorder known as Munchausen by internet.

Reports of my death

Source : Wired UK

When I came to write my study guide – Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and More – I never really envisioned it being offered for sale all over the world (although the concepts comfortably fit global teaching environments and university students or staff members trying to get their head around the world of Web 2.0). It’s therefore been a nice surprise to see it being offered in a variety of different worldwide locations including:

Canada
USA
Japan
France
and Germany

and given me a renewed perspective on the global phenomenon and concepts of web 2.0 from an academic viewpoint. I hope it is internationally of use.

ps not to leave the UK out :

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and More (Pocket Study Skills)

Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest ‘tweets’ of upcoming trends and custom searches on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Updates fall from the top of the page in near-realtime. For popular trends, Twitter is queried from the Twitterfall server, and results are pushed to your browser, rather than your browser doing the queries, or your computer polling our server repeatedly. This means using Twitterfall for popular trends is nicer on Twitter than other services…..worth having a play with if you get the chance

Visit Twitterfall

The Diary of Samuel Pepys is being published online as a blog which also presents a new way of historical learning via web 2.0 technology…..

Source: Daily Telegraph Technology Section

View The Blog

Palgrave Macmillan have just announced details of their 2009 Pocket Study Skills Series, one of which is my book “Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and More.” (ISBN 978-0-230-57763-3)

It’s been written as an essential guide to getting the most out of using the internet and internet technology for studying. Areas covered include: web 2.0 technology (wikis, blogs, Podcasts and RSS) that students may encounter at university, good web practice (netiquette, tagging, online writing) and using external resources for educational use (citeulike, Google scholar and del.ici.ous).

Each guide focuses on a single crucial aspect of study – for example, the importance of planning an essay, or referencing and understanding plagiarism – giving students step-by-step guidance, handy tips and clear advice on how to approach the important areas which will continually be at the core of their study ethic.

View Palgrave Study Skills Leaflet

This paper provides details on ten HSC case studies using a variety of internal and external blogging tools during 2006. This addresses the first aim of the Blogging @ BU project which was helping to inform future Bournemouth University strategy regarding the use of blogs. All case study participants were either interviewed or replied to a short questionnaire during late 2006 as a checkpoint to evaluate their experience so far. The paper will discusses these experiences and focus on particular points of interest from a strategic and personal viewpoint.

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A really interesting trip to the University of Plymouth yesterday to talk with Steve Wheeler (Faculty of Education) and Maged Boulos (Faculty of Health & Social Work) about what they were up to in Second Life and elsewhere in the world of Web 2.0. I’ve come back with a big list of reading and links (a sample of which is below…)

Mashing, Burning, Mixing and the Destructive Creativity of Web 2.0: Applications for Medical Education

Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education

Steve’s Blog : Learning With ‘e’s

Maged’s Blog : Web 2.0 and the 3D Web (Virtual Worlds and Second Life)