Presentations – 11.20 am
Name: Madeline Paterson
Location: Student Services
Format: Presentation
Title: Awareness of online professional profile by early career researchers
Abstract:
As a Career Transition Coach, I have worked with a number of University of Southampton researchers over the last six months.
* Early career researchers selected for the Researcher Talent Development Programme, a programme run by the Professional Development Unit.
* Early career researchers selected for the Southampton Doctoral Prize following their PhD. Each receives 12 months’ funding to jump-start their research careers.
* Researchers participating in the Knowledge Transfer Scheme, a 12 month industry secondment scheme run by Research and Innovation Services.
Exploration of those individuals’ career development opportunities, choices and needs reveals interesting findings about the awareness of online identity and some missed opportunities.
KEYWORDS
online identity, online profile, digital identity, digital profile, professional identity, professional profile, researchers, research careers, social media profile,
SPEAKER
Madeline Paterson helps individuals to make career transitions and supports organisations in developing their people. She also manages the University of Southampton’s Transition Project, which funds projects across the University that enhance the experience of new students. Find her on twitter @madelinep and on LinkedIn/madelinepaterson
Name: Gareth Beale
Location: Faculty of Humanities
Archaeological Computing Research Group
Format: Presentation
Title: Thinking, Working and Creating in Digital 3D
Abstract:
Technologies such as 3D Printing, 3D TV and High Performance Computing are becoming increasingly ubiquitous within the Higher Education Sector. These technologies have the potential to change the way in which we plan, conduct and disseminate research and are playing a growing part in academic research practice.
This talk will describe a workshop which recently took place which sought to help researchers from across the University of Southampton to realise the full potential impact of 3D technologies upon their research. It will share some of the results of this event and will discuss the benefits of learning and talking about these techniques within a creative interdisciplinary environment.
Name: Student Digital Literacies Champions
Location: Cross Faculty
Format: Presentation
Title: Student Digital Literacies Champions
Abstract: The Students will talk about their role of Student Digital Literacies Champions part of the Digital Literacies Project.
Name: Goran Mashanovich
Location: Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences
Format: Presentation
Title: Introducing Mobile voting
Abstract: Electronic voting systems (EVS) have become popular in higher education in recent years primarily because they increase student engagement, facilitate peer instruction teaching and give instantaneous feedback during the lecture. A library loan system for EVS handsets has been used at the University of Surrey for several years, however low take-up rates were detected in some cohorts. Therefore, mobile voting using Internet enabled devices have been recently introduced. In this talk, benefits and issues of this approach during initial implementation of the mobile voting will be discussed.
Keywords: peer instruction, electronic voting system, mobile voting, smartphone, tablet, laptop
Presentations 2.15
Name: Lisa Harris, Nicole Beale, Gareth Beale
Location: Faculty of Business and Law; Faculty of Humanities
Title: Academic Reading on an iPad
Format: 10 mins
Abstract: Academic reading of research papers involves a great deal more than turning the page in your e-book reader; you need to be able to make notes, highlight key points, copy quotations and flip easily between several papers. This live demo will show these vital techniques in action on an iPad, as well as exploring the role of DropBox and Mendeley to access the PDF files.
Keywords: iPad, reading, annotate, PDF, research, DropBox, Mendeley
Name: Nicole Beale
Location: PhD Student, Faculty of Humanities
Archaeological Computing Research Group
Title: Managing your online social media profile as a researcher
Format: Presentation
Abstract: Social media means many things to many people. For researchers, the potential for the tools and platforms now available on the web seems huge. There are opportunities for promotion of research, creation of highly specialised support networks, management of resources, curriculum vitae improvement, publication, dissemination of work to the public, cross-pollination of work, re-use of data, project management, and new mechanisms for teaching, to name but a few! This ten minute talk with give a walk-through of a day in the life of a researcher, through the lens of the social web. The aim of this talk is to provide a way into social media for researchers, to suggest different ways to manage our social media profiles, and to lessen the tightening of the chest that we feel when someone mentions the word ‘Twitter’.
Keywords: social media, research
Name: Julie Watson
Location: Modern Languages, FoH
Title:Using Linoit for student contact in an online distance learning (ODL) course
Format: Demo
This short demo will highlight how the social wall ‘linoit’ is being used by students in an online course.
Abstract:A ‘social wall’ can be an effective option for a self-paced online distance learning (ODL) course that does not require extensive tutoring but which supports some of the communication needs of a large student user cohort. Elanguages in Modern Languages are delivering a pre-arrival online course for all University of Southampton international students for the second time in 2012. The course is open from May until October and student enrolments are expected to top 2500 this year (numbers currently stand at 850 after 6 weeks). A sticky note/photo sharing web2.0 service is embedded in the course and acts as a social wall for students to make contact with each other by introducing themselves, and sharing MSN and Facebook account details. A brief comparison will be made with the use of discussion forums for similar purposes.
Keywords: Social wall; online course; student communication
Name: Michelle Treagust
Location: Centre for Innovation in Technologies and Education
Title: Using 1daylater to track time
Format: tips and techniques 3-5 mins
Abstract:
In our time pressed work/study/family life it can seem that minutes and hours whizz by with no understanding of where the time has gone. Keeping a record of how time is spent can help people become more productive through reflecting on working habits.
Also, for HE staff working on multi-projects it can be helpful to be able to quickly identify how the working week splits up.
There are many different time tracking tools available on the market but one free tool, 1daylater, offers a different, infographic approach to representing time tracked data. By using an online and mobile system users can easily keep track of time spent and decipher the data at a glance.
Keywords: 1daylater, time, tracking
Name: Adam Warren
Location: Centre for Innovation in Technologies and Innovation (CITE)
Title: Academic Reading on an iPad
Format: tips and techniques 3 – 5mins
Abstract: Academic reading of research papers involves a great deal more than turning the page in your e-book reader; you need to be able to make notes, highlight key points, copy quotations and flip easily between several papers. This live demo will show these vital techniques in action on an iPad, as well as exploring the role of DropBox and Mendeley to access the PDF files.
Keywords: iPad, reading, annotate, PDF, research, DropBox, Mendeley
Name: Lisa Harris, Nicole Beale, Gareth Beale
Location: Faculty of Business and Law; Faculty of Humanities
Title: Academic Reading on an iPad
Format: tips and techniques 3 – 5mins
Abstract: Academic reading of research papers involves a great deal more than turning the page in your e-book reader; you need to be able to make notes, highlight key points, copy quotations and flip easily between several papers. This live demo will show these vital techniques in action on an iPad, as well as exploring the role of DropBox and Mendeley to access the PDF files.
Keywords: iPad, reading, annotate, PDF, research, DropBox, Mendeley