Introduction
Contemporary information and communication tools and platforms enhance collaborative research, synthesis and authoring. They dimish roadblocks:
- to collaboration (such as the problems that arise in finding a time when all members of a group can meet f2f)
- to accurate and full communication (such as specific authors' being slow to share drafts, researchers' forgetting to circulate abstracts of articles, the editing of final drafts of key documents)
- to the reporting of conclusions & recommendations
In the session today, we shall look at three tools which will give you an introduction to how collaborative platforms might both deepen and streamline your creative processes. They are:
- blog and news readers (i.e. Google Reader)
- social bookmarking systems (i.e. delicious)
- synchronous and asynchronous collaborative authoring (i.e. Etherpad)
And we'll list additional platforms for collaborative resarching, writing and presentation that you can explore yourselves before you complete your group management plan
But first...
...a reminder that you need to complete your training as a social science researcher by the end of Spring Break. You should register, if you have not already done so, on the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative site. See the blog reminder for this training for more information about what you should do and why