The Researcher Online 3: Making and Sharing Content Online

This week we ran the last session in our series The Researcher Online, and looked at ways in which you can create digital content, but also the hows and whys of sharing that online, as well as considering copyright and copyleft issues. Whether it’s creating a youtube video for public engagement, or simply making your teaching materials more widely available (as I’m doing here!), there are many ways in which digital technologies can help you make your work more widely visible. This session aimed to give you a starting point to help you feel that you can make and share digital content yourself.

There is now a website to accompany the session, The Researcher Online, on which I’m collecting the tools, software and platforms you can use (with a focus on those which are easy to use and free). This is a work in progress, and I’ll add more over time!

In the spirit of the session, I’ve made both the slides and handouts available online too.

Making and sharing content online from Helen Webster

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The Researcher Online 2: Building Your Online Network

Today’s session was the second in our series The Researcher Online, looking at ways in which researchers can use digital and social media to enhance their professional practice. Building Your Online Network looked at using digital tools to enhance networking – a more interactive approach than creating a profile online (covered in the previous session).

For those who attended, and are interested in joining DH23Things as a way to explore to tools and issues in more practical depth, scroll down to the bottom of this blog to find the beginning of the programme, or jump to the post for Thing One here. You can also find out more about how the programme works by viewing the presentations from the launch event, again at the start of the blog or look at the sections above, especially on how to join and FAQ.

For those who couldn’t attend, as the session was fully booked, the slides are available on Slideshare:

Building your online network from Helen Webster

and the accompanying handout on Scribd:

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Throughout the session, we used the Twitter hashtag #RONetwork – search for it on Twitter and contribute to keep the debate going!

The Researcher Online: Building Your Online Identity

Today’s workshop on Building Your Online Identity was well attended and well received! It’s the first in a series of sessions looking at ways in which researchers can use digital and social media to enhance their professional practice.

For those who attended, and are interested in joining DH23Things as a way to explore to tools and issues in more practical depth, scroll down to the bottom of this blog to find the beginning of the programme, or jump to the post for Thing One here. You can also find out more about how the programme works by viewing the presentations from the launch event, again at the start of the blog or look at the sections above, especially on how to join and FAQ.

For those who couldn’t attend, as the session was fully booked, the slides are available on Slideshare:

And the accompanying handout is available on Scribd.

View this document on Scribd

Getting started on DH23

Thankyou everyone who attended the Launch event yesterday and made it a success! For those of you who couldn’t make it, you can view the video of the event here together with the slides I used in my presentation below.

DH23Things launch from drhelenwebster

The list of 30Things that my colleague Meg Westbury covered so fluently in 30Mins is also online: New Media for Researchers

You can watch the video of her presentation here, together with her slides below.

Also, don’t forget to subscribe to the email list which will be the basis of the support network for the programme, until we bring in some more Things for communication later in the module! You can post any questions, issues or tips here to others participating on the programme.

Finally, we have the first few blogs set up! You can find them in the blogroll on the right. I’ll add yours as it’s set up and registered here.

 

New Handbook of Social Media for Researchers and Supervisors

It’s very timely for the launch of DH23Things that Vitae and the Open University have brought out a new Handbook of Social Media for Researchers and Supervisors this week. It’s full of tips for best practice, as well as findings on the role of social media in the professional development of Early Career Researchers. It will be really useful reading for your own engagement in DH23Things, and we’d love to hear what you think of it, as Humanities Researchers.

There’s also an article about it in this week’s Times Higher.