Archive for the ‘internet tools’ Category

Managing Identities: Part 2 (Netvibes)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

The smallworlds project aims to introduce emerging online research tools, such as Twitter and Delicious, at a grassroots level to early stage laboratory students at the University of Leicester. For many of the students that we met at the introductory sessions last week, this was their first encounter with these sites - and ...

Managing Identities: Part One

Monday, October 13th, 2008

It was decided when we started the small worlds project that those involved would create an alternative twitter identity from that they were currently using day-to-day. When I set up @jennifermjones - it got us reflecting on how separate twitter identities would be managed practically (to come shortly). In particular, it could me ...

Wordles on Paper.

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

  So here is the front pages of my MA dissertation. I ended up using a wordle on my front page, instead of an abstract - putting the abstract on the 2nd page instead. I understand that they have some clear and obvious distinctions in their role - however - I think ...

And so it begins…

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

I've finally finished and submitted my MA dissertation (woo, yay!) recently started working as part of the Small Worlds project (which is associated with the University of Leicester) - AJ Cann launched the project yesterday - and I think his short seesmic video sums up the gist of the project ...

The future of abstracts?

Monday, September 8th, 2008

My Ph.D. proposal expressed as a wordle cloud.     Although, I think after i've completed my MA dissertation, somethings will have changed quite dramatically!