Thursday 5 June 2014

Looking at referencing afresh

I recently attended an interesting study day on looking at new trends in citations and referencing. There were some really interesting papers from everybody from software providers (http://www.mendeley.com looks particularly strong as a 'free' gizmo), PhD students and librarians working in colleges and universities. Basic citation skills are covered in KS1 but there's a big gap between then and starting uni. And 'attribution' is a form of politeness that hasn't really been adopted by web-users, even though it was such a massive part of print-culture (really since the Enlightenment and beyond).

Storify is one way of amalgamating digital objects on a particular theme. You can pull in elements from blogs, pin-boards, YouTube etc). This event had a hashtage so I just wanted to collect the tweets (you can discard ones you don't need) and left it in a linear template. With something more visual, I'd probably opt for the slideshow view so I could flick through the object-record without scrolling.

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