Research 2.0

Westport Public SchoolsNovember 3, 2009

Staff Development Workshop

Research 2.0

• Interactive Web• Collaborative Web• Information Comes to You• Information is Easy to Share

Meet Joe Cool, aka student researcher 2.0

Joe Cool researches here...

...here

...and here on his laptop

these are Joe Cool's groupmembers for a school project

They don't have time to meet togetherat the same place and time

so Joe Cool and his research partners find different ways of sharing their information

This is Marci, one of Joe's research partners. Joe subscribes to her blog & feels like he knows what she's thinking and where her research is headed

Joe Cool also has a research blog wherehe posts his research and about his process

Joe Cool uses Google Reader to keepup-to-date with current research

Joe Cool uses NoodleTools to store his research references and online Notecards. He has citations and notes for books, journals, websites, and online

videos to share with team members online

Joe Cool assigns tags to referencesfor easy search & retrieval

When they are done they can copy their citation lists and Notecards to each other & merge their lists, and share with their teacher online or print out to hand in 

Joe Cool likes tools like Google Reader & Noodletools because they're portable, easy to use,

and can be accessed from any computerwith internet access - they are in the cloud!

Joe Cool & his group use Google Docs to make collaboration within the group even easier

Joe Cool stores & tags all his bookmarks on Diigo, a social bookmarking site. Everyone can see them…and he can see everyone else’s from any computer

with internet access

Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff

Joe Cool can create a group within Diigo just for his research group, to make it easier to store and find the

links

his tags highlight his interests & stuff he’s keeping an eye on, he can see who else is interested in the same

things by exploring tags

this is Will, Joe Cool’s teacher & mentor

Will usually has lots to say, so he creates audio podcasts which are published in First Class

and can be aggregated in iTunes

When a new podcast is available from Will’s blog, Joe Cool can listen to it on his computer,

or upload the mp3 file to his iPod

Joe Cool uses these tools through his browser(image from VisualBlooms)

and other tools to communicate,collaborate & create content

Ask Joe Cool what Research 2.0 is,he’d say he hates buzz words

but it’s Social Software that promotescollaboration & dissemination

Created for Westport Public Schools Staff Development Workshop November 3, 2009

The presentation is based onMeet Alex: What is Research 2.0?