Teaching Scientific Communication

Egon Willighagen

Bioclipse & Proteochemometric Group (Prof. Wikberg)Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences

Uppsala University

2010-08-22

Communication

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Learning to communicate

Presentation of WorkResearch resultsGeneral public

Discussion of WorkDiscussion of detailsOther specialists

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The Cheminformatics ELN

easier: everything is electronic alreadymore difficult: density of specialists is low

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What is a Blog?

Speechconcepts, literature, ... ,grad life, gossip... ?

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What is a Blog?

Speechconcepts, literature, ... ,grad life, gossip... ?

Open Notebook

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Theoretical background I

Standards for keeping a Notebook?...

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Theoretical background II

Formative assessmentgrade soon, grade oftendetailed and constructive commentsmodels of good performancerecognized standards for marking

Miller, et al. Student assessment in higher education : a handbook forassessing performance; Kogan Page: 1998

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Blogging Students: Annzi

http://annziproject.blogspot.com/

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Blogging Students: Samuel

http://saml.rilspace.org/

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Blogging Students: assessment

Formative assessmentfeedback via commentsstudent can blog when they likesome frequency should be decided uponopen, so grading is not really possiblediscussion with a larger community...plenty of good models, though varying in style

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Results: MyExperiment.org

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MyExperiment: Social

commentsratingtagginggroups...

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Methods: GitHub

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GitHub: code review

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Code repositories: assessment

feedback 1: commits (model example, feedback...)feedback 2: code review, commentsopen, so grading is not really possiblediscussion with a larger community...

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Journal Club

http://www.ResearchBlogging.com

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Conclusions

Open Notebookcan I require them to go Open Notebook Science?

Assessment?part of the assessment works... but not all.plenty of models (perhaps a problem?)enough options for feedbackstill looking for mark schemes

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Acknowledgements

Annsofie & Samuel

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The Details

http:

//chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com

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