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October 13, 2008

Authorship

October 13, 2008

We have got to the stage in our project where we are putting together papers for conferences and publications. As a team, we have had some interesting discussions about how to credit authorship. I am interested to hear what other teams do. My personal preference would have been to author the work as the project team, ie AWESOME and ...

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July 28, 2008

Incentives for research participants

July 28, 2008

Just wondering whether people would routinely offer an incentive to people who have participated in their data collection in some way, and if so, what sort of incentive you could consider appropriate. Recently, I have received two very handsome incentives - one cash, one a material object - but in each case I didn't know I would receive anything beforehand. On one project ...

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March 08, 2008

It wasn't my idea...

March 08, 2008

to have a Day of Awesomeness, but it is fun and as the Leeds Awesome teamhave a project meeting on Monday march 10th, we will incorporate a suitable way to celebrate 'our' day. It will involve chocolate. Awesome chocolate, of ...

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February 04, 2008

Name Change

February 04, 2008

Well, sort of... Because the JISC does not recognise the apostrophe in my surname in e-mails I am switching my Emerge/JISC contact e-mail to: cedrko@leeds.ac.uk but I do not wish to be known as Cedric, okay? ...

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June 27, 2007

Creating the Content for Manchester

June 27, 2007

How do we set out our store for the Manchester day? Is there a public forum for identifying potential projects / discussions / collaborators or do we do this privately - and how will we know what is and isn't on offer on the ...

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June 03, 2007

The Upcoming Conference

June 03, 2007

I was really looking forward to this until I realised how complicated it was to get signed in and set up for the moodling and elluminating that will be going on. I am still stuck on downloading java to a computer running microsoft windows xp... I may not solve this in time to actually ...

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Interests

June 03, 2007

Well, I managed to forget my log in details.... So I haven't been around for a while and have missed the deadline for Activity 4 .... I actually posted this a while back, but inthe wrong place... Going to post my info and then find out who else is part of this community of 100. I work in the Lifelong ...

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Learning about blogs

June 03, 2007

I have learnt that a comment is not a blog entry.....So, I am about to see if I can move the comments that should have been new ...

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April 04, 2007

Hello

April 04, 2007

I feel nervous being here. I am very interested in the pedagogic potential of these new technologies but personally I am not confident with using new technologies. Getting signed in and finding my way around the site is pretty challenging for me. My role in our Leeds AWESOME (Academic Writing in Electronic Socially Mediated Environments) project is linked with ...

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