This eportfolio is really bare-bones and I hope it will eventually grow into something amazing. Something amazing would probably look like Stian’s PhD Wiki, with the accompanying incredi-workflow. Unfortunately for us mere tech mortals, this is a cobbled-together solution that isn’t a stand-alone plugin or series thereof that can be easily implemented. I haven’t yet started to learn Ruby, so I’m certainly not going to be able to pull this off any time soon.
What I do really like about the wiki, however, is how the research is documented, the individual author pages and the like. As I move through my own research, my own projects and such, it would be really nice to have something a little more like that. For now, I’m using WP because I’m both comfortable with it and familiar enough to make it jump through a couple of hoops for me when I need it to. I’m not convinced this is best, however. The further I get into this, however, the harder it is going to be to get out.
Future wants:
- a running bibliography of things I’ve read and my comments on them. I have this all in devonthink right now, but I want something online in the interest of open academia. This is a particular strength of Stian’s wiki that I think is valuable.
- a repository of things I’ve tried in classes and how well they’ve worked, or not, and why.
Hi Kimberly,
came across your blog because you referred to my wiki, but was very glad to do so. I was myself inspired by a bunch of other people experimenting with open science, open PhDs etc, so very happy that I can contribute to inspire others… Also very sad that my framework is so difficult to use – there are a few other PhD students using it right now (see here: http://reganmian.net/wiki/individual_academic_wikis – I added you to the list of other academic wiki/blogs, hope you don’t mind), but in almost every case, I spent half an hour installing it on their laptops – not very sustainable… Hopefully others with better programming skills will be inspired by these ideas.
Anyway I look forward to spending more time reading through your notes etc, and really appreciate you publishing them. I’m starting to look into pedagogy in higher education, and particularly what to do with large lectures (flipped classrooms, audience response systems etc). I created lecturewiki.org as a public place to collect research about this, although it hasn’t really “gotten off the ground” yet.
Stian-
Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope I have something to contribute to the conversation. Thank you for adding me to the blogroll. I hope I’m able to keep up.
As for Researchr, I’m most interested in what you’re doing with exporting to Docuwiki, but as I can’t even call myself a scriptkiddie, I’m not confident I can do the necessary backend with Applescript and Ruby (neither of which I’m familiar with) to get the ball rolling. That half-hour per installation is also not workable for you. I *would* really like to see the project come together, though. I’m sure someone with the skills is out there, I’m just not sure where.
I’ll try to keep an eye on lecturewiki. Right now the things I want to do with flipped classrooms and such are still in the idea phase. There are some mandatory components I have to work with within our academic organization along with semesterly and annual changes of significance that keep me in a constant state of reworking rather than recycling and fine-tuning, which would allow me more time to experiment.
Anyhow, thanks again for stopping by. I appreciate the attention and the time to comment. If you’re ever on this side of the planet give me a heads-up 🙂