welcome to DH23Things!

Dr Helen WebsterResearch Associate, Transferable SkillsDigital Humanities Network, CRASSH

Why DH23Things?

Aims•to support early career researchers

in AHSS in exploring the use and impact of digital technologies in their work

•to develop a reflective, strategic approach to engaging with digital technologies

•to model digital ‘values’ - digital, networked, open (Weller 2011).

The Format

The ContentModule One: Your Online Presence: Promoting,  Networking and Communicating■Thing One: Alternative publishing and Blogging (wordpress, blogger, blogspot etc., Technorati)

■Thing Two: Your online identity (SEO, Google Profile, Gravatar, Flavours.me, About.me, Namechk etc)

■Thing Three: Bibliometrics (ResearcherID, ORCID, Google Scholar Citations)

■Thing Four: Building a network (Twitter, Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, Listorious, Paper.li)

■Thing Five: Building a network II (LinkedIn, Academia.edu)

■Thing Six: Communicating online (Google Hangouts, Flashmeeting, Lanyrd)

■Debrief

How it works

•We post a Thing on the blog each week

•You explore it

•You blog about it

•You read and comment on others’ blogs

A typical Thing•Brief introduction to the topic and tool

•Instructions for using the tool (and extras)

•A small task to complete

•The reflective framework, tailored for the week with issues and questions

•Further reading

Reflective Framework

•Key skills

•Discipline-specific issues

•Digital Humanities

•Evaluation

•Integration into practice(adapted from Secker and Coonan 2011, A New Curriculum For

Information Literacy)

Programme support

•The blog comments

•The email list

•Using the Things

•Anything else you think of!

What you need to do now

•Register (now, or at the DH23Things blog)

•Join the email list*

•Follow the blog*

•and later today.... we’ll post Thing One to help you set up your blog and get started!

Blog: http://dh23things.wordpress.com/

Email: ucam-23things@lists.cam.uk