“My life 9 months before the defence”

Jari Laru,University of Oulu,

Finland

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ONE YEAR AGO

2011: Efficient writing of the..

Thread of the thesis was missing

9 MONTHS AGO

16.8.2011

”It’s not problem, not at all.. Diginatives as bridge” (P. Kirchner)

”I have students who have exactly same issues with their theses” (B. Wasson)

NOW

30.5.2012

Theory 2004

TheoryTheory in first paper still usable.

Cognitive tools, Scaffolding. Still usable.

Backup

BackupBackup or .. You know

Manage references

ReferencesManage references with Mendeley, Zotero, Refworks etc..

Methods: case study

MethodsMethods: case study or design based research? Or both?

Final mods were/are slow because..

ReferencesTheoryMethodsBackup failed/missed

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Biggest hurdle..

• I thought that I don’t have time to insert my references into reference manager. BIG, HUGE BUMMER..

• It’s SO EASY and FAST to do when you have book / journal / whatever in front of you.

• Afterwards, umm..

Solution: MENDELEY. Refworks is slow

Web

Desktop

Web2.0 for Academic Writing: Crowdsourced Bibliograhy: millions of references ready for you.Database integration, Zotero Integration. WORD/LIBREOFFICE integration.

THANK YOU!http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/jari-laru