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OER Blog The OER@UCT blog serves as a reflection and collaboration point for staff involved with Open Educational Resources at the University of Cape Town. The project is part of a greater movement toward creating open access to information and educational resources. We believe that no one with the desire to learn should be cut off from educational material simply because they do not have the means to study in a traditional fashion. The internet enables access to information and we want to make sure that high quality learning materials are available to those with a thirst for knowledge.

 OER@UCT blog serves as a reflection and collaboration point for staff involved with Open Educational Resources at the University of Cape Town.

Following on from the lists of academic tweeters published earlier this month, we have put together a short guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities, available to download as a PDF. How can Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per tweet, have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are 3,000 to 8,000 words long, and where books contain 80,000 words? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters? We have put together a short guide answering these questions, showing new users how to get started on Twitter and hone their tweeting style, as well as offering advice to more experienced users on how to use Twitter for research projects, alongside blogging, and for use in teaching.

Great guide, Nicola, thanks for sharing that.

Plan to bring this one to life instead of starting a new one:)

If we want to change www.ems.uct.ac.za to www.summerschool.uct.ac.za we need to do this, if we just change the blog address it says site no longer exists & cannot be found - not what we want at this stage...

Welcome to the Opening Scholarship blog, a collection of voices from the University of Cape Town engaged in a variety of ways with openness and scholarship in higher education. Our roles include advocacy, policy, technical, legal, research, advice. We are interested in all aspects of openness in teaching, research and community engagement and we bring a southern perspective to the issues.

A range of seminars on the Open Access Week (24-28 October) programme!

This is an example of where the UCT CMS system has been used in a much more dynamic way. The colours are a bit dull (but probably fitting for Criminology) but we can make it more exciting. Look at the section under highlights - the Summer School blog and other external sites can go there. We can also investigate using 'follow us on Twitter' or having a live COL Twitter feed, with daily updates, depending on the projects that are running at a particular time e.g. Summer School in Jan, Pace in Fed, Third term around the time of winter and summer school, etc. More importantly, PACE, Summer School, etc can have their own navigation bar (where you see 'MERL', 'Physical Security' and so forth on this site) with more info about them than the current overview from Continuing Ed provides and we can also link to this extended info from there.

not bad but I still find it rather dull, I am afraid. Also I don't think I can live the CHED salmon pink colour coding... Someone told me that UCT ICTS is going over to wordpress???????? but Jenny never mentioned anything?

example of a Citizen Science blog, Cornell Lab or Ornithology

Scientific American has been bringing science to people for over 160 years. Now the magazine is bringing people to science through a new online listing of citizen science opportunities. Early this month, Scientific American Online launched a Citizen Science section of the web site. This is part of a larger Education effort, which includes a number of science activities called Bring Science Home.