{"id":3453,"date":"2009-01-18T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T08:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/01\/scienceonline-day-1-generalised-ramblings\/"},"modified":"2009-01-18T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T08:10:11","slug":"scienceonline-day-1-generalised-ramblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/01\/scienceonline-day-1-generalised-ramblings\/","title":{"rendered":"ScienceOnline Day 1: generalised ramblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve yet to develop the sort of mind that can blog the last sentence whilst listening to the next one, I&#8217;ve mainly kept the laptop closed and just listened and\/or pontificated in most of today&#8217;s sessions. But I thought I should record a few initial thoughts and impressions, whilst they&#8217;re still fresh, of the sessions I attended today.<br \/>\n<UL><LI><a href=http:\/\/www.scienceonline09.com\/index.php\/wiki\/Blog-To-Book\/>Blog-To-Book: You are a science blogger but you want to publish a pop-sci book?<\/a>: <\/LI> Yes, I&#8217;ve toyed with the idea of writing a book; I even have one or two half-formed ideas. But this session really brought home the fact the time and work that has to be focussed on fleshing out that idea and turning it into a sellable and then a physical reality. And given that my blogging takes up most of my non-working, non-vegging time, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m really in a position to put in that effort &#8211; and even if I could to pull it off, that doesn&#8217;t mean that it won&#8217;t <em>look<\/em> like I&#8217;m slacking off on the day job &#8211; and I <em>love<\/em> my day job.<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.scienceonline09.com\/index.php\/wiki\/Transitions_changing_your_online_persona_as_your_real_life_changes\/>Transitions &#8211; changing your online persona as your real life changes<\/a>: Lots of good discussion on this session (even if <a href=http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/sciencewoman\/>certain<\/a> <a href=http:\/\/propterdoc.blogspot.com\/>people<\/a> made the poor decision to stick me on the panel), but I&#8217;m still sorting through it all &#8211; everyone&#8217;s blogging and career paths has been different, as are their blogging voices, meaning that their blog and their real life have interacted in many different ways &#8211; hence I think some of the collective advice we tried to amass at the end was a little contradictory in places. The most common themes were the difficulties and pressures of maintaining an online persona separate from your professional life, and the various experiences &#8211; largely indifferent, but sometimes negative &#8211; people have had when they&#8217;ve been discovered, either intentionally or not. I&#8217;ll probably devote a post to this later.<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.scienceonline09.com\/index.php\/wiki\/Using_the_Web_in_teaching_college_science\/>Teaching College Science: Blogs and Beyond<\/a>: A slightly different format in this session, with smaller groups reporting back into a group discussion. It worked pretty well, and there were lots of good ideas about how interaction though blog-esque tools and the use of things like pod- and video-casts, could work in an educational context. I&#8217;m especially taken with the idea of field trip blogs written by the students, and perhaps developing field trip wikis for students and staff. My only regret is that we didn&#8217;t have the time to discuss one of the core issues: what strategies and approaches actually encourage students to buy into these sorts of activities.<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.scienceonline09.com\/index.php\/wiki\/Blogging_adventure\/>Blogging adventure: how to post from strange locations<\/a>: I&#8217;ve already kicked off <a href=https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/01\/liveblogging-from-scienceonline\/>a good discussion about this<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.scienceonline09.com\/index.php\/wiki\/Open_Notebook_Science\/>Open Notebook Science &#8211; how to do it right (if you should do it at all)<\/a>. I&#8217;m somewhat ambivalent about the whole Open Notebook thing, but the reason this session was interesting was that it wasn&#8217;t just advocacy, but also got into the mechanics of it &#8211; and this idea that you can use online tools to automate and manage your workflow (for example, getting your machines to write their data as blog-posts), which I think has tremendous potential.<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.scienceonline09.com\/index.php\/wiki\/Online_science_for_the_kids\/>Online science for the kids (and parents)<\/a>:   a nice relaxed session where <a href=http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/ethicsandscience\/>Janet<\/a> and others discussed how to bring kids up to understand science as a natural part of their thinking processes, rather than a scary thing done by weirdos, and examples of various good online resources. I&#8217;ve got some vague ideas in this direction, since geology is one of those things that naturally fascinates kids &#8211; ever met one who doesn&#8217;t like dinosaurs and volcanoes? &#8211; and its interdisciplinary nature means you can use geological processes out there in the world as a vehicle for lots of different scientific concepts.  So food for thought.<br \/>\nBest conversation of the day was after the adventures in blogging session:<br \/>\nOther person: &#8220;So you&#8217;re a geologist? I don&#8217;t think there are really any geology blogs out there.&#8221;<br \/>\nMe:&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve yet to develop the sort of mind that can blog the last sentence whilst listening to the next one, I&#8217;ve mainly kept the laptop closed and just listened and\/or pontificated in most of today&#8217;s sessions. 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