Monday, October 29, 2007

CitationRank

"Citations are the currency of research", argues Erik Duval in his post on citations in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning.

In this respect he raises the following questions:
  • which of your papers has been cited most often?
  • who has cited you most often?
  • which papers cited a particular publication of yours?
  • whether more and more or less and less people are citing you over the years?
  • whose citing behavior is close to yours?
  • which conference or journal contains most citations of your papers?
  • which conference or journal contains your cites most often?

Moreover he discusses some Searching Tools for scientists:

Sunday, October 28, 2007

A Vision of Students Today

Another fascinating video by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.

The video shows a summary of the main characteristics of today's students.