2105 CITRENZ Posters from EIT

Nine Posters from my students were presented at the 2015 CITRENZ  Conference in Queenstown. Poster papers can be found in the online Proceedings at http://www.citrenz.ac.nz/2015-proceedings/



Congratulations to

1. [Research in IT] Protecting private data in telecommunications by increasing data security and privacy in New Zealand
   Vaidyanathan Balasubramanian, & Michael Verhaart 145


2. [BCS Internship] Educational Development Centre Internship 2015
   Charlene Bannister, Stephanie Day, & Michael Verhaart 147


3. [Research in IT] Business Process Management (BPM): Analysis of effectiveness in organizations and efficiency in integration with service management
   Raveesh Baskaran, & Michael Verhaart 150


4. [Digital Learning Technology] Learning Health and Safety Requirements for KSLG Volunteers
   Andrew Hull, & Michael Verhaart 169


5. [Digital Learning Technology] Gel Polish Nail Training
   Sharon James, & Michael Verhaart 171


6. [Research in IT] Current smartphone’s security issues and its impact on society
   Er. Kamal Jyoti, & Michael Verhaart 175


7. [Research in IT] Factors influencing cloud enterprises resource planning system adoption in New Zealand small and medium enterprises
   Arun Krishnan, & Michael Verhaart 178


8. [Research in IT] Importance of Business Analyst in ICT projects in New Zealand
   Desmond .A. Rodrigues, & Michael Verhaart 184


9. [Research in IT] SME Technology Spotlight: Capturing G-Readiness and sustainability innovation in NZ’s powerhouse
   Dee Verhaart, & Michael Verhaart 192

Why I don't use the library? #vmvwiki #vmvresearch

A presentation summary (not an academic research article). Describes  a framework to be used by post-graduate students in their initial engagement with the literature, and speculates on the role of the librarian or information specialist in a technology-rich environment.

http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1983&context=iatul

 

Questionable Research publications

 

There is a list of questionable Journals that has been published.

http://www.academia.edu/1151857/Bealls_List_of_Predatory_Open-Access_Publishers 

Using Open Education Resources (OERs) in Blended Teaching: Is it worth it?

For the CITRENZ Conference in Rotorua, New Zealand ( http://www.citrenz.ac.nz) I prepared a paper "Using Open Education Resources (OERs) in Blended Teaching: Is it worth it?" using wiki researcher ( http://wikiresearcher.org/User:Mverhaart/CITRENZ/2011OER ).  While developing the paper I asked readers to help build the paper by either editing the paper or adding comments. Interestingly apart from two colleagues there was no feedback -there were many views however. One possible issue is the difficulty in adding ad-hoc comments (as a password/userid etc is required before you can edit/add a comment, a need to know wiki-code, etc..), so to provide another way to allow readers to make comments I have created this blog entry. So if you want to comment on the paper and feel more comfortable with adding to a blog entry, do so here.

 

zotero standalone version

From JJ

"An alpha release of standalone Zotero has been announced, part of the larger Zotero Everywhere project. Standalone Zotero Alpha does not require Firefox to run and is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. Alpha plugins to connect standalone Zotero to the Google Chrome and Safari browsers are already available (a plugin for Internet Explorer is planned).

And I didn't know there was a chrome plugin either !!

Another book one. Free (e- and real) ones.

Best Places to Get Free Books (e- and real)– The Ultimate Guide.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/AGVjy5/www.friedbeef.com/best-places-to-get-free-books-the-ultimate-guide/

Free Digital Transcription Audio Player Software

A typist can install it on their computer and control audio playback using a transcription foot pedal or keyboard (with 'hot' keys). This computer transcriber application also offers valuable features for typists including variable speed playback, multi-channel control, playing video, file management, and more.

Express Scribe is completely free and can be used without any restrictions

http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/index.html?ref=nchtwitter

Good for those of you doing interview research I would guess

QR-Code reader for mobile devices

A Quick Response (QR) Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code . You can use a QR -Code to store a web URL and use a mobile phone to photograph the QR-Code then using the software below display the actual site.

• iPod or iPhone
  
  
  
  • http://www.i-nigma.com/Downloadi-nigmaReader.html
  
  
  
  


• Windows mobile:
  
  
  
  • http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic/download.asp
  
  
  
  

13 Enlightening Case Studies of Social Media in the Classroom

http://bestonlineuniversities.com/2009/13-enlightening-case-studies-of-social-media-in-the-classroom/

Firefox, zotero and COinS

Created COinS metadata in an HTML file, but had trouble getting zotero to recognise it. Actually its too simple, once zotero recognises there is COinS metadata it places a book icon next to the URL, click this and the metadata gets added to zotero!!
(Its real teckiee - but those who use zotero will understand)

PDF to Word Converters

Had a pdf that needed converting to doc. Found two options

1. Free Standalone converter that can be downloaded to your PC (http://www.hellopdf.com/download.php ) and

2. A Web based converter ( http://www.pdftoword.com/  )

Of the two the web converter (#2) did the best (though not perfect) job though I'm always suspicious about web converters when they ask to send things to my email address that they are not collecting them. Will be  monitoring my email for new spam.

Open Library

Open Library (n.d.) . Retrieved April 7, 2009 from http://openlibrary.org/

Apr 7, 2009: featuring 22,845,290 books (including 1,064,822 with full-text)

Beyond LMSs

Presentation by Terry Anderson at Moodlemoot

Anderson, T. (2009) Beyond LMS Keynote to Canada Moodlemoot 2009. Retrieved April 6, 2009 from http://www.slideshare.net/terrya/beyond-lms-keynote-to-canada-moodlemoot-2009

virtualBox - to test Development software

An issue I have is trying to test different software packages which can be like octopus's in my operating system (like .net development or WAMP). I used to have them all installed and inevitably my computer would run slower and slower.

Now I use virtualBox to create a virtual machine in which I only install the software relevant to the development environmment. It means the actual developmet environment runs faster and it doesnt handicap my working PC.

I have put some instructions on my wiki at http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki/index.php?title=VirtualBox

If you want to make modifications to the wiki entry you will need to create a userid and login. Apologies for this as I know this is not a "true" wiki thingy.

Another big advantage is that I can run virtualBox on another computer (e.g. my Vista one) and can use the virtualBox image without change and it includes all the set up stuff as well - which is brilliant. I found this particularly useful when my work PC was upgraded. My virtual machines were up and running with all their weird configurations once I'd installed virtalBox, copied over the virtualMachines and connected them up.

Publish or Perish

A link from K.

Are you applying for tenure, promotion or a new job? Do you want to include evidence of the impact of your research? Is your work cited in journals which are not ISI listed? Then you might want to try Publish or Perish, designed to help individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage.

Harzing, A-W (2009) Publish or Perish. Retrieved February 23, 2009 from http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm

virtualMV and wiki: ICT Teaching content (http://www.virtualmv.com)

Hi everyone,

2009 has started and I have all but completed my PhD. As such it is time to have a look at my virtualMV web site and the many systems I have developed to support my research. The opening page of http://www.virtualMV.com has changed ( not very flash.. but that's for later) as I move content from my custom system to the wiki. Am in two minds as to wheter I will be building a new wiki based custom solution in PHP/MySQL or adding some extensions to MediaWiki. Upgrading myu current version of Media Wiki has not proved to be easy.

So, keep an eye out for changes..  

Michael

Google Scholar (finding the original paper)

In some cases google scholar may store alternative versions of a paper which can contain a readible version, and these can be found by clicking on the "All n versions" hyperlink.

Purdy, K. (2008) Get Around Academic Paper Restrictions. Retrieved November 11, 2008 from http://lifehacker.com/5083065/get-around-academic-paper-restrictions