Mary Axford and Crystal Renfro, two of the three authors of the Academic PKM
blog (http://academicpkm.org), are pleased to announce a new, FREE online
course called "A Year to Improved Productivity for Librarians and Academic
Researchers".
The course will consist of 26 lessons; one lesson will be posted
every two weeks on our blog.
Inspired by Helene Blowers' 23 Things and created
from an idea by Crystal Renfro, each lesson will consist of background on the
topic, suggested readings, and exercises.
Each lesson should not take more
than an hour or two to complete.
What will be covered?
The lessons fall into one of three sections:
(1) How to Improve Productivity,
with lessons including What is PKM, Attention and Focus, Calendars,
Productivity Apps, and Notebook software;
(2) How to Create an Efficient
Academic Workflow, with lessons including the Concept of Academic Workflow,
Citation Software, Alerting Services, and Mindmaps; and (3)
How to Develop a
Learning Network, which includes lessons What is a Learning Network, Which
Social Network Tool is for You, Effective Online Professional Image; and Tools
Facilitating Further Training to name only a few of the topics planned.
What do I have to do?
The exercises will vary with the topic of the post.
For posts that emphasize
definitions of a topic, exercises might include writing a journal explaining
your own ideas or current productivity regime.
We find that the process of
writing something down has a great effect in clarifying one's thoughts.
Mind
maps have a similar ability to clarify and will be another option for
exercises.
Some exercises will encourage the reader to explore a particular
productivity tool, or to write a list of goals.
While we will not collect and grade the exercises, we do want the experience to
be an interactive one, and we encourage all participants to share your
thoughts/exercises as comments on the blog posts.
We expect to learn as much
as you do.
Where do I sign up?
Interested individuals may sign up to get our blog by email or RSS feed at any
time. As a bonus, there will be other posts on personal knowledge management
topics (as well as the lessons) throughout the year which we hope will
enlighten and/or entertain.
The first lesson will be up on the blog Monday, January 7th, 2013, and new
lessons will be posted biweekly thereafter.
We hope the experience will be
challenging, engaging, useful, interactive, and fun.
All participation is
welcome. This program announcement may be forwarded to others not on this list.
Crystal Renfro
Mathematics & ISyE Librarian
Georgia Tech Library
Website:
www.academicpkm.org
Personal knowledge management tools for academia
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