Thanks so much to everyone who entered our competition to
share their best tip on using social media for study and research, there were some great suggestions. From Facebook and Twitter, to blogs, dropbox
and research tools, there are clearly lots of tools you’re using in different
ways to make studying and researching easier.
You can see all the entries here: http://studyingwithsocialmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/win-kindle-fire-hd-with-your-best-study.html
But most importantly…
We’re very pleased
to announce that the winners are…
Ø Overall
winner: Saila Naomi
Ø 2nd
place: Alex D
Ø Runners
up:Maria, lucyhensher93, Polde
Petek, Manca Urankar and Mikkel Guldberg
As a reminder of the prizes, Saila Naomi wins a Kindle Fire
HD, a copy of Studying and Researching with Social Media by Megan
Poore, plus a goody bag; Alex D wins a copy of Studying and Researching with Social Media by
Megan Poore, plus a goody bag; Maria, lucyhensher93, Polde Petek, Manca Urankar
and Mikkel Guldberg each get a goody bag.
To claim your prize, please contact us using the ‘get in
touch’ form at the bottom of the blog, giving your name and email address so we
can contact you to arrange delivery of your goodies.
And here are the winning tips…
Winning tip from Saila
Naomi
Facebook groups! Make sure to create a Facebook group
with your peers to share files via the upload function - such as class notes,
or paper drafts you'd like comments on. Also consider joining existing groups
with people from all over the world who share the same interests. There are
fx numerous groups where news articles and research about economics are being
shared and discussed, which can be a great source of inspiration. The group
"political science data" is basically free advice: people post
about what sort of data they need and a lot of people respond with
suggestions for sources or proxies. This can be an extremely helpful way of
getting advice and sharing resources!
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2nd place
tip from Alex D
I research social websites that evolve around the
production and dissemination of Internet memes. I use ethnographic research
tools (such as interviews, material collection, and observation) in order to
understand the motives and purposes behind these user-generated products. I
have found the software NVivo highly useful in this process. NVivo helps me
collect, organize, classify, and code the vast amount of data I collect in a
way that makes the emerging patterns more discernible.
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Runner up tips
Maria
I find Facebook Group-Conversations an amazing way to
avoid meeting up with people for all those group projects/assignments. In
this way, I save both time and energy and money! Oh and I also protect my
mental health, which get worse and worse with actual human interactions. :D
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lucyhensher93
The most important thing is to use to right media tool
for what you want to do. So I use twitter to post links to articles or follow
what my student union is doing. I use Facebook groups for presentation work
such as sharing one document so everyone can edit it and sharing pictures.
Facebook groups can also be used for uni societies to post events and
relevant info. I wouldn't talk to my tutors on these mediums however, I would
use a separate forum on my VLE or email them directly. Feel free to check out
our blog where me and two other second year students write about how students
study as well as focus groups and surveys we run: http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sagestudents/
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Polde Petek
Follow your lecturers and other academic in your field
of study on Twitter - they will often retweet useful articles from the area
that won't be highlighted during lectures. Having that 'extra' shows interest
in the subject and will boost your grades.
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Manca Urankar
Like your favourite academic journals' official
Facebook page and don't forget to click on 'Get Notifications'. You will get
a notification immediately after the new edition comes out!
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Mikkel Guldberg
Dropbox is invaluable for group work - even keeps old
versions if somebody forgets to put on track changes
Social media is a great way to spread online surveys - You won’t get a random sampling but for projects where quantity trumps quality of data it's a great tool! |
