Suggested Modules in 23things-style Programmes for Researchers: Module One: Building your online Prole

This module addresses the basics of monitoring your digital footprint and creating an online prole. It covers Web 1.0, broadcast behaviours rather than the participative, dialogic interactions that characterise Web 2.0. Week One: Creating your Online Identity. Issues: Setting up account proles, usernames, handles, avatars, passwords, personal data. Anonymity, psyeudonyms and real life identities, longevity of online interactions. Tools: WordPress account, Gravatar. Task: synchronous and asynchronous commenting.

Week Two: Creating your Online Prole Issues: Monitoring your digital footprint, pros and cons of online (in)visibility, searching for, nding and identifying you, linking your various personal and professional online identities or keeping them separate. Tools: Search Engine Optimisation, Google Prole, Namechk, Flavours.me / About.me, Gravatar Task: Googling yourself, reviewing your online prole across various platforms.

Week Three: Bibliometrics and Alt-metrics Issues: the academic web, measuring impact, managing your academic publishing and citation prole and using that of other scholars Tools: Google Scholar Prole, ResearcherID, ORCID Task: Setting up and managing your publishing and citation prole

Week Four: Creating your own web space Issues: setting up a personalised webspace, purpose, focus and audience, dynamic or static Tools: WordPress (or other blogging platforms) Task: Set up a website or blog

Module Two: Building your online Network

This module covers building an effective network by nding and interacting with contacts. moves beyond one-to-many broadcast behaviours and passive consumption to Web 2.0 behaviours of participating and interacting online. Week One: Building an online network: Ten Days of Twitter Issues: making contacts, building your network and effective communication Tools: Twitter (and add-ons such as Hootsuite, Paper.li, Tweriod, etc) Task: This week will be broken down into a number of small daily tasks to get you started with using Twitter effectively and efciently. Day One: Set up a prole Day Two: Send a tweet Day Three: Following people Day Four: @messages Day Five: embedding and shortening URLs

Week Two: Building an online network: Ten Days of Twitter (contd.) Day Six: Hashtags Day Seven: Retweeting Day Eight: Managing the information Day Nine: Managing the following Day Ten: Twitter analytics

Week Three: Enhancing your use of Social Media platforms Issues: Combining the creation of a prole with exploiting the interactive networking funtionality Tools: Researchgate, Methodspace (and return to LinkedIn and Academica.edu) Task: Either review and enhance your use of a social media platform you already use, and/or explore a new one. Week Four: Dealing with mixed networks and identities Issues: separating personal and professional Tools: Facebook Task: review your use of Facebook (or set an account up) or research it

Module Three: Managing Information Online

This module examines tools for creating, storing, curating and sharing information online in a research context. Week One: Finding and ltering information Issues: Dealing with an overabundance of information and an uncurated web Tools: Alternative search engines, email alerts, RSS to Journal ToCs Task: explore these tools Week Two: Annotating information Issues: Reading and annotating digital and online information Tools: Evernote Task: Set up an Evernote account Week Three: Processing and presenting information(Scrivener) Issues: New (non-linear) approaches to writing in a digital environment Tools: Scrivener Task: experiment with non-linear writing compared to a traditional wordprocessor Week Four: Storing information in the cloud Issues: Security and sustainability of digital information Tools: Google Docs, Dropbox Task: set up an account, reect on appropriate use Week Five: Collating and curating information for yourself and others Issues: Open scholarship, consumer as curator Tools: Mendeley, Delicious, Pocket Task: Use tools in an open manner Week Six: Handing information workows Issues: Managing a proliferation of apps and tools Tools: Colwiz Task: Explore Colwiz and compare to use of the above tools together

Module Four: Making and Sharing Online

This module is an introduction to open scholarly practice, sharing digital offcuts and also creating simple digital media such as video or audio for the web. Week One: Finding, using and sharing resources Issues: Open Educational Resources, Creative Commons and Copyright Tools: Flickr, Creative Commons Task: search for an image you would nd it useful to reuse in teaching or other activities Week Two: Frictionless sharing Issues: sharing offcuts of your work and nding appropriate platforms, workows and publicity strategies Tools: Slideshare, Scribd, Issuu Task: Share materials by uploading to a platform

Week Three: Opening up events (could be split over two weeks: 1, livestreaming and 2, podcasting) Issues: making conferences, teaching and other events more accessible Tools: Audacity, Audioboo, soundcloud, Livestream, Ustream Task: record something or livestream something Week Four: Making for sharing Issues: Video and its uses, becoming comfortable with multimedia presence Tools: Video recording hardware and editing software (own computer webcam/ phonecam/DSLR camera and widows movie maker/mac iMovie), Youtube, Vimeo, Screencast.com Task: make and upload a short video Week Five: Making for Sharing (repurposing for different audiences contd.) Issues: Combining media to repurpose digital offcuts, the difference between made-forface-to-face and made-for-web Tools: Slidecast, Youtube, slideshare Task: Create a slidecast