I’m at university. Ergo half of everything I have ever written ever has been copied and pasted from Wikipedia. Students don’t read any more, we surf, we google, we wiki-search we use Jstor we will do ANYTHING to avoid picking up a book. This has meant that such institutions as Encyclopedia Britannica have been taking [...]
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Noah’s Passenger List Goes Online
March 3rd, 2008 by Ben · No Comments
Last week, the first 30,000 pages of the Encyclopedia of Life were launched. The mission is to host a web page for every one of the world’s known species, as the primary portal for access to all the world’s wildlife knowledge. Ambitious? Yep, and it’s nice to see another project which couldn’t have been considered [...]
Nature’s Network
October 18th, 2007 by Ally · 2 Comments
My recent research for RMM has revolved around education, with the main focal point being e-learning. One thing that has caught my eye and imagination is the Nature Network (NN), a specialised social network that connects scientists at a global and local level.
Writing in the Education Guardian, Jessica Shephard discusses the rise of the [...]