Interesting Research Tools (Goodies) to Investigate

Google Maps Mashup: MapTube

• http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/casa/latest/software
• To share maps with other researchers
• Example crowd sourcing.

Tweet-o-Meter

• http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/tom/
• Tweets per minute around the world

Digital Replay System

• http://thedrs.sourceforge.net/
• The DRS (Digital Replay System) is a desktop application for replaying and analysing combinations of video, audio, images, transcripts and computer log files in an integrated way.
• http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/projects/neiss/about.php
• Simulation tools for social scientists
• http://www.surveymapper.com/
• Free, real-time geographic survey and polling tool.
• Developed by CASA, University College, London

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National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation

• http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/projects/neiss/about.php
• Simulation tools for social scientists

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Survey Mapper

• http://www.surveymapper.com/
• Free, real-time geographic survey and polling tool.
• Developed by CASA, University College, London

My Experiment: Social Networking Site for Scientists

• http://www.myexperiment.org/home
• Scientific workflows that contain information about the stages of research.
• You can borrow others’ workflows and modify them, etc.
• You can share, etc.
• Could be useful if working with research assistants and partners by distance.
• Useful for complex projects involving Design-Based Research? Will show complex workflows.

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Geeking out on Research & Study Leave

Yes, I am geeking out. Even if I weren’t to achieve any of my goals for my PhD research, this R & S leave (sabbatical)  is plenty fruitful.

I’ve been scouring the Web looking for interesting tools that my students will be able to use to create interesting projects for MDDE 615 starting at the end of April.

The one that caught my attention today is MobileNation. I’ve been playing with the interface. My goal to create two pages with one linking to the other. That’s it. I just want to see how to create a couple of pages. So much can be done with so little. I’ve been testing it on our decrepit old iPod Touch. No phone, no camera, and only 8GB of memory. Being somewhat paranoid, I haven’t wanted to re-install iTunes on my main computers. So, I’ve dusted off my decrepit old Sony Vaio (great computer when it was new; too old for an OS upgrade to Windows 7). I’ll have to do several hours of updates to the security and anti-virus. Then, I’ll have to do a firmware upgrade on the iPod Touch, etc., etc., etc..

In the meantime, I’ve been trying to see if the output from Mobile Nation would work on my HTC TYTN II, now 3 years old. (I have not yet succumbed to purchasing an iPhone nor an Android. I had to install a QR Code Reader (NeoReader was compatible).) To read this “link” to my MobileNation page, which I creatively called “one”:

QR code linking to my first MobileNation page

Anyways, my HTC cannot read the page. So, I’ll have to try on the iPod Touch.

What else have I been doing besides WordPress? Well, I have been installing and testing WordPress plugins. Love the mobile one that allows me to write blog postings from my phone.

And, today, I have been checking out some pushpin maps and Cluster Maps. I really like the how modifiable the pushpin map API is; however, it would require data to be transferred to a 3rd party somewhere in the world. I try not to do that with my students. Now, that I think about it, so does Cluster Maps, but there is so little data (no cookies or spyware) that I think it is better.

On a side-note, I have also been reading some of my classmates’ PhD thesis proposals. I’m starting to formulate some questions for them.

Busy day.

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