Promoting teachers and students activities using the internet

Professor Coordinator: Zdzislaw Polkowski

Students name: Jitianu Iuliana – Alina

Marinca Florin

Sofianu Marinela Roxana

Patrascu Valentin Bogdan

Poland,Polkowice 2015

University of PitestiDolnośląska Wyższa Szkoła Przedsiębiorczości i Techniki w Polkowicach

Erasmus mobility

ERASMUS is a European university program designed to enable the exchange of students between EU countries. Looking back into the history we can say that ERASMUS is a successful initiative in the modern and unified Europe.

We are glad that we are having the opportunity to visit a new country, learn its culture, make new friends and gain a lot from this experience. Our goal is to become better people and better Europeans by the end of this exchange.

Content

ResearchGate

Academia.edu

Google Scholar

Websites:

- erasmus.polkowski.com.pl

- studenci.polkowski.compl

- facebook: Erasmus Polkowice

ResearchGate

Researchgate is a social network site for academics to create their own profile, list their publications, and interact with each other. Like Academia.edu, it provides a new way for scholars to disseminate their work and hence potentially changes the dynamics of Informal scholarly communication.

ResearchGate was built by scientists, for scientists. It started when two researchers discovered first-hand that collaborating with a friend or colleague on the other side of the world was no easy task. Founded in 2008 by Dr. Ijad Madisch and Dr. Sören Hofmayer, and computer scientist Horst Fickenscher,

ResearchGate today has more than 7 million members. We strive to help them make progress happen faster. Their mission is to connect researchers and make it easy for them to share and access scientific output, knowledge, and expertise. On ResearchGate they find what they need to advance their research.

This site is free to join and currently has about 7 million users mainly in the sciences and the benefits to researchers are:

Sharing publications

Connecting with colleagues

Seeking new collaborations

Obtaining statistics and metrics on use of uploaded publications

Asking questions of researchers around the world that have the same set of interests

Job seeking or recruitment 

Creating profiles

Liking and following researchers and their publications

Endorsing the skills of others

Ability to bookmark favorites

Ability to comment or send feedback

Ability to share news items and updates easily and quickly

 

Our contribution

We started working on this site 3 weeks ago. First we had to bring together information about how it works, what papers we can put on site and how we can do this to be legal, how can we do a better activity to get more points on ResearchGate.

After this Mr. Polkowski gave us his account on the ResearchGate to promote him and his work. Until today we managed to post some of his scientific papers and he obtains 4.76 points on ResearchGate.

Academia.edu is a social networking website for academics. It was launched in September 2008 and had over 21 million registered users as of April 2015. The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. Academia.edu was created and founded by Richard Price.

The site, used primarily by researchers, professors, and graduate students, allows users to create a profile which can be customized to include information such as research interests, publications, and reading lists.

It combines the archival role of repositories like ArXiv, SSRN, or PubMed with social networking features, such as profiles, news feeds, recommendations, and the ability to follow individuals and topics. Registration on the site is free and users can freely download all papers posted to the site.

Advantages:

One of the advantages of Academia.edu is that the webeite is easy to use, lots of information, papers, and networking opportunities.

An another advantage of Academia.edu is that it allows its users to publish their activities on the site on their other social networks like Facebook or LinkedIn. For example, selecting the option to “post this paper to my Facebook profile”, as seen below, will automatically publish a story on the user’s Facebook profile when a work is uploaded to academia.edu.

In a teaching environment the advantages of using this tool are :

• The biggest advantage is students' exposure to research community in real time. Finding out what real researchers are doing on students' own interest areas would be invaluable for their motivation for further study.

• Speaks the language of academy and is set up to provide you a profile that is explicitly professional.

Disadvantages:

Lots of information have to be careful about what is useful and what is not useful, opportunity for others to plagiarize your work, students may be nervous to post questions to more senior researchers.

An another disadvantage to this feature is that it does not allow for commenting, which limits communication between users; adding features like a comment section for the blogs, and giving users the option to chat or to send messages to multiple recipients could greatly improve collaboration among users.

In a teaching environment the disadvantages of using this tool are :

• The success of this site would depend on whether it has most research members in each research interest area. Otherwise, it may lose its value in a teaching environment.

GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Google Scholar is a subset of the larger Google search index, consisting of full-text journal articles, technical reports, preprints, theses, books, and other documents, including selected Web pages that are deemed to be “scholarly.”

Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.pl/ ) arose out of a discussion between Alex Verstak and Anurag Acharya, both of whom were then working on building Google's main web index. Their goal was to "make the world's problem solvers 10% more efficient" by allowing easier and more accurate access to scientific knowledge. This goal is reflected in the Google Scholar's advertising slogan – "Stand on the shoulders of giants" – taken from a quote by Isaac Newton.

FEATURES OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Search all scholarly literature from one convenient place

Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications

Locate the complete document through your library or on the web

Keep up with recent developments in any area of research

Check who's citing your publications, create a public author profile

Advantages and disadvantages of Google Scholar

Advantages : It provides international coverage of journals and scholarly resources. Google Scholar is not restricted to articles – preprints, technical

reports, theses, dissertations, and conference proceedings are also indexed.

It is able to recognize variant forms of citations. However, in some cases it has problems with the name of authors that have diacritical marks.

Users can combine searches of words from the article title, keywords and authors and domain name.

Google Scholar is available on the Web, it contains full text of many articles and users can search all years simultaneously.

Disadvantages : It currently has a language bias, it indexes only European languages. There is inconsistency in citation styles. It uses author initials, so several different authors with the same last

name and initials cannot be differentiated. Many scholarly periodicals and magazines are not indexed. There is no subject indexing and/or classification access – searching

is by keywords in the journal title, article title, abstract, or text.

Promoting Websites

During our traineeship here in Polkowice at Firma Polkowski under Mr. Zdzislaw Polkowski guidance we realize some websites in order to promote teacher's and student's activity .

For achieving this objectives we create two websites and also we create a page on Facebook.

In order to create the websites we use a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL called WordPress and also with Mr. Zdzislaw Polkowski’s knowledge, expertise and skills in this domain.

In the following lines I will make a short description about WordPress and his features.

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress was used by more than 23.3% of the top 10 million websites as of January 2015. WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites.

WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins and widgets and themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination.

Using WordPress we create two websites:

The first website erasmus.polkoski.com.pl is about teachers and students involved in Erasmus program.This website was created by Patrascu Valentin Bogdan, Sofianu Marinela Roxana, Marinca Florin and Jitianu Iuliana-Alina in order to gather the information from all the websites that were created by students involved in Eramus program before us.The website shows viewers the teacher’s which are involved from DWSPiT university and from University of Pitesti in Erasmus program.In this site you can also find some informations about conferences at which our mentor and friend, Mr. Zdzislaw Polkowski participated. The site also offer you the opportunity to see the projects at which students from Erasmus program take part and also you can find some informations about their experience here in Poland. If my short description about this website make you to be curious we invite to see our website.

erasmus.polkowski.com.pl 

studenci.polkowski.com.pl

This website was created by students from different universities and from different specialization which take part in the Erasmus program.For developing and improving this website students(Patrascu Valentin Bogdan, Sofianu Marinela Roxana, Marinca Florin, Jitianu Iuliana-Alina) benefit of Mr Zdzislaw Polkowski guidance, expertise and skills in this domain.

The main purpose for which this site was created was to show other students a few informations about their projects on which they have realized with the support of Mr Zdzislaw Polkowski and other professor from DWSPi Tuniversity.The site have a section called “Erasmus” which offer you some informations about students experience here in Poland, experience which include some trips in different towns where they have the opportunity to acquire new informations and knowledge about their specialization and also Polish history.

In this site you will also find information about Mr Zdzislaw Polkowski academic activities related to different conferences and also some informations related to his scientific career.

Also some information about students projects from DWSPiT university and Uczelnia Zawodowa Zagłębia Miedziowego university can be found on this website if you want to make an idea about our work here in Poland.

Facebook Page

During our traineeship our activities and projects were focused on the next objective “Promoting teacher’s and student’s academic activity using the Internet” and in order to accomplish this we create a page on facebook about students experience from Poland.This page was created by the following students from University of Pitesti,Patrascu Valentin Bogdan, Sofianu Marinela Roxana, Marinca Florin, JitianuI uliana-Alina which benefit of Mr Zdzislaw Polkowski guidance.On this page you can find informations about students academic and social experience during their Erasmus program even if we talk about traineeship or studies program.Students academic experience is related to their projects, scientific paper, courses at which they participated at DWSPiT university and some trips in which they accumulate new information and skills related to their specialization.Students social experience is related to their meetings with autorities from prefecture, police , kindergarten and their other trips in which they have the opportunity to acquire new knowledge and develop new skills which will be helpful in their future career.

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