Getting on board the digital scholar bus.

It's a a slow moving bus, starting with a little blogging, opening a twitter account and finding useful people to follow. The bus then leads away picking up artifacts and experiences as it cruises through the academic streets and avenues. Before long the bus contains pictures stored on flickr, presentations in slideshare a number of followers on twitter. Before you know it you are cruising along and refer to yourself as a 'Digital Scholar'. Martin Wellers journey has led to an online book which is well worth a read. The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice. I bought a copy, but in true 'openess' fashion Martin has made it available online.

I also found a presentation Martin put together for the London School of Economics (LSE). NetworkEd: Technology in Education is a seminar series organised by LSE's Centre for Learning Technology (CLT). The series invites speakers from education, computing and related fields to discuss how technology is shaping the world of education. 

Martin puts together 10 Digital Scholarship lessons in 10 videos again well worth viewing, if you are not sure what all the fuss is about. The video is available from this link. Finally he summarises the ten lessons on his blog here.

I think I have found a good example of what all this fuss is about, and why perhaps its time to hang around at the bus stop waiting for the next one to arrive.