"my psychwiki"

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my·psych·wiki - noun    (ˈmī ˈsīk ˈwikē)   1. a tool for creating your own stand-alone pages to help with your professional life in psychology   2. interactive platform for disseminating knowledge and publicizing your work   3. a new way to connect people with common psychology interests

my-psychwiki

Why have "my psychwiki" in psychology?

• Stand-alone pages - Not every page has to be linked or seen by everyone. PsychWiki was created by psychologists for the psychology user community to use for whatever professional purpose they wish (such as creating free class websites, lab group websites, collaborate notes, etc. see below for more examples)
• Linked pages - In the online age "You are Your Web Presence" given that search engines other than PscyINFO are a starting point for seeing psychologists' web pages, lab pages, research pages, and so forth. Online publicizing is the natural extension of why everyone already goes to conferences and submits to journals.
• New types of feedback - A wiki is uniquely situated to disseminate previously inaccessible information such as feedback about research ideas/designs, comments on published works, discussion of theoretical ideas/papers...

How to use "my psychwiki"?

• Create a page - If you want a stand-alone page, just click here.
• Hubs - If you want to join one of the existing "hubs", then create your page in one of the major categories: Research, People, Psychology Concepts, Virtual Lab Meeting.
• Create your own hub - Wiki technology is designed to create interconnections among information, links, and websites. You can create a hub around anything, including a person, research topic, class, journal article, and so forth. Learn more about using category tags

For example, some people have created stand-alone pages for:

⇒ their classes     (example) ⇒ individual class assignments ( example) ⇒ coordinating RAs for lab sections (example) ⇒ brainstorming ideas for courses (example) ⇒ association website (example) ⇒ organizing events (example) ⇒ student group website (example) ⇒ lab groups (example) ⇒ brownbags and speaker series (example) ⇒ professional development series (example) ⇒ announcing workshops (example) ⇒ posting online studies (example) ⇒ group events (example) ⇒ collaborative notes from conferences (example) ⇒ posting interesting study results (example)

And here is how to use each Category:

Research -- create your own annotated bibliography online for easy access... -- publicize your research and link it to other pages/concepts... -- see comments about published research or get feedback on your own research... -- post conference proceedings to integrate with other similar research... -- some people use psychwiki to create pages about famous psychology studies... People -- see some of the work done in various labs or share some of your own work... -- wiki software is designed to make it free/easy to create your own webpage... Psychology Concepts -- create a centralized hub of information around a single topic... -- provide a forum for discussion... Virtual Lab Meeting -- connect to other researchers with shared research interests... -- a new way to collaborate at the level of the entire research field, not just your department/school... -- a new way to create Review articles collectively... -- a new way for getting feedback on your research idea or research design...

A wiki provides a useful way to present this new information to the collective benefit of the field by sharing our experiences and knowledge

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