Project+Idea+-+APA+6.0

=APA Style Guidelines Support Site=

I did some preliminary investigation on the project I mentioned earlier about e-portfolios, and I may continue working on that as an aside. However, I have changed my mind and want to develop an APA 6.0 Guidelines Support site. The APA (American Psychological Association) released its 6.0 style guidelines for writing research last year. I have been working with a team of people to prepare some face-to-face and online trainings on the use of these guidelines particularly as they relate to collecting reference sources and using them in reports and journal articles. (Citations and references) There are so many changes in this edition of the APA manual that there is a lot to discuss. I would like to post a general training piece and link to it from a social networking site. Maybe I could just set up a group in Facebook. I would like to provide: 1. A Q&A forum. Initially I would be the expert, but I would want it to be open so that I could harness the wisdom of the herd. 2. A litstserv where I would send out bi-weekly tips. (Tuesdays and Thursdays). I think at that rate I could get through the semester. 3. A resource list with links to multiple resources related to APA guideline use. I have collected a set of good resources. There are plenty of good ones, but this would be a central location and I could provide reflections on which are the most useful. 4. A link that requests something like handouts (electronic) for use with students. That way I could see if anyone is using the online training in their own face-to-face sessions. 5. A way to contact me to do local face-to-face presentations. Our group has piloted the training in a face-to-face environment (2/10/10). It went really well and the trainees discussed a number of issues related to: citing Tweets, self-plagiarism, and DOIs. I have scheduled a presentation for folks across the state using the Go To Meeting application. I'll report later on how that goes. We have a little tweaking to do on the presentation before we post it online. I hope to do a little marketing to encourage some additional Go To Meeting sessions.