An interesting ‘blend’ of digital and paper, using Twitter to encourage support for the football team:
7 steps to enabling your new Facebook timeline for business via@reachfurther
March 7, 2012 Leave a Comment
Really helpful advice provided in simple steps:
7 steps to enabling your new Facebook timeline for business
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Brilliant Presentation by @timbuckteeth
February 10, 2012 Leave a Comment
Such a good presentation, it made it to the front page of Slideshare!
Digital Literacies Baselining for ODHE (with @JISC)
February 9, 2012 Leave a Comment
For the last 24 hours I’ve been in a hotel in the Lake District, working with the Organisational Development in Higher Education Group. We (The University of Winchester/ODHE) have been awarded £10,000 to contribute to a large ‘Developing Digital Literacies‘ programme, for which baselining was required to be complete by 31st January – and I was then able to present our findings to the group at their national meeting, as we think about where we go from here:
Digital Literacies Baselining ODHE
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Good feedback from the group who were very engaged!
Learning Journeys: A Webinar (@JISC)
January 20, 2012 Leave a Comment
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What follows are my rough notes from the session:
‘A cast of thousands’
Explaining concepts – having them in one place… all digital literacies across the institution tied in with Learning Objects. Thought others would like this, so used materials from the OER community.
Brought in from RLO, CETL. Learnt a lot from JISC LLiDA
Taught students how to use them via the VLE – not f2f tutor time.
Customize Learning Objects particular to our institution.
Used Peter Knight, Diana Laurillard, Wenger, e-moderating – in stages…
Example of weekly activity – pedagogic – designed by Diana Laurillard… (across the subject…)
How offer the information in a meaningful way – support their pace of learning. Put a tutor in their pocket rather than 24/7 on an email… Interactive Learning Objects… designed to be used across the sector.
Where didn’t reach agreement of a shared understanding, didn’t seek to create one – focused on the areas where is agreement.
Student digital skills had increased – but difficult to isolate impact from what they would already have learnt without ‘Learner Journey’
Based around sound educational principles. Digital literacy skills – they need to recognize that they can learn from each other…. Made a huge difference…
This module is the start to the journey – then they’re expected to go and build upon that.
Happy to make skills/PDP module more widely available – took about 10 years to reach this point. The students progress well with it.
Re: staff – they get thrown into the module with the students and get up to speed by being immersed in it with the students. Always have experienced tutors in there with the students. Make them failsafe for students, often works well for staff! Allows interesting forum/discussion area.
Different levels of engagement from staff, with varying degrees of success … once they’ve had a go may be interested in using for their own modules as so easy to use.
- http://www.glomaker.org/
- http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
- You may also be interested in trying Xerte, another free LO creation tool. see www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte and www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xertefriday
- http://elearningprogs.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
- http://www.slideshare.net/jisc-elearning
E-Mail free Friday anyone?
December 10, 2011 Leave a Comment
Interesting story blaming email for much stress at work – has some points, but certainly don’t agree it’s necessarily down to the email:
Soul-crushing email causes stress and slows work. Oliver Double proposes some ways to cut the burden. Email-free Friday, anyone?
I spend up to four hours of my working day dealing with email, and I can’t help wondering whether it really is time well spent.
Email is probably the biggest source of stress in my life. It’s the treacle I have to wade through before getting to more important – and rewarding – aspects of my job. Email creates a sense of high responsibility and yet, at the same time, passivity. It’s always requests from other people; and because you can’t control when these requests will come, you can never plan your time. Email makes you react instead of just act. Email is a crusher of joy and job satisfaction, and – just like painting the Forth Bridge – it’s a job you can never complete. You clear your in-box, but still it keeps dripping back in. Drip, drip, drip…
I regularly rant to friends and colleagues about how much I hate email, and they all feel the same. Everybody hates it – but there’s nothing to be done about it, right?
Wrong.
Read full story as he goes on to identify ways that he thinks could help to improve the use of email, particularly ‘Email Free Friday’. Our university sometimes implements e-mail free days, but I think that’s blaming the tool for the way that people use it – in one way it’s a decent gimmick to get people thinking about how they are using email, but on the other hand, email is still regular tool (although I’d prefer Facebook/Twitter much of the time) and therefore needs to be used… appropriately!
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