Transcript Learning & Teaching Conference

iBlog therefore I am
Explorations in Brighton’s own
learning space
Social networks
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MySpace
Flickr
YouTube
de.licio.us
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Personal
Sharing
Simple
Interconnected
What is community?
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World’s largest HE social network
Social AND academic
Personal blogs, filestore, profile, friends
Shared blogs, filestores, feeds
Discuss, comment, reflect, share, involve
Why we did it?
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Year 1 - primarily to provide social facilities
Incoming student expectations
Glorious experiment
Provide modern facilities as counterpoint to
Blackboard
How’s it gone? - social
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Much better than previous social facilities within SC
Spread the news
Mutual support
international student lounge
Policy discussion - smoking, carbon footprint
Herring Hale
grumpy old gits
How’s it gone - academic
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Video sharing
CI326 - Developments in Learning Technologies
(JD)
ISM103- Technology (JD)
CI131 - Introduction to web design
LZ233 - Web Culture & Communication
Defining the field - architecture project
Failures
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For sale
Student Union
First aid society
Many other blank communities
External participation
Mistakes
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Making communities moderated
Not saying enough abut yourself or your community
Not participating/posting regularly
Social NOT academic
Blogs always public
Embedding of images
Videos
Multiple file uploads
Private posts on communities
Not explaining it
Competing with MySpace
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This isn’t MySpace
This is for the university community - all
aspects
Don’t compete, integrate!!!
The potential
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Compare vs discussion boards
 opportunity for better participation
 Use images or video
 Share files
Span courses and institutions as well as course/module-only
Podcasting & YouTube
Student profiles
PDP - reflection, managing evidence & presentation
Research…
Examples
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Learning: Reader study guide
http://central.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bees/
Research: Oh what a lovely war
http://www.whatalovelywar.co.uk/war/
Resource: SciTalks
http://www.scitalks.com/index.php
Communication: ElggJam