making web and digital work for your students
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Making web and digital work for your students
Tom Wright
Director of Digital Student Life
Student collaboration in teaching
Aims and objectives
• Enhance student employability and graduate outcomes
• Improve engagement levels
• Provide advice and support
• Promote initiatives and events
• Tie in with the curriculum
Approach
• Led by two graduate interns
• Recruit student vloggers and bloggers
• Set up student video support team
• Launch Student Life blog and social media
• Soft launch to current students and offer-holders March 2017
• Focus promotion on new students at start of 17/18 academic year
Future plans and developments
• Replicate at School-level
• Encourage use of student-created content elsewhere
• Develop student editorial board
• Develop use of student photography
• Tie in with the curriculum
• Launch extra-curricular module
Meet the students/graduates
• Adam Earl, Media Production student
• James Foster, Graduate Intern
• Jamie Mitchell, Graduate Intern
Questions
• What issues and challenges did you come up against?
• How did you overcome them?
• What’s the best thing about the initiative?
• What have you personally got from it?
Group discussion
• Does your University’s website make use of student-created content?
• If not, what is stopping it being used?
• If your University is using student content, how did it overcome barriers and challenges?
• What training and support are available to the students?
• How do you reward them?
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