seda 10 dot nov 2014
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Presentation given to SEDA conference 13th December 2014 on 10 Days of TwitterTRANSCRIPT
Dr Helen Webster @scholastic_ratChris Rowell @chri5rowell
Understand the possibilities of using Twitter to build a personal learning network (PNL) for continuing professional development
Appreciate the growing significance and value of PNL’s and value of online Communities of practice
Reflect on the challenges inherent in engaging staff in online training.
Analyse the different approaches needed when teaching social media to different professional groups (including support staff, academics and students)
Run and evaluate the effectiveness of a #10DoT course at their own institution or context.
Helen Webster
Chris Rowell
How we met…….
BlogTwitter
Online Situated Participative and discursive Authentic and tailored Real time Bitesize and Just In Time
The schedule of topics over the ten days is as follows:
Day One: Set up a profile Day Two: What to tweet Day Three: Following people Day Four: @messages Day Five: Embedding and shortening URLs Day Six: Retweeting Day Seven: Hashtags Day Eight: Managing people (apps to create lists) Day Nine: Managing information (apps to curate links) Day Ten: Past and Future: Twitter archiving and
scheduling tweets
Each post contains: A need arising in the context of academic
practice Instructions for a small element of Twitter Examples or suggestions of use in the context
of academic practice A small task to complete
#STEM10DoT STEM researchers at Cambridge University (the original) http://stemdigital.wordpress.com/ten-days-of-twitter/
#LD10DoT Association of Learning Developers in Higher Education (simultaneous) http://ld5d.wordpress.com/ten-days-of-twitter/
#ARU10DoT http://aru10dot.wordpress.com/
Anglia Ruskin Librarians and Student Services
Anglia Ruskin Academics (x2)
Regents University London
And…. York St John Sussex University the iMature student Cambridge University
librarians University of Toronto University College
Dublin
Audiences:
Early Career Researchers
Librarians
Education and Learning Developers
Student Services
Academics
How might you adapt #10DoT? Who would you run it for, how might
you tailor it for them? What else might this format be
transferred to? How might you evaluate it?
Helen: Enlist experienced tweeters to cheerlead Get them tweeting early, to you and each other Discuss strategies and tips for integrating Twitter into
their workflow Capture discussions with Storify Run a Twitter chat 2 weeks later
Chris: Make Time Develop a Team Motivation Value of face to face
Consolidate, update (and prune!)
New audiences New tools New research?
#10DoT is freely available under a Creative Commons License to be adapted and reused CC BY-NC-SA
http://10daysoftwitter.wordpress.com/
Website contains What you need to set up What you need to do throughout Annotated materials Links to various iterations
Helen Webster@[email protected]
Chris Rowell:@chri5rowell [email protected]://totallyrewired.wordpress.com