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#10DoTBuilding Professional HE learning Communities and Digital Literacy through Teaching Twitter
Dr Helen Webster @scholastic_ratAnglia Ruskin University
Aims
To explore the potential of social media in our work and in that of the academics we support
To explore what it means to ‘teach’ social media
To introduce #10DoT as a way to help academics explore to potential of Twitter in their work, develop digital literacy and build a professional community
Terms
Social networking
Web
2.0
Social mediaMicro-
blogging
App
Social networking in a professional context
Those who use Twitter - what do you use it for, professionally, and what benefits have you gained from it?
Those who use other social media – what other social media tools do you use to achieve these aims? What benefits are there of this approach?
Those who use traditional approaches – how do you achieve these aims? What benefits are there of this approach?
Social networking for other professional groups
Having identified our social networking needs and the benefits social media might offer….
Do these groups have the same needs/benefits, or do they have different ones to us?
Faculty Academics Early Career researchers Students Other central services professionals
But do we really need to teach social media?!
What exactly are we teaching?
But what IS digital literacy in this context?!
So do we need to teach social media?
Origins of #10DoT
University of Cambridge, Digital Humanities Network
6 month project “to encourage Early Career Researchers to develop advanced digital and social media skills to enhance their research, wider professional practice and employability”
How to teach this?
Principles
Not just to teach digital tools, but also:
an awareness of the ways in which social media and digital technologies can enhance or impact on your work
an understanding of the issues raised by social media and digital technologies, including potential pitfalls, good practice and ways they are changing the profession
an awareness of, and ability to evaluate, new and future digital tools and make informed decisions about your own engagement with them
Theoretical Solutions
Digital Literacy and Digital Literacies (Lea and Street; Lea and Jones)
Situated learning and communities of practice (Lave and Wenger; Wenger)
Digital Residents and Visitors (White)
Connectivism (Siemens) and Rhizomatic learning (Cormier)
Practical Solutions
MOOCs, SPOCs and 23Things
C-MOOCs (connectivist Massive Open Online Courses
X-MOOCs (more traditional instructivist Massive Open Online Courses)
23Things
Small Private Online Courses
Blended learning
E-learning models: bridging theory and practice
Access and motivation
Online Socialisation
Information exchange
Knowledge Construction
Development
Gilly Salmon
What is #10DoT?
BlogTwitter
The #10DoT Schedule
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
Example of a #10DoT post
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
Iterations of #10DoT #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)
Other universities incl. #YSJ, #RUL, Sussex, the iMature student
Using #10DoT
What opportunities for staff/student development can you see, and how can these be maximised?
What barriers to engagement can you foresee, and how might these be overcome?
How might you adapt #10DoT for your context, or to teach other topics or tools?
Findings
Overall comments
What did you find most useful about the course? Conventions and terms Confidence Refining use Authenticity and embedded learning
Which part of the course did you find least useful? Time Level Tailoring
My own observations
#10DoT Online
#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