build networks, not destinations
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A presentation for the Dundee eLearning conference, June 2011.TRANSCRIPT
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Build networks, not destinationsBuild networks, not destinations
Alan CannAlan Cann
School of Biological SciencesSchool of Biological Sciences
University of LeicesterUniversity of Leicester
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scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com
microbiologybytes.com
aobblog.com
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Social media: A guide for researchersSocial media: A guide for researchers
Cann, Dimitriou
& Hooley (2011)
Social media: A guide
for researchers
Research Information
Network
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That’s the way we’ve always done itThat’s the way we’ve always done it
• Too much work
• Too many students
• Loss of quality
• etc
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Solutions?Solutions?
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Online AssessmentOnline Assessment
• Via Blackboard
• Every topic
• Summative
• Question banks
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Over-assessmentOver-assessment
• Via Blackboard
• Every topic
• Summative
• Question banks
Midterm, end of module
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Good VideoGood Video
• StatsBytes
• MicrobiologyBytes Video Library
• Not talking head! BlahBlah
BlahBlahBlah
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Video FeedbackVideo Feedback
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What’s a middle aged man doing sitting in What’s a middle aged man doing sitting in front of a video camera holding imaginary front of a video camera holding imaginary
conversations with a sock puppet?conversations with a sock puppet?
D.W. Winnicott,
Playing and Reality.
(Penguin 1971).
Play is important in counteracting the implicit threat in transitional spaces which limit learning.
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But:But:
Video externalizes "experience",
reading internalizes it.
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Peer NetworksPeer Networks
• Friendfeed = Facebook but not Facebook
• Minimalist guidance
• Reflection
• Feedback
• Discussion (object centred)
• Staff support, not lead
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FriendfeedFriendfeed
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Engagement?Engagement? 10 weeks, 134 students:
5,376 entries
8,151 comments
5,232 "likes”
199,853 words - average of 1,491 words each
(not including private messages)
~15% of students continued to use the service more than one month after the end of assessment -
( ePortfolios <1%)
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Gephi.org
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Quality?Quality?
Does online = less?
More with less - is it cheaper?
More with less - is it quicker?
Laboratory skills?
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"Communications tools don't get socially interesting
until they get technologically boring... It's when a
technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and
finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really
profound changes happen."
Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, 2008