Nottingham Trent University

8 January 2016

Andrew MiddletonSheffield Hallam UniversityChair of MELSIG

http://melsig.shu.ac.uk/@andrewmid

#MELSIGNTU@melsiguk

Digital Narratives(re)storying learning experiences for a digital age

Welcome to the 25th eventMedia-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group

• Digital and social media• Together

• Sharing practice• Generating ideas• Asking questions• Ideas and risky thinking• Innovation and change

Digital Scholars•Informal network or co-creators

•Open journal

•Books

•Resources

•Informal online courses

•Events

•Associations: BYOD4L, TLC, Asset, Creative Academic Magazine, etc

Please speak to me if you would like to get more involved in MELSIG

@andrewmid @melsiguk

•Changing the learning context and the learning environment Developing an online resource together

•Understanding digitally enhanced learning experience as narratives

Digital Narratives: (re)storying learning experiences for a digital age•Learning ecologies - the idea of story or narrative recognises the uniqueness of personal learning journeys

•...We become student-centred in our thinking•We are not alone as students (or teachers, or aspiring professionals)

•Transformation - Developing the digital-social habit•Digital – always on, connect, share, create, communicate, curate

•Social – network, co-operate, collaborate, accessible•Personal and Social - peer enhancement as digital-socially mediated conversation

•Finding our peers wherever they are•Rich – video, voice, and viewpoints•Open – redefining the spaces and approaches we use for learning

•Authentic, ubiquitous, informal shift? – learning is ever-present, real, unbounded, lived

(cc) ) Saad Faruque

Announcements

• Programme change - Chris Rowell can't lead the session on 10 Days of Storytelling at 15:15, so... but we are going to begin building it anyway!

• Telling Different Stories – the Storify Challenge day long experiment on how we can construct rich learning stories. Please 'feed': Rebecca Sellars (@becksell2001), Neil Withnell (@neilwithnell) and Graham McElearney (@GrahamMacca).

All next week

Finally…

#MELSIGUoNThank you Charlie Davis and the Nottingham Trent University

Andrew Middleton

Head of Innovation & Professional Development, QESS

Sheffield Hallam University

@andrewmid