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

#RUL10DoT

http://regents10dot.wordpress.com/

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@scholastic_ratHelen.webster@newcastle.ac.uk

Chris Rowell:@chri5rowell rowellc@regents.ac.ukhttp://totallyrewired.wordpress.com