• International Foundation Programme

• Mixed Levels• Across all

faculties/disciplines• 50 ESL students

• Formal lecture theatre with data projector and PC

• PowerPoint presentation using “Cephalonian Method”

• Demonstration of university services

Blended Learning Activity Introduce the University + Library Services to IFP

Cephalonian Method

• Engage international students • Icebreaker – something to DO • Students are active participants in the

learning situation• Invitation for students to speak & share• Trust students to ask their own

questions

Welcome to YourYour Library

Questions?Questions?

Questions?Questions?

Questions?Questions?

Blue Question 1

Library online cataloguehttp://catalogue.londonmet.ac.uk/

• Finding a book

• Reserving a book

• Requesting a book

• Renewing a bookhttp://www.londonmet.ac.uk/services/sas/library-services/services/borrow.cfm

Yellow Question ThreeFacilities http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/services/sas/library-services/

PC’s & Macs in Libraries WiFi for your laptops help on metNet & metNet &

EduRoamEduRoamhttps://intranet.londonmet.ac.uk/iss/wireless/

Your Mobile phonesYour Social spaceQuiet Study ZonesBooking Library Study Rooms online

Zones for Group, Quiet and Silent Study

Blended Learning• Mind map

How things relate for a blended learning event.

How to decide the what, where, how and why?

Social networking tools for academic libraries*

ASDaphne Twitter academic liaison to CASS Architecture and Interior Design staff and students

* “It was also reported that Twitter was useful in maintaining updates for students who were active Twitter users…’students trusted the library more’ because the latter was keeping up with the pace of technology (Kai-Wah Chu, 2012)

Affordances of connectivity + plethora of ways to interact* (Conole, 2012)

Twitter for Architecture in CASS

• ‘social media’ to refer to Internet services where the online content is generated by the users of the service. Although there are other synonymous terms for such services (Web 2.0, participatory media, etc)

• 140 university libraries participated in a web-based survey

• 38 respondents• 30% UK university

libraries use social media in particular facebook and Twitter

Social Media in Learning and Teaching

@ASDaphne Twitter for Architecture and Spatial

Design

Promote our services

Charlie’s new Psychology

Library Blog and Twitter

ARCLIB 2012 pre-conference Tweets between University of Cardiff, UCL +

myself.Great icebreaker

• Benefits

• Disseminates news quickly

• Enhances interactions with users

• Reaches out and engages users

• Helps gather user’s feedback

• Enhances reference services

• Enhances internal staff communication

• Minimal acquisition costs

• Challenges

• Requires times and manpower costs

• Demands mastery of new and evolving technology

• Needs to attract users to take part in different platforms

• Reluctant staff

• Relatively unengaged users

Benefits and challenges associated with using social network tools* (such as Twitter)

Demonstration of ASDaphne Twitter with Screencast-o-matic

• Screencast-o-matic link

• http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cljb1N7KK

• IE link not Firefox

• Or YouTube

http://youtu.be/J3qTbwShm54

Conclusion

Thank You For Listening

Any Questions?