FLOODS? SNOW? SWINE FLU? TERRORIST THREATS? “KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON”: INTERNAL COLLABORATION

Bex.Lewis@winchester.ac.uk

9th April 2010Plymouth E-Learning Conference

Dr Bex Lewis, University of WinchesterBlended Learning FellowLecturer History/Media Studies

Coming up…

That old ‘Digital Native’ debate

Creating Digital Habitats Understanding

Community Being Tech Savvy Being aware that others

aren’t tech savvy Gaining engagement Adoption of new

technologies

http://johnwilborn.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/the-digital-natives-are-here/

Sir David Melville, March 2009http://www.clex.org.uk/ Use of Web 2.0 is ubiquitous from the age of 12. Patchy take-up from staff

Even when a strong drive from management Tools can take a long time to use properly

Staff time and support issues are critical.

Familiarity with the technology? Where they fit strategically? Skilled Students

Critical/evaluative skills: deficit area, likely to get worse e.g. “The 10 Second Researcher”: Google/Wikipedia

facilitate “shallow research”. Appropriate skills for future workplace demands.

Creating Digital Habitats

“Technology stewards are people with enough experience of the workings of a community to understand its technology needs, and enough experience with or interest in technology to take leadership in addressing those needs. Stewarding typically includes selecting and configuring technology, as well as supporting its use in the practice of the community.”

Wenger, E., White, N., Smith, J.D., Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities, 2009, p.25

http://cpsquare.org/

Understanding Community

“The first and foremost activity of tech stewards is to understand their community and its evolution well enough to be able to respond to its expressed and unexpressed needs with respect to technology. This understanding of how the community functions includes its key activities, member characteristics, subgroups, boundaries, aspirations, potential, limitations, as well as its context. Achieving such understanding will require a combination of direct involvement, observations, and conversations with community members.”

Wenger, E. et al, Ibid, pp.26-7

Discussion: 26/03/10

Similarities People will still be

people, same fears, etc. Just another tech.

development like printing

Naivety & suspicion in early use

Guidance required to enable good use

Distinctions – space to meet

Implicit credibility

Differences Scale/massification Accessibility Longevity Worse cyber-bullying/or just

more public? Direct abuse Think it’s “our world” We know too much about

students outside? Laziness, not past digital tools Community vs individual

focus

Bex: You are a Web Fox

Fast-moving – Web Foxes like you are great at finding information quickly, just as real-world foxes are always ready to pounce on an opportunity.

Sociable – Foxes are highly social animals, maintaining complex relationships with the other members of their social group. When you browse the web you are also a social creature, often using social networks, or other sites whose content is created by its users, as sources of information.

Adaptable – Web Foxes are highly adaptable multitaskers, able to do several things at the same time – just like real-world foxes who can rapidly change their behaviour to suit their environments.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/webbehaviour

Bex’s PLE

http://learn.winchester.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=1203

Learning Network: Choices

Wireless Presenter with Laser Pointer

Plagiarism Checking

“Turnitin Originality Checking allows educators to check students' work for improper citation or potential plagiarism by comparing it against continuously updated databases. Every Originality Report provides instructors with the opportunity to teach their students proper citation methods as well as to safeguard their students' academic integrity.”

•Ask ITS for a Tii password•Go to: http://www.submit.ac.uk/ •Register a class & ask students to upload their assignments • (or use the ‘Quick Submit’ facility)• See Eric Bodger’s report ‘Critique of Electronic Submission’ on the Learning Network

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/group.php?gid=104742819300&ref=ts

http://twitter.com/uniwinlibrary

Best Practice Blog?

http://theterracottawarriors.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/blogging1.jpg

Synchronous Conferencing

http://www.elluminate.com/; http://www.wimba.com/; http://www.webex.co.uk/

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

I LOOK FORWARD TO QUESTIONS/ DEBATE!