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Using Social Media to develop your own Personal Learning
Network
Sue Beckingham and David Walker
What is Social Media
Social software, software that
supports group communications
Shirky C, 2003
Technologies that enable communication,
collaboration, participation and
sharing.Hughes A, 2009 for JISC
Social Media is
an ecologyfor enabling a "system of people, practices, values and
technologies in a particular local environment"
a medium
for facilitating social connection and information interchange
a tool
for augmenting human social and collaborative abilities
Suter, Alexander and Kaplan, 2005
Social Media: An Ecology
An ecology, habitat, or studio is simply the space for fostering connections. Networks occur within something. They are influenced by the environment and context of an organization, school, or classroom. Certain ecologies are more conducive to forming connections. ... Connection barriers are aspects of an ecology. ... The nature of the ecology influences the ease, type, and health of networks created
(Siemans 2007)
Your personal choice of toolsSolis and Thom
as (2009) htt
p://ww
w.theconversationprism
.com
Communication Spectrum
• Collaborating• Moderating• Negotiating• Debating• Commenting• Net meeting, Skyping,
Video Conferencing• Reviewing• Questioning
• Replying• Posting and Blogging• Networking• Contributing• Chatting• E-mailing• Twittering/microblogging• Instant Messaging• Texting
Churches, A. (2009) Blooms Revised Digital Taxonomyhttp://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy
Your personal level of involvement
• Creators• Conversationalists• Critics• Collectors• Joiners• Spectators• Inactives
Creating
Evaluating
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
LOTS Lower Order Thinking Skills
HOTS Higher Order Thinking Skills
designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making, programming, filming, animating, blogging, video blogging, mixing, re-mixing, wiki-
ing, publishing, videocasting, podcasting, directing, broadcasting.
checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging, testing, detecting, monitoring, blog commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating,
networking, refactoring, testing.
Comparing, organising, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating, mashing, linking, validating, reverse engineering, cracking, media
clipping.
Implementing, carrying out, using, executing, running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing, editing.
Interpreting, summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying, advanced searches, boolean searches, blog journaling,
twittering, categorising, tagging, commenting, annotating, subscribing.
Recognising, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding, bullet pointing, highlighting bookmarking, social networking, social bookmarking,
favouriting/local bookmarking, searching, googling.
Blooms Revised Digital Taxonomy
Churches, A. (2009)
Fitting the right pieces together is personal to you
Personal Learning
PEOPLE!
Tools
Information
It’s all learning
Formal LearningInformal Learning
Sir Ken Robinson (2010) RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
The added social value >
• Enables and provides support for learning• Can increase the effectiveness of learning• Can increase access to learning • Allows people to connect with each other in
spite of geographical distances• Provides a forum and permission to participate• Complements face to face communication
Adapted from George Siemens http://www.elearnspace.org
Use a PLN for asking and answering questions
Use a PLN to collaborate on projects
Use a PLN to get feedback on your own work or seek inspiration from others
A PLN may include specific tools to help you get organised
A PLN may include following blogs and websites
A PLN may also include a private space to reflect
Learner 2.0• Operate within decentralised and
deliberately formed networks of tools, resources and people
• Established through contributions to blogs, tweets/tweeting via Twitter; sharing slides (Slideshare) etc
• Crowdsource ideas, active/passive social search e.g. for research or assessment
• Importantly it is both personal and collaborative
Source: David Hopkins, 2009, University of Bournemouth http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk @hopkinsdavid
Graduate Attributes
‘Our country will need different kinds of student experiences to enable its graduates
to contribute to the world of the future’.Prof. Paul Ramsden, JISC Student Experiences of Technology:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/studentexperiences.aspx
Public Bloggers
Donald Clark
http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/
Top 100 tools for learning 2011
Activity
In groups consider:
• How do you currently inform your own professional development in relation to social media?
• What tools do you currently use and are there any you’d consider trying to further your professional development or your role?
Remember it’s a dialogue
http://www.flickr.com/photos/khalidalbaih/5653817859
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Sue BeckinghamSheffield Hallam
University
David WalkerUniversity of
Dundee
#sedaconf16@suebecks @drdjwalker
