Presentation for HUBS Spring Meeting, May 11th 2011: "The Future of Bioscience Teaching: Doing More With Less" http://www.biochemistry.org/PublicAffairs/Events/HUBSSpringMeeting2011.aspx

1. More With Less - A Tale of Two Modules A.J. Cann School of Biological Sciences University of Leicester

2. Social media: A guide for researchers Cann, Dimitriou & Hooley (2011) Social media: A guide for researchers Research Information Network

3. Guardian University Guide 2011: Biosciences

10. Video Feedback

11. What’s a middle aged man doing sitting in front of a video camera holding imaginary conversations with a sock puppet? D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality. (Penguin 1971). Play is important in counteracting the implicit threat in transitional spaces which limit learning.

12. But: Video externalizes "experience", reading internalizes it.

15. Peer Networks Friendfeed = Facebook but not Facebook Minimalist guidance Reflection Feedback Discussion (object centred) Staff support, not lead

16. Friendfeed

20. Gephi.org

21. Quality? Does online = less? More with less - is it cheaper? More with less - is it quicker? Laboratory skills? 2D Boy tinyurl.com/26569e

22. www.slideshare.net/AJCann "Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen." Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, 2008