2. To explore the potential of social media in our
work and in that of the academics we support
To explore what it means to ‘teach’ social
media
To introduce #10DoT as a way to help
academics explore to potential ofTwitter in
their work, develop digital literacy and build a
professional community
3.
4. Those who useTwitter - what do you use it
for, professionally, and what benefits have
you gained from it?
Those who use other social media – what
other social media tools do you use to
achieve these aims?What benefits are there
of this approach?
Those who use traditional approaches –
how do you achieve these aims?What
benefits are there of this approach?
5. Having identified our social networking needs and the
benefits social media might offer….
Do these groups have the same needs/benefits, or do
they have different ones to us?
FacultyAcademics
Early Career researchers
Students
Other central services professionals
6. What exactly are we
teaching?
But what IS digital literacy in
this context?!
So do we need to teach social
media?
7. University of Cambridge, Digital Humanities
Network
6 month project “to encourage Early Career
Researchers to develop advanced digital and
social media skills to enhance their
research, wider professional practice and
employability”
8.
9. Not just to teach digital tools, but also:
an awareness of the ways in which social media and
digital technologies can enhance or impact on your work
an understanding of the issues raised by social media
and digital technologies, including potential
pitfalls, good practice and ways they are changing the
profession
an awareness of, and ability to evaluate, new and future
digital tools and make informed decisions about your
own engagement with them
10. Digital Literacy and Digital Literacies (Lea
and Street; Lea and Jones)
Situated learning and communities of
practice (Lave andWenger;Wenger)
Digital Residents andVisitors (White)
Connectivism (Siemens) and Rhizomatic
learning (Cormier)
11. MOOCs, SPOCs and 23Things
C-MOOCs (connectivist Massive Open Online Courses
X-MOOCs (more traditional instructivist Massive Open
Online Courses)
23Things
Small Private Online Courses
Blended learning
14. The schedule of topics over the ten days is as follows:
Day One: Set up a profile
DayTwo:What to tweet
DayThree: 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)
DayTen: Past and Future:Twitter archiving and
scheduling tweets
15. Each post contains
A need arising in the context of academic
practice
Instructions for a small element ofTwitter
Examples or suggestions of use in the context
of academic practice
A small task to complete
16. #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)
Other universities incl. #YSJ, #RUL, Sussex, the
iMature student
17. What opportunities for staff/student
development can you see, and how can these
be maximised?
What barriers to engagement can you
foresee, and how might these be overcome?
How might you adapt #10DoT for your
context, or to teach other topics or tools?
18. Overall comments
What did you find most useful about the course?
Conventions and terms
Confidence
Refining use
Authenticity and embedded learning
Which part of the course did you find least useful?
Time
Level
Tailoring
My own observations
19. #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
Editor's Notes
Collate thoughts on what a social network is for, and how various participants go about achieving this, whether twitter, other technological tools or old-fashioned methods
Brief overview of what they initially wanted and the various areas I explored – blogging, information management and curation, social networking, media creation.
What is it, strapline, followed by a description of how it works
