This document discusses the #10DoT program, which uses Twitter over 10 days to develop digital literacy skills among academics. It explores using social media professionally, identifies key concepts around digital literacy, and outlines the daily topics covered in the #10DoT program, which introduces Twitter features and encourages application in an academic context. Feedback on previous iterations of #10DoT is discussed, considering opportunities, barriers, and adaptations for different contexts.

1. Dr HelenWebster @scholastic_rat
Anglia Ruskin University

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

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”

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

12. Access and
motivation
Online
Socialisation
Information
exchange
Knowledge
Construction
Development
Gilly Salmon

13. Blog
Twitter

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