1. AUA Yorkshire Conference and Jubilee Lecture 2011 Social Media and CPD?You can't be serious... Sue Beckingham Sheffield Hallam University
2. Learning Aims By the end of this session you will: have an understanding of what social media is know how social media tools can be used to create a Personal Learning Network (PLN) be able to link these tools to the AUA Professional Behaviours (CPD Framework) have shared and generated initial ideas for your own PLN
7. The earliest critique of the invention of writing... Socrates warns his companion Phaedrus that writing will only make memory weaker "This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them.... writings are silent; they cannot speak, answer questions, or come to their own defence." Socrates Plato (370BC), 274e-275a
8. Information Creation and Distribution Telephone Alexander Bell Radio Guglielmo Marconi The Printing Press Johannes Gutenberg Morse Code Samuel Morse Internet Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee Satellite Sergei Korolev TV John Logie Baird
9. Social Networking It’s been around for a very long time! The Notificator… Social Networking ‘1935 style’ 'To aid persons who wish to inform friends of their whereabouts.' Image source: The Guardian
12. Social Media tools Communication: blogging e.g. Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr microblogging e.g. Twitter, Yammer location e.g. Foursquare, Gowalla social networking e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn aggregators e.g. Google Reader, Netvibes
31. The added social value > Enables and provides support for learning Can increase the effectivenessof learning Can increase access tolearning. 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
32. Sir Ken Robinson (2010) RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
62. Using the social media cards consider how any of these tools could be of use to you when developing your own personal CPD plan and PLN Card sort activity
63. Additional examplesUsing the professional behaviours within the AUA CPD Framework as part of a personal CPD plan and linking social media tools as a mechanism to carry out tasks/activities.
Plato (370BC) Phaedrus (274e-275a)Translated notes available in Penguin Classics: London pages 61-62 by Christopher Rowe
Timeline of some of the key inventions impacting on the way information could be created and distributed (Images from Wikipedia)Johannes Gutenberg Printing Press 1454Samuel Morse Telegraph and Morse Code 1837Alexander Graham Bell Telephone 1876Guglielmo Marconi Radio 1896John Logie Baird TV 1925Sergei Korolev Satellite 1954DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) Internet 1964Tim Berners-Lee WWW 1991Tim O'Reilly Web 2.0 Social Web 2004
What we see now is merely a progression to having conversations onlineThe Notificator http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/15/the-notificator-precursor-of-twiitter
A flavour of just some of the social media tools availableThe Conversation Prism - Brian Solis and Jesse Thomashttp://www.theconversationprism.com/
Adapted from ‘Social Media: a guide for researchers’http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers
Tim O'Reilly is said to have coined the phrase Web 2.0 in 2004 Image created using http://www.wordle.net/
Examples of free blog toolshttp://wordpress.com/http://blogger.comhttp://www.tumblr.com/https://posterous.com/
An ongoing, planned learning and development process that: enables individuals to maximise their potential contributes to work-based and personal development ensures continuing confidence and capability particularly in changing environments updates skills, knowledge and understanding prepares individuals for changes in existing roles or moves to other roles enhances individual and organisational performance
AUA, in partnership with HEFCE, HEA and LFHE has developed a continuing professional development (CPD) framework. Set of resources have been created to support HEIs, managers and staff to put the CPD framework into practiceThe tools can be adapted and they can be used flexibly to: clarify what CPD is support individuals to take control of their own development support individuals to assess their CPD needs support individuals to plan, review and record their personal and career development help to build on CPD processes and expertise that are already in place in HEIs Benefits of the CPD Framework? a shared understanding of CPD for professional services staff within the HE context a model for developing a consistent and coherent approach to CPD fosters consistency in the quality of support of the student experience enhanced recruitment and transferability within the sector through a common understanding of professional behaviours a means of demonstrating the professionalism that staff bring to the support of the student experience
Examples of using the professional behaviours within the CPD Framework as part of a personal CPD plan and linking social media tools as a mechanism to carry out tasks/activities.
Collaborative research project with US colleagues
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http://twitter.comUsing the conference ‘hashtag’ #aua2011 to aggregate tweets