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

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.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

Steve Wheeler

http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/

Public Bloggers

Donald Clark

http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/

Jane Hart

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

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Sue BeckinghamSheffield Hallam

University

David WalkerUniversity of

Dundee

#sedaconf16@suebecks @drdjwalker