7 HABITS OF SOCIALLY NETWORKED

ACADEMICS

Joyce SeitzingerFaculty of Health@catspyjamasnz

25 Sept 2013

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KIA ORA! GOEDENDAG! G’DAY!

My stats• On Twitter since Nov 2007• Followers - 7400 • Tweets - 34557• Organiser PLE Conference

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MY E-LEARNING ROLE

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SOCIAL MEDIA SAVED MY LIFE…

NETPRAXDeakin University, Faculty of HealthMarch 2013 - Jun 2014

100 participants

Embedding networked practice for personal learning, teaching practice and research practice

iPad basedMozilla Open Badges

Yammer/Facebook/BlogTwitter.com/netprax

WHO ARE THESE NETWORKED SCIENTISTS?

Steve Wheeler@timbuckteeth

Alec Couros@courosa

Martin Weller@mweller

http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/DigitalScholar_9781849666275/book-ba-9781849666275.xml

Inger Mewburn@Thesiswhispererwww.thesiswhisperer.com

RESEARCH MY WORLD DEAKIN COLLEAGUES

Start with• Prof Deb Verhoeven

@bestqualitycrab• Dr Euan Ritchie @euanritchie1• Dr Mel Thomson @dr_mel_thomson

• And then follow on…

WHY ARE THEY NETWORKING?

TO DISCUSS TOPICS WITH PEERS

BE MORE EFFECTIVE AT CONFERENCES & EVENTS

• #scicomm 13• http://www.britishscienceassociation.

org/sci-comm-conf-2013

• Pre• During• Post-conf

Journal of Medical Internet Research

“Highly-tweeted articles are 11 times more likely to end up being highly cited”Eysenbach, 2013

INCREASED CITATIONS

http://www.scilogs.com/communication_breakdown/twitter-citations/

SOCIAL MEDIA IN YOUR RESEARCH CYCLE , NOT JUST FOR DISSEMINATION

• Initial explorations in your work, who is already out there working on this?

• Twitter as a “live literature alert service” (Eysenbach)

• Is someone willing to support us?• Can I find collaborators? Can I build on

someone else’s project? • Can I create a community of

participants and supporters?

WHAT CAN I LEARN FROM THEM?

1MANAGE YOUR

ONLINE IDENTITY

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Basic functions of a social media tool

Create profile

Find friends & conversation

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Connect with friends

Communicate

Form groups or hubs

Share artefacts

Label artefacts

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FAMILIAR FACES

http://about.me/joyce.seitzinger

2 GROW YOUR NETWORK

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INSERT ANY PROFESSIONAL

ABOUT THE TOOLS

ABOUT THE PEOPLE

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ABOUT THE PEOPLE

You have the building blocks…

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…how will you arrange them?

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• Low Profile• Low

Communication• In your own

time

• High Profile• Low

Communication• In your own

time

• Low Profile• Low

Communication• In your own

time

• High Profile• High

Communication• Streamed

Staff Room

Filing Cabinet

Magazine

Portfolio

Design your PLN. Build your filter.

You

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

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QUICK ACTIVITY: DOODLE YOUR CURRENT PERSONAL LEARNING

NETWORK (PLN) AND SHARE WITH A PARTNER

3 BE MOBILE

TALK ABOUT AUGMENTED REALITY

Don’t buy into digital dualism

QUICK ACTIVITY – 3 MINS

• Talk to person next to you (or several)

• Exchange • a. your most used app• b. a recently installed app, surprising

useful app

• (if you don’t have a smart device, join in with a group)

4 BE VISUAL

“The rise of platforms like Pinterest and Instagram, and Facebook's multimillion-dollar acquisition of the latter, shows how visual content is becoming an increasingly important force for communication online.”

"Pictures have also become a short form way of communicating lots of information quickly and succinctly," says Samuals.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3000794/rise-visual-social-media

MINDMAPPING / DRAWING

Lynda Barry’s course outlinehttp://www.openculture.com/2013/01/join_cartoonist_lynda_barry_for_a_university-level_course_on_doodling_and_neuroscience.html

QUICK ACTIVITY

• Share with us (list on board) - what visual medium do you use?

5 FILTER

cc licensed flickr photo by Will Lion: http://flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/

http://www.bethkanter.org/content-curation-101/

STEP 1: SET UP YOUR STREAMS

Set up streams

STEP 2: REGULARLY ACCESS YR STREAMS

Access

Set up streams

IPAD IS MAGIC FOR THIS

STEP 3: SELECT WHAT TO CURATE

This is all value you

add….

• Why?• Who for?• What value to me?• What value to my peers?• What value to others?

Access

SelectSet up streams

6 SHARE

Collect

STEP 4: “TAG IT AND BAG IT”

Access

SelectSet up streams

Access

Select

Collect

Share

OTHER PART OF STEP 4: SHARE

Set up streams

7 CREATE

MAKER CULTURE

• Here Comes Everybody

• Making is Connecting

START EASY - SLIDES

• www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth• www.slideshare.net/gconole• www.slideshare.net/courosa

QUICK ACTIVITY: WHERE IS YOUR PORTFOLIO

• Let’s map together where our portfolios live

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MANAGE IDENTITYGROW NETWORKBE MOBILEBE VISUALFILTERSHARECREATE

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Copyright: Hugh McLeod

Website: www.deakin.edu.au

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