1. SOCIAL MEDIA AS A
LEARNING TOOL
Phil Marston
Ramone Al Bishawi
2. WHY ARE WE HERE?
Who are we:
Phil Marston
Education Technology Consultant at the University of Aberdeen
Ramone Al Bishawi
North Alliance Knowledge Transfer Associate
4. WHY SOCIAL MEDIA
FOR LEARNING?
Constraints on social/community networks & CPD in
the physical world
time
distance
cost
5. WHY SOCIAL MEDIA
FOR LEARNING?
Constraints on social/community networks & CPD in
the online world
skills
confidence
access
perceptions/understanding
6. SKILLS
ICT skills
- just do it - you won’t break anything
- there are resources to help like WikiHow.com
Social skills
- you already have them
- IT is like a magnifying glass
7. CONFIDENCE
Social Media is like learning to talk, walk, ride a bike or
drive a car ... seems frustratingly complex to begin with,
but you wonder what the fuss was all about once you
can do it.
You can build your own “Purple Potty”
14. MINIMOOC
Massive Open Online Course
on Supporting Community
Empowerment
12th November (Induction)
19th November (First Session)
http://bit.ly/miniMOOC (case sensitive)
Editor's Notes
This presentation is just the starting point for a conversation we had at the North Alliance Annual Conference 2012 #NAlliance2012\nIf you were there then this might help as a memory jog, if you weren’t maybe these slides could help you have your own conversation.\n
Explain who we are and where we’re coming from\n
Find out who the member’s of the group are and what their particular needs are\n
With reference to the North Alliance CPD scoping study\n
With reference to the North Alliance CPD scoping study\n
The internet is populated by people like you who are willing to help - they can generally relate to you and your needs better than generic ICT Skills training.\nSometimes we get away with ‘inefficient’ social skills in f2f situations, but online this can be exaggerated, so we need to practice the good social skills we already know about - be reflective about whether what you’re doing is good or bad communication.\nwww.wikihow.com and www.ehow.com and www.about.com plus many others\n
We’re often very motivated to learn to talk, walk or drive a car even though it seems difficult at the time.\n\nFind your Purple Potty motivation to get past the learning and build confidence.\n[Listen to last 11 mins of http://vimeo.com/10793931 ]\n
If your employer blocks you for no good reason, lobby them! Find out what Martin Summers (Youth Worker) did with the youth of Shetland to get access to the social network tools he needed to do his job.\n\nNot all tools need need fancy high speed networks ... \n
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Hash tags like #lrnchat allow you to aggregate media in to conversations that can take place across time and space\n
BBC Wales has a raft of support resources to support community voice through digital storytelling. Google “digital storytelling BBC Wales”\n\nAlso google just “digital storytelling”\n\nAlso see http://animoto.com/\n\n
MOOCs are the ultimate in connected learning. Utilising and generating vast networks of social learning and knowledge resources on a range of topics.\n
