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Events archiveSocial Media Tools for Student Engagement
Date:
1st December 2008
Presentations/Event material The Academy/JISC Collaboration. A Partnership in support of Higher Education
Web2.0 is arriving @ your campus…. Mind the gap.
Social Media Tools for Student Engagement
Conference AgendaLocation: The Octagon, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Bristol
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Talks 1. David White (Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning Group, University of Oxford) - Cultural Capital and Community Development in the Pursuit of Slaying Dragons: Some of the most sophisticated forms of collaboration and communication online take place in Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs) such as World of Warcraft. This presentation draws on an ethnographic study of the communities supported by World of Warcraft to discover what might what might be learnt from MMOs that could be applicable more generally in educational environments online. David has worked in the crossover area between education and online development for over 10 years consulting on and developing new forms of online educational media and interaction for the BBC, Channel 4 and Oxford University.
2. Mike John (University of Glamorgan) - Web 2.0 in teaching Staff at the University of Glamorgan Faculty of Advanced Technology have been exploring the use social media in their teaching (and learning) activities. Web 2.0 tools used have included blogs, news readers, social bookmarking and social networking tools. As part of this work, for the last two years a relatively large group of first year students studying in the Faculty of Advanced Technology have been required to keep assessed reflective journals using a blog. In this presentation I hope to describe the tools and processes used, reflect (impartially) upon the experience of the lecturers and students and make some suggestions for further work, particularly in relation to teaching and learning and the development of communities of practice.
3. Trevor Barker (University of Hertfordshire) - Assessing the affordances of a virtual learning environment. There has been much interest at our university in the phenomenon of Second Life. The department of Computer Science has established a virtual campus within Second Life where a fairly broad range of learning and teaching activities take place. My own past research this area, over several years has related to an estimation of the cognitive load imposed by desktop virtual environments such as Second Life and how this affected learning. In this talk I will show examples of our current system and explain some of the possibilities of such spaces in learning and teaching. I will also present my view of the risks involved.
4. Stephen Gomez (UWE) - 'Using a social media video approach to provide on-demand learning' With increasing diversity of students entering higher education, traditional teaching methods, such as content-driven lectures, become increasingly inappropriate. Students learn at different speeds and in different ways and the transitory nature of lectures may not offer the best approach to aiding student learning. I have developed an approach using modified video podcasts (called podfiles) to create a learning environment in which students can support lecture learning at a time and speed that suits their individual needs and learning style. The presentation will explain the approach, show some example podfiles and demonstrate the delivery system. This event is sponsored by the Academy/JISC Collaboration Initiative. To find out more about the initiative visit the Academy and JISC collaboration webpages.
The aim of the event is to provide a forum to enable sharing of experiences and innovation in this area and to build links with colleagues at other universities.
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