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November L&T Seminar: Up close and personal – social media in the wired classroom

Learning/ Teaching context

Blog: extended engagement with delivered content.

What now?

Social Media within Blackboard: Blogs & Wikis (and Q&A Boards)

Wiki: collaborative research environment.

Blog:

Wiki: Nope.

Blog: experiment with ways of managing feedback and feedback expectations.

Wiki: design ‘collaboration’ into CLOs, learning activities, and assessment.

• publication + discussion = engagement.

M i c h a e l D u d d i n g / S c h o o l o f A r c h i t e c t u r e

• real-time feedback.Success?

Lorena GibsonCultural Anthropology

1. Moving anthropology beyond the classroom with Twitter

2. “Twitter is just for old people” like me: lessons learned

3. Future directions: using Twitter to co-construct lectures?

Lorena.Gibson@vuw.ac.nzTwitter: @lorenagibson

Twitter assignment: Twitter activity (3%) and blog (7%)

1. A new research tool: Twitter as a way of finding and sharing online information about energy issues #Scie2012. Some students fully engaged throughout, others only at the last minute, some scared to start3. Rhian Salmon is developing this idea for SCIE 211: refined assignment will be more structured, clearer and with reflective component

Rebecca Priestley, Science in Context, SCPS

Xavier Marquez: Blogging in POLS209, Dictatorships and Revolutions

What teaching/learning context is the tool designed to address?Alternatives to the tyranny of the essay: article reviews, informal reflection, quick responsesParticipation in a wider conversation and creation of a learning community

What works/doesn’t work?Use needs to be sufficiently incentivized and structured, but if students blog throughout the term most really enjoy itProblems with different software products; need to moderate comments

Future directions?More integration with role playing/simulations; experiments with different structures for student blogposts

1. Notable (https://www.notable.ac/) is an interactive note taking application.

2. Drawbacks: glitches with internet explorer; students can’t download notes; it is difficult to modify notes once posted

3. Future Directions: recording application (coordinated with slides) and transcription service.

1. Rationale (http://rationale.austhink.com/) is an argument diagramming tool designed to help students reason in a critical and structured way. It is also an essay planning tool.

2. Drawbacks: the programme can’t represent all possible argument patterns.

3. Future Directions (early 2014): dedicated ipad version; real time collaboration.