ltdc: professional networks, gin, and pretty pictures: social media communities for cpd
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Presentation about social media for professional development given at LTDC earlier in the year.TRANSCRIPT
Professional networks, gin, and pretty pictures: social media communities for CPDR. John RobertsonLTDC Regional ShowcaseUW Stevens Point 2013-03-13
What this presentation is not about
● Gin prompting unfortunate facebook status updates
● LOLCATS
Technologies
Communication and status tools such as:● Twitter /FacebookBookmarking tools● Delcious/ Diigo / Scoop.it / Pinterest / etc.Blogs● (sort of, but also another discussion about
what is publishing; digital scholarship etc.)
Affordances of Technologies
Affordances of social media● not controlled | vulnerable?● often instant | how quick a response?● brief | what sort of communication? ● more or less open/ public | boundaries?● distant community made local | but which
community?
Twitter - my tool of choice
public#concisebookmarkishdistributed organisationdistributed community of practicenetwork of tools and servicesnetwork is easy and easy to flex
Changes Ahead
But pick a tool and remember that it's not yoursthink about data export hold the community tightly and platform lightly ; replicate contacts across toolsbe aware that the community and technology IS transitory (e.g. tweetdeck)
Public access
What you do online, especially with social media is *public*Yes, there are various privacy protection mechanisms but once you write and share it it's outside of your control.Think about privacy and creating space for others
Professional Development
Helping the academic debate, conference chat, journal paper, and water cooler integrate into an online world.● How do you interact with your peers?● What parts of that might replicate to an
online environment?● What won't?
Where to begin?
Phone a Friend?● find someone
you know and see who they follow
● look on their page and watch for the professional conversations
Twitter bios
kind of useful...
#conference
search for a conference #tag look at who is postingwhy?● are they extending the conversation beyond
event?● are they commenting?● are they seeking engagement and
feedback?
Mooc's... and twitter chat
#tag use also occurs around deliberate online conversations and around some MOOCs.● some professional communities promote
conversations eg #lrnchat● or given the % of professionals sitting in on
MOOCs for fun it's one way to find connections #oldsmooc
Automaton or person?
What do you tweet?
Do you create, share, or discuss?
Does @yournamehere produce a response?
So what's this about Gin?
Gin o'clock
● Thinking about what makes connections
● Making connections through social media is about the personal as much as it is at a conference
Personhood & online identity"It is only when we bring the personal (not the private) to our discourse that we understand the rich complexity of individual being out of which civilization is built–or out of which it ought to be built. [...] Sharing the personal, as distinguished from oversharing the private, means engaging with personhood in all its messy and glorious complexity, and all its potential, too. If, as Jon Udell reminds us, “context is a service we provide for each other,” the context is not merely informational, nor is it about matters that should remain private."
Gardner Campbellhttp://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/?p=2039
And the pretty pictures?
Network analysis and analytics, there's more...
#edusocmedia
by @mhawksey
Conferences?
#cetis13http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=tHKTsuC5QxppKsaBAnEgg0g&sheet=oaw&mentions=true
With an aside about making things tangible again...
Capturing the transitory with Storify
Reclaiming the data with Momento (etc.) and twitter archives
> making the digital physical again.
Further readingGardner Campbell (2013) "Personal, Not Private" http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/?p=2039
Martin Weller (2011) The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Changing Academic Practice (OA version: http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/DigitalScholar_9781849666275/book-ba-9781849666275.xml )
Martin Hawksey (ongoing) http://mashe.hawksey.info
Tanya Joosten (2012) Social Media for Educators: Strategies and Best Practice
Nicola Osborne (2011) "Using social media in education, Part 1: Opportunity, risk, and policy"
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/industry/library/ind-educ-social-media1/index.html______ (2012) "Using social media in education, Part 2: Tools, support, and technical issues"
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/industry/library/ind-educ-social-media2/index.html