November L&T Seminar:
Up close and personal – social media in the wired classroom
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Social Media within Blackboard: Blogs & Wikis (and Q&A Boards)
Learning/
Teaching context
Blog: extended engagement with delivered content.
Wiki: collaborative research environment.
Success?
Blog:
• publication + discussion = engagement .
• real-time feedback .
Wiki: Nope.
What now?
Blog: experiment with ways of managing feedback and feedback expectations .
Wiki: design ‘ collaboration ’ into CLOs, learning activities, and assessment.
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

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 coconstruct lectures?
Lorena.Gibson@vuw.ac.nz
Twitter: @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 #Scie201
2. Some students fully engaged throughout, others only at the last minute, some scared to start
3. 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

What teaching/learning context is the tool designed to address?
Alternatives to the tyranny of the essay: article reviews, informal reflection, quick responses
Participation 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 it
Problems 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.