Build networks, not destinations

Build networks, not destinations Alan Cann School of Biological Sciences University of Leicester twitter. com/AJCann scienceoftheinvisible . blogspot .com microbiologybytes .com aobblog .com

Social media: A guide for researchers Cann, Dimitriou & Hooley (2011) Social media: A guide for researchers Research Information Network

That’s the way we’ve always done it
Too much work
Too many students
Loss of quality
etc
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Solutions?

Online Assessment
Via Blackboard
Every topic
Summative
Question banks

Over-assessment
Via Blackboard
Every topic
Summative
Question banks
Midterm, end of module

Good Video
StatsBytes
MicrobiologyBytes Video Library
Not talking head!
Blah Blah Blah

Video Feedback

What’s a middle aged man doing sitting in front of a video camera holding imaginary conversations with a sock puppet? D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality. (Penguin 1971). Play is important in counteracting the implicit threat in transitional spaces which limit learning.

But: Video externalizes "experience", reading internalizes it.

Peer Networks
Friendfeed = Facebook but not Facebook
Minimalist guidance
Reflection
Feedback
Discussion (object centred)
Staff support, not lead

Friendfeed

Engagement?
10 weeks, 134 students:
5,376 entries
8,151 comments
5,232 "likes”
199,853 words - average of 1,491 words each
(not including private messages)
~15% of students continued to use the service more than one month after the end of assessment -
( ePortfolios <1%)

Gephi.org

Quality? Does online = less? More with less - is it cheaper? More with less - is it quicker? Laboratory skills? 2D Boy tinyurl.com/26569e

www.slideshare.net/AJCann "Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen." Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, 2008

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