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1. Lubna Alam Faculty of Information Sciences & Engineering 11b13 [email_address] Twitter: @lubnaalam Blog: Lubnaalam.Wordpress.com

5. Outcomes Title Description Complete (tick) Digital citizenship skill building scenarios Develop a model of mashing up social media tools with existing Moodle site for communication and assessment within an unit ( Social Informatics) A set of scenarios that uses social media for participation, student engagement and collaborative knowledge building. ongoing Student experience survey Design & conduct a student survey to gather information on their experiences with digital tools and the ability of them to participate online for civic engagement. Twitter Model A transferable twitter model that uses twitter for multiple learning and communication purposes with peers and externals. A model of archiving tweets for future use and analysis. ongoing Reading brick The wiki site for Social informatics provides an opportunity to collaborate on building dynamic course curriculum and course content. Further the model shows how we can use collaborative knowledge building to create a book that will be used for future semesters. ongoing Scholarship & publication Write a second paper on how to embed digital citizenship skills with real scenarios & student survey data. One achieved. Dissemination of project outcomes Develop a hands-on workshop for staff about how to integrate social media into Moodle & possible learning scenarios. End of semester Investigate further research opportunities Extend collaboration with Catherine McLoughlin from ACU on further development of the delivery methods & scenarios for 2011. End of semester & 2011