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eLearning Unit: can we help you? (ALTC-2013)
The document outlines a session led by the eLearning unit, focusing on the use of metaphors to help learning technologists reflect on their roles and team dynamics. It includes activities that encourage participants to discuss and conceptualize their team contexts through various metaphors like 'detectives' and 'gardeners.' Questions at the conclusion seek to assess the effectiveness of metaphors in understanding team identities and practices.
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eLearning Unit: can we help you? (ALTC-2013)
- 1. “eLearning Unit Debbie Prescott Headof the eLearning Unit Nick Bunyan Phil Walker Dan Roberts Tünde Varga-Atkins …how can we help you?” … Paul Duvall ID399, ALTC-2013
- 2. Session outcomes • reflecton your own role and practice as a learning technologist in team and institutional contexts using visual metaphors • consider how learning technology teams become change agents for institutional practice ID399, ALTC-2013
- 3. Our Photo Diary eLULiverpool ID399,ALTC-2013
- 4. Session outline ?? ? ? 1. Activity1 – team metaphors 2. Our team story in metaphors 3. Activity 2– your team context 4. Questions ID399, ALTC-2013
- 5. 1. Detectives 4. Thepatient gardeners 3. The bridge builders 2. The tugboat and the tanker Why use metaphors to reflect on your team? ID399, ALTC-2013
- 6. Activity 1: yourteam context in metaphor 1. Look at the metaphors we found useful. Do any of these metaphors help represent your team context? Discuss in pairs or small groups (5 mins) The detective team The patient gardening team The team as a bridge The tugboat and the tanker ID399, ALTC-2013
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- 8. Phone metaphor for ourteam development 1. Federation 2. Transition – VLE team 3. Central team – eLearning Unit “It’s Tunde. Can I help you?” “VLE team. Can I help you?” “eLearning Unit. How can we help you? ID399, ALTC-2013
- 9. Stage 1:“Federation” “It’s Tunde.Can I help you?” ID399, ALTC-2013
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- 11. Stage 2:“Early Transition”–VITAL/VLE Team “VLE team. Can I help you?” ID399, ALTC-2013
- 12. “Early Transition” –VITALTeam ID399, ALTC-2013
- 13. Stage 3:“A newCentral team”– eLearning Unit “eLearning Unit. Can we help you?” ID399, ALTC-2013
- 14. “A new Centralteam” – eLearning Unit professional creating connections insights over the system and its components ID399, ALTC-2013
- 15. Old habits diehard? Should they?... ID399, ALTC-2013
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- 17. Activity 2: Whatmetaphor would represent your team’s current context? Think – Pair – Share on this worksheet or tweet #eluliverpool or add to Flickr stream: eluliverpool ?? ? ? ID399, ALTC-2013
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- 19. Flickr: eLULiverpool Blog: http://elearningatliverpool.wordpress.com/ ID399,ALTC-2013 Flickr Group search: ALTC ID399
- 20. Questions and conclusion •Were metaphors a useful way of reflecting on your own role and practice as a learning technologist in team and institutional contexts ? • Is your team’s story similar/different? • Thank you to ALTC: team identity ID399, ALTC-2013
Editor's Notes
- #5 Tunde
- #6 So why have we used visual metaphor? - Our aim was to reflect on our team's identity within the University – as Tunde mentioned in reference to the photo diary on flickr. - At first, we found this task quite hard - the team's role is very broad many aspects we couldn't condense into one explanation - Visual Metaphors provided us with an abstract, richer way of thinking and communicating It gave us a starting point to whenever we wanted to think strategically as a team So as a team we came up with four metaphors that helped us reflect and communicate our role as learning technology. - Our team are like detectives – we spend a lot of time handling queries and having to professionally & carefully work out resolutions. Our team is like the tugboat steering the giant tanker a degree or two – we felt that reflected our influence to the wider institution The bridge builders – As a team, we constantly build bridges between teaching and technical staff Like patient gardeners we nurture our lasting relationships and projects with staff