Internet librarian 2011 - Bite Size Technology Sessions to Support Research, Teaching and Collaboration

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The document discusses "Bite Size Technology Sessions" held at the University of Sheffield to support research, teaching, and collaboration. The sessions are informal 20-minute presentations on various digital tools and websites, followed by 10 minutes of questions. A variety of speakers from across the University present on topics like reference managers, social media, and research tools. Feedback from past sessions was overwhelmingly positive, with most attendees finding the brief format and topics covered to be useful for their work or studies.

Education Health & Medicine

Bite Size Technology Sessions to 1

Support Research, Teaching and
Collaboration

Andy Tattersall
University of Sheffield
a.tattersall@sheffield.ac.uk
01/11/2011 © The University of Sheffield

The importance of managing your references
and other information sources for your
research bid and project

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ScHARR

• The School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
specialises in health services and public health research
• ScHARR concentrates on postgraduate teaching and delivers a
teaching and learning portfolio based on research-based,
international, multi-disciplinary and world-class curricula

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A growing problem

• Too much choice – which one is best?
• Too little time – too much time wasted
• Lack of awareness – lack of application

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Time is the key

A Solution?

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“Insanity is doing
the same thing
over and over
again and
expecting
different results”.

Albert Einstein

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The Ingredients
Informal promotion via email,
blogs and in house posters
Informal interactive
presentations from a mixture of
academics, technical, clerical
and professional staff
Staff, PGR and PGT students
welcome
and…
cakes

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Planting seeds

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Structure

20 minute session 10
Minutes for questions

Guest speakers from across
The University

Slides made available and
recordings uploaded to
Intranet, YouTube and
Vimeo
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The story so far
• Started in Autumn 2010
• 29 previous Bite Size sessions - including
Google Docs, Prezi, PowerPoint tools, professional social
networks, uSpace, Echo360, Pubget, Research Net
Contribution, Assessment Methods, Screencasting,
Wikis, Electronic Voting Systems, Senate teaching
awards, Google Scholar, Mendeley, rss, social media,
Google Apps, voice works, data copyright and the
Cloud, MOLE 2, mobile phone apps, video capture.
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To come
The Research Excellence Framework, supervising
PhD students, what the Teaching Support Unit
can do for you, Scirus scientific search engine,
Google Maps for Research, Plagiarism, Medline,
Cinahl, what ScHARR Library can do for you,
Interactive whiteboards, creating effective
posters, how to give a memorable presentation,
research costing

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Feedback
The evaluation

54 Respondents, including a few PGT and PGR students (25% staff approx)
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Do you think attending short sessions such as Bite
Size is an effective way of learning new ways of
working?

Yes: 50
Not Sure: 4
No: 0

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Has attending a Bite Size session helped you
with your work, research or teaching?
Yes: 35
Not Sure: 14
No: 5

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What do you think of the duration of the
sessions?
Too Short: 7
Just right: 47
Too long: 0

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How important is it for you to learn about new
developments, tools and websites for your job or
study?
Not Important: 0
Partially important: 17
Very important: 37

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Short, focused,
interactive,
They are good, quick intro to a new entertaining
tool. Because they're given in person
you have the chance to ask questions.
I like the social (cake and tea) aspect
of it. meeting other colleagues you I really like dipping
might not know into a topic I would
otherwise not have
learnt about.

Great idea, like the cakes,
It's short, there is cake, wish I'd thought of it,
and if the topic isn't of but reassured to see
immediate use to you that it is genuinely not
then you don't feel easy to get researchers
like you have wasted to take time out.
time learning about it.

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At the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at The University of Sheffield we run an innovative series of informal 20 minute sessions that are about planting seeds and changing minds. The sessions have two clear strands, one focused on teaching and the other on research. The remit is not to teach people how to use something in their work or study but to let them know why they could use it and how they can learn more about it. The evidence shows that this organic approach is working - staff and students are starting to use many of the tools that Bite Size has covered. Any kind of widespread change within organisations can be hard to deliver, but by bringing champions on your side, good practice and ideas can spread naturally. Now that Bite Size is established with over 70 unique sessions, running the twice-yearly programme has became much easier. With support from an administrator and curation in the two themes of research and teaching by two of the team, Bite Size now only requires approximately a few hours every month to co-ordinate, yet the results have been excellent. Bite Size grew from the idea that there were new and emerging in-house and external technologies and tools of which many staff and students at ScHARR were unaware. Added to this was the fact that the University is home to a multitude of experts in several areas of technology, research and teaching who are all keen to speak to colleagues about different ways of working or pointing out existing resources and services. Started in late 2010, previous sessions have covered a variety of topics including Google Apps, Screencasting, Prezi, Social Media, data security and the Cloud. Bite Size is open to all academic and support staff in addition to students. Presenters come from all across the campus with a variety of speakers with backgrounds in teaching, research, administration, technology and research. Initially sourcing speakers was quite challenging but due to the success of Bite Size finding new topics and speakers has become less of a chore as the sessions become more widely known which means there are now staff volunteering to run sessions- it seems to have helped foster a culture of sharing which will hopefully stand Bite Size in good stead for the future. Bite Size runs on alternate Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays every week to ensure that part-time staff can attend at least some of the sessions. The sessions are advertised on ScHARR Library's blog and Twitter feed in addition to the University of Sheffield's social media platforms including Google+; as well as via colourful posters across the department. Add enticing Bite Size cakes to the mixture and a ten minute question and answer session at the end, and the results have been extremely positive. A Bite Size questionnaire highlighted that the sessions are positive in promoting new ways of working with over 90% of respondents saying the sessions had been effective in teaching them new skills.

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