Sarah Horrigan
                                                                  University of Sheffield

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We‟re here…
… didn‟t you spot us?
Ideas
Students
LOVE
Google


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“They should use it (Google apps) by
default to show other people the
benefits of it. At the moment there is
not that top down, lead by example
approach”
University of Sheffield Students Union,
„Technology Use in Learning and Teaching‟, 2012




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Before...

is anybody
out there?
After...




Educational institutions visiting the learning technologies blog
                                             March to June 2012
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“I saw it on the blog”
What about
Facebook and
Twitter?
They don't
really
feature
#

Personal
#

Personal       Professional
#

Personal       Professional
If people want to
Tweet things for
us from their
personal
account... they
use the hashtag
#cicsltt
This is where Google+ comes in...
"It's just not
doing it for
me"
"It's just not
doing it for
me"
(Me, 2011)
"It's just not
doing it for
me"
(whoops!)
Sometimes it's worth persevering...
... this is one of those times...
Posting on Google+
Don't restrict
                                        the view




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Public by
                                                default




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Circles by
                                             exception




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Meeting
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Developing
Chatting
Updating
Sharing
Promoting
Some last thoughts…




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Tackle what can be
tackled




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Model the behaviour
you want to see




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Use the system




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Tell real stories




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Be practitioners




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Let people in… and
your message out




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Opening up our practices - Going Google

Editor's Notes

  • #3 Three main factorsWe were invisibleStudents LOVE GoogleWe have to sell ideas – making them ‘sticky’ – ‘Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, Stories’ (Heath and Heath, 2007 ‘Made to Stick’)
  • #4 It’s was a little like this… there was a load of good and interesting stuff going on under the surface… but were we visible? Not at all!Image source: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/desert_island.png
  • #5 It’s was a little like this… there was a load of good and interesting stuff going on under the surface… but were we visible? Not at all!Image source: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/desert_island.png
  • #6 If you wanted to find out about learning technologies at the university… this was what you were confronted with…
  • #7 What’s wrong with this picture?What are the issues?No RSSNo engagementNo interactivityUnchanging contentUninvitingCorporateBut… we’re looking in the wrong place and asking the wrong question. This website serves a different purpose
  • #8 What’s wrong with this picture?What are the issues?No RSSNo engagementNo interactivityUnchanging contentUninvitingCorporateBut… we’re looking in the wrong place and asking the wrong question. This website serves a different purpose
  • #9 We needed somewhere to share ideas, to get discussion happening… to be responsive to our audience and to help make connectionsThe official website is not a place for ideas.
  • #10 In the University of Sheffield Students’ Union ‘Technology in learning and teaching’ research, 2012, the top 5 websites and online resources students couldn’t live without was as follows:1. google/google scholar/google mail2. MOLE3. online journal resources4. Wikipedia5. youTubeImage from http://www.flickr.com/photos/31751386@N00/7760134/
  • #11 Image by http://www.flickr.com/photos/9822107@N08/3341768026/We need to be practitioners… we need to be visible… we need to be enthusiastic… we need to be supportive… and interesting… and innovative… and this is where going Google has really helped us.
  • #35 We’re taking the view that Twitter and Facebook are personal points of presence – Google Apps including Google+ and Blogger are our professional tools for visibility and discussion… the point where there’s intersection is through the use of hash-tagged content
  • #36 We’re taking the view that Twitter and Facebook are personal points of presence – Google Apps including Google+ and Blogger are our professional tools for visibility and discussion… the point where there’s intersection is through the use of hash-tagged content
  • #37 We’re taking the view that Twitter and Facebook are personal points of presence – Google Apps including Google+ and Blogger are our professional tools for visibility and discussion… the point where there’s intersection is through the use of hash-tagged content
  • #53 Discussions / interviews / general chat
  • #54 We use a hashtag and a circle to update each other every day on what we’re doing across two teams
  • #55 Because you can easily +1 things on a range of websites, it’s been great for sharing items of interest across the team. If I want to draw something to someone’s attention in particular, I just +them and it grabs their attention