This document discusses how technology can be viewed either as a master or a servant to humans. It notes that all technologies provide affordances and constraints that change social practices. The document urges people to think about what activities new technologies enable or limit and how social habits have changed with each new technology. It provides an example of how young people now access news through social media links from peers rather than directly visiting websites.
How Open Source Cloud Platforms Can Solve Big Data Needs in a Location-Aware,...Bret Piatt
The explosion of data generated by location-based and real-time applications has created new problems for application developers. Data has been fragmented in silos, stored and duplicated across multiple locations, which is difficult to access, ineffective and expensive. There is a large opportunity to harness this distributed data by building a common storage platform with shared access and costs. In this session, Bret Piatt will lay out a vision of common storage platform, including how the cloud, specifically an open cloud framework, is the best place to bring this data together. He will also discuss the value and risk to application developers, real-world use cases and even societal implications on how we are able to gather, process and access data across multiple locations in real-time.
CRIG 2017 Improving digital library services with user researchVernon Fowler
Modern libraries provide a burgeoning array of digital services, all experienced through a myriad of touch-points. To name a few: catalogue; discovery layers; website; LibGuides; Learning Management Systems; chat; Skype; social media; YouTube; blogs; portals; email...
It's a complex picture! A dichotomy of implementing innovative new services while maintaining legacy ones rarely results in seamless, unified library experiences. Using unconnected touch-points often leads to broken user experiences. A good user experience requires research.
To increase satisfaction and delight library users, adopt an approach that gathers evidence, generates insights, and informs decision-making for iterative, incremental changes. This presentation explores some tried and tested user research methods to gather both qualitative and quantitative data from students and staff throughout all stages of project life-cycles. It aims to inspire you with examples of user research initiatives undertaken at Deakin University Library, including co-design workshops for a better homepage, and preliminary results from a longitudinal happiness tracking survey for continuous improvement.
Attendees will take away a digital set of research method cards templates, and tips for conducting quality user research to improve project outcomes at their libraries.
Social Media For Public Libraries: Basics and BeyondElise C. Cole
Presentation given at OLS-North Annual Conference on Wednesday, May 4. I covered the different types of social media and the dos and don't for use by public libraries.
Building Online Community with Staff (Sydney, NSW)Chrystie Hill
An insider's view on online community building for the staff at WebJunction.org, with links to our community building activities for library staff and patrons in libraries. Presented at the State Library of New South Wales on August 5, 2008.
Describing Everything - Open Web standards and classificationDan Brickley
Original title: Open Web standards and classification: Foundations for a hybrid approach
Keynote address, UDC Seminar:
Classification at a Crossroads
30 October 2009 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague
Dan Brickley, Vrije University Amsterdam
How Open Source Cloud Platforms Can Solve Big Data Needs in a Location-Aware,...Bret Piatt
The explosion of data generated by location-based and real-time applications has created new problems for application developers. Data has been fragmented in silos, stored and duplicated across multiple locations, which is difficult to access, ineffective and expensive. There is a large opportunity to harness this distributed data by building a common storage platform with shared access and costs. In this session, Bret Piatt will lay out a vision of common storage platform, including how the cloud, specifically an open cloud framework, is the best place to bring this data together. He will also discuss the value and risk to application developers, real-world use cases and even societal implications on how we are able to gather, process and access data across multiple locations in real-time.
CRIG 2017 Improving digital library services with user researchVernon Fowler
Modern libraries provide a burgeoning array of digital services, all experienced through a myriad of touch-points. To name a few: catalogue; discovery layers; website; LibGuides; Learning Management Systems; chat; Skype; social media; YouTube; blogs; portals; email...
It's a complex picture! A dichotomy of implementing innovative new services while maintaining legacy ones rarely results in seamless, unified library experiences. Using unconnected touch-points often leads to broken user experiences. A good user experience requires research.
To increase satisfaction and delight library users, adopt an approach that gathers evidence, generates insights, and informs decision-making for iterative, incremental changes. This presentation explores some tried and tested user research methods to gather both qualitative and quantitative data from students and staff throughout all stages of project life-cycles. It aims to inspire you with examples of user research initiatives undertaken at Deakin University Library, including co-design workshops for a better homepage, and preliminary results from a longitudinal happiness tracking survey for continuous improvement.
Attendees will take away a digital set of research method cards templates, and tips for conducting quality user research to improve project outcomes at their libraries.
Social Media For Public Libraries: Basics and BeyondElise C. Cole
Presentation given at OLS-North Annual Conference on Wednesday, May 4. I covered the different types of social media and the dos and don't for use by public libraries.
Building Online Community with Staff (Sydney, NSW)Chrystie Hill
An insider's view on online community building for the staff at WebJunction.org, with links to our community building activities for library staff and patrons in libraries. Presented at the State Library of New South Wales on August 5, 2008.
Describing Everything - Open Web standards and classificationDan Brickley
Original title: Open Web standards and classification: Foundations for a hybrid approach
Keynote address, UDC Seminar:
Classification at a Crossroads
30 October 2009 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague
Dan Brickley, Vrije University Amsterdam
How can digital and social media be used by youth leaders?Bex Lewis
Prepared for a Skype presentation, considering how digital and social media can be used by youth leaders (within churches).
Join the online session: https://lukewhyte.mykajabi.com/p/summit
'Left to their own devices' for #PremDac17Bex Lewis
40 minutes on "What is the impact of children having their own devices, and how do we manage this?" at #PremDac17
See more: https://www.premierdigital.info/conference
'The 21st Century Learner: Blended Learning tools and the use of social networksBex Lewis
On 26th March, Dr Bex Lewis will be running a Collaborative Enhancement and Teaching (CET) Lunch, 12.30 - 2pm
The topic will be 'The 21st Century Learner', with discussions on blended learning tools and the use of social networks.
CET lunches are an informal space to discuss and share learning and teaching experiences/practice across the university.
The session will include discussions as to what differences there may be with "The 21st Century Learner", a summary of Sir David Melville's CLEX report from March 2009, a consideration of what Blended Learning is, visual stats, and a look at some potential tools/their uses.
(The presentation was somewhat a 'work in progress', and there's a lot more depth I'd like to investigate, but it generated great discussion, and some thinking for me/others!)
This short slide show talks about our "born digital" students, why they are different and the challenges they face in the online, virtual world. Who will help them navigate this new frontier?
Raising Children in a Digital Age for West Auckland Vineyard ChurchBex Lewis
On 1st October, I'll be coming to West Auckland Vineyard Church for the afternoon, along with some local organisations keen to engage, and speaking about Raising Children in a Digital Age.
Fundraising in an Age of Social Media for WycliffeBex Lewis
Session 2, designed to include more discussion/activity, and draw out the fundraising expertise of the people in the room, and put it within digital culture...
A session with the diocesan youth workers to consider the digital and the questions that that raises for them in their work - giving young people the best choices, aiding their work, and protecting themselves and their charges.
Raising Children in a Digital Age for Emmanuel Community ChurchBex Lewis
An evening event, in which I share the knowledge from my book, and take questions, on 13th October - http://drbexl.co.uk/event/stockport-raising-children-digital-age-eccmanchester/
Change. It's the one condition we all have to get used to, change itself.
In an online world of inter-connected devices which increasingly publish on our behalf the line between online and offline is blurring, where will this go, and how can we make the most of the endless advertising opportunities that this incessant change provides?
Premier Digital: Online Church as Real Community Bex Lewis
Slides prepared for Premier Digital Webinar on 7th October 2020: https://drbexl.co.uk/event/webinar-digital-church-webinar-online-church-as-real-community/
Mini Pecha Kucha: Public Engagement Activity Bex Lewis
A mini-pecha kucha (10 slides that auto-move forward after 20 seconds) prepared for #ERA1819, second of three workshops, summarising what we've been up to since the last workshop.
IPM placing the christian church in a digital ageBex Lewis
See abstract for this conference paper, to be given 8th September 2017: http://drbexl.co.uk/2017/08/18/edit-conference-abstract-inclusive-placemaking-placing-christian-church-digital-age/
Raising Children in a Digital Age - Cavendish SchoolBex Lewis
Evening event to be held 16th May, at Cavendish School, West Didsbury. http://drbexl.co.uk/event/manchester-raising-children-digital-age-cavendish-school/
Social Media, Peer Surveillance and Spiritual FormationBex Lewis
A session prepared for AHRC workshop on Religion and Surveillance. Taken a lot of prep, and still feel it needs more. Got me thinking about a lot of things in further layers than in the past ... let's see how it goes! I typically use more slides than minutes so...
Designed to introduce a group of ordinands to the potentials and the pitfalls of social media in ministry - huge topic - 1.5 hours ... let's get that debate going!
For Manchester Diocese ordinands
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Technology: Master or
Servant?
Dr Bex Lewis, Director, Digital Fingerprint & CODEC
research team, St John's College
For: ‘Hand-in-Hand Conference, Eastbourne, 2013’
URL: http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/technology-master-not-slave
4. Human Beings at Machines,
not “are machines”
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/192333
5. THINK!
• All technologies offer
AFFORDANCES, CONSTRAINTS
and change SOCIAL
PRACTICES
• What has been made possible with the
introduction of each new form of technology?
• What activities have been limited with each new
form of technology?
• How have our social practices/habits, etc.
changed with each new form of technology?
6. Jake’s Story…
• “Jake told the executive that he never
goes directly to a brand like this man’s
newspaper or even to blogs he likes. ...
he reads a lot of news – far more than
I did at his age. But he goes to that
news only via the links from Digg,
friends’ blogs, and Twitter. He travels
all around the internet that is edited
by his peers because he trusts them
and knows they share his interests.
2011 The web of trust is built at eye-level,
Jeff Jarvis speaking
about his 15-year
peer-to-peer.” (Jarvis, p.86, my
old son Jake emphasis)
Social EMPHASIS (not broadcast)/ Look for common interests to bond over (far more niche communities). You’re looking to provide information, engage in dialogue, listen to your audience … build a community who will be interested in the other things that you do ..
Online/offline = REAL – not the same, but real! In the same way as you may emphasize different parts of your personality with different people – with your parents, your friends, your kids… online you may emphasise different aspects of your personality in different spaces… but at the centre of it all you are YOU! AUTHENTICITY.
Always remember that there is a human being at the other end of the keyboard - each uniquely created by God…
Think, e.g. – when paper was introduced – seen as disruptive (people can doodle whilst you’re talking), as mobile phones have, but it’s the person using it, not the technology that dictates how it’s used. Think – we can be more flexible in our plans, but if our battery runs out – what then…
E.g. Jake – see how his life is built around the relationships with friends – something that James Poulter describes as the ‘Recommendation Economy’ – we trust others more than marketers these days – so how do we ensure that there’s some good content for people to chew on….
In our everyday communications (specifically referring to digital ones here) … good motto to work to, and we often refer to the values in Galatians 5:22–26 to highlight what we should think before we ever put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard… or open our mouths!
Before writing anything online – think who might see it, and whether you’d be happy to have it seen – anything you write online could potentially be seen elsewhere (copy & paste), etc – but don’t think paper gets away with it (can be photographed, etc.) Good benchmark these people… be open & authentic but think before you post… it’s a case of ‘digital literacy’, rather than ‘running scared’.
The better we understand the nature of new technology (and it’s here to stay) the more we are capable of using it well – and encouraging all of our community to use it well. Evidence from this study – parents who learn to use technology, better able to help their kids – kids were more confident users – able to take advantage of the huge opportunities for new knowledge, etc. online…
We need to think of activities that will encourage children to think about e.g.1) The permanency of online information (although you can ‘game’ it somewhere) 2) Constant change – printed = done; online – can change – can be difficult to distinguish between originals/replicas3) The community will choose to amplify certain types of information – which may not be what was originally chosen. 4) Anyone can be found/identified (for good or bad)
This section from a book just released ‘The Parent App’ is interesting … as one might expect - bad things happen online because they can happen anywhere (the technology is incidental)… but also many of the kind of stats that are highlighted demonstrate that society is safer for children than it ever has been… and that each new risk tends to be accompanied by a new way to counteract that risk – we just need to identify those (e.g. bullied can keep record of texts, ring parents for help, etc.) She notes that technology may have introduced new risks – but also new ways of negating those risks… e.g. educate children to check in with parents on mobiles, etc. if they are worried about someone, etc…
Developing more of this here in my book….
… I spend most of my time developing The Big Bible project – initially developed around ‘The Big Read 2011’, with Tom Wright’s Lent for Everyone: Matthew – with a brief to ‘do something digital’. The church seemed to need encouragement to ‘be digital’, and there didn’t seem to be much positive content online, so we started to encourage more people to blog online about their faith, etc…
We’ve had a little fun recently – as we start to work through the Bible a chapter a day in Wordle format (the larger the word, the more times it’s used in that chapter)… allows us to look at the Bible in new ways (and as a visual person, helps me)….
Wanted to share a couple of stories provided by “what we call” #DigiDisciple(s) – disciples particularly interested in discipleship in the digital age. Muriel wrote about a friend who developed true relationships with other mums who attended an event at church – future events can then be advertised on Facebook. She then set up a cyber-church group on Facebook – allowing questions to be asked. The events have continued to grow/church has more regular members … encouraging use of social media.
Another profile raising event was ‘The Roving Rev’ who walked the Lindisfarne way over several weeks – he wasn’t particularly tech (or social media) minded, but a member of the church joined him at points to help ‘tell his story’ over the journey – via a range of social media tools…
A particular tool – Twitter – which is the fastest growing at the moment – has had a fairly unique use – tweets one Bible chapter per day in 140 characters … gained some press interest, and nearly 27000 people can potentially read the Bible (albeit in short form) every day…
Want to know about specific types of technology – check out this downloadable file here… they are not all equal!
And know that for each tool you can develop a ‘daily workout’ – this anticipated to take around 20 minutes a day… worth the investment – really has to look active to generate interest!