Using Web 2.0 to Support Learning Skills
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The document discusses how a university learning skills department is using Web 2.0 technologies to better support and engage with its large number of students. It outlines challenges in reaching over 11,500 students with only one tutor. The department created an online learning skills site but saw mostly one-way consumption of resources. It then explored using blogs, social bookmarking, and location-based social media like Foursquare to facilitate more interaction, information sharing, and collaboration between students and raise the department's profile. The presentation aimed to get feedback from attendees on their experiences using online tools to engage students.
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- 1. Using Web 2.0 to Support Learning Skills Carina Buckley and Michelle Treagust Solent Exchange Sept 2011
- 10. foursquare – newbie treat
- 11. Web 2.0 – your experiences?
Editor's Notes
- And did you want to mention staff?
- Through looking at myCourse and use of forums etc. on succeed@solent these didn’t have high traffic. Instead of trying to force users to interact on succeed, we thought we’d try to encourage them to interact with us on other websites. Whilst considering all the options we had to also bear in mind that we had limited time to create a presence outside the job roles of supporting students / developing succeed content.
- We chose this because: Immediate Personal Quick! Carina – success? What do you think of it as a tool to reach students etc.? This also doubles as our social network. Ideal would be to use Facebook, concerns it could be a lot to manage. Twitter is quicker
- We chose this because: Easy to use Already used by other universities Easy to embed into myCourse Clean, simple design Helps us recommend additional resources to users, believe we shouldn’t reinvent the wheel if it’s already out there! Show group work example: http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=6060
- Show profile page: https://foursquare.com/v/learning-skills-dept-solent-university-ml002/4d5a70f38e10594115ebdde1 Tips – show library page: https://foursquare.com/v/southampton-solent-library/4cbc48c70180721e70a9a361 To be honest, not that popular – only three users have checked in! Will be interesting to see what happens with new students at beginning of term. Screen grab of the ‘ping’ nearby users get about checking in with us
- Screen grab of the ‘ping’ nearby users get about checking in with us We could hand out lollies as they have ‘checked in’ with us.