Fin de la nuit

Don't know whether I'll use this. Just worth keeping the reference

I won't be able to create demos for every social software I'd like to use for LTA, so I need to look around. This is a nice one for Diigo.

Since I keep wondering about social media policy for teaching, it would seem a good idea to ask students to design a social media policy for the organisation they work for, or alternatively for their profession (eg  CIPR policy). This could be done as groupwork, eg via a wiki. Students could be grouped by course (ie all MATC together, etc), and if necessary, have two or more groups per course. I could refer students to a couple of existing policies to get them going. After that, the task could involve a Web quest and posting results to a Diigo list (one for the module).

I can see some positivies and negatives about writing up my first experience with Ning. It was a practical attempt to understand the platform and to see whether it would appropriate for teaching and learning. So in terms of usability I learnt something (which included recognising how powerful Bb is in terms of forum management, even it is not very user-friendly). There was no actual research goal. But who says that action research can reflect back as well as forward? The contributors were not 'representative' in the sense that they did not look like a normal cohort. They were representative in another way: they include past, current and prospective students. The activities were not traditional learning activities (ie no learning outcome planned), but a gathering of views on the level of interest in social media for organisational purposes. The experience made me aware of the need for a social media policy for universities. It's all very well to have uni policy (not at ...

Worth considering for a paper on policy on Social Media and LTA?

A new book to add to the pile for the Methodology chapter...