A presentation I gave at the WHELF conference at Gregynog on 11th June 2012.
My pitch for why librarians can (and should) teach social media awareness to our students. Tells the tale of our experiments with this (so far...) at Swansea University. Includes a link to our resources shared under CC.
11. “This is the kind of thing
academic libraries should be
offering IF this isn’t already
catered for elsewhere in the
University”
Tweet by Ned Potter (‘The Wikiman’), 16.5.12
12. Is there a
demand?
This is what happened at Swansea when we
tried it out......
20. Things are taking off...
• Session for final-year social work students
• Part of new Study Skills module for nurses
– Social media use is a big issue for public sector
workers
• Interest from other subject areas
– Demand coming from academics?
• General session to run again next term –
demand from students?
21.
22. So what do we teach
them?
(There’s a link to our stuff at the end)
23. First we scare them with a few social media horror
stories....
27. The Library can be seen to Great for collaboration
offer a solution to a very (Careers, e-learning,
visible problem for the academics, students
university union)
Engage with key Demand from
issues: academics:
•Employability health & social care,
•Student Experience business,
•Digital Literacy law, teaching....
It’s a fun topic!
We use social media & we know
And easy to teach.
the benefits (information literacy!)
as well as the issues
(Badge available at Zazzle)
28. Our Stuff:
http://tinyurl.com/samoakleygreg2012
Thanks to my fellow
librarians Katrina Dalziel,
Elen Wyn Davies, Susan
Glen & Bernie Mathias
who helped develop &
publicise the session!
Images used under Creative Commons
courtesy of: LorenJavier, tinoubao,
jurvetson, Libertinus,
Country_Boy_Shane, kamshots, solaro
and xraydeltaone on Flickr