Using social media in sustainability education – Jenni Barrett UCLAN

1. Social Media in Education
A template for collaborative practice?
Jenni Barrett
Lecturer
School of Built & Natural Environment
University of Central Lancashire
jebarrett@uclan.ac.uk
@Meme_Cloud
jennibarrett.wordpress.com
Blogging It:
Encouraging Reflective Thinking For
Architectural Practice
CEBE Transactions
http://cebe.cf.ac.uk/transactions/list.php?
identifier=cebe.ltsn.ac.uk:361660072668&edition=7.1
The Social Life of the Novel Idea:
What did social psychologists ever do for us
Journal of Engineering, Construction &
Architectural Management
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0969-
9988&volume=20&issue=3

2. Teaching Architectural Management
THEORY
Reflecting on…..
Reflecting off…….
BLOG
Consolidation of learning
Knowledge sharing skills
Critical thinking skills
(peer assessment)
teaching management?
teaching teamwork?
It is not the skill that is taught but the development of
“a capacity to process information during action”
(Moon, 1999).
Knowledge….
Good practice……
WIKI

3. Teaching Architectural Management
teaching management?
teaching teamwork?
Stand back!
Learning belongs to the student
Reward engagement rather than
rating quality
Encourage and value the peer lens
Nurture peer to peer learning
(cohesion)

4. The Blogs

5. The Blogs
“It must say a lot when you turn to a module-based blog for a
breather from assignments?!”

6. The Blogs Well, it’s been an interesting exercise, if
sometimes for me a slow process (slow blog = a
slog?), but all things must end. Since starting
this blog about drumming in a band I’ve improved
individually as a drummer and, hopefully,
collaboratively as a team member. Together we’ve
written new songs, broadened our style, decided on
a new band name and had fun. I feel I know a little
more about teamwork, myself, the others in the band
and fellow community members from our reflective
blog.
When we set this task of reflective thinking
through a blog, using tags I was a little concerned
in how I would be able to achieve this task with
not being in a practice. However by just taking a
step back and perhaps looking at the tags from a
different angle I used my experience in life and
the different work I have done to respond. The
success of completing this diary has been an
achievement with the added bonus of learning/
hearing the views from other team members also it
has provided food for thought in the future. The

7. The Blogs
This blog is a new experience, its like your
talking to yourself.Teamwork for me is an
important and vital part of playing football, as a
midfielder its my duty to link play from defence
and connect with the attack.But sometimes its just
not as easy as it seems, and I failed to do so. At
this point personally I felt shameful of my
mistake. I was encouraged from other team mates to
regroup and put the incident behind me,
encouragement allowed me to step back and evaluate
the mistake I made, understanding that I had more
options that could have been as effective, or more
effective than my earlier decision. We won that
game and I scored the winning goal, there's no 'I'
in team but there is an 'I' in win.
Looking back over the past six months of blogs i
feel we have all benefited from this opportunity
to reflect on past experiences, whether its simply
opening up and telling a story or some deeper
understanding of how to work with others. Through
this i have discovered that most interaction
between two or more people requires some level of
understanding in order to achieve a mutual common
objective. In the vast majority of our blogs when

8. The Wikis
Skills for teamwork
Managing Conflict
Communication
Innovation in teams

9. The Wikis

10. #twittercritter

11. #twittercritter

12. #twittercritter

13. #twittercritter

14. FaceBook

15. A template for collaborative practice?
industry & practice
Learning becomes a shared objective
The integrated conversation
gives a 360° perspective
Externalisation of ideas - robustness
classroom

16. A template for collaborative practice?
effective management?
effective collaboration?
client
user
critic
project team
communication silos
cohesion as a barrier to learning
limited information flow
limited innovation

17. A template for collaborative practice?
Learning becomes a shared objective
The integrated conversation
gives a 360° perspective
Externalisation of ideas - robustness
project team
effective management?
effective collaboration?
client
critic
userstudent
researcher
politician
joe bloggs supplier
builder

18. A template for collaborative practice?
project team
Vital ingredients for innovation
Social media:
egalitarian landscape
psychological safety
Sustainable solutions

19. A template for collaborative practice?
project team
peer sharing & review
reward engagement
nurture cohesion
avoid control
promote safety
reflective blogs
Sustainable solutions
team wikisproject review
consolidate & record project knowledge
share, evaluate & develop
(project to project/team to team)
twitter
share & test ideas
gather knowledge
promote best practice

20. Social Media in Education
A template for collaborative practice
Thank you!
jebarrett@uclan.ac.uk
@Meme_Cloud
jennibarrett.wordpress.com