Part of the ongoing Connected U project, we ask how do universities engage students in using social media as a digital toolbox to establish e-portfolios? This presentation supported a short idea generation activity led by Sue Beckingham at #melsigntu in January 2016

1. Social Media Portfolios
Building the Digital Toolbox using social media
Andrew Middleton, Sue Beckingham & Kelly Snape
@andrewmid
#MELSIGNTU, 8th January 2016
@suebecks @kelsnape

2. LinkedIn - de facto place for professionals
The shared need to develop
Professional profiles using social media
• Aspiring professionals - PPDP for
students
• Practicing professionals - professional
recognition for staff

3. Lifelong professional habits
• Fostering effective
lifewide professional
habits and presence
• Demonstrating your
professional self is a
lifelong capability

4. What is Connected U?
https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/profiles

5. What is Connected U?
• ‘How to’ guides
• Exemplars
• Profiles
• Recommendations, skills
and endorsements
A Toolkit
• Cases studies
• Written
• Video
with
• Alumni
• Employers
• Academics
• Advisers

6. The portfolio challenge: becoming professional
Learning about having
a professional profile…
Learning about
bring professional…
Practicing acting
professionally…
Learning to maintain
your online identity…

7. Beyond the presentation layer...
Focusing on the aspiring professional and the
developing academic
The Portfolio Layer
How do we make, curate, and prepare content
for presentation in LinkedIn?
How do social media habits relate to this?

8. Begin with a Digital Toolbox

9. Developing a richer picture

10. Building the Digital Toolbox
What apps or social media do you want to put
in the digital toolbox? Why? What does it do?
How will it enhance our students:
• reflective self
• presence
• profile
• habits