This slideshow describes a project aimed at working out practical teaching and learning scenarios for social bookmarking and RSS feeds in order to get OU teachers to use these tools in their courses and student support Funded by The Open University Practice Based Professional Learning Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning: http://www.open.ac.uk/pbpl

1. Social Networking for Student and Staff Learning This slideshow is informed by a project funded by the Open University Practice Based Professional Learning Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (PBPLCETL) Mary Thorpe & Andrew Brasher with thanks to Phil Greaney, Stuart Brown, Mick Jones, Keith Honnor, Sharon Slade, Chetz Colwell and Non Scantlebury

4. and it’s own community site

6. But it hasn’t always been like that… and Old habits die hard – new ones can take time and energy to introduce

10. … and share them with our network

12. 4 faculties: Education & Language Studies, Health & Social Care, Business and Educational Technology

16. Panke & Gaiser: Social Tagging in Knowledge Organisation – Online survey on the users’ perspective For the majority of respondents the personal knowledge management is more important than making content accessible for a broader community.. … Social tagging is rather used as a data-recall facility or customizable filing system and not as a display for a virtual calling card. It appears that knowledge organization stands in the foreground, whereas the communicative qualities of social tagging appear to be rather an additional value than an end in itself.

25. 2hrs 1hr 2hrs 1hr 6hrs Visual representation of the course created using CompendiumLD http://compendiumld.open.ac.uk

27. Delicious/Google Reader & ALs Once I began using Google Reader the course brought the whole process to life for Me. Again the instructions in the Word document and the videos were extremely easy to follow. Being able to add feeds which keep one up to date with new additions to each subscription makes an enormous difference…Although I use a computer during a very large proportion of my professional and off duty life, I am far from being an expert

28. Faculty ‘hands on’