for ease of use on the day, this is a single presentation containing all the slides for UKOLN's blogs and social networking workshop on the 26th November 2007 in irmingham.

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2. Exploiting The Potential Of Blogs and Social Networks: Introduction Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, UK Email [email_address] UKOLN is supported by: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/blogs-social-networks-2007/talks/introduction/ Acceptable Use Policy Recording/broadcasting of this talk, taking photographs, discussing the content using email, instant messaging, blogs, social networks, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Resources bookmarked using ' blogs-social-networks-workshop-2007 ' tag

9. Timetable Chris Sexton & Paul Hollins Report Back 15.40 Coffee 15.15 David Harrison, Cardiff Disruptive Technology and its Implications for University Information Services 13.20 Lunch 12.20 Stuart Lee, Oxford The Hidden Dangers of Social Networks: You can log-on but you cannot hide 13.50 Discussion Groups 14.20 Tom Milburn, Bath The Student Perspective 12.00 Finish 16.15 Alison Wildish, Edge Hill Put Yourself Out There 11.30 Melissa Highton, Leeds Leedsfeeds: a Blogging Service based on the Open Source Elgg Application 11.00 Stephen Clarke, Birmingham Blogging In A Managed Environment 10.30 Brian Kelly, UKOLN Introduction 10.15 Speaker Session Time

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23. University of Birmingham Blogging in a Managed Environment Stephen Clarke, Head of eLearning University of Birmingham 0

25. Educational Blogging Weblogs in the Classroom Blogs provide a communication space that teachers can utilise with students whenever there is a curriculum need to develop writing, share ideas and reflect on work being undertaken in the classroom. Definition Blog/WebLog: a web page containing brief, chronologically arranged items of information. A blog can take the form of a diary, journal, what's new page, or links to other web sites. Peter Scott, Internet Librarian 2001 From an education perspective the availability and ease of use of blogging software makes creating Weblogs a viable classroom activity and a means for teachers to communicate with other teachers. http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/weblogs/

29. Blog One

31. Blog Two

33. Blog Three

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43. Leedsfeeds: a blogging service based on the open source Elgg application Melissa Highton Senior Staff Development Officer University of Leeds

46. Leeds University Values

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57. Put yourself out there Alison Wildish, Edge Hill University – November 2007 Image courtesy of markhillary on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/markhillary/370269095/

59. The word on the street… People talking about you is the best form of advertising/pr No publicity is bad publicity?! Image courtesy of vaticanus on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaticanus/333445080/

61. Regardless of any institutional policy our students and staff will use social networking sites Image courtesy of Wanderer and Wonderer on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/global-wandering/1171829609/

63. Our policy / strategy… Image courtesy of Aaron Michael Brown on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/dietpoison/133957015/ … not to have one! Not even for T&L Compliment to marketing An added extra to communication

65. Concerns… Image courtesy of Fiona Macginty on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/fionamacginty/296872194/

68. “ Keele University has ordered its students to watch their mouths on Facebook, and asked them not to express dissatisfaction with the institution on social networking sites. ”

70. Image courtesy of MsAnthea "Anthéaïs" on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthea/84090626/

71. “ I’ve turned down friending requests from students, but they can see what I’m up to anyway on the Edge Hill network ” Rob Spence, Edge Hill University “ I don’t make friends with students, but if they choose to add me to their friends list, then that’s fine ” Emma Image courtesy of domake.saythink on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/domakesaythink/2003483686/

72. It’s just a compliment to other services What can you ACTUALLY guarantee anyway?! Image courtesy of philcampbell on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/clanlife/1517564618/

73. Open | Accept Allow | Encourage Image courtesy of emdot on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/emdot/13519557/

75. Thanks for listening Any questions? Alison Wildish Head of Web Services Edge Hill University blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/webservices Image courtesy of halighalie on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/halighalie/112410629/

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77. Blogs & Social Networks – “The Students Perspective” Tom Milburn – VP Education

81. Students’ Use and Perspective

82. Peer to Peer Support

84. Student Feedback

87. Problems for Staff and Students

90. Flyers…

91. Student Views on Blogs

94. Any Questions?

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96. The Hidden Dangers: You can Log-on But You Cannot Hide Dr Stuart D Lee Oxford University Computing Services

98. “ Web 2.0, refers to a perceived second generation of Web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users” + usually free

99. Web 2.0 Apps McGee, P. and Diaz, V. ‘Wikis and Podcasts and Blogs! Oh, My!’ Educause Review (Sep/Oct 2007) Learning objectives Social bookmarks VCOPs VLWs Exchange information/ideas Interactive Mashups VCOps VLWs Create something new Generative Blogs E-portfolios Collect evidence, present ideas over time Documentative Editing/writing tools VCOPs Wikis Work with others Collaborative Blogs (audio/video) IM Podcasts Webcams Share ideas/data Communicative Tools Function Type

104. ‘ Stephanie Hardwick does not consider herself to be a technology addict, but she carries two MP3 players - an Apple iPod and a Creative Zen - around with her and says she cannot imagine doing her university degree without the internet. A lot of the journals I need are online and I use the internet for everything, like booking tickets, to getting trains, yellow pages. ﾓ T he 21-year-old student studying English at Oxford University says she spends at least an hour a day on Facebook, the social networking site, and downloads some of the plays and books she has to read for her course on to her Zen player, so she can listen to them while working out at the gym…’ FT 29/10/07 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/71cb770e-85b1-11dc-8170-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1

119. Stuart Lee [email_address]

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121. Disruptive Technology and its Implications for University Information Services David Harrison, Cardiff University “ Exploiting the Potential of Blogs & Social Networks” UKOLN Workshop: November 2007

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