The document discusses ways to add value when attending events by actively engaging on social media during the event. It provides tips such as standing up if you attend or tweet about the event, capturing complex slides, adding side conversations, using humor, sitting near the front, linking to the agenda, selling your wares, blogging about meetings too, and announcing yourself at events. The benefits mentioned are raising your profile as an attendee, adding value to the event, promoting Jisc resources and related work, painting Jisc as an authoritative organization, and exposing different audiences to one another. The document encourages trying these engagement techniques and managing expectations, as it can be hard but gets easier with practice.

1. Adding value to events
Your Jisc correspondent
Bigging up Jisc

2. Stand up If you Attend Events

3. Stand up if you Twitter

4. The old way
• Write notes
• Save notes
• Write report
• Email report to SRO and team

5. A Different (Better?) Way

6. Reference Jisc

7. Cross Reference
The speaker dwelt on the difficulties of remote mentoring and a reliance
on email and the finding that face to face worked better. I have to
wander whether this was an opportunity for the Institution to help up
skill mentor and mentee in remote collaborative working. That way the
employer gains benefit through new working practices pioneered by the
recent employee (alumni). I’ve often been in conversations about the
lack of join up in HEIs between business leaders, ICT leaders and the
resulting lack of effectiveness in business benefit fort investment in ICT.
The idea of the recent graduate acting as catalyst between SME
employer IT and Business Leaders for the same enhancement in impact
of ICT to working practices was something I heard about this week in
my blog of the Jisc Digital Literacy event.

8. Capture Complex Slides

9. Add side conversations
People have approached me to discuss how we
maintain the momentum we’ve gathered
through the programme. Our conversations
have included the concept of widening the net
in terms of the professional associations via
further joint activities co sponsored and co
designed via Values Realisation. We also
highlighted the need for resource discovery
enhancements in the Design Studio, perhaps
via tagging.

10. Use Humour

11. Sit near the front

12. Link to the agenda

13. Sell your Wares

14. Pick out your highlights
Dr. Marsha Lovett is Director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and a
Teaching Professor in the Department of Psychology, both at Carnegie Mellon
University. Throughout her career, Dr. Lovett has been deeply involved in both local and
national efforts to understand and improve student learning. Her book How Learning
Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching distills the research on how
students learn into a set of fundamental principles that instructors can use to guide
their teaching. Dr. Lovett has also developed several innovative, educational
technologies to promote student learning and metacognition, including StatTutor and
the Learning Dashboard.
Marsha poses the question ‘How do we tell how well our students are learning?’
Quizzes, homework performance, comparing to previous students / classes etc are
traditional ways. Analytics offers new ways giving better and fuller insights into learning
performance.
In a rich modern course experience by a well respected tutor Marsha found that
‘Students spend 100 + hours across the term yet show only learning gains of 3%’ and
asks ‘what improvements can be made by applying analytics as an adaptive, data driven
course ‘ and found that 18% learning gain occurred in less than 50 hours.
I have to applaud Marsha for giving us some concrete quantitative evidence for
performance changes, something that has been lacking in the majority of analytics
projects in my experience.

15. Blog Meetings Too

16. Announce Yourself

17. Benefits
Raises your profile as attendee (and master of the dark arts)
Adds value to event, shows you as a leader, shows Jisc as a leader
Draws self selecting audience to Jisc resources
Promotes to wider audience by retweets and event hash tag
Promotes related Jisc work
Paints a picture of a truly authoritative organization
Reduces your workload (when you walk out the door, your work is
done, event attendees and organisers do your promotion work for
you)
Exposes different disciplines and audiences to one another by cross
referencing blog posts
In the spirit of ‘open working’

18. Have a go!
It’s hard (but gets easier)
It forces you to concentrate (really hard)
It can be fun
Manage expectations – ‘good enough’ is better than ‘never got
around to’ or ‘on my hard drive never to be read’
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