Recruitment drive for new Digichamps, summarising objectives and opportunities

1. Student Digital Champions
MSc Digital Marketing
Induction Talk, 24th Sept

2. Digital Literacies Project Objectives
• Raise awareness across the University
• Benchmark University Digital Literacies activities
• Link Education and Research communities
• Run workshop series (82 people have attended so far)
• Digital Literacies Conference (95 attended)
• Student Digital Literacies Champions
• Integrate DL into Graduate Attributes
• Develop DL Special Interest group – diverse
membership across all faculties and including
Professional Services (Careers, Student Services,
Library)

3. Student Digital Champions
• Help staff and students to learn new tools, build
their online profiles, and manage social media for
live events
• Champs to be attached to each USRG next
academic year
• Digital Economy USRG is funding students to
participate in relevant events, report back at
monthly networking lunches and collaborate in
research/teaching projects
• Supported by Social Media in Live Events (SMiLE)
project

4. Ivan Melendez
Sam Su
Oliver Bills
George
Georgiev
Ahmed
Abulaila
Digital Champions Hamed
Ayhan
Alessia
Hamed Ayhan Fiochi
Panos Grimanellis
Farnoosh Berahman
Lucy Braiden
Manish Pathak
Marina Sakipi

5. Digital Champion Activities
• PianoHAWK launch in London, May 2012
• Digital Literacies Conference
• Support for workshops:
– Online Identity
– Safety and Security
– Developing a Professional Profile
– Social Media for Researchers
– Professional Identity for International Teachers
• One to one training as required
• Helped set up a Chinese Social Network account for
Modern Languages
• Digital Champions Presentation

6. The conference was attended by 95 people on site and via
Twitter
we had followers both locally based and from New Zealand,
Columbia and Ireland.
Student Digital Literacies Champions played a key role in
supporting the event
Summary Storify is here

7. “The workshop was very inspiring and
generated some very good insights. It
Feedback “Hearing from such a diverse
range or people on the subject
was really inspirational. I would
recommend this to anyone with
was wonderful having international
students attending, as they were able to even a remote interest in the
contribute with a different perspective, area.”
specifically those coming from totalitarian
regimes. Their concerns and priorities in
regards to protecting their own identity
“Lots of interesting
are very different from those in UK .” discussion inspired by some
pretty open questions.”
“I thought this was a brilliantly organised, and immersive
experience, and in that latter respect corresponded exactly
“Great to get big names to one of the stages of digital literacy mentioned by one of
the speakers. I learned huge amounts and felt by about 3.30
to Southampton. that my brain was full!”
*** It was a really great
“…the whole event was a
day. Thank you.*** ” real eye-opener in more
ways than I can mention
here. It was kept under
control through a nice blend
of more discursive talks “More like
with shorter introductions this please”
“I liked the openness Looking forward
to key advances or
and contributions to next one! resources. This was very
from almost clever and helped a new-
everyone.” comer like me to manage it
all.”

8. New CIP Modules:
linking research and teaching

9. Plans for this year (1)
• Allocation of #digichamps to Research and
Innovation Services for each USRG and to assist with
Multi-disciplinary Week
• #Digichamps already booked to assist with
promotion of major WSA design event in London and
Soton Neuroscience Group
• Develop and deliver CIP module – Working and Living
on the Web (also included in Web Science BSc)
• #digichamps requested to be part of other CIP
modules (Intercultural Communications)
• Induction talks on DL to all Humanities students and
run staff training workshop

10. Plans for this year (2)
• Work with SUSU VP Ed to train all sabbaticals
• Graduate Passport – develop closer links for
recognition of contributions by SDLCs
• Full programme of DL workshops and one to
one training
• Graduate Attributes – ensure our graduates
are recognised as being ‘digitally literate’ and
enhance employability
• Developing links to student support – DL input
to personal tutoring system

11. Thanks to all the Digital Champions 
• …and we need lots more of you for next year!
– Georgi Georgiev, MSc Digital Marketing
– Marina Sakipi, MSc Digital Marketing
– Panos Grimanellis, MSc Digital Marketing
– Ivan Melendez, MSc KISM
– Ring Xu, PhD Management
– Nicole Beale, Web Science DTC
– Chris Phethean, Web Science DTC
– Oliver Bills, Web Science MSc
– Sam Su, BSc Management
– Hamed Ayhan, MSc Digital Marketing