Using social media tools to create a personal learning network (PLN) as part of continual professional development (CPD)

1. AUA Jubilee Conference 2011 Social Media and CPD?You can't be serious... Sue Beckingham and Ruth Davies Sheffield Hallam University

2. Learning Aims By the end of this workshop you will: have an understanding of what social media is know how social media tools can be used to create a Personal Learning Network (PLN) be able to link these tools to the AUA Professional Behaviours (CPD Framework) have shared and generated initial ideas for your own PLN

3. Social Media Technologies that enable communication, collaboration, participation and sharing. Hughes A, 2009 for JISC Social software, software that supports group communications Shirky C, 2003

4. Social Media Suter, Alexander and Kaplan, 2005

5. What social media tools do you use? heard of but not used? *one tool per post-it

6. Social Media Uses Maintain/make new connections/friendships Communicate Plan and co-ordinate events/meetings Share information Professional networking Job opportunities/career development Project collaboration

7. New fangled ideas?

8. The earliest critique of the invention of writing... Socrates warns his companion Phaedrus that writing will only make memory weaker "This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them.... writings are silent; they cannot speak, answer questions, or come to their own defence." Socrates Plato (370BC), 274e-275a

9. Information Creation and Distribution Telephone Alexander Bell Radio Guglielmo Marconi The Printing Press Johannes Gutenberg Morse Code Samuel Morse Internet Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee Satellite Sergei Korolev TV John Logie Baird

10. And now….. the Social Web Web 2.0

11. Social Networking It’s been around for a very long time! The Notificator… Social Networking ‘1935 style’ 'To aid persons who wish to inform friends of their whereabouts.' Image source: The Guardian

12. Social Media and Web 2.0 Tools

13. Social Media tools Communication: blogging e.g. Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr microblogging e.g. Twitter, Yammer location e.g. Foursquare, Gowalla social networking e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn aggregators e.g. Google Reader

14. Social Media tools Collaboration: conferencing e.g. Skype, Adobe Connect wikis e.g. PBWorks, Wikispaces social bookmarking e.g. Delicious, Diigo social bibliography e.g. CiteULike, Mendeley social news e.g. Digg, Reddit, Newsvine social documents e.g. Google Docs, Dropbox project management e.g. Bamboo, Basecamp knowledge forum e.g. Quora, Yahoo Answers

15. Social Media tools Multimedia: photographs e.g. Flickr, Picasa video e.g. YouTube, Vimeo live streaming e.g. Ustream, Justin.tv presentation sharing e.g. Slideshare, Scribd virtual worlds e.g. Second Life, World of Warcraft

19. Sir Ken Robinson (2010) RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

20. What is your understanding of CPD?

21. AUA's definition of CPD An ongoing, planned learning and development process that: enables individuals to maximise their potential contributes to work-based and personal development ensures continuing confidence and capability particularly in changing environments updates skills, knowledge and understanding prepares individuals for changes in existing roles or moves to other roles enhances individual and organisational performance

22. AUA CPD Cycle Assess organisational need Identify individual CPD needs Identify learning objectives and opportunities Plan development activities Undertake development activities Record development outcomes Review and evaluate learning Apply learning

23. Professional Behaviours Managing self and personal skills Delivering excellent service Finding innovative solutions Embracing change Using resources Providing direction Developing self and others Working with people Achieving results

24. What is a Personal Learning Network?

25. My PLN Quick Answers Collaborative projects Current developments Sharing resources

27. An example of a wiki in use

28. Twitter - #aua2011

30. Reflective diary You may want to consider: What went well and why? What didn’t go so well and why? What did you learn? What might you need to learn?

34. Using the social media cards consider how any of these tools could be of use to you when developing your own personal CPD plan and PLN (personal learning network)?

35. The added social value > Enables and provides support for learning Can increase the effectivenessof learning Can increase access tolearning. Allows people to connect with each other in spite of geographical distances Provides a forum and permission to participate Complements face to face communication Adapted from George Siemens http://www.elearnspace.org

39. DeliciousUsing Resources

41. Twitter

42. LinkedIn

44. LinkedInDeveloping self and others

46. Wikis

48. Wikis