Community Development Education

Social Networking:

Digital Literacy for Educational Development?

Community Development Education

Social Networking:

Digital Literacy for Educational Development?

Objectives

• apply the concept of community to the practice of designing, developing and engaging in educational development

• use the technique of affective recall to explore sense of community

• articulate a typology of community and use this in staff and educational development contexts

• describe some of the new "Web2.0" tools for social networking and suggest educational applications for them

ABCD

• Asset-Based

• Community

• Development

• Appreciative Inquiry to discover the assets: what works?

Affective recall• Group activity (10 min) based on Appreciative

Inquiry (AI)

• In pairs or threes, discuss and ensure you each understand the position of the other member(s) of your group:

– think of a community you enjoyed being a part of, that you thought was successful in some way (recall with affection);

– what was it that made that community a success in your eyes?

Debriefsense of community

Community conditions

Communities cannot be magicked into being

We do not know how to make a CoP

see, e.g.: http://elgg.jiscemerge.org.uk/neilw/weblog/109.html

It has to be enquiry-led

It has to be fun

The opening stance for

Was, in part, a stance …

Typology of communities

• intentional communities• communities of purpose, practice,

circumstance, etc• common sense, identity and identity politics• groups and networks• communities in HE:

– project, discipline, department, team, university, JISC, SEDA, ALT, SCONOL, DIUS, HEA, wider HE community, global, EU, UN, UNESCO, etc, etc

Web 2.0

• new tech tools to facilitate communities of practice

• wiki, collaborative web writing• blog, grinding your axe• audio-graphic environments

– Elluminate, Adobe Connect (Breeze)

• social networks, profiling and presence– Ning, Elgg, Facebook, Second Life, Twitter, LJ, etc

etc

• e-Portfolios– PebblePad, freefolio

SlideShare

• http://www.slideshare.net/georgeroberts

Flickr

• http://www.flickr.com/

Elluminateaudiographic learning environment

• http://www.elluminate.com/

SecondLifeMulti User Virtual Environment (MUVE)

• http://secondlife.com

TwitterMicroblog, Lifestream & Presence

http://twitter.com

NingELESIG Social Network

http://elesig.ning.com/

PebblePadePortfolio

http://www.pebbleweb.co.uk/brookes/webfolio.aspx?webfolioid=24258

Discussion

• Communities in Staff development

• Web 2.0 applications and environments for educational development

Conditions for success?

• Bounded openness• Heterogeneous homophily• Mutable stability• Sustainable development• Adaptable model• Shared repertoire • Structured freedom• Multimodal identity• Serious fun

Thank you

George Roberts

groberts@brookes.ac.uk

http://www.slideshare.net/georgeroberts

OCSLD

Community Development Education

Social Networking: Digital Literacy for Educational

Development?