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• International Foundation Programme
• Mixed Levels• Across all
faculties/disciplines• 50 ESL students
• Formal lecture theatre with data projector and PC
• PowerPoint presentation using “Cephalonian Method”
• Demonstration of university services
Blended Learning Activity Introduce the University + Library Services to IFP
Cephalonian Method
• Engage international students • Icebreaker – something to DO • Students are active participants in the
learning situation• Invitation for students to speak & share• Trust students to ask their own
questions
Welcome to YourYour Library
Questions?Questions?
Questions?Questions?
Questions?Questions?
Blue Question 1
Library online cataloguehttp://catalogue.londonmet.ac.uk/
• Finding a book
• Reserving a book
• Requesting a book
• Renewing a bookhttp://www.londonmet.ac.uk/services/sas/library-services/services/borrow.cfm
Yellow Question ThreeFacilities http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/services/sas/library-services/
PC’s & Macs in Libraries WiFi for your laptops help on metNet & metNet &
EduRoamEduRoamhttps://intranet.londonmet.ac.uk/iss/wireless/
Your Mobile phonesYour Social spaceQuiet Study ZonesBooking Library Study Rooms online
Zones for Group, Quiet and Silent Study
Blended Learning• Mind map
How things relate for a blended learning event.
How to decide the what, where, how and why?
Social networking tools for academic libraries*
ASDaphne Twitter academic liaison to CASS Architecture and Interior Design staff and students
* “It was also reported that Twitter was useful in maintaining updates for students who were active Twitter users…’students trusted the library more’ because the latter was keeping up with the pace of technology (Kai-Wah Chu, 2012)
Affordances of connectivity + plethora of ways to interact* (Conole, 2012)
Twitter for Architecture in CASS
• ‘social media’ to refer to Internet services where the online content is generated by the users of the service. Although there are other synonymous terms for such services (Web 2.0, participatory media, etc)
• 140 university libraries participated in a web-based survey
• 38 respondents• 30% UK university
libraries use social media in particular facebook and Twitter
Social Media in Learning and Teaching
@ASDaphne Twitter for Architecture and Spatial
Design
Promote our services
Charlie’s new Psychology
Library Blog and Twitter
ARCLIB 2012 pre-conference Tweets between University of Cardiff, UCL +
myself.Great icebreaker
• Benefits
• Disseminates news quickly
• Enhances interactions with users
• Reaches out and engages users
• Helps gather user’s feedback
• Enhances reference services
• Enhances internal staff communication
• Minimal acquisition costs
• Challenges
• Requires times and manpower costs
• Demands mastery of new and evolving technology
• Needs to attract users to take part in different platforms
• Reluctant staff
• Relatively unengaged users
Benefits and challenges associated with using social network tools* (such as Twitter)
Demonstration of ASDaphne Twitter with Screencast-o-matic
• Screencast-o-matic link
• http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cljb1N7KK
• IE link not Firefox
• Or YouTube
http://youtu.be/J3qTbwShm54
Conclusion
Thank You For Listening
Any Questions?