Social Media

and the

Digital Scholar

Open Public Lecture

Open University of Catalonia

Sue Beckingham | @suebecks

Sheffield Hallam University, UK

CREATORS

CURATORS

CRITICS

CONVERSATIONALISTS

COLLABORATORS

COMMUNICATORS

Social Media EMPOWERS

individuals to become digital:

AND to continue this

dialogue face to face

Established 'sharing' mechanisms

LinkedIn

updates

Blog

comments

Blog

posts

Tweets

Slideshare

YouTube

& Vimeo

Newer digital mechanisms

include

5.4 billion professional people

searches went through LinkedIn

in 2012 alone

We can no longer ignore it

Social media: love it or hate it?

Top visited sites in the world

"Siemens (2004) argues that knowledge is

no longer generated and validated solely

or even mainly by scholarly study, but be

the ebbs and flows of discussion among

millions of Internet participants, a theory he

calls 'connectivism'Bates and Sangra 2011:46

The changing nature of

knowledge

"Digital Technologies are not only

changing our communication habits

and the patterns of our social

interactions, they also create access

to knowledge at any time and

anywhere"

Vodaphone Institute for Society of Communications

Information overload???

or filter failure???Clay Shirky

Create posts

Creating content for your

LinkedIn profile

IMPACT

Creating content for your

LinkedIn profile

Add Slideshare

presentations

Creating content for your

Linkedin profile

IMPACT

Creating content for your

LinkedIn profile

Add publications

Creating content for your

LinkedIn profile

Creating content for your

LinkedIn profile

Add projects

http://www.lifewidemagazine.co.uk/

Publish beyond traditional journals

http://socialmediaforlearning.com/

My blog was created using the free version of WordPress

Personal Blog

Free WordPress Analytics

Free Analytics

https://analytics.twitter.com/

Citation sources are changing

Jackson, N. (2014) TOWARDS CREATIVITY 3.0 : A Narrative for Creativity

& Learning Ecologies in Higher Education

Interconnectedness

Pinned Tweets

http://www.scoop.it/t/taking-a-look-at-moocs

Curation

Interactive showing by

discipline number of

people and publications

uploaded

http://www.pinterest.com/suebecks/

"Web 2.0 tools facilitate more

constructivist approaches to learning,

with greater emphasis on discussion

and the creation of learning materials

and knowledge construction by the

learners."

Bates and Sangra 2011:48

Web 2.0

#BYOD4L | @BYOD4L

https://byod4learning.wordpress.com/

https://byod4learning.wordpress.com/

#LTHEchat | @LTHEhat

http://lthechat.com/about/

The distinction between

reach and engagement

• Reach refers to number of followers

– Great to have a lot, but far better to have influential ones

• Engagement refers to how people respondto you

– Retweets, Shares

– Mentions, Replies

– Likes, Favourites, +1s

Be mindful of your

digital footprint

and the blurring of

social and professional

...and having no digital presence at

all means you are invisible

An activity to go away and try

yourself

What do others see.......

Social Media and the Digital Scholar

The exponential growth of social media and ubiquitous use of mobile

technology has changed the way we communicate both socially and for

many also professionally. It is therefore timely to consider how social media

can be used to develop personal learning networks and through open

sharing find opportunities to also develop our scholarly practice.

Sue Beckingham | @suebecks

Sheffield Hallam University