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Using social media tools to create a personal learning network (PLN) as part of continual professional development (CPD)
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Social Media and CPD?You can't
be serious...
Sue BeckinghamSheffield Hallam University
AUA Yorkshire Conference and Jubilee Lecture 2011
Learning Aims
By the end of this session 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
Social Media
A tool
•for augmenting human social and collaborative abilities
A medium
•for facilitating social connection and information interchange
An ecology
•for enabling a "system of people, practices, values and technologies in a particular local environment"
Suter, Alexander and Kaplan, 2005
Social Media
The use of web-based and mobile technologies to
turn communication into an interactive dialogue
Wikipedia
Sharing
Technologies that enable
communication, collaboration,
participation and sharing.
Hughes A, 2009 for JISC
New fangled ideas?
The earliest critique of the invention of writing...
Socrates warns his companion Phaedrus that writing will only make memory weaker
Socrates
Plato (370BC), 274e-275a
"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."
The Printing PressJohannes Gutenberg
Morse CodeSamuel Morse
TelephoneAlexander Bell
RadioGuglielmo Marconi
TVJohn Logie Baird
Satellite Sergei Korolev
InternetDefence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
World Wide WebTim Berners-Lee
Information Creation and Distribution
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
Much more than
Facebook!
Brian Solis
Question
What social media tools 1. do you use?
2. have heard of but don’t use?
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, Netvibes
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
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
The Social Web
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• Social Learning
It’s all learning
Formal LearningInformal Learning
Social Learning
PEOPLE!
Tools
Information
The added social value >
• Enables and provides support for learning• Can increase the effectiveness of learning• Can increase access to learning. • 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
Sir Ken Robinson (2010) RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
What is a Personal Learning Network?
Asking and answering questions
Collaborate on projects
Feedback on your work
Inspiration from others
Getting Organised!
RSS Feeds and aggregation
A Personal Space
Somewhere to keep and record:• Record of achievements• Happy file• A reflective diary or journal
What is your understanding of CPD?
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
AUA CPD Cycle1. Assess organisational need2. Identify individual CPD
needs3. Identify learning objectives
and opportunities4. Plan development
activities5. Undertake development
activities6. Record development
outcomes7. Review and evaluate
learning8. Apply learning
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
Finding innovative solutions
Arranging a meeting across multiple departments, campuses, universities.
Wiki, Google Docs, Google Hangouts
Virtual attendance at a conference
Google Docs and Google+
An example of a wiki in use
Twitter - #aua2011
Reflection, SWOT analysis and action planning:
Personal blog
Managing self and personal
skills
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?
Seek expert advice:
LinkedIn Quora
Delivering excellent service
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
Card sort activity
Task or activity
Strengths and
weaknesses
Skills and knowledge
needed
Prof Dev action
Social media tool
Additional examples
Using the professional behaviours within the AUA CPD Framework as part of a personal CPD plan and linking social media tools as a mechanism to carry
out tasks/activities.
Getting to know members of a new team or university; exploring new opportunities:
Embracing change
Developing and sharing online information using social bookmarking tools:
Diigo Delicious
Using Resources
Sharing examples of good practice:
Slideshare Twitter LinkedIn Yammer
Providing direction
Horizon scanning, keeping abreast of current developments in sector:
RSS: updates for web pages and blogs
Developing self and others
Sharing ideas:
Blogs Wikis Google Docs
Working with people
Collaborative projects:
Google Docs Wikis Skype
Achieving results
Sue Beckingham
@suebecks
