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Do you come here often? The fleeting nature of communication in a 140 character World #durbbu10Jo Badge, Alex Moseley, Stuart Johnson, Alan CannUniversity of LeicesterPresentation given to Blackboard Users conference 5 January 2010, Durham
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Do you come here often? The fleeting nature of
communication in a 140 character world
Jo Badge, Alex Moseley, Stuart Johnson, Alan Cann
www.le.ac.uk
Compulsory Key Skills module
•220 biological sciences 1st year students
•IT and numeracy
•Microsoft office and email
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Key Skills Module
PLE
Systems that help learners take
control of and manage their own
learning. This includes providing
support for learners to set their
own learning goals, manage their
learning, manage both content
and process, and communicate
with others in the process of
learning.
(ref)
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Image: cc flickr Stabilo Boss
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Personal Learning Environments
Support systems
• Video feedback• Face to face support• Blackboard discussion board• Email
Support via Specific ‘academic’ accounts
Student communication via twitter
• for slideshow do we include the title slide in the 5 slides?
• I'm confused about what day of the week the rss, delicious bookmarks and weekly assignments need to be done. Can you clarify please
• Blackboard has been down since yesterday morning so I haven't been able to complete this weeks task. Can I have an extension please?
Wider uses of Twitter by students
• doing metabolism questions over msn, testing each other is a fab way to learn! If only I knew any answers.
• is rather worried about the assessment tomorrow and is preparing herself for failure
Communication with students
• Shift away from asynchronous discussion?
• How are students communicating with each other?
• What tools are in their PLEs?
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PLE
The future?
• RSS• Blackboard 9 and beyond• Real time?• Google wave?
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We gratefully acknowledge support for this project by a grant from the HEA
Centre for Bioscience Departmental Teaching Enhancement Scheme
.And JISC TechDis for the provision of iPod
touches in the HEAT3 scheme
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