Finding and Sharing Educational Resources using Twitter, Hashtags and Storify ascilite 2014 | Rhetoric and Reality Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Nov. 23-26, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ

Dr Mark McGuire Design, Dept. of Applied Sciences, University of Otago email: mark.mcguire@otago.ac.nz Twitter: @mark_mcguire Blog: http://markmcguire.net/ Dept.: http://www.otago.ac.nz/appliedsciences/staff/markmcguire.html

https://storify.com/mark_mcguire/libraryfutures-archive-2014

#LibraryFutures Project

> DESN 302 (Design for Innovation): 35 students, 300-level, 13-week course, U. of Otago

> Groups addressed a problem or opportunity relating to students’ use of the University Libraries

> A social networking element explored and demonstrated how designers and others are engaging in problem solving in a networked world

Hashtag found on the foot path

https://storify.com/mark_mcguire/libraryfutures-archive-2014

https://storify.com/mark_mcguire/libraryfutures-archive-2014

Social Learning Innovation for Emergent Problems Requires Social Knowledge (SocialLearn, Open University, UK) Ferguson, Rebecca, and Simon Buckingham Shum. 2012. “Towards a social learning space for open educational resources.” In Collaborative Learning 2.0: Open Educational Resources, 309-327. Hershey, PA: IGA Global.

“Colearning” - collaborative networks for creating, sharing and reusing OER through social media.”

> Low cost > Ease of accessibility over the web without specialist skills > Global reach > Instantaneous responses

Okada, Alexandra, Alexander Mikroyannidis, Izabel Meister, and Suzanne Little. 2012. ““Colearning” - collaborative networks for creating, sharing and reusing OER through social media.” Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact - Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education, Cambridge, UK, April 16-18 2012.

Lightweight Sharing > Frictionless Sharing (byproduct of everyday work) > Quick Sharing (linking, uploading) > Content creation (blog post, YouTube video)

An “economy of reciprocity” “The more you give online that is of value to those in your network then the more ‘credit’ you establish.” — Martin Weller Weller, Martin. (2011). The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Generative Systems “People with complementary talents who otherwise would not have known or met each other, much less found a way to collaborate without much logistical friction, can be brought together to work on a project”.

— Jonathan Zitrain Zittrain, J. L. (2008). The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. Yale University Press. New Haven. p. 95.

The “successful use of Twitter comes down to tuning and feeding”:

“And by successful, I mean that I gain value – useful information, answers to questions, new friends and colleagues – and that the people who follow me gain value in the form of entertainment, useful information, and some kind of ongoing relationship with me (2009).”

— Howard Rheingold Rheingold, H. (2009). Twitter Literacy. SFGate, Hearst Communications, Inc. May 11 2009.

Conclusions > Small-scale experiment in the strategic use of Twitter to engage with experts online

> Positive feedback from students

> Archive could be used as a starting point for more extensive collaborations

> In future, students could create and maintain archived resources

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