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Using social media for maths and statistics support
This was the programme for the day:
10.00 Arrive and coffee (T104 open from 9.30, cafe below open 8.30)
10.10 Welcome, housekeeping and introduction by Mary Bishop (Dean of Students)
10.10 Welcome, housekeeping and introduction by Mary Bishop (Dean of Students)
10.15 Sue Beckingham - Using Social Media for Learning
11.40-12.15 Workshop 1 (T104) - Jisc Digital Capability, the Learning Wheel, Jane Hart's 100 tools, David White visitor and native task, Digital Diagnostic quiz
12.15 - 1.15pm workshop 2 - choose from:
Group 1: T104 communication tools - twitter (Tweetdeck #mathchat) + Facebook groups
Group 2: T105 communication tools - YouTube/screencast + Whatsapp
2-3 Workshop 3 Choose from:
2-3 Workshop 3 Choose from:
Group 1: T105 collaboration tools - Creating blogs + Padlet
Group 2: S204 (Mellor) google docs for sharing + Equati0 (google Chrome add-on) - creating math
3pm Case studies
3pm Case studies
- Fiona Knight (School of Computing and Digital Technologies) - GITHub
- Shaun Reeves (School of Computing and Digital Technologies) - Professional Social Media
3.40 - 3.50 Action planning
Close - Sigma chair David Bowers (University of Suffolk)
We used Padlet for a number of the activities: https://padlet.com/helen_walmsleysmith/socialmedialearning
and there are lots of resources available for use on this Padlet page and further information is available here. Information about the Conversation Prism by Brian Solis was also shared.