Post on 07-May-2015
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Social networking: why and how?
Anne Marie Cunningham@amcunningham
WHO AM I?
“determined not to be one of the sheep”
Cardiff
My complex professional identity
Practitioner
Educator
Researcher
isolation
WHO ARE YOU AND WHO DO YOU WANT TO LEARN WITH?
My first blog post“I want to link up with other people in medical and health sciences education so that we can learn together”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davepearson/537557536
Who can we learn with?
?
Students
Other professional
groups
Regulators
Industry
Colleagues
Clients
All the people I could be connected to
World
Uk
Wales
Local
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mushon/215270738/
My new network
Sarah Stewart
NZ
Deirdre Bonnycastle
Canada
Natalie Lafferty
Scotland
What do I share?
Research
Stories
Practice
Supporting Scholarship in Medical Education:
The role of social media and networks
Dr Anne Marie CunninghamCardiff University
ASME Summer 2009
Paradigm shift in scholarly communication in medical education
WHAT MIGHT THE BARRIERS BE TO LEARNING IN NETWORKS?
OPENNESS
“My Administration is committed to creating an
unprecedented level of openness in Government.”
President Obama, Jan 21st, 2009
The rise of open?
OPEN
practice
data
gov
source
education
research
Identity
AnonymityPower
Control
Trust
Context
Freedom...?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/horrigans/4762673801/
What are the rules?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/litherland/2614531003/
Harvard health expert calls Facebook ‘Wild West’
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-20021519-247.html
New Frontier
Perils and Pinnacles?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmoorr/86680869/in/photostream/
The ever-changing map of social media and communities http://xkcd.com/256/
Boundaries
“you are your information”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/verbeeldingskr8/4324902924/
Digital footprints
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinothchandar/4282241642/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/buriednexttoyou/5095255302/
Balancing Closed Openness
Learning
Sharing
Risk
Privacy
Safe
Cooperation
CollaborationCoordination
netWORKNetWORKers and their Activity in Intensional Networks Bonnie Nardi et al (2002)
elephant in the room?How much time does this take? Who will value this activity?
A network diagram
IF I HAVEN’T CONVINCED YOU…
Making networks work
Be generousThink the best of peopleThe emoticon is your friend
journeyWhat is round the corner?
Thank youAbout.me/amcunningham
@amcunningham
cunninghamam@cardiff.ac.uk