Community Development Education
Social Networking:
Digital Literacy for Educational Development?
Community Development Education
Social Networking:
Digital Literacy for Educational Development?
Objectives
• apply the concept of community to the practice of designing, developing and engaging in educational development
• use the technique of affective recall to explore sense of community
• articulate a typology of community and use this in staff and educational development contexts
• describe some of the new "Web2.0" tools for social networking and suggest educational applications for them
ABCD
• Asset-Based
• Community
• Development
• Appreciative Inquiry to discover the assets: what works?
Affective recall• Group activity (10 min) based on Appreciative
Inquiry (AI)
• In pairs or threes, discuss and ensure you each understand the position of the other member(s) of your group:
– think of a community you enjoyed being a part of, that you thought was successful in some way (recall with affection);
– what was it that made that community a success in your eyes?
Debriefsense of community
Community conditions
Communities cannot be magicked into being
We do not know how to make a CoP
see, e.g.: http://elgg.jiscemerge.org.uk/neilw/weblog/109.html
It has to be enquiry-led
It has to be fun
The opening stance for
Was, in part, a stance …
Typology of communities
• intentional communities• communities of purpose, practice,
circumstance, etc• common sense, identity and identity politics• groups and networks• communities in HE:
– project, discipline, department, team, university, JISC, SEDA, ALT, SCONOL, DIUS, HEA, wider HE community, global, EU, UN, UNESCO, etc, etc
Web 2.0
• new tech tools to facilitate communities of practice
• wiki, collaborative web writing• blog, grinding your axe• audio-graphic environments
– Elluminate, Adobe Connect (Breeze)
• social networks, profiling and presence– Ning, Elgg, Facebook, Second Life, Twitter, LJ, etc
etc
• e-Portfolios– PebblePad, freefolio
Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/
SecondLifeMulti User Virtual Environment (MUVE)
• http://secondlife.com
TwitterMicroblog, Lifestream & Presence
http://twitter.com
NingELESIG Social Network
http://elesig.ning.com/
PebblePadePortfolio
http://www.pebbleweb.co.uk/brookes/webfolio.aspx?webfolioid=24258
Discussion
• Communities in Staff development
• Web 2.0 applications and environments for educational development
Conditions for success?
• Bounded openness• Heterogeneous homophily• Mutable stability• Sustainable development• Adaptable model• Shared repertoire • Structured freedom• Multimodal identity• Serious fun
OCSLD
Community Development Education
Social Networking: Digital Literacy for Educational
Development?
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