Lisa Harris Marketing

I haven’t updated on Social Media and Open Education (ECI831) for a while but I’ve been keeping an eye on things, including the for-credit student blogs which are great and provide a wide range of perspectives. I particularly loved the networked student video which neatly summarises learning styles for the 21^st century.

Sue Waters did an excellent session in Elluminate last week. My key take away from the session was her reminder of the importance of getting student buy-in to blogging. Although the benefits of blogging may seem obvious to the ‘converted’, that is not necessarily so to newcomers. Sue showed some specific examples of her students’ blogs which clearly demonstrated how the writers had grown in confidence with their posts over time.

And another cool feature of Elluminate caught my eye during this session:

It allows participants in the real-time session to write their ideas on the whiteboard summarising their thoughts on their key learning points, as per the screenshot above.

The next session featured Alan Levine, who did a great presentation at the Open Education Conference in Vancouver this summer. However, Alan got stuck at the airport and so he was only there in spirit – but he has left a massive collection of fantastic stories and ‘stories about stories’ on the course wiki page that I am working my way through…