The Technology for Education 2012 conference was held in IIIT, Hyderabad during 18 July to 20 July 2012. Dr. Shailey Minocha presented two pre-conference tutorials, one on "Evaluating the Effective Use of Emerging Technologies in Education"and one on "Using Social Media Technologies for Teaching and Research".
I will try to say something here about her second tutorial. It was very comprehensive and at the same time very detailed. She introduced the essential ideas of social media and spoke about their advantages and disadvantages from the perspective of students, educators, and institutions. She talked about ethical considerations, digital scholarship and digital professionalism. She gave advice on how to and how not to maintain a digital presence and stressed the importance of maintaining a distinction between personal and professional presences. She spoke about ethical considerations to be kept in mind and what digital scholarship and digital professionalism mean.She explained in detail how to use new technologies. Apart from the well known email, Skype, Google chat and texting,
she described how researchers can use wikis, blogs, Second Life, Twitter, Ning, Facebook, Elluminate, Cloudworks, Social Learn, Mendeley, Delicious, ScoopIt, Slideshare, Dropbox and some other lesser known technologies.
You need to wait for the release next month of her "Handbook of Social Media for Early Career Researchers and Supervisors" to find out more details Meanwhile you could browse her website http://mcs.open.ac.uk/sm5
I will try to say something here about her second tutorial. It was very comprehensive and at the same time very detailed. She introduced the essential ideas of social media and spoke about their advantages and disadvantages from the perspective of students, educators, and institutions. She talked about ethical considerations, digital scholarship and digital professionalism. She gave advice on how to and how not to maintain a digital presence and stressed the importance of maintaining a distinction between personal and professional presences. She spoke about ethical considerations to be kept in mind and what digital scholarship and digital professionalism mean.She explained in detail how to use new technologies. Apart from the well known email, Skype, Google chat and texting,
she described how researchers can use wikis, blogs, Second Life, Twitter, Ning, Facebook, Elluminate, Cloudworks, Social Learn, Mendeley, Delicious, ScoopIt, Slideshare, Dropbox and some other lesser known technologies.
You need to wait for the release next month of her "Handbook of Social Media for Early Career Researchers and Supervisors" to find out more details Meanwhile you could browse her website http://mcs.open.ac.uk/sm5
