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bluecloud project launch!
The time has come to release bluecloud (formerly known as the Student Learning Community 2.0) on an unsuspecting public. We’ve created a space for the community on the University’s new uSpace social networking platform and seeded it with a few interesting ideas, but what we’d really love is to get more students in reading, writing, [...]
Project update
It’s been a little while since I posted, so just to keep you interested, here’s a brief summary of what we’ve been up to. Learning and Teaching Conference 2009 Mark and I, introduced by Patrice, presented a showcase session on the project at the university’s annual Learning and Teaching Conference. Mark gave an overview of [...]
Focusing on focus groups
I’ve written recently about why it’s important that we find out what students want and get them involved in the SLC project as early as possible. Sadly, none of us already involved in the project were blessed with the ability to read minds. We need more effective ways of engaging students, and our foray into [...]
Staff driven, student owned
So, we’ve got this great concept for a grassroots community of students sharing advice and resources to improve their learning. The big question that needs to be answered is this: “How do we make this thing float?” We can feed it all the resources and great ideas we like, but if the students don’t take [...]
Social networking poll
Social networking poll, originally uploaded by Jez Cope. I was busy pulling together some links for my last post when I came across this beauty. I think this says it all about the prevalence of Facebook in the current student community!
Introduction to SLC 2.0: Part II
In hindsight, my previous post on the subject of SLC 2.0 seems rather vague. It’s definitely a worthwhile description of the motivation behind the project (or at least my motivation) but it doesn’t really describe what we’re actually doing. I’ll seek to remedy that a little with this, part II of my introduction to SLC [...]
Introduction to SLC 2.0: Part I
I’ve recently become involved in a new project, under the University of Sheffield’s SeeChange initiative, going by the name of “Student Learning Community 2.0â€. What’s this all about? Well, it’s to do with using social networking and other Web 2.0 ideas to support student learning at the university, but that sounds more fuzzily defined to me every time I read it. I’ll be using the rest of this post to clarify what the purpose looks like from my perspective at the very outset of the project.
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