Category: #byod4l

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#BYOD4L wraps

So the January 2018 run of Bring  Your Own Device for Learning (BYOD4L) is over! Thanks to the team, Sheila McNeil, Alex Spiers, Neil Withnell, Debbie Baff, and Suzanne Faulkner for their expert guidance!

I didn’t do the tasks, but I did do a fair amount of connecting, communicating and curating this time.

My TiddlyWiki record of #BYOD4L 2018 is byod4l.cpjobling.net. It’s one HTML page (index.html) which you can copy by pressing the save button. (The magic is all done with JavaScript.)

This TiddlyWiki an open resource (CC BY), so do explore, steal, and remix!

Techy Stuff

The Super Techy Stuff

If you want to do something similar, get yourself a GitHub account; clone github.com/cpjobling/byod4l.cpjobling.net. Check out the website for the branchgh-pages. Open index.html in your browser. Find out more about TiddlyWiki, and how to use it, here.

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BYOD4LChat Number 1

I created this page as a proof of concept using CoDog’s link extraction tool on the story that was curated by Sheila McNeil.

Observations, long tweetchats like this should be edited in the Text view in WordPress. Rendering the tweets in the Visual HTML editor view is not something that the WordPress can cope with, but is probably necessary if you want to add commentary to a chat rather than a straight record.

The page will take a long time to load as each tweet has fetched as HTML, embedded in the post and rendered by the browser! (I assume Storify caches the embedded tweets somehow to avoid overloading the Twitter APIs.)

There’s a danger that you might crash your WordPress server!

Conclusion, a story which can be archived as a static website (See Archiving Tweetchats) may actually be preferable!

Here is the Archived Chat

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/952907031068934144

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952993978357608449

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952994346713976832

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952994692387483648

https://twitter.com/drkhemsworth/status/952995825654919169

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952996409871126528

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952996834108235782

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952997882638077952

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952998368405606401

https://twitter.com/drkhemsworth/status/952999098994618369

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952999281417445377

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952999583457726464

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/952999828220506113

https://twitter.com/gwenffrwd/status/952999904409997312

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953000168751759360

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953000632721518592

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953001594777370626

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953002203152900102

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953002647103172611

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953003290182193152

https://twitter.com/gwenffrwd/status/953003338945228800

https://twitter.com/CliveBuckley/status/953004302557220865

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953004594514284544

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953005931050291201

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953006205424816128

https://twitter.com/CliveBuckley/status/953007234598031361

https://twitter.com/gwenffrwd/status/953007326440673292

https://twitter.com/SusanMGreig/status/953007499245969409

https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/status/953007550781411328

https://twitter.com/SusanMGreig/status/953008502699708421

https://twitter.com/CliveBuckley/status/953008878064726016

https://twitter.com/SusanMGreig/status/953009505159270401

https://twitter.com/gwenffrwd/status/953009524901908482

https://twitter.com/SusanMGreig/status/953009972199284736

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BYOD4L 2018

Cat in sillhouetteIt’s time for Bring Your Own Device for Learning 2018 (my 6th) and this year there are 5 additional C’s (Confidence, Capability, Copyright, Community and Celebrating) to add to the usual menu of Connecting,  Communicating, Curating, Collaborating, and Creating.

I’m probably not going to have the freedom that I had last year to contribute as much as I would like, but I will be using a new curation tool – TiddlyWiki  – and its mobile editing app Quine.

You can follow my progress by checking out my Byod4L TiddyWiki on Dropbox. Just download a copy of index.html and open it in a browser.

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#BYOD4L: What will your story be?

Cross-posted from the LTEC Blog.

It’s new year. Winter seems to be coming. The students are busy. Time for some useful CPD?

On Monday 16 January 2017, the five day short online course Bring Your Own Device for Learning (#BYOD4L) starts its fifth run.

Structured around the five Cs: connecting, communicating, curating, collaborating and creating, this course aims to provide you with practical experience and ideas of how you and your students might exploit your mobile devices in your teaching to enhance your students’ learning. The course was conceived, created and originally facilitated by Chrissi Nerantzi (@chrissinerantzi) of Manchester Metropolitan University and Sue Beckingham of Sheffield Hallam (@suebecks). After 3 runs it has become a community facilitated event that gets bigger every time.

The course is free, informal, and fun. I should know, this will be my fourth time! It takes place on-line in WordPress, Twitter (hashtag #BYOD4L), and Google+, and any other pop-up on-line communities that the participants might establish. Every morning the topic of the day is published (follow @BYOD4L or, if you prefer an email notification, subscribe to the BYOD4L web site). Every evening, at 8:00 pm GMT, there’s a fast and frenetic Tweetchat (think ‘Tw’eminar) on the topic of the day which you can join in by using hashtag #BYOD4Lchat.

Best of all, you can collect open badges for participation gather evidence of CPD that you can bring to your PGCertHE, HEA fellowship (initial application or evidence of good standing) and PDR. Mindful of this, for this run the organizers are encouraging us to share the stories of our experiences. So, to get your thinking, here’s one of mine.

I’ll be helping the facilitators Neil Withnell (@neilwithnell), Sheila McNeill (@sheilamcn), and Alex Spiers (@alexgspiers) as a volunteer mentor along with my SALT colleague Debbie Baff (@debbaff). LTEC will also be retweeting interesting snippets throughout the event as @sultec4.

Hope to see you there.

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My #BYOD4L Story (Part 1)

In advance of the fifth run of bring your own device for learning (#BYOD4L) and inspired by Sheila McNeil’s post “#BYOD4L A story of personal and professional needs and wants“, I thought that I too would reflect on my experience of my last three #BYOD4Ls.

Looking back at my Twitter Archive, I find that my first #BYOD4L contribution was a retweet on 14th July 2014:

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/488631919609790466

I’m struggling to find any blog posts from what was then the 2nd run of #BYOD4L (the first looks to have been in January 2014) so I probably only engaged via Twitter and Google+.

I note that I was sticking my nose in quite early!

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/489075712608194560

For curation, it looks like I was favouring these tools:

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/489498546606202881

Reviewing these today, Diigo, is being updated automatically, I’m an inactive curator on Anne Hole’s BYOD4L Flipboard, I’m still using “favourites” on twitter but have stopped using Pocket, Pearltrees and Evernote!

I’ve had a dig around the Google+ site and Twitter but can’t find anything that I actually created that first outing, but here are a couple of shares that are worth revisiting:

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/489313421935263744

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/489465884784984064

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/490104477866029056

And some opinions that I expressed:

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/489310008124137472

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/489510313348194304

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/489133283393810433

As this post is already getting quite long and #LTHEChat 72 is about to start, I’ll stop there, and continue this story in Part 2 tomorrow.

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#BYOD4L V – This Time it’s Personal

Bring Your Own Device for Learning HashtagBack in January for its fifth run is the excellent Bring Your Own Device for Learning (#BYOD4L) online CPD-fest. Covering the 5Cs, Connecting, Communicating, Curating, Collaborating and Creating, this “course” aims to share great ideas and build communities. Concentrating on portable educational technology that you can use with yourself, your colleagues and your students, you’re guaranteed to discover something that will enable you and them to be more effective. And at the same time you’ll find yourself becoming part of a growing community of like-minded souls.

I’ve participated three times already and it’s a really rewarding if hectic 5 days. This year’s facilitators will be Sheila MacNeil (@sheilamcn, Alex Spiers (@alexgspiersand Neil Withnell (@neilwithnell and they introduced the course by web-cast during yesterday’s final day of the ALT Winter Conference. You can find out more and a recording of the web-cast here:
#BYOD4L V – this time it’s personal.

The community has been invited to contribute so expect to see me there.

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