Thought for the day

In this time when personal contact with our students is so important I have to comment:

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/1245441295314833411

Archiving Tweetchats – Experiment 1

If you take a TAGS file (I used this one: BYOD4L 2016-2017 (@cpjobling)) and sort it in time order, you can then copy column Q (status_url) and paste the data into the HTML view of a WordPress page or Post to get a similar archive to that which @Storify produces.

Unfortunately, there seems to be a limit (on hosted WordPress at least) and only the first N tweets are shown (where N is to be determined). If there are more than N, only the links are shown. Also, retweets will need to be romoved from the data because they are not shown correctly.

(There is a bug in TAGS, the HTTPS protocol has to be used for WordPress to embed a tweet, but Martin records HTTP in the status URLs … A simple fix.)

status_url


https://twitter.com/cpjobling/statuses/819288790074327042
https://twitter.com/cpjobling/statuses/819294022271467520
https://twitter.com/cpjobling/statuses/819816739978485760


https://twitter.com/cpjobling/statuses/820717926592483328
https://twitter.com/sultec4/statuses/820717971056238593
https://twitter.com/hopkinsdavid/statuses/820724476665090049
https://twitter.com/Oelmann_Richard/statuses/820724880865902594


https://twitter.com/cpjobling/statuses/821078123903143936
https://twitter.com/cpjobling/statuses/821078432322846721


https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/statuses/821079196806086659
https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/statuses/821080174389317632
https://twitter.com/WarwickLanguage/statuses/821081721969983489
https://twitter.com/sheilmcn/statuses/821082027017588740
https://twitter.com/cpjobling/statuses/821082621795008517
https://twitter.com/BYOD4L/statuses/821082777030455296


https://twitter.com/neilwithnell/statuses/821082911122264066
https://twitter.com/cpjobling/statuses/821083525512368130


https://twitter.com/WarwickLanguage/statuses/821083860821831680
https://twitter.com/cpjobling/statuses/821084143090073600


https://twitter.com/cpjobling/statuses/821084179945390081


https://twitter.com/cpjobling/statuses/821084312934215687


https://twitter.com/cpjobling/statuses/821084674344845313

#LTHEChat 89 – A Personal Curation

LTHEChat returned last night with a chat on Staff and Student “Digital” Development led by Simon Thompson (@digisim) supported by the new backroom team.

There will be a Storify but I thought I would provide a personal curation of the key conversations that I engaged with or noticed during and after the chat.

This is made easier by a WordPress feature that converts the URL of a tweet into an embedded tweet.

Hint: click on the embedded tweets to access the conversations.

Question 1

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908043411558735872

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908045289008893952

Question 2

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908045881429164032

https://twitter.com/combatbb/status/908046271331618817

Question 3

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908048035300683777

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908048215639052290

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908048396736495616

Question 4

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908051998431436802

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908052874508292097

Question 5

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908053458611261440

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908055318789312512

Question 6

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908055860852731907

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908056049621524480

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908056251749281792

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908057168561233921

Other Conversations

My CPD in 2016: Part 2 #LTHEChat

#LTHEchat is another ongoing twitter chat that takes place one hour every week during University term time (on Wednesdays at 8:00 UK time). The purpose is to discuss various issues around Higher Education. The event was launched by Sue Beckingham (@suebecks) of Sheffield Hallam University and Chrissi Nerantzi  (@chrissinerantzi) of Manchester Metropolitan University in October 2014. Since 2015/2016 the event has been organised by a rotating team of volunteers who run it for a semester.

My first time attending #LTHEChat was November 5th, 2014. In 2016 I attended twenty times as is evidenced by my tweets from my timeline  (search #LTHEChat). When I cannot attend, I typically read the story which is published shortly after the chat. In 2016, I read 6 of the curated stories.

In 2016, I was invited to join the organising team during the January-March semester and I led the organising team in April-June. Organisation #LTHEChat means contacting the host, setting up the blog post, programming the automated tweets for account @LTHEchat, attending the chat and encouraging the community, curating the story and, in my case, creating a network map using TAGSexplorer. I was involved in the organisation of ten of the 2016 chats.

I was also awarded the Golden Tweeter award in July 2016.

Here is a summary of mt LTHEChat activities that counted towards my CPD in 2016. In the titles (A) means “attended” [1 hour CPD], (O) means “organised” [3 hours CPD], (S) means “read the story” [30 minutes CPD].

You’ll also find some of my reflections on individual chats by following the LTHEchat category in this blog.

#LTHEChat 68: What motivates us to use digital tools for learning and teaching? 

Another record breaking #LTHEChat was hosted on Wednesday 16th November by @digisim Simon Thomson. The Storify was curated by @ladyculottes Haley Atkinson who had to slim down the 1500 or so tweets, side conversations and spam posts to extract the essential essence.

View the story “#LTHEchat 68: What motivates us to use digital tools for learning and teaching?” on Storify

Once you’ve read the story, you may like to answer this question in the comments.

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/798983562515120132

Story of an LTHEChat in Pictures

last-weds-image

As part of our preparation for our presentation for Social Media in Higher Education in December (#SocMedHE16), the team is looking at various ways to assess the impact of the weekly #LTHEchat. As part of this, I agreed to attempt to record a flavour of the excitement of the event by capturing snapshots of the growth of the network over a twenty-four hour period using Martin Hawksey’s TAGSExplorer which generated this visualisation, and Jing.

I created a storify of the tweets and some of the reaction:

We should definitely reflect on Richard Treves’ comments that appear at the end of the story:

#LTHEChat 65 on Feedback with Phil Race

In last night’s #LTHEChat Phil Race (@RacePhil) led us on a reflection of the feedback we’ve received and given. Here are the questions and my answers:


 
https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788818629404098560

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788819039263006721

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788820192050683910

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788822427048484867

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788823821612617728

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788825059842519045

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788830337245806592

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788830868500602881

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788831912584437762

All in all

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/788832543726526464

The storify has already been published: #LTHEChat 65: Feedback and feed-forward: language and timing.

#HEAChat/#LTHEChat on Student Retention

This Wednesday’s #LTHEChat was the first of this new semester’s joint monthly get togethers with the Higher Education Academy (HEA). The topic was connection for student retention (or student resilience as Vincent Tinto prefers to call “retention” which he regards as an institutionally focused word). As usual there was a lot of useful sharing. Here’s the Storify: Connection for Retention- building effective learning relationships.

#LTHEChat 62: using assessment and student engagement

Robert Dragan (@robert_dragan) and Dawn Alderson (@dawn_alderson) led a very lively tweet chat yesterday on Assessment and Student Engagement. Despite Twitter itself playing up, colleagues discussed the following six thought provoking questions and you can read the full record that was captured in Storify. Here is the TAGSExplorer visualisation.

Assessment is definately on my agenda at the moment, and I’ll need some time to reflect on my own thoughts on this topic. But themes that seemed to emerge from the chat were that assessments that engage students need to be be authentic, aligned to the learning outcomes, and negotiated with the students that we are assessing.

#LTHEchat continues to go from strength to strength and is my primary way of topping up my enthusiasm for teaching. Why not join me, next Wednesday at 8:00 pm BST?

Golden Tweeter Award

I am humbled at being made the 5th recipient of the prestigious #LTHEChat Golden Tweeter Award for

[my] continuous commitment, valuable contributions and creative energy to the weekly LTHEchat as both a member of the community and as a volunteer member in two organising teams, from January to June 2016.

Golden Tweeter Award

My thanks to the LTHEChat community for this recognition!

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