Getting Social and Improving Productivity, Thu, Feb 7th 1pm

TDU Social Media Group

This group seeks to advise and support members on how social media can help them individually, for teaching, for research, for communication and collaboration and for business. In fact we will explore as many of the varying aspects of social media that the group wishes to.

As we look to develop the DMU’S transdisciplinary unit's social media group we are going to start this week with a 10 minute presentation introducing a simple but very effective web based productivity tool called evernote. The rest of the session will be assigned to drinking coffee and chewing cud on various topics related to social media.

We welcome all levels, whether they be inexperienced or regular users of social media. We are all learning whatever our level of experience. Please come along.

Look forward to seeing you at the next meeting (TDU Common Room, near Fletcher Building).

Steve and Thom

Social Media Group Kicking Off Soon

Looking ahead to the social media group meeting on Thursday (TDC Common Room 1pm). We’ll need to get to know a bit more about each other, our knowledge and abilities and the things we are interested in learning about. So ahead of the meeting if you get time:

1. Consider the main social media tools you currently use? On a scale of 1-10 where 1 is low and 10 is high, for each tool rate the following: i) your frequency of use and ii) your ability to use the tool effectively 2. Note down some key observations or questions about the tool. 3. Note down any Ideas you’d like to try out with this tool.

From this initial starting point we’ll use our first meeting to hear more about your ideas and develop a plan of action for the coming months ahead.

Should we need to cancel the session due to the weather we’ll let you know with a TD blog post on Thursday Morning.

If you are coming drop us a note in the comments. It would be good to know who is attending

Regards Steve & Thom

New Social Media Group

Following the popularity of the social media workshop two weeks ago, myself and Thom Corah are pleased to accept the role of facilitators for a new social media group to help members explore the practicalities and possibilities of using social media for teaching and learning and more widely.

We of course do not know all there is to know about social media, but we both have good experience of various aspects of social media use and will be able to use this to help people along the various paths that they wish to travel. We also hope that group members can help each other by sharing best practice and ideas.

We propose to hold the first meeting on Thursday January 24th from 1-3pm We’ve set a side two hours for the initial meeting which ideally we’d like you to attend for at least the first 90 mins. We have arranged subsequent follow up meetings on Thursday, February 7th at 1pm and Thursday, February 21st at 1pm, where the intention is to work as a group for an hour, with some spill over time for those that have things that they have time to explore a bit further. All Meetings to be held in the usual TDU Building (near Fletcher building).

We look forward to taking things forward in the new year. Please let us know if you are coming it will help with the planning. If you have a mobile device such as laptop or tablet please bring it with you. Not everyone will need one, but we will need a few for some group work that we will do.

Look forward to seeing you soon.

Steve and Thom