1. http://hub.vicinnovate.ac.nz/incubator_wiki/index.php/Learning_Teaching_Seminar_Series Seminar Wiki: While you’re waiting, please take our survey: http://tinyurl.com/VUWteach And follow on twitter #VUWteach November L&T Seminar: Up close and personal – social media in the wired classroom

2. Learning/ Teaching context Blog: extended engagement with delivered content. What now? Social Media within Blackboard: Blogs & Wikis (and Q&A Boards) Wiki: collaborative research environment. Blog: Wiki: Nope. Blog: experiment with ways of managing feedback and feedback expectations. Wiki: design ‘collaboration’ into CLOs, learning activities, and assessment. publication + discussion = engagement. M i c h a e l D u d d i n g / S c h o o l o f A r c h i t e c t u r e real-time feedback. Success?

3. Lorena Gibson Cultural Anthropology 1.Moving anthropology beyond the classroom with Twitter 2.“Twitter is just for old people” like me: lessons learned 3.Future directions: using Twitter to co- construct lectures? Lorena.Gibson@vuw.ac.nz Twitter: @lorenagibson

4. Twitter assignment: Twitter activity (3%) and blog (7%) 1. A new research tool: Twitter as a way of finding and sharing online information about energy issues #Scie201 2. Some students fully engaged throughout, others only at the last minute, some scared to start 3. Rhian Salmon is developing this idea for SCIE 211: refined assignment will be more structured, clearer and with reflective component#Scie201 Rebecca Priestley, Science in Context, SCPS

5. Xavier Marquez: Blogging in POLS209, Dictatorships and Revolutions What teaching/learning context is the tool designed to address? Alternatives to the tyranny of the essay: article reviews, informal reflection, quick responses Participation in a wider conversation and creation of a learning community What works/doesn’t work? Use needs to be sufficiently incentivized and structured, but if students blog throughout the term most really enjoy it Problems with different software products; need to moderate comments Future directions? More integration with role playing/simulations; experiments with different structures for student blogposts

6. 1.Notable (https://www.notable.ac/) is an interactive note taking application.https://www.notable.ac/ 2.Drawbacks: glitches with internet explorer; students can’t download notes; it is difficult to modify notes once posted 3.Future Directions: recording application (coordinated with slides) and transcription service.

7. 1.Rationale (http://rationale.austhink.com/) is an argument diagramming tool designed to help students reason in a critical and structured way. It is also an essay planning tool.http://rationale.austhink.com/ 2.Drawbacks: the programme can’t represent all possible argument patterns. 3.Future Directions (early 2014): dedicated ipad version; real time collaboration.