Feb 1 2013

Information Literacy workshops for PhD students

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Need help researching academic resources for your major review?

  • Want to keep up to date with the latest academic writing on your research area
  • Need advice on citing materials and structuring your bibliography?
  • Looking for statistical data for your research.

Then book a place on this term’s MY592: Workshop on Information Literacy
This six week programme (part of the Department of Methodology’s Workshop series) is taught by the Library and Centre for Learning Technology. Six 2 hour ‘hands on’ workshops will enable you to build up your research skills as we cover:

  • Literature searching, citation searching and finding academic materials using resources such as IBSS, Scopus, Web of Science, Econlit, etc.
  • Getting the most out of the internet for research
  • Managing information – creating bibliographies and using tools to manage your information, e.g. EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley
  • Dealing with data – resources for data and how to use them
  • Finding and using newspaper, conference, theses, research and specialist publications for research
  • Next steps, keeping up to date, sharing your research, developing your online presence and building a network.

MY592 is supported by a course in Moodle and all participants receive feedback on resources for their individual research topics. The course is ideal for first and second year PhD students.

This term the programme will start on Wednesday 13 February 10-12 in STC.S175 for 6 weeks. Further information is available and places can be booked on the LSE Training System .

Please email Maria Bell (m.bell@lse.ac.uk) if you have any queries about the course.

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Posted by: Posted on February 1, 2013 by Jane Secker  

Jan 28 2013

Teachers’ Show & Tell

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Posted in: Announcements, Events & Workshops (CLT), Teaching & Learning, Tools & Technologies

“Show & Tell” events are an opportunity to see LSE lecturers, administrators and teachers demonstrate how they have effectively used learning technology to enhance or better support their own courses. Staff in attendance are invited to network, ask questions about a colleague’s innovative practice and develop their own ideas in an environment supported by individuals from the Centre for Learning Technology.

This instance of the Show & Tell will cover aspects of practice such as e-assessment, blogging, use of Personal Response Systems and a student video project. The event is due to take place 14th February, 12-1.30pm and lunch will be provided. Places can be booked using the LSE Training and Development System under “Teaching”, “CLT Events” and “Teachers’ Show & Tell”.

If you would like to participate in any future Show & Tell event please email the team at clt-support@lse.ac.uk.

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Posted by: Posted on January 28, 2013 by Jo Stroud  

Jan 23 2013

Learning Technology development grants

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Calling all LSE staff. Are you interested in exploring the use of technology to support teaching and learning? The Centre for Learning Technology still have funds to provide small development grants to help you in this work. These funds can be used for a wide range of purposes as we are interested in encouraging innovation and supporting good ideas in their early stages. Possible areas include: trying out novel forms of assessment, use of video and rich media, “flipping” lectures and  exploring social media. There is no restriction on the use of funds but they are not intended for the purchase of equipment, rather for uses such as employing a graduate student to help you with the work, or perhaps purchasing resources to be piloted.  It is unlikely that any individual request will exceed £3k.

 If you would like to find out more please contact Steve Ryan, director of CLT or e-mail clt-enquiries@lse.ac.uk.

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Posted by: Posted on January 23, 2013 by Jane Secker  

Jan 16 2013

Developing digital and information literacy at Cardiff University: next NetworkED seminar

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I’m pleased to announce that the next NetworkED seminar will be held on Wednesday 6th February at 2.30pm. The presenters are Cathie Jackson, Joe Nicholls and Janet Finlay who will be talking about the development and implementation of a digital and information literacy strategy at Cardiff University. The work is part of the Digidol Project, which was funded by Jisc under their Developing Digital Literacies programme. You can find out more about the seminar from our NetworkED website. The event is open to all. LSE staff and students should book via the online booking system.

External visitors wishing to attend should email j.secker@lse.ac.uk to book a place. As ever we hope to be live streaming the event and if you wish to watch the seminar online you simply need to visit the event webpage at 2.30 on Wednesday 6th February and do NOT need to book a place. You can follow the event in Twitter using #LSENetEd

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Posted by: Posted on January 16, 2013 by Jane Secker  

Jan 11 2013

Time to flip?

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“Flipping” the lecture is an approach that has been gaining popularity in UK education recently. It means providing students with a video recording in lieu of an actual lecture, and then using the timetabled lecture period to do something more interactive with students.

One pioneer of this approach is Carl Gombrich, director of the Arts and Sciences programme at UCL. In his words, “it is a no-brainer to me that generally students get more than double the benefit by seeing your lecture on a video … and then have a full hour in which to discuss their thoughts on the video.” You can read more in Carl’s reflections on a year of flipped lectures.

CLT would love to hear from any member of lecturing staff who would like to try something similar at LSE. The Echo360 lecture recording system enables not only recording of live lectures, but also personal recording from the desktop, so your video lectures can be a more intimate affair. If this sounds interesting, please drop us a line at clt-support@lse.ac.uk.

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Dec 11 2012

Pedagogy as an undisputed social good?

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Recently, the LSE Media & Communications department approached CLT to offer a 15 minute perspective on the keyword “Pedagogy” for a small seminar group & without much thinking (or indeed time to think!) I volunteered. I don’t do it often enough, such spontaneous pontificating on what pedagogy means to us (me), and it turned out to be great discipline and a great opportunity to collect my thoughts on what arguably plays a great part in my daily practice. In the end, the thoughts remained jumbled, but the seminar itself turned out very interesting. This had a lot to do with an attentive and articulate audience, and of course with the first contributor, Julian Sefton-Green, a Principal Research Fellow in the Media & Comms, who spoke very intelligibly about pedagogy as a progressive theory and the creep of pedagogisation. Ellen Helsper, lecturer in Media & Comms, acted as respondent, pulling both approaches to the keyword together, calling attention to the undoubtedly normative elements of (current) education/ pedagogy discourse. In light of both Julian’s and Ellen’s more properly academic discussions, my contribution remains a cobbled together stream of consciousness/ thought piece, but I uploaded the presentation onto slideshare anyway, including the script. I don’t stand by all that can be read there, but I stand by one thing: there’s lots to learn about lecturing from Martin Heidegger. Unfortunately I never got to make that point very clearly… clearly I have to return to this at some future point. :-)

Slideshare link: http://www.slideshare.net/sonjaloren/pedagogy-social-good

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Posted by: Posted on December 11, 2012 by Sonja Grussendorf   Tagged with: , ,

Nov 26 2012

The literacy challenge of the digital age – December’s NetworkED seminar

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Next Wednesday, 5th December we have Carl Miller from Demos coming to LSE to speak to us about a report that came out last year about young people’s ‘digital fluency’. The report, Truth, Lies and the Internet considered the ability of young people to navgiate an increasingly complex online environment, how they judge and develop critical skills when reviewing content online and the role of teachers in supporting them. The Internet is now the greatest source of information and misinformation for people living in the UK. At our fingertips lies both trustworthy journalism and selective half-truths, both niche expertise and general nonsense. This is asphyxiating as well as liberating. Too many people are unable to find the information they need, or trust the first thing they do. In this talk, Carl Miller, the Research Director for the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos proposes the skill of ‘digital fluency’ as the key to how we all must react. if you could like to come along to the session LSE staff should book via the Online Booking System.

We hope to live stream the event, but will make a recording on our website shortly after the event. We also use the Twitter hashtag #LSENetEd so you can follow the event live. Visitors who are interested in attending the event should contact j.secker@lse.ac.uk to book a place.

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Posted by: Posted on November 26, 2012 by Jane Secker  

Nov 12 2012

What CLT (can) do for you: Social Media

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Posted in: Blogging, Research Skills, Social Media, Teaching & Learning

CLT – what we do for you…
An occasional series about stuff we support and promote & which we think you should know more about. Today’s post is about Social Media.

Social Media
‘Social media’ is a generic term that describes all those online applications you use to communicate, share and collaborate with others for variety of reasons, networking, fun, politics and of course learning. Blogs, social networking sites (eg facebook), twitter, wikis (eg Wikipedia), flickr – all these are social media. For a comprehensive guide, check out the JISC InfoNet guide on social software.
CLT have been promoting and supporting the use of social media in education for quite some time and especially in the last two years LSE academics have really started to embrace them. Blogging and twitter have become particularly popular, as their potential for making connections in learning, teaching and research has become more apparent. In our CLT NetworkED seminar series last year, Patrick Dunleavy indeed made a great case for academic blogging as part of a new digital revolution in the academic publishing world. Facebook groups are used by PhD students as a platform to share information and academic tips across the disciplines. Moodle wikis are used to facilitate collaborative writing to great effect. The new director Craig Calhoun has an established twitter presence and recently encouraged anyone out there to ask him questions via twitter (#askthedirector) which he answered in real time at a particular hour at the beginning of term. And if you still need convincing that twitter can (i.e. most emphatically not must!) have a place in academia, have a quick read of the LSE guide to twitter.

If you’re planning an academic conference or event, however small or big, you should really consider creating a hashtag so that the wider community can participate: online backchannels are now as important as face2face meetings. And if you’re not sure about which social media are right for you – teaching, networking, learning or research – then you should get in touch with us! Drop us a line, drop in on us, book on one of our training courses: we’ve been supporting the use of social media for a long time!

Our workshops change over the years of course – recently we have started to concentrate more on how to write effectively for the web and moved away from the more step by step learning of how to create and manage blogs. We can also tailor workshops to particular departments’ or groups’ needs. Get in touch if this is something that interests you.

Timeline:

2005 CLT start running blogs via wordpress
2006 CLT host first externally facing blog for Charlie Beckett, blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis
2007 Libraries & Social Software in Education (LASSIE) project, project blog still going strong and maintained by CLT’s Jane Secker
2008 Digital Literacy workshop programme, offering workshops on blogging, social bookmarking, twitter, using rich media (youTube, flickr etc) in teaching…
2010 set up the lse.ac.uk yammer domain – a sort of corporate ‘walled’ twitter application for all LSE account holders.
2011 Workshops on social referencing tools: CiteULike, Zotero, Mendeley
2011 #LSEnetED: CLT seminar series NetworkED: Technology in Education launched with funding from the LSE Annual Fund.

Update: Conor Gearty’s Reflections on ‘new media’ , published yesterday (12/11/12), is a measured and well-informed discussion of the pros and cons of academics’ (esp. Public Lawyers) use of twitter and blogging.

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Posted by: Posted on November 12, 2012 by Sonja Grussendorf  

Oct 16 2012

Information Literacy support for LSE PhD research students

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  • Need help researching academic resources for your major review?
  • Want to pick up new tips on using a range of academic databases and online resources?
  • Need advice on citing materials and structuring your bibliography?
  • Looking for statistical data for your research.

Why not book a place on MY592: Workshop on Information Literacy
This six week programme (part of the Methodology Institute’s Workshop series) is taught by the Library and Centre for Learning Technology. There are six 2 hour ‘hands on’ workshops which enable you to build up your research skills as we cover:

  • Literature searching, citation searching and finding materials using such databases as IBSS, Scopus, Web of Science, Econlit, etc.
  • Getting the most out of the internet for research
  • Managing information – citing references and using software to manage your information, e.g. EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley
  • Dealing with data – resources for data and how to use them
  • Finding newspaper, conference, theses, research and specialist publications
  • Next steps, keeping up to date, sharing your research and building a network.

MY592 is supported by a course in Moodle and all participants receive feedback on resources for their individual research topics. The course is ideal for first and second year PhD students.

This term the programme will start on Tuesday 6 November 10-12 in STC.S018 for 6 weeks. Further information is available at http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/services/training/MY592.aspx and places can be booked on the LSE Training System.

Please email Library.Enquiries@lse.ac.uk if you have any queries about the course. It will run again in Lent and Summer term.

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Posted by: Posted on October 16, 2012 by Jane Secker  

Sep 26 2012

Diana Laurillard comes to speak at NetworkED

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Posted in: Events & Workshops (CLT), Teaching & Learning, Uncategorized

I’m delighted to announce that Professor Diana Laurillard, from the Institute of Education has agreed to give our first NetworkED seminar of 2012/13. Diana is world renowned in the educational technology field and the author of the book ‘Rethinking University Education‘. She also developed what is known as the ‘conversational framework’ which provides a model for embedding educational technologies into teaching. Those of you who have studied on LSE’s Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education will no doubt be familiar with her work.

Professor Laurillard will be speaking on the topic of ‘Teaching as a design science: developing reliable knowledge of learning technology’ to tie in with her book on this topic published earlier this year. The event is being held on Wednesday 10th October at 3pm. LSE staff and students should book if they wish to attend using the Training System. The event will be live streamed so open to anyone throughout the word to watch from their own computer. A recording will also be made of the session which will be available from our website a few days after the event. Further details are available from the NetworkED site.

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Posted by: Posted on September 26, 2012 by Jane Secker