Postings relating to MELSIG events and other events in the sector of interest to participants.
You may be aware that the MELSIG community is crowdsourcing toolkits to support academic innovation. On the 21st of June we are running the next MELSIG event in Sheffield using Toolkit in a Day methodology. One of the secrets to that is to encourage people to submit useful materials beforehand. This call goes out to the…
Participants at the MELSIG event later this month in Sheffield are building three online toolkits to share and inspire good innovative teaching practice with digital and social media. Have you experience and knowledge to share? These open toolkits will focus on: Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes Social Media for Learning Flipped Active & Blended learning (FAB)…
Tickets usually go very fast for the MELSIG events. We have just 100 places. Information about the event and a link to our Eventbrite registration are here. We are going to be building 3 very useful and inspirational toolkits together. In the process, we are going to learn about and share what we know about these…
Global #Twalkday Wednesday 3rd October 2018 Theme: Doing, being, becoming, belonging and connecting Time: 3pm GMT (but options for other time zones to be decided) What is Twalkday? The Twalk will be co-ordinated globally and is planned to coincide with the start of a new academic year. It provides teachers with an opportunity to think…
The next MELSIG event will take place on 21st June at Sheffield Hallam University. The day will have a practical focus looking at three approaches to enhancing academic practice with digital and social media. We will explore three ideas together side-by-side, whether we are new to using digital and social media for teaching and learning…
The development of toolkits gives us a good manageable and useful focus at the moment as a special interest group. We are able to offer events around the toolkits, both online and face-to-face. Looking ahead to the coming year, our direction suggests the following themes will preoccupy us as we continue to develop our toolkits and plan…
We are currently constructing the Twalk Toolkit Discussion groups in the Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference (#SocMedHE17) contributed to our understanding of the #twalk method and the outcomes of this will be added to our Twalk toolkit. In the meantime, you can contribute your own ideas through the Google Docs we used.…
On Tues 19th December 2017 we conducted the #minitwalk in the afternoon joined by colleagues attending the Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference as well as small groups from the University of East London and Edge Hill University.The #minitwalk contributed to our understanding of the #Twalk (Walking, Talking, Tweeting, Thinking) method. (see the Storify) Again we…
Rebecca Sellers (Leeds Beckett University) and Neil Withnell (University of Salford) have volunteered to lead an experiment at our next MELSIG event at Nottingham Trent University on 8 January 2016. Their challenge will be to push the boundaries of Storify to construct personal learning narratives from the day. Rebecca will be with us in Nottingham…
Book this date in your diary. The programme for our next free event is nearly complete. MELSIG will be hosted by Nottingham Trent University on 8th January to help you ease back into the New Year. The free event will have sessions covering the following topics, all addressing the theme of Digital Narratives: Digital Storytelling…