Dr Sarah Copeland @XarahC – University of Bradford and Dr John Couperthwaite @johncoup – PebblePad A proportion of our future student cohort are returning from school mid-afternoon, throwing their bag down and picking up any number of devices to resume their digital exploration: the remote control; a tablet for streaming media content; their controllers for online gaming; and maybe if they walk to school, a mobile phone. With the exception of the television or radio as channels of unidirectional mass media, our students of tomorrow are communicating, sense-making and identity-building in a social ecology of digital connectivity. In enabling our students to develop their understanding and skill-sets during their time of formalised study, we are required to provide platforms for collating concrete evidence to support progress. Portfolios are a mechanism that many Higher Educational Institutions employ to facilitate asset and evidence gathering for accreditation. In our contemporary media ecology, meta-narratives are captured and embedded in other digital channels. Examples of this include tweet chats being reduced in Storify, bookmarking tools are included in module presentations and LinkedIn is used by students in showcasing experiences in a learning context, and a host of other web 2.0 tools [1]. To maintain academic rigour, how can we enable our learners to aggregate the stories they encounter across their digital networks? In our workshop, we will open discussion around the following themes: The purpose of evidencing learning for personal development and accreditation. Accuracy, legitimacy and credentialing of their collated digital artefacts. Issues of legality and ownership. How social media has the potential to enrich the curated artefacts in a portfolio-based learning space. As preparation for our workshop, we will facilitate an on-line digital discussion amongst our peer group of these four perspectives: our findings will form part of this on-going dialogue. The artefacts generated from these online sessions will be available prior to the workshop for participants to consider and inform the discussions on the day. References: [1] Ridge-Stern, B. (2015) “Digital Storytelling” on The Digital Day blog: https://thedigitalday.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/digital-storytelling/ [Accessed 25.09.2015]

1. Dr Sarah Copeland (University of Bradford)
And Dr John Couperthwaite (PebblePad)
Social storytelling: Evidencing a personal
learning narrative through digital media

2. Understanding personal
learning narratives

3. “Reflection on creative practice”
And
“Creative reflection on practice”
Kirk, C and Pitches, J. 2013. Digital reflec;on: using digital technologies to enhance and embed
crea;ve processes. Technology, Pedagogy and Educa;on, Volume 22, Issue 2

4. Reflection technologies:
“technologies that enable students to 'look and listen again' to their
digital artefacts, a process that encourages them to reflect not only
on the learning itself, but also on the process by which they came
to that learning”
Steve Wheeler, http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/digital-reflections.html

6. Google
Searching
Resident
Social
Visitor
Professional
Facebook
TwiNer
Blog
PorPolio
Skype
Email LinkedIn
Amazon, eBay
Feedly

9. Social media as evidence

12. Towards a better
understanding of social
storytelling

14. Storytelling as pedagogy
#phdchat
Social storytelling: Evidencing a personal learning
narrative through digital media

15. Storytelling as pedagogy
Create a short user story to describe how using social media would
support a portfolio.
Social storytelling: Evidencing a personal learning
narrative through digital media

16. Over to you !

17. Activity 1. Defining user stories…
Create a short user story to describe how using social media would
support a portfolio.
Social storytelling: Evidencing a personal learning
narrative through digital media
Example:
- As a University Lecturer applying for a HEA Fellowship
- I need to include examples of my Tweetchat activity
- So that I can demonstrate engagement with fellow educators

18. Social storytelling: Evidencing a personal learning
narrative through digital media
Activity 2. Understanding challenges…
What are the challenges associated with using Social Media in personal
and professional portfolios ?
Consider:
• Technology
• Ownership
• Context
• Pedagogy
• Relevance

19. Social storytelling: Evidencing a personal learning
narrative through digital media
Activity 3. Making it work…
For the user story below, identify steps to overcome the challenges. A
‘challenge’ will be assigned to each group.
Challenges: Technology / Ownership / Context / Pedagogy / Relevance
Scenario:
- As a University Lecturer applying for a HEA Fellowship
- I need to include examples of my Tweetchat activity
- So that I can demonstrate engagement with fellow educators

20. Next steps

21. Social storytelling: Evidencing a personal learning
narrative through digital media
Useful links: Connect/Link With Us:
Ucisa, Social Media Toolkit
#SocialStory TweetChat
The Conversation Prism
Social Media Guides, Sheffield Hallam University
Visitor and Residents, JISC InfoKit
Kirk & Pitches paper
PDP and Social Media, Sheffield Hallam University
Dr Sarah Copeland
Education Developer, University of Bradford
Twitter: @xarahc
Blog: StoryTEL
LinkedIn: SarahCopeland2
Dr John Couperthwaite
Consultant, PebblePad
Twitter: @johncoup
Blog: Technology Enhanced Musings
LinkedIn: JohnCouperthwaite