Youtube, machine learning and professional networks in Fashion

Leigh BlackallCurrent thinking in learning design, Examples of practice, Industry and experience, Pathways, Portfolios, Professional development, Project types, Research and innovation, Social learning, Strategic alignment, Student as producer, Video learningLeave a Comment

The School of Fashion and Textiles has invited us back to their annual professional development day, to give an update on the work we started last year. We’ve also been asked to run a workshop to help others get started with the methods in using Youtube, creating a professional website and connecting into a professional network. The presentation We’ll go … Read More

Online learning is nowhere near here, but is everywhere else instead

Leigh BlackallContent development, Current thinking in learning design, Examples of practice, Experience, Industry and experience, Learning design, Open education resources, Professional development, Project types, Research and innovation, Social learning, Strategic alignment, Student as producerLeave a Comment

Recently the DSC Academic Development Group asked the digital learning team to present examples and discussion points on successful online learning. Mark Smithers, Andrea McLagan and Leigh Blackall contributed. Their presentations were recorded on screen and with a room area microphone. This is Leigh’s contribution – links to Andrea and Mark’s presentations forthcoming. Video Here is the video of Leigh’s contribution … Read More

Can we teach the machine to teach?

Leigh BlackallCurrent thinking in learning design, Examples of practice, Experience, Featured, Global, Learning analytics, Learning design, Open education resources, Portfolios, Project types, Research and innovation, Resources, Social learning, Solution development, Strategic alignment, Student as producer, Systems2 Comments

When Michael Wesch published the short video The Machine is (Using) Us in 2007, he was summarising a long discussion about digitisation and hypertext, search engine algorithms and optimisation (SEO), The Singularity, The Semantic Web, Crowd Source, Open Source, Peer to Peer (P2P), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and many other ideas all within four and a half minutes. The core question … Read More

Staff profiles

Leigh BlackallExamples of practice, Experience, Global, Industry and experience, Learning analytics, Learning design, Pathways, Portfolios, Professional development, Research and innovation, Resources, Social learning, Solution development, Strategic alignment, SystemsLeave a Comment

The ideal When I look up a teacher or academic, a rich array of images, videos, presentations, publications, websites comes up in the search results. Top of the list is either their website or the staff profile for their primary place of work. The reality Most often than not, no images, no videos, no presentations, a few inaccessible publications, and … Read More

Presenting ideas for industry research

Leigh BlackallCurrent thinking in learning design, Examples of practice, Experience, Industry and experience, Portfolios, Social learning, Strategic alignment, Student as producer, Workplace based learning2 Comments

Presenting

Tony Cooper has asked for a range of ideas and ways for people to communicate their Trend Report Folio assignment, undertaken in the Fashion and Textiles Industry Research course.   Your audience will be fatigued Put yourselves in their shoes, they have to look at a bunch of these in the same compressed time-frame. They’ve been doing this for years now. They are looking to quickly categorise and … Read More

Digital identity for journalists

Leigh BlackallContent development, Examples of practice, Experience, Global, Industry and experience, Learning analytics, Project types, Resources, Social learning, Solution development, Strategic alignment, Student as producer2 Comments

Nobody knows who I am

As part of a project we have running with the journalism program, specifically around their international work placements in the 3rd year, we’ve been asked to present our thinking on managing a professional online identity. Professional online identity management Our best articulation of the idea to date is found in Leigh’s post: Online identity, workspaces and folios – a celebration of awareness An … Read More

Online portfolios for professional communicators

Leigh BlackallExamples of practice, Experience, Global, Industry and experience, Pathways, Social learning, Strategic alignment, Student as producer, Systems4 Comments

When your Google Search result is your #portfolio, the internet is your platform. #theinternetistheplatform What Ekaterina Tokareva and Lucinda Strahan teach Professional Communication Studio and ask their students to create a personal website as a portfolio. The question we wanted to address: How do third year students from an interdisciplinary media program articulate and showcase a clear and succinct professional … Read More

Youtube and the School of Fashion

Leigh BlackallContent development, Current thinking in learning design, Examples of practice, Experience, Global, Industry and experience, Learning analytics, Learning design, Pathways, Professional development, Project types, Research and innovation, Resources, Social learning, Solution development, Strategic alignment, Systems, Video learning5 Comments

Digital Learning DSC will support staff in the school to set up and manage their own Youtube channels, as well as support the School in setting up co-managed Youtube channels