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If you don't fancy reading the whole book, Grainne has done a good precis. If you do want to read it, it's with Stuart at the moment (please feel free to write in it) I like to collect thoughts on pages :)

We have spoken quite a bit recently about students joining different levels of programmes with a strong industry background but a poor academic background - how will we support these students to improve their academic writing skills? On Campus students have a drop in centre and there are mentoring schemes (perhaps this needs investgating further) but for online there doesn't seem to be that kind of support. Something like this website could be the answer, with the opportunity to phone in, ask a question through a forum or chat online - the big question is - whos responsibility is it to provide this service for online students? UDOL or LEI?

Take a look at this video shared by Dave Hopkins. It is really good and captures the basic usage of social media - great to show students!!!

We spoke about needing a social media policy. It appears that many universities and organisations are much further down the line than we are. In this post I particularly liked the document (downloadable) from *June 9th, 2010: Social Media Best Practice for Law Schools - Recommendations for Staff use. Don't know how far we have got in creating a policy but we at least need some guidelines for student use.

Useful for PDP

useful as O~ER for our student induction

Learning design tool guide which breaks down activity design and provides templates too. Useful reading

Student induction ideas

A possible learning design support tool to use with module developers? "We are working with practising teachers to research, and co-construct, an interactive Learning Design Support Environment (the Learning Designer) to scaffold teachers' decision-making from basic planning to creative TEL design. Through this iterative research-design process we hope to address the above issues and build the means by which the teaching community can collaborate further on how best to deploy TEL."

This may be useful when considering BMS as potential collaborative partner

Activity mapping - really good practical advice that I think would be great for faculties as a starter for developing activity content.