For thing 12 on the 23 Things for Professional Development programme we’ve been asked to consider the role of social media in building up networks and a sense of community. Four questions were posed and here are my responses: what are the advantages to social networking in the context of professional development? – for me the main advantage is that online social networks break down the barriers of time and space. My online networks reach far beyond the face-to-face networks that I belong to which are primarily local. can you think of any disadvantages? – the only disadvantages that spring [...]
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Things 11 & 12 – Podcasts and YouTube
Thing 11: Find and listen to some podcasts Thing 12: Search YouTube for videos and discover YouTube channels When I was a kid I didn’t read that much I was much happier listening to story tapes and when I listen to the radio I would much rather hear spoken word rather than music – these are the two main reasons why I love podcasts. I started listening to podcasts when I worked on the Oxford Digitisation Project. One of my main tasks was surveying the collections across Oxford’s libraries to see what could be digitised; it was a very repetitive [...]
