This project began with a fabulous event last year: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/19_Apr_CLL_Birmingham
Follwing this event the HEA provided funding for several project. the project I ran was developing short instructional films and workshops for social work academics to learn about how they could use Twitter to contribute to and support their teaching.
I convinced three students from UCLan School of Media http://www.uclan.ac.uk/schools/journalism_media/index.php to make the two films. Webster, Alex and Tondurayi worked on these as their final year projects. The films were piloted at a session with 9 social work academics in May 2014 along with two linked workshops which supported participants to develop their skills in using Twitter. The feedback from the workshop at UCLan was really promising and a few tweaks were made to the films following those sessions. In addition the workshops will be presented at JSWEC on Wednesday 23rd July 2014, I am hoping that these will attract SW academics who are interested in Twitter but a little cautious.
It is clear that Twitter and otehr SNS's are here to stay and here @UCLanSocialWork we are keen users of this medium, engaging with each other, our students and colleagues in other institutions and in countries across the world. It does take time to build up profile and find a balance in using Twitter, but once you start to engage and collaborate you will see the benefits and potnetial. Here's tomany more of these initiatives!
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