BYOD4L

Dear friends,

So far we have all been on a high from the beginning of this week. We have plenty of evidence that learning in the open can be exciting, stimulating and engaging. Learning with others is possible if we make it personal and find bridges to connect with others in meaningful ways. When we show interest and also reach out and help others. Last night’s tweetchat was another fast rollercoaster after the initial hiccups with twitter, and helped us all to discuss and debate collaboration but also cooperate and collaborate.

The storify from last nights topic on collaborating is HERE

Tonight’s tweetchat will be a fun and enjoyable ending to the week, we hope you can join us – it will focus mainly on creative and celebratory tasks. You might want to download an app in preparation. Here are some suggestions:

• Notegraphy
• Penultimate
• Photoshop mix
• Sketchy
• Snapchat
• Instagram Stories

Others? This is just a starter for 10. Feel free to share the one you are using.

If you just discovered BYOD4L or Bring Your Own Device For Learning this is a short introduction to it. BYOD4L is an  open bite-size facilitated learning event offered over 5 days. Today is our last day but still plenty of time to join in! Each day we will focus on a different topic. You can also choose to move between the topics at a time convenient to you. For each topic you should go to the topic page.

Today’s topic is CREATING & CELEBRATING – Here you will find two scenarios to reflect upon and suggested activities to engage with.  For further details about this and the other activities, please check out the Creating Topics page.

Feel free to add further scenarios and suggest other activities too.

Notes:

Go to the Tools page to learn about the tools we recommend you engage with to reflect upon the activities you complete. Add your suggestions in the comments section.

Do include the course hashtag #BYOD4L  in all Tweets, Blog posts and Instagram photos you create.

We look forward to Day 5 together.

The BYOD4L team

BYOD4Learning by Chrissi Nerantzi & Sue Beckingham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Dear friends,

Another amazing day… on Twitter and Google+. Our last tweetchat (wqith #LTHEchat) was another speedy and rich exchange and took many of us to new places. Thank you so much everyone – the Storify is available here

Only 2 days left now? This is hard to believe… we have been so busy all of us and have lost track of time, which can be a good thing as we are probably immersed in the process of learning. It is also amazing how some of the connections are getting stronger and there are discussions about collaborations. This actually fits perfectly with our next topic 😉

If you just arrived here, please note, this is the Bring Your Own Device For Learning! This open bite-size learning event which is offered this week. This is Day 4. Each day we will focus on a different topic. You can also choose to move between the topics at a time convenient to you. For each topic you should go to the topic page.

Today’s topic is COLLABORATING & COMMUNITY – Here you will find two scenarios to reflect upon and three suggested activities to complete. As this topic is about collaboration, we hope that you will use this opportunity and collaborate with others on a mini project. Feel free to add further scenarios and suggest other activities too.

We can achieve great things together? How can we make them happen? Something to think about in the context of this topic image by cc Chrissi Nerantzi http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5459/7181149916_e38bfbbbc5_z.jpg

Notes:

Go to the Tools page to learn about the tools we recommend you engage with to reflect upon the activities you complete. Add your suggestions in the comments section.

Do include the course hashtag #BYOD4L  in all Tweets, Blog posts and Instagram photos you create.

Join our TweetChat between 8-9pm GMT by searching for #BYOD4Lchat on Twitter.

We look forward learning together.

The BYOD4L team

BYOD4Learning by Chrissi Nerantzi & Sue Beckingham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Dear friends,

Already Day 3! We really enjoy learning with you all and have started making some interesting discoveries together. Many of you are becoming more confident in experimenting, communicating and  sharing openly your thoughts as well as sharing your proven practice.

The tweetchats are continuing to be a great source of inspiration and support.  You can catch up on last night’s chat via the storify.  There are also conversations happening in the Google+ space as well as in the blog posts too, so please keep sharing. Great to see that many of you are trying out new tools and sharing what works for you.

Tonight’s tweet chat is going to be another interesting chat, and will run alongside a weekly popular chat that is #LTHEChat.  We hope many of you will be able to join us between 8 and 9pm (BST) tonight.

If you just arrived here for the very first time, please note that this is the Bring Your Own Device For Learning event! An open bite-size learning adventure offered with the help of our lovely volunteer facilitators. It is now Day 3 out of 5 in total. Each day we will focus on a different topic. You can also choose to move between the topics at a time convenient to you. For each topic, please go to the topic page and pick ‘n’ mix activities you think would be of value to you.

Today’s topic is CURATING & COPYRIGHT – Here you will find two scenarios to reflect upon and three suggested activities to complete. Feel free to add further scenarios and suggest other activities too.

Do include the course hashtag #BYOD4L  in all Tweets, Blog posts and Instagram photos you create.

Join our TweetChat between 8-9pm GMT by searching for #BYOD4Lchat on Twitter.

We look forward learning together.

The BYOD4L team @byod4l

BYOD4Learning by Chrissi Nerantzi & Sue Beckingham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Dear friends,

Wow! Day 1 is now  over and we are all set for Day 2. It is so lovely to see so many of you engaging already, sharing experiences via Twitter and Google+. Many of you have set-up a brand new portfolio and have started reflecting on the experience. This is so wonderful and we really hope that this journey will lead to new and exciting discoveries.

Our first Tweetchat on last  was a great success was a huge success and brought many different voices together.  You can catch up via this Storify. It enabled us to make some new connections and strengthen some of the existing ones. For many it was the first time on Twitter or participating in a Tweetchat. As ever lots of sharing happened and we all felt part of the extended BYOD4L family. We hope this reflects your experience too and you will be back for more. It might be useful to ‘warn’ your followers that you are participating in a tweetchat if you intend to come back for more.

If you just discovered BYOD4L and are wondering what this is all about, here is a quick reminder. BYOD4L or Bring Your Own Device For Learning is an open bite-size learning event offered over five days to help us use the smart devices we have for learning, teaching and/or personal/professional development. Tuesday is our second day. Each day we will focus on a different topic. You can also choose to move between the topics at a time convenient to you. For each topic you should go to the topic page.

Today’s topic is COMMUNICATING & CAPABILITY – Here you will find two scenarios to reflect upon and three suggested activities to complete. Feel free to add further scenarios and suggest other activities too. Do include the course hashtag #BYOD4L  in all Tweets, Blog posts and Instagram photos you create. We’ll be on periscope at around 9.30am  today too with another intro to the day and reflection on yesterday. If you are wondering where to start with digital capability why not check out the Jisc Digital Capabilities Framework.

Remember that your reflections will become richer when you share them and engage in a conversation around them. Comment on what others say and invite others to comment on your reflections too.

We’re hoping that you will be able to join our TweetChat between 8-9pm GMT by searching for #BYOD4Lchat on Twitter. This is a great opportunity to connect synchronously with colleagues from around the world.

We look forward to another day of  learning together.

The BYOD4L team @byod4l

BYOD4Learning by Chrissi Nerantzi & Sue Beckingham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Dear friends,

A warm welcome to Bring Your Own Device For Learning! We are very excited to offer BYOD4L for the sixth time.

This open bite-size 5-day learning event is offered over the next five days 15-19 January 2018. Each day we will focus on a different topic. You can also choose to move between the topics at a time convenient to you and pick ‘n’ mix depending on what you would like to learn. To access each topic go to the specific page and put your own learning menu together.

Today’s (Monday, the 15th of January 2018) topic is CONNECTING & CONFIDENCE – Here you will find two scenarios to reflect upon and three suggested activities to complete. Feel free to add further scenarios you would like to explore and share these with the BYOD4L community.

The need to connect. Is there such a thing? Something to think about.
Image source: cc Chrissi Nerantzi http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8445/7988133137_4a9e07e835_z.jpg

But before you dive into BYOD4L, let’s get to know each other first 😉

Start by introducing yourself on Twitter or in our Google + community. There is also the opportunity to join a facilitated group if you would like that. These can be accessed via the Google + community but links have also been added on this blog site (See useful links section on the left hand side).

No need to be everywhere. Pick a space and see what works for you. Connect with others. Learning together is more fun and more rewarding, and will help build your confidence. If you need help, start here. Remember we facilitators are here to support you. Use the hashtag #byod4lHELP if needed and help others too if you are able to.

There are many opportunities to connect with individuals from different institutions and to build your network.

This year we’re hoping to make the event a bit more personal by sharing more digital stories of the byod4l experience.  We hope that this will provide creative, reflective opportunity for some of our regular participants (maybe something to use as evidence for formal CPD opportunities, check out this useful mapping  of BYOD4L to the UKPSF from Andrew Middleton), and also help to unravel and share the many, many conversations that take place during the tweet chats and across the week.  You can share your stories in our digital story gallery.

Notes:

Go to the Tools page to learn about the tools we recommend you engage with to reflect upon the activities you complete. Add your suggestions in the comments section. You may want to consider blogging your reflections each day. You can work towards badges and claim them if you provide evidence in support of your claim.

Do include the course hashtag #BYOD4L  in all Tweets, Blog posts and Instagram photos you create and consider following @BYOD4L on Twitter.

Join our daily TweetChat between 8-9pm GMT by searching for #BYOD4Lchat on Twitter for an hour of fun, sharing and learning, described as “fantastically chaotic”.

To receive updates during the week, follow BYOD4L here on WordPress. Daily messages will be released.

A massive thank you to all our collaborators and mentors for their commitment to this project and their valuable input and support!!!

We really look forward to learning with you. Are you ready for the ride?

The BYOD4L team

BYOD4Learning by Chrissi Nerantzi & Sue Beckingham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Final note
If you are interested in organising a future iteration of BYOD4L with perhaps colleagues from other institutions, please send Chrissi a short message at c.nerantzi @ mmu.ac.uk to discuss this possibility.

‘Bring Your Own Device for Learning’ course (or for short BYOD4L) is back for 2018

Running from the 15-19 January 2018

BYOD4L is a bite-size facilitated open course offered over 5 days for educators and students  in HE but also anybody else who would like to learn with us as to how we can utilise our digital media and devices for professional, lifelong and lifewide learning.

Leading the weeks activities once again will be Sheila MacNeill (Glasgow Caledonian University),  Alex Spiers (University of Liverpool) Neil Withnell (University of Salford)

For the sixth outing of the open online course we are doing something a little different. Don’t worry, we will still be using the 5Cs framework developed by the course creators Nerantzi and Beckingham but we’ve extended it a little  bit.  This year we will double the topics – yes that’s right 10 for the price of 5!! They are the following:

• Connecting and Confidence

• Communicating and (Digital) Capabilities

• Curation and Copyright

• Collaborating and Community

• Creating and Celebrating

As ever we’ll being using an inquiry-based approach that enable participants to learn  with others and/or on their own within a supportive community, so come on in and join the conversations.

We invite you to join the conversations in one or all of the above topics and work towards an open badge or two 😉 There will be seven open badges available in total. One for each topic, one for the community and a course badge if you successfully complete the whole course. All work submitted will be peer reviewed and can be used as evidence of CPD.

The course site is available at https://byod4learning.wordpress.com Feel free to follow @BYOD4L on Twitter to keep up-to-date with all course announcements. The course hashtag is #BYOD4L.

Each evening there will be a tweetchat between 8-9pm GMT. There is an opportunity to both listen in and contribute to a discussion on Twitter via the hashtag #BYOD4Lchat.

In the previous five iterations of the course this has been a vibrant learning space where participants share ideas and learn together.

A special combined #BYOD4L tweetchat will take place on the 17th of January, 8-9pm with #LTHEchat at 8pm UK time.

BYOD4L is openly licensed and has been developed by colleagues at Manchester Metropolitan University and Sheffield Hallam University.

This is the 6th time BYOD4L has been  offered since January 2014. After developing a model through which engagement can be scaled-up or down through informal cross-institutional collaboration, we are experimenting with another idea that would potentially enable other individuals and groups to host and organise BYOD4L in the future re-using the existing digital BYOD4L spaces and resources at any moment in time this would be useful for them and their institutions. If you are interested to find out more regarding this, please let us know and we can discuss.  

Please extend this invitation to others who might be interested in joining us. Thank you very much.

We look forward to seeing you on the 15th if not before 😉

Neil Withnell, University of Salford @neilwithnell, Alex Spiers, University of Liverpool  @alexgspiers, Sheila MacNeill, Glasgow Caledonian University @sheilmcn

If you are participating remember to collect and display your BYOD4L community badge 😉

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BYOD4Learning by Chrissi Nerantzi (MMU) & Sue Beckingham (SHU)  is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Final note

If you are interested in organising a future iteration of BYOD4L with perhaps colleagues from other institutions, please send Chrissi a short message at c.nerantzi @ mmu.ac.uk to discuss this possibility.

Dear friends,

So far we have all been on a high from the beginning of this week. We have plenty of evidence that learning in the open can be exciting, stimulating and engaging. Learning with others is possible if we make it personal and find bridges to connect with others in meaningful ways. When we show interest and also reach out and help others. Last night’s tweetchat was another fast rollercoaster and helped us all to discuss and debate collaboration but also cooperate and collaborate.

The storify from last nights topic on collaborating is HERE

Tonight’s tweetchat will be a joint chat with #CreativeHE

Tonight’s tweetchat will focus mainly on tasks. Creative tasks in collaboration with our #CreativeHE colleagues. You might want to download an app in preparation. Here are some suggestions:

• Notegraphy
• Penultimate
• Photoshop mix
• Sketchy
• Snapchat
• Instagram Stories

Others? This is just a starter for 10. Feel free to share the one you are using.

If you just discovered BYOD4L or Bring Your Own Device For Learning this is a short introduction to it. BYOD4L is an  open bite-size facilitated learning event offered over 5 days. Today is our last day but still plenty of time to join in! Each day we will focus on a different topic. You can also choose to move between the topics at a time convenient to you. For each topic you should go to the topic page.

Today’s topic is CREATING – Here you will find two scenarios to reflect upon and suggested activities to engage with.  For further details about this and the other activities, please check out the Creating Topics page.

Feel free to add further scenarios and suggest other activities too.

Notes:

Go to the Tools page to learn about the tools we recommend you engage with to reflect upon the activities you complete. Add your suggestions in the comments section.

Do include the course hashtag #BYOD4L  in all Tweets, Blog posts and Instagram photos you create.

We look forward to Day 5 together.

The BYOD4L team

BYOD4Learning by Chrissi Nerantzi & Sue Beckingham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Dear friends,

Already Day 3? We really enjoy learning with you all and have started making some interesting discoveries together. Many of you are becoming more confident in experimenting, communicating and  sharing openly your thoughts as well as sharing your proven practice.

The tweetchats are continuing to be a great source of inspiration and support.  You can catch up on last night’s chat via the storify (thanks Sheila).  There are also conversations happening in the Google+ space as well as in the blog posts too, so please keep sharing.

Tonight’s tweet chat is going to be another interesting chat, and will run alongside a weekly popular chat that is #LTHEChat.  We hope many of you will be able to join us between 8 and 9pm (BST) tonight.

If you just arrived here for the very first time, please note that this is the Bring Your Own Device For Learning event! An open bite-size learning adventure offered with the help of our lovely volunteer facilitators. It is now Day 3 out of 5 in total. Each day we will focus on a different topic. You can also choose to move between the topics at a time convenient to you. For each topic, please go to the topic page and pick ‘n’ mix activities you think would be of value to you.

Today’s topic is CURATING – Here you will find two scenarios to reflect upon and three suggested activities to complete. Feel free to add further scenarios and suggest other activities too.

Do include the course hashtag #BYOD4L  in all Tweets, Blog posts and Instagram photos you create.

Join our TweetChat between 8-9pm GMT by searching for #BYOD4Lchat on Twitter.

We look forward learning together.

The BYOD4L team @byod4l

BYOD4Learning by Chrissi Nerantzi & Sue Beckingham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.