Category: My Presentations

Developing your web presence

A workshop for librarians, getting them to think about their own presence on the web, building on sessions run for academic staff at the LSE

I delivered this workshop with my colleague Jane Secker who has written more about the content on her own blog, see Managing your web presence. It focuses on getting staff to think about their own identity on the web, bearing in mind that this is how many people will first meet them!  It includes a short session on Writing for the Web.

Linkedin Webinar

Linkedin SmurfsGreat feedback for the first LSE Careers Service / CLT Webinar which focused on using Linkedin

As part of my work with the LSE Careers Service I co-facilitated a Webinar about Linkedin for job-hunting students. It was the first time we had offered a webinar and the first time we had run a session specifically on Linkedin.  The feedback was very positive:

“A really useful talk and a great way to communicate with the careers service. Thank you”

  • 9 out of 12 said they would make more use of Linkedin as a result of attending the webinar
  • All 12 participants want the Careers Service to run more sessions as webinars

The webinar covered 4 topics:

  1. What is Linkedin? Why use it?
  2. Your Profile – Get Noticed
  3. Get Connected
  4. Researching & Getting More Connected

We tried to minimise the chalk-&-talk by building in some interaction: stopping regularly for questions and using the built-in question tools.  It is very easy for the mind (& fingers!) to wander off in a Webinar so you need strategies for dealing with this!

Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/99zeros/474752493/

What’s Wrong with Web2.0?

A presentation I gave at the CDE Research in Distance Education 2010 conference suggesting that libraries weren’t yet grasping the potential that web2.0 offers

I was a little out of my comfort zone with this one – libraries, distance education; the things you agree to do for colleagues (Jane Secker!) but it went well and I really enjoyed the research I had to do for it.

All we need is is love

Matt presenting at FOTE10We have the technology. We have the capability… all we need is love is the title of the talk I gave at the Future of Technology in Education 2010 on Friday.

FOTE10 is more technology focussed then many of the events I attend but my talk concentrated on teachers/lecturers and their importance in the successful implementation of educational technologies.  My talk in brief:

We have the technology

The technology is here and continues to arrive and has great potential uses in education.  But teachers don’t fully utilise what we already have and understanding why is necessary to ensure we realise the full benefits of future technologies for education.

Continue reading All we need is love

Web2.0: the LSE Experience

A presentation reviewing the use of blogging, social media / networking since 2007 by the LSE Careers Service

I gave this presentation with Judith Baines, an LSE Careers Adviser at the AGCAS Careers Information and Employer Liaison Conference at Warwick University, July 2010. It described their different uses of Web2.0over the last four years, focussing on what has & hasn’t worked.  It concluded with a discussion on whether careers services needed to have a web2.0 strategy and policies.

List of links to the websites we mentioned in our talk.

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