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WEB 2.0 UNTANGLED :
REACHING AND TEACHING OUR USERS WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES
WOLFSON COLLEGE WEDNESDAY 24TH NOVEMBER
UC&R BBO and CoFHE Mid West Circle


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Philippa Levy and Sheila Webber:
Starting as we mean to go on? Technology-rich, inquiry-based learning in the first undergraduate year
This presentation will explore questions and issues relating to the use of digital technologies for inquiry-based learning at undergraduate level. In particular, we will focus on the First Year Experience in higher education, with examples from the Information School's BSc Information Management. Drawing on research evidence about students' experiences of engaging in inquiry in a technology-rich environment, the presenters will highlight key opportunities and challenges for information specialists who are teaching and supporting learning.
Phil is Professor of Higher Education Development and Head of the Information School at the University of Sheffield. Between 2005 and 2010 she was Director of CILASS (the Centre for Inquiry-based learning in the Arts and Social Sciences) a national Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at the University. In this role she led a wide-ranging programme of educational development and research relating to inquiry-based learning (IBL) and undergraduate research in higher education.
Sheila is a Senior Lecturer in the Information School at the University of Sheffield. Her key focus for research and teaching is information literacy and learning. She is Director for the Centre for Information Literacy Research and coordinates the MA Information Literacy. Sheila is an invited speaker on information literacy internationally, and maintains the Information Literacy weblog (http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/).

Full Programme
9.30 Registration
10.00 Peter Godwin (University of Bedfordshire):
Keynote speaker on Web 2.0 and information literacy
Peter is Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of Bedfordshire.
His main focus is on Information Literacy in academic libraries and in particular the impact of Web 2.0 on Information Literacy in all information sectors. He has co-edited a book for Facet on this topic. He draws on many years' experience in academic library management and has presented at Conferences in the UK, Europe and USA.
11.00 Dr Eric Davies:
Weaving ethics and law into the fabric of Web 2.0
Web 2.0 technology applications have created a new model of information dissemination where the users (consumers) of information are simultaneously also its creators. It is as if books were published with numerous blank pages into which the readers add to the narrative. Some of the ethical and legal dimensions of operating within this paradigm will be explored.
Eric Davies is currently Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University, where he also teaches a programme on Ethical, Legal and Professional Issues in IT. From 1999 to 2007 he was Director of LISU and he has over 25 years experience in academic library management.
11.25 Coffee

11.35 Helen Clough (Open University):
The Elluminate web conference technology.
Helen will talk about how the OU Library is using Elluminate web conferencing technology to deliver library training sessions to distance learners, and how they are equipping their librarians with the skills needed to deliver in this medium.
Helen is a Learning and Teaching Librarian at the Open University Library. She supports the Faculty of Arts and co-ordinates their face-to-face and online training programmes.
12.15 Lucy Power (Oxford Internet Institute):
Scientific social networking and open notebook science.
Some life scientists are using new online tools to reshape the ways they formally and informally produce knowledge. This is changing the way they work, and stimulating much discussion about these ways of working. This presentation will examine several of these ways of working, including online scientific social networking using a tool called Friendfeed, and online open laboratory notebooks.  These cases will be used to illustrate the types of incentives and barriers researchers face when deciding to share ideas and data using Web 2.0 tools and resources.

Lucy joined the Oxford Internet Institute in 2007 to study the impact of internet technologies on the research practices of life scientists. Since 1995 she's coded websites, administered servers, managed large Web projects, and worked for 10 years as an Information Architect, most recently at Ingenta.
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch - Buffet provided
2.00 Artie Vossel-Newman (JISC):
It feels good to be included
The majority of this demo will be spent around the My Study Bar, available as a free download from www.eduapps.org<http://www.eduapps.org/> Participants will get an opportunity to see the potential of the free software that is included in this floating toolbar and will hopefully leave eager to download and implement it across their institutions. Items from the TechDis Box of Assistive Technology will also be on display.

Artie has been with the RSC South East for the past 6 years. Prior to that she worked for SEEDA and for the Universities of Portsmouth and Southampton. She holds an MA from the University of Bonn, Germany in English Language and Linguistics and an MSc Combined Studies (Work-based Learning Degree) from the University of Portsmouth.
2.45 Philippa Levy and Sheila Webber:
Starting as we mean to go on? Technology-rich, inquiry-based learning in the first undergraduate year
This presentation will explore questions and issues relating to the use of digital technologies for inquiry-based learning at undergraduate level. In particular, we will focus on the First Year Experience in higher education, with examples from the Information School's BSc Information Management. Drawing on research evidence about students' experiences of engaging in inquiry in a technology-rich environment, the presenters will highlight key opportunities and challenges for information specialists who are teaching and supporting learning.
Phil is Professor of Higher Education Development and Head of the Information School at the University of Sheffield. Between 2005 and 2010 she was Director of CILASS (the Centre for Inquiry-based learning in the Arts and Social Sciences) a national Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at the University. In this role she led a wide-ranging programme of educational development and research relating to inquiry-based learning (IBL) and undergraduate research in higher education. CILASS's work included a special focus on both the creative use of digital technologies in IBL and information literacy development for IBL. Phil has longstanding research interests in the areas of inquiry learning, technology-enhanced learning and learning support, and the student experience in higher education. Recently she has conducted a critical review and synthesis of research evidence on the use of technology in IBL for the Higher Education Academy.
Sheila is a Senior Lecturer in the Information School at the University of Sheffield. Her key focus for research and teaching is information literacy and learning. She is Director for the Centre for Information Literacy Research and coordinates the MA Information Literacy. Sheila is an invited speaker on information literacy internationally, and maintains the Information Literacy weblog (http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/). Sheila is a long-time user of technology in teaching and learning, and latterly has pioneered use of the virtual world, Second Life, at Sheffield. Before joining the Information School, Sheila taught at the University of Strathclyde, and prior to that was Head of the British Library Business Information Service. Sheila is a Fellow of CILIP, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Information Literacy Section.
3.30 Coffee
3.45 Richard Francis (Oxford Brookes University):
The MobileBrookes project
Richard is Head of eLearning and Principal Learning Technologist at Oxford Brookes University, and a National Teaching Fellow working on sustaining communities of staff elearning practitioners. Before coming to Brookes he taught language and linguistics at the Universities of Bologna, Trieste, Krakow, Ljubljana and East Anglia and trained English teachers.
4.30 Close

<http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/c-of-he/circles/mid-west/Pages/booking-form.aspx>Lesley Kumiega
Learning & Teaching Librarian (Social Sciences, Education and Languages)
Open University Library
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
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