Dear colleagues,

I'd like to invite you to join us for an event exploring the use of
social media and collaborative innovation in learning and teaching:



Ravensbourne Digital Futures: Making Connections


19 January 2011 at 1.30pm to 7pm

The Walker Space, Ravensbourne,
6 Penrose Way,
London,
SE10 OEW.


One of the founding fathers of social media, Howard Rheingold, and
Euan Semple, blogger and social media guru, will be featuring in an
event to explore collaborative innovation.  The afternoon aims to
encourage participation and group activity around learning and
teaching in higher education for mutual benefit.  The event will also
be of interest to all those who wish to explore new ways of engaging
young people online and via mobile phones, and new ways to capture
attention and stimulate an interest in lifelong learning.  In addition
there will be an opportunity to see demonstrations with technologies
such as GeoLocate games, 3DTV, Augmented Reality and conversational
user-interfaces.

To see the full programme and to book a ticket (£35 per delegate) go to:

http://ravensbournedigitalfutures.eventbrite.com


Howard Rheingold
Experimenting in Collaborative Learning and Teaching: The Social Media Classroom
Howard Rheingold has gone back to the lab to create new pedagogies
using chat, forums, streaming and other collaborative technologies.
Funded by a small award from the MacArthur Foundation Howard worked
with a developer to create the free and open source Social Media
Classroom (http://socialmediaclassroom.com). The classroom will be
demonstrated and Howard will give the findings from his experiments
with using social media to capture and lead the attention of students,
including organising students to take the role of the facilitator of
learning at times.

Euan Semple
Working Collaboratively for Learning and Business
There has been a fundamental shift in the way we learn. Driven by
online social networking tools such as Blogging, YouTube, Facebook and
Twitter, how we learn from each other and organise that learning has
changed forever. Euan Semple will examine what these changes mean for
people in business and education, how they represent a new wave of
exciting opportunities for 21st century organisations and what lies in
store for managers and teachers and the role they will play in the
future of business.


Kind regards,

Lizzie

-- 
Dr Lizzie Jackson,
Deputy Head of the Faculty of Communication Media,
Ravensbourne
Penrose Way
London
SE10 0EW

http://rave.academia.edu/LizzieJackson
T: +44 (0) 20 3040 3500
M: 07808725141

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