I’d love your feedback on this.

As this post goes live I’ll be delivering my talk at TEDx Warwick. <gulp!>

I wanted to take the opportunity to point towards the stuff that I didn’t managed to cram into my 17 minutes.

So here goes:

• My doctoral thesis is online at neverendingthesis.com
• My TEDx presentation is (or soon will be) online at my Slideshare account
• I’ve got a blog at literaci.es where I talk about new and digital literacies-related stuff

And last, but not least, I’m writing an e-book about digital literacies with the same title as my TEDx talk: The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies. You can find out more about this at http://dougbelshaw.com/ebooks/digilit

If you’ve seen my talk and have some feedback, I’d love to hear it in the comments below!

If the video from Livestream doesn’t show up above for whatever reason, click through for an archive.org backup.

What is Hybrid Days? from Hybrid Days on Vimeo.

My presentation is entitled How to Develop Digital Literacies in Yourself and Others and I’ll be delivering it via the official Hybrid Days Livestream channel at 20:00 GMT on Saturday 26th November 2011.

Do join me if you can!

On Saturday I’m presenting on the topic of How to Develop Digital Literacies in Yourself and Others as part of the Hybrid Days conference. It’s actually the first place I found out about Open Badges!

I’d really like your feedback on this presentation before I deliver it.

What works? What have I missed?

Update: View my delivery of this presentation here

This builds on my previous presentation, The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies which was created for a conference.

I promised recently to make it easier for people to easily find out the multiple places online that I publish my research and writing. Some of those places, however, constitute one-offs: contributions to magazines or books for example.

At the JISC Conference 2011 I presented with JISC Digital Media on Using Digital Media to Improve Teaching and Learning. I made the point that we need to change what we mean by ‘attendance’ (Slideshare deck below – click through if you don’t see it)

Nicola Yeeles from JISC was in the audience that day and subsequently interviewed me in May. It’s finally made it’s way into a very nicely set-out piece in JISC Inform, the online magazine for the Further and Higher Education sectors in the UK. I especially like the way it includes some audio snippets from the interview itself.

Well worth a read (even if I do say so myself!) if you need some ammunition as to why the dynamics of the classroom need to change.

Soon after Grace, my daughter, was born earlier this year I was invited to Australia to keynote the Association of Independent Schools, New South Wales ICT Managers’ Conference. At the time, Grace was having some problems with lactose intolerance and so I couldn’t commit to being the other side of the world. The organisers still wanted me to present and so I produced the above ‘TELL Talk’ on The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies along with giving a 50-minute workshop on the same subject.

It felt a bit strange getting dressed to present at 2am in the morning to co-ordinate with their schedule but the technology worked well and the session seemed to be well-received.

If you’d like me to present either virtually or in person at your conference or event, do check out my presentations section and get in touch!

Update: watch the Zipcast of my presentation here

I haven’t asked my colleagues if I can use the slides from their part of the presentation and, indeed, some of it was video – so I’ve only included my small section below:

What I was trying to get across was the following:

1. Most people assume that people see the world in the same way as them – and that applies to others in their department/school/institution. Newsflash: they don’t.
2. We need to be able to define our role in the simplest terms possible and then understand how it fits in with the rest of the team/institution.
3. Feedback is crucial to improvement. Top sportsmen and women get constant feedback (and have done since they were very small). We get it once a year in a performance review if we leave it up to others.
4. Mapping workflows seems like a thing that leaders and line managers do, but why wait for them? It’s core to your role, your department’s role and your institution’s role. Do it. Be empowered!