We asked members of the ODHE Group to use post-it notes to indicate which ‘digital’ tools they used for which purpose:
- iPad: Saving ££ on printing/notetaking in meetings +1
- Lots of apps for travel planning – trains, flights, buses, maps, walking, pubs, directions
- Website – where to go for study skills. +1
- Dropbox – document sharing and getting docs on the move +3
- Slideshank – PowerPoint on the iPad/cloud
- Powewownow – teleconferencing
- Catchup TV – TV whilst working away +1
- Google – research/entertainment +2
- LinkedIn – Keeping in touch, e.g. MMU Interns have a group +1
- QR Codes – Room timetables
- Prezi – Capturing a session & sending out to delegates +1
- Skype – Lots of virtual meetings
- Tripit –web & mobile to keep track of travel
- Camera on phone – recording flipchart/whiteboard for capture +3
- Mobile phone – email on the move +6
- Mobile phone – GPS tagging (safety of staff abroad) +1
- Google Earth – looking at route through street images
- Articulate – statuory training
- Linked In – Business Networking +4
- Doodle/Meetomatic – setting up groups +4
- Kindle on iPad/iPhone & Kindle – PDF & other docs (& leisure reading)
- Facebook – social networking & keeping up to date with work related stuff
- Facebook group – new students pre-Freshers week
- Adobe Connect – ‘virtual’ meetings
- Listenfish – to language
Twitter is another way of using social media; whether to communicate about events in another way, direct people to articles, blogs or other information, or simply share a thought to encourage self reflection.
I was pleased to know that people actually read my tweets (sometimes I do wonder whether it is worth keeping it up) when I was hacked and some tweets got circulated that were definitely not the kind of thing I write about – one about someone spreading malicious rumours and the other about weight loss! Thankfully, within minutes, I was notified by a host of people and was able to change my password immediately to rectify the problem. Twitter has helped me to have face to face conversations I would never have otherwise had.
Twitter @cdvallance