{"id":4912,"date":"2014-10-08T08:26:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T08:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technologyenhancedlearning.net\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2014-10-08T08:26:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T08:26:41","slug":"digithings-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/digithings-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"DigiThings Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January Learning Technologists piloted a new method of providing CPD. <a href=\"http:\/\/technologyenhancedlearning.net\/digithings\/\" target=\"_blank\">DigiThings<\/a> was a self-directed, peer-mentored online programme that aimed to support staff with teaching and research responsibilities to explore and engage with a range of different presentation tools and techniques.<\/p>\n<p>It was adapted from Dr Helen Webster&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/dh23things.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>23Things for Digital Humanities<\/em><\/a>&#8216; (DH23Things) course which she ran at Cambridge University. Instructional posts were delivered via WordPress and participants were encouraged to try each tool and reflect on their experiences using the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/newcurriculum.wordpress.com\/using-ancil\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A New Curriculum for Information Literacy<\/em><\/a>&#8216; (ANCIL) framework developed by Coonan and Secker (2011).<\/p>\n<p>Although initial interest was high, engagement with the course declined steadily. Please see the full\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/technologyenhancedlearning.net\/files\/2014\/09\/DigiThings-Evaluation-Report-Final-Sept1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">DigiThings Evaluation<\/a>\u00a0for a more detailed report to find out why this might have been. Despite the decline, participants did like the format and the quality of content and as a team it is definitely something we would run again having learnt lessons from this first pilot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interview with DigiThings participant, Dr Emily Beaumont, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January Learning Technologists piloted a new method of providing CPD. DigiThings was a self-directed, peer-mentored online programme that aimed to support staff with teaching and research responsibilities to explore and engage with a range of different presentation tools and techniques. It was adapted from Dr Helen Webster&#8217;s &#8216;23Things for Digital Humanities&#8216; (DH23Things) course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":4917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[58,73,227],"class_list":["post-4912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies-project-reports","category-pedagogy-teaching","tag-collaboration","tag-digital-literacy","tag-presentation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdVSkC-1he","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/digital-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}