Student Digital Champions

MSc Digital MarketingInduction Talk, 24th Sept

Digital Literacies Project Objectives

• Raise awareness across the University• Benchmark University Digital Literacies activities • Link Education and Research communities• Run workshop series (82 people have attended so far)• Digital Literacies Conference (95 attended)• Student Digital Literacies Champions • Integrate DL into Graduate Attributes• Develop DL Special Interest group – diverse membership

across all faculties and including Professional Services (Careers, Student Services, Library)

Student Digital Champions

• Help staff and students to learn new tools, build their online profiles, and manage social media for live events

• Champs to be attached to each USRG next academic year

• Digital Economy USRG is funding students to participate in relevant events, report back at monthly networking lunches and collaborate in research/teaching projects

• Supported by Social Media in Live Events (SMiLE) project

Digital Champions

Sam Su

Oliver Bills

Marina Sakipi

Panos Grimanellis

George Georgiev

Hamed Ayhan

Hamed Ayhan

Farnoosh Berahman

Manish Pathak

Ivan Melendez

Ahmed Abulaila

Lucy Braiden

Alessia Fiochi

Digital Champion Activities• PianoHAWK launch in London, May 2012• Digital Literacies Conference• Support for workshops:

– Online Identity– Safety and Security – Developing a Professional Profile– Social Media for Researchers– Professional Identity for International Teachers

• One to one training as required• Helped set up a Chinese Social Network account for Modern

Languages• Digital Champions Presentation

The conference was attended by 95 people on site and via Twitter we had followers both locally based and from New Zealand, Columbia and Ireland.Student Digital Literacies Champions played a key role in supporting the event Summary Storify is here

Feedback

“More like this please”

“The workshop was very inspiring and generated some very good insights. It

was wonderful having international students attending, as they were able to contribute with a different perspective,

specifically those coming from totalitarian regimes. Their concerns and priorities in regards to protecting their own identity

are very different from those in UK.”

“Hearing from such a diverse range or people on the subject was really inspirational. I would recommend this to anyone with

even a remote interest in the area.”

“Lots of interesting discussion inspired by some pretty open questions.”

“I thought this was a brilliantly organised, and immersive experience, and in that latter respect corresponded exactly to one of the stages of digital literacy mentioned by one of the speakers. I learned huge amounts and felt by about 3.30 that my brain was full!”

“Great to get big names to Southampton.

*** It was a really great day. Thank you.*** ”

“…the whole event was a real eye-opener in more ways than I can mention here. It was kept under control through a nice blend of more discursive talks with shorter introductions to key advances or resources. This was very clever and helped a new-comer like me to manage it all.”

Looking forward to next one!

“I liked the openness and contributions from almost everyone.”

New CIP Modules: linking research and teaching

Plans for this year (1)• Allocation of #digichamps to Research and

Innovation Services for each USRG and to assist with Multi-disciplinary Week

• #Digichamps already booked to assist with promotion of major WSA design event in London and Soton Neuroscience Group

• Develop and deliver CIP module – Working and Living on the Web (also included in Web Science BSc)

• #digichamps requested to be part of other CIP modules (Intercultural Communications)

• Induction talks on DL to all Humanities students and run staff training workshop

Plans for this year (2)

• Work with SUSU VP Ed to train all sabbaticals • Graduate Passport – develop closer links for

recognition of contributions by SDLCs• Full programme of DL workshops and one to one

training• Graduate Attributes – ensure our graduates are

recognised as being ‘digitally literate’ and enhance employability

• Developing links to student support – DL input to personal tutoring system

Thanks to all the Digital Champions

• …and we need lots more of you for next year!– Georgi Georgiev, MSc Digital Marketing – Marina Sakipi, MSc Digital Marketing– Panos Grimanellis, MSc Digital Marketing– Ivan Melendez, MSc KISM– Ring Xu, PhD Management– Nicole Beale, Web Science DTC– Chris Phethean, Web Science DTC– Oliver Bills, Web Science MSc– Sam Su, BSc Management– Hamed Ayhan, MSc Digital Marketing