16-12-25 I had a great time at the #SocMedHE25 learning from very insightful presentations and meeting friends / personal heroes. A creative, friendly learning community. Thanks to all @suebecks.bsky.social @debbaff.bsky.social Suzanne Faulkner @profdawne.bsky.social @scottturneruon.bsky.social
Last week I co-presented this practice paper with the amazing @profdawne.bsky.social at the 11th Social Media for Learning in HE Conference #SocMedHE25
'A practical approach to amplifying scholarly practice through social media and digital technology'
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The fabulous @neilwithnell.bsky.social is retiring. He's had such a +ve influence on digital learning, staff & students. He's not one for bigging himself up, so let’s do it for him! Add your messages here 👉 lancashire.padlet.org/EGillaspy/neil #LTHEchat #BYOD4L #SocMedHE25 #creativeHE #PlayLearn
It was and jam packed with great presentations and provocations leading to rich discussions and idea sharing. Looking forward to the contributions from the conference that will be submitted to the special edition of the open-access journal Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning. #SocMedHE25
A workshop underway with colleagues working in small groups on table top activities
A close up of one of the workshop sheets showing colourful pages and pens
A hand holding a marker pen, writing on a workshop sheet
What a fabulous day it was yesterday at #SocMedHE25! @suebecks.bsky.social and I ran the final workshop session of the day - “Responsible Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Social Media and Online Communication: A Participatory Evaluation”. Great contributions! #SocialMediaforlearning
Suzanne Faulkner,Deb Baff, Sue Beckenham and Dawne Irving-Bell speaking in a conference session with a slide in the background.
Great presentation about the use of a WhatsApp group for a supportive community of practice at #SocMedHE25 from @debbaff.bsky.social @suebecks.bsky.social , Suzanne Faulkner and Dawne Irving-Bell.
Joel Gray speaking with a slide showing the 'SoTL staircase' in the background.
Great presentation from Joel Gray about SoTL podcasts at #SocMedHE25. Check out joel-sotl-media.com
Thank you @tavoer8.bsky.social.
It was great to share my research at #SocMedHE25 yesterday.
Fantastic #SketchNote from @aldinhe.bsky.social ... I can almost follow the talk from afar!! Thx for sharing. #SocMedHE25
Brilliant presentation from Nikita @nbridgeman.bsky.social 'From TikTok to Teaching: Social Media for Inclusive Guided Independent Study'. #SocMedHE25
Such a rich and inspiring talk from @kathymchandler.bsky.social #SocMedHE25
Presenting 'A practical approach to amplifying scholarly practice through social media and digital technology' weabing in Scholarship, SoTL and social media with @profdawne.bsky.social #SocMedHE25
At the 11th Social Media for Learning in HE Conference hosted this year by Lancaster University. Presenting 'Connection in a Time of Crisis: How a WhatsApp Group Became a Lifeline and Community of Practice' #SocMedHE25
Another live sketch from my #SocMedHE25 keynote about the death of academic X - thanks @debbaff.bsky.social for the skills
It was great to see you at #SocMedHE25 today @oliviakellyou.bsky.social
With some serendipity, I just received an email from @welspraxis.bsky.social to say the Praxis report I spoke about today at #SocMedHE25 on using Discord with OU students is the 3rd most downloaded report 😀 Link here for those with OU login: www.scholarship-exchange.open.ac.uk/projects/Cre...
On my way home from another wonderful #SocMedHE25 conference. Lovely to chat with people I've met before as well as some new people. Well done to @kathymchandler.bsky.social & @katyjordan.bsky.social. I always come away from this conference buzzing with ideas and inspiration - I highly recommend it!
Sketchnote of Andy tattersalls keynote 16 dec 2025
@socmedhe.bsky.social @andytattersall.bsky.social #socmedhe25 loved your keynote today 😀 here are my little scribbles as promised #sketchnotes
Powerful statement! #SocMedHE25 #AcademicTwitter #LinkedIn
Sending much love and enthusiastic photo-taking to everyone at #SocMedHE25 today. Enjoy!!
The use of social media to disseminate and amplify the impact of SoTL (and all the different outputs) and share teaching and learning practice, build a community of practice and more strategic impact for universities @suebecks.bsky.social @profdawne.bsky.social #SocMedHE25
Developing a community of practice using a WhatsApp group as a space to share their stories, friendship and experiences during the work, study @suebecks.bsky.social @profdawne.bsky.social Suzanne faulkner and Deb Baff #SocMedHE25
Patricia Pearlman-Dee shared her experience when using One Note as a collaborative place to move from social interaction towards social learning #SocMedHE25
How social media can support the development of a sense of community, identity and wellbeing for PhD students?. Kathy Chandler shared her research and journey using autoethnography #SocMedHE25
A visual scribe of Andy Tattersall’s talk about the demise of X and what happened next
Love the scribe from my #SocMedHE25 keynote this morning - there is a second scribe to share later. The death of academic X and what happened next.
The changes in the attention span makes educators find different spaces to develop learning. A presentation by Emily Conyard #SocMedHE25
The titanic depicted as X sinking with lifeboats depicted as alternative social media platforms
Summing up academic social media - how institutions stayed on board a sinking ship - in late 2022, in one image - from my #SocMedHE25 keynote
Students are learning all the time in different formal and informal learning spaces such as social media, cafeterias, field trips etc Sometimes we tend to focus only on the formal ones. Andrew Middleton's presentation at #SocMedHE25
Applying #UDL principles when developing learning environments for independent study to enhance agency by @nbridgeman.bsky.social #SocMedHE25
