Sheen Sharing Summary For Pdp Project Meeting, 4 June 2009

Author: Sarah Currier Consultancy, 2 June 2009 Contact: [email protected] Web: http://www.sarahcurrier.com/

SHEEN Sharing Update Notes for PDP for International Taught Post-Grads Project Meeting What is SHEEN Sharing? SHEEN Sharing was funded by the SFC to support the Employability Co-ordinators’ Network (ECN) with: (a) developing their resource sharing capabilities as a community of practice, and (b) ensuring that good quality employability resources are disseminated to all relevant stakeholders. The project is investigating and trialling the use of a range of Web technologies in support of these ends from January to September 2009. You can keep up-to-date with project activities, and send feedback and questions, via the project blog and/or its Twitter feed, or by emailing Project Consultant Sarah Currier at [email protected]. ECN members and SHEEN-funded project consultants may also attend the weekly SHEEN Sharing drop-in webinar clinics (held Wednesdays, 9-12am, URLs distributed via the ECN email list). Tools being trialled include those for1: • collaborative resource development; • social networking;

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social bookmarking, tagging, rating and recommendation of resources; group spaces for community support and discussion.

The project will also investigate options for providing a stable home for gathered and created employability resources, which may involve future use of a well-supported central repository, e.g. JorumOpen, or the HEA EvidenceNet service. SHEEN Sharing is managed by Strathclyde University’s Employability Co-ordinator, Cherie Woolmer (based at the Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement), with Project Consultant, Sarah Currier. The Higher Education Academy provides administrative support and guidance.

SHEEN Sharing’s Core Activity We have identified two tools with which to achieve the project’s core aims: sharing, discussing, recommending and disseminating resources, privately within the group and publicly with external stakeholders2. From June 2009 we will be trialling the use of social bookmarking tool Diigo, and web dissemination tool Netvibes. Diigo will allow both public and private group discussion, and sharing, tagging, discussing and recommending of resources. Netvibes will provide an easily configured website to expose publicly shared and recommended resources from Diigo, as well as from other employability resources around the web. The project will

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For more on Web 2.0 applications, see project documents, including introductory slides & handout, project plan and update documents here: http://www.pdfcoke.com/group/70979-sheen-sharing-project-documents 2

See blog post on Diigo/Netvibes trials: http://sheensharing.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/next-phase-under-way-a-community-ecnsite-plus-a-lovely-resource-sharing-tool/

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Author: Sarah Currier Consultancy, 2 June 2009 Contact: [email protected] Web: http://www.sarahcurrier.com/ train ECN members on Diigo, and soliciting their feedback on the Netvibes site 3, in June and July.

SHEEN Sharing Supporting Projects and Informal ECN Groups SHEEN Sharing is also supporting interest groups and specific projects within the ECN with their resource sharing, community building and dissemination requirements. To date, we have supported the Voluntary Sector Placements Project with thinking through these requirements, and setting up a project blog and Twitter feed. Project Consultant Sarah Currier is available to speak with other project groups and consultants about seeing what requirements SHEEN Sharing can help with4.

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See project Netvibes site here: http://www.netvibes.com/Employability NB: This is a sandbox/prototype site and a work-in-progress. Feedback welcomed. 4

See projects page on blog: http://sheensharing.wordpress.com/scottish-employabilityprojects/

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