 Ffyrr I ymweld, felly bod os yw'r bwysigol yn debygol yma ac yw'r ddod yn ffono AstronIt. Felly, dyma'r ddod, ddod yn ffonoedd wedi ei genedlai. Ond yna mwy o'r adroddol, wedi bod wedi gweithio gan gdweithio â'r ddod trafodaeth. Yn ddod, o'r Marryn yn canfodd i ddefnyddio'r ddod yn debyg ifo, felly'r ddod yn ddiwedd i gael ddod yn ffonoedd, mae'r ddod yn ddod yn ei ddod yn y ddod o'r ddod. a dwi'n gyd yn gweld i chi'n gyrdwyr o'r ddweud y bydau, dwi'n gyrddwyr yn cael ei wneud yn y blog. Felly mae'n gyrdwyr o'r ddweud, dyma'n gwahanol o'r 599rwyth ymgweld, rwy'n gyrddwyr i'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud, o'n ddweud o'r ddweud. Felly, dwi'n gyrdwyr, dwi'n gyrddwyr a'u gyrdwyr o'r ddweud, ac yn dweud y gallwn gwahanol i chi am ymddangos a'r amlwg a'r anodol. Yn dweud i chi'n mynd i gynnig i'r gweld, bo'r gweld i chi i'r gweld i'r gweld i'r technolig i'r gweld i chi'n mynd i'r gweld i'r gweld i chi'n mynd i gyd. Felly rwy'n iddo i chi, ond roedd y gallwn gwahanol i chi yw ddim yn oed yn ei gwestiwn, y gallwn gwahanol i'r gweld i'r gweld iddyn nhw, Mae hyn yn ymddangos yn oed yn ddechrau ac mae'n ddim yn gweithio'r hunig yn ysgol i fynd i'w gwneud ymddi, yna'r bod eich eich bod yn cymdeithasio yn dda chi. a'r ddweud o'ch chi, ac yn ddim yn ddod, ac mae'n ddweud eich bod yn dda chi gan hynny. Mae'n ddweud eich bod yn ymddi, dylai chi ddim yn prgyngrifethau yma. Mae'n ddweud eich roi'r ddefnyddio'r ddweud, mae'n ddweud eich gweithio. E-mails, e-sending, blog posts, papers, reports, reading reports. I tweet every nine again as well. When I'm doing that at my desk, I'm on my way to a meeting where I'll do a lot of the same activity as well. But it's not just about typing. There's a bit more into it than that. I'm one of the assistant directors with CITUS, which is the Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards. Until the end of July this year, we were a fully funded GISC Innovation Support Service, a support centre, I should say. We relaunched on the 1st of August. This is the plug for our new website, CITUS.ac.uk. I'm not quite sure why the URL hasn't shown up there. It wasn't in the earlier presentation. We do a lot of work. We cover a lot of ground, which is why it's quite complicated to explain what I do. CITUS has been around for over a decade now. We started off as the UKIMS Centre, and we're well known for working in educational technology standards and supporting the notion of interoperability for systems. We've done a lot of work for representing the UKHE and FU sector in various standards bodies. We've also done a lot of community building work, so we had a lot of special interest groups. We do a lot of writing. We produce briefing papers. We've also worked a lot with GISC, obviously, because they funded us, and we are still going to be working with GISC in the future. But in terms of helping them, think about strategy for technology and innovation in education. We're quite a broad remit, and we do a lot of events and a lot of different things. Again, that goes back to why it's quite complicated to explain what I do. When I actually started at CITUS, one of my roles was a SIG co-ordinator, a special interest group co-ordinator, so it was a lot to do with meetings. But as time has progressed, more and more of my communication and more and more of my work has happened online, and is increasingly happening online. So, like many people here today, I have lots of places where I'm active online, and this is from my Visify bio, so there's lots of places where you can find me online, and it's changed quite a lot, and it's actually been quite transformational, I think, the way I've been able to interact with people online. One of the things I think... This is the sponge bit. One of the things I think that I do when I'm interacting online and when I'm going to all these meetings, I feel like I'm a bit of a sponge, and this is like this, and I soak up a lot of information, and when I was thinking about the title, I was thinking, I wonder, I wonder, could I get away with using a SpongeBob SquarePants, because he's the first sponge that came into my mind when I heard thought about that, so I thought, well, should I, shouldn't I? I don't know, I know what I'll do. I'll ask Twitter, because that's what you do if you have a crisis, ask Twitter, and you will get an answer. So, I asked Twitter, well, Lennan Dundee, she said, well, absolutely, I think you should do that. I'm not sure about Gordon, you might be able to answer this. He thought it might be a bit too ontologically conservative for all. See, I'm not sure about that, maybe not. But also, there's another conversation with David, David Cernan, who's somewhere here today, and I said, yes, I'm going to do that. Rob Engelbright did bring up a very good point that maybe we did talk about SpongeBob SquarePants that might involve David Hasselhoff as well, but hey, you know, if we could get the half trending for all C13, then my work here would be done, but maybe not. But actually, the sponge I was thinking of was slightly more sophisticated and with much nicer picture. I was really thinking about a coral reef and coral sponges, and I think particularly in educational technology innovation, we live in a quite beautiful, quite strange world, it's a very special environment and there's lots of symbiotic relationships, lots of things happening, things coming and going, but it's quite a delicate atmosphere as well, so that was kind of the sponge I was thinking of. When I was talking about this a bit more with one of my colleagues, Lorna Campbell, she said, well, you don't want to be a sponge, you want to be a slug, and I said, no, I don't want to be a slug, but then she sent me this paper and this is the picture of a sea slug, and it's actually quite a cool slug, that's a bit of a stealth slug, so if I had to look like a slug, I wouldn't really mind looking like that. But actually, I think probably what I think I'm a bit more like is this kind of octopus, a mimic or a chameleon octopus, and I don't know about you, but I think anyone who's a learning technologist, you do find you work with lots of different stakeholders and you have to change quite a lot according to who you're talking to. So if you're talking to senior management, in terms if you're talking to my people as you are here and all, you have a different hat on, and if you're talking to people in information, IS departments, you talk in different ways, but I have to be able to adapt, and I think we're all a bit like that, we have to be very adaptable and be able to change what we're doing. And again, I think going back to the digital, it's been really important because in my role, although my official job title I'm not really a proper researcher, not really a proper academic, not really a proper learning technologist, but I'm a mix of everything. But I have got an increasingly visible presence in a lot of different areas through my online activities. So again, I think we're all being quite chameleon-like in our activities and what we do when we're involved in technology and when we start using social media more and more. So, like everyone, Twitter, well I don't know about everyone, but I've certainly found Twitter has been quite transformational in my practice over the last six years since I've been using it, and these are just some of the people who I follow on Twitter and quite a few of them are here today. And one of the great things now about having online networks is we can actually start understanding and looking into our networks a bit more than we were able to do on a face-to-face setting. So following up some work that Martin Hoxley, my colleague, has done and Martin also built the website for the conference. This is his tags explorer. So this is just a screenshot from my Twitter network from last week. So I can sort of see my connections. I can see that there's quite a cluster of people that are well connected but there's outliers. And this has been really, really important particularly over the last couple of years to be able to use social network analysis techniques to help us understand community and community engagement, particularly when you're working at a sexual wide level in innovation. Not just at an individual level but at a status level we've been able to sort of look at people that follow us and it's been really interesting to see the people that we knew follow us and we knew had interaction but also probably more interesting the outliers and where the gaps are and that's been really, really interesting for us. And another thing in terms of an innovation support centre, it's really difficult to qualify what innovation is. How do you know when you have innovated? How do you know when a support centre has done something that's actually had an impact? Well maybe when people are talking about it and people are talking about you or people are following you, but it's very, very difficult to get hard evidence to do that but if we can start actually showing more our community engagement I think that gives us an additional and quite a powerful supplement to give to funders and other organisations to say yes we go to face meetings and yes we have X amount of people come to them but actually we can show you the network now and we can show you how these people are interacting and I think that's really powerful. Another thing in a personal level that in between typing and going to meetings and meeting people you can really establish really firm connections with people and I'm sure many people today will be in the same situation that I was at last week and in fact practically every conference I go to I'm now in this situation. I meet people face to face for the first time but I know, I feel I know really well from Twitter, so a couple of weeks ago I was at the assessment Scotland conference and I met Catherine Cronin who was doing one of the keynotes there and Catherine and I have been chatting on Twitter for ages now but it was lovely when we met each other the first time and how many times we would just give each other a hug, it was lovely, we really felt we had a connection and again I think that's really powerful in terms of innovation and supporting people to have those connections and strengthen them between you know face to face meetings there is a bit of a downside to that but I don't mind too much that people know that I really like Twix and that I do like shoes as well so I hope everybody likes the shoes that I've got on today because these are my special conference shoes I'll have the X, excellent I knew my network wouldn't let me down the other way I think as well as soaking up the other way I push back out I hope is through blogging and again blogging has been incredibly powerful for me over the last I think probably 5 years since I've been blogging in a professional context because it gives me a space to share lots of different things and sharing lots of different ways so I can do reports from meetings I can actually write about reports that I might have written about briefing papers for example I can do something quite left field I can do something a bit more imaginative a bit more thoughtful I can maybe have a bit of a rant I can do something I think once I've tried to do something funny because that's always a bit of an edgy one but that's been really transformational and again I think in terms of what I am in this sort of community in my state I think my blog is where I feel that I'm a digital scholar I feel that I really am putting things back into the community through my blog so I've got two blogs I've got my Cetus blog here and this is my shameless plug here on the other side I set up another blog last month called How Sheila Sees It and I'd really love to try and get maybe up to 100 views of my blog so if anyone wants to go and have a link that would be fabulous just to give myself a little ego based as well but there's really good stuff on both of them honestly but the other thing about blogging is I'll explain this in a second in terms of innovation it's a really good way to actually sow the seeds of innovation and get feedback back from the community and to get people to think about things because one of the things that we're asked to do at Cetus is to do quite a bit of horizon scanning and you know thinking about what's coming next so quite often I'll put quite thought provoking pieces or things you know just little ideas I'll have seen something and I'll think well what if this happened so just now I'm doing some work with the OER research hub and one of the things that they're looking at is if they can take the idea of agile programming and put that into the context of research so they can have agile research processes and that's quite an interesting concept and I've been reading the documentation about what they've been doing and it got me to think thinking about well how would that actually work because in agile programming and software terms you tend to have a specific product that you're working towards same in research and very much not the case in educational research and research into teaching practice you're not quite sure what you're going to have in terms of a product but then I thought well if you're maybe thinking of education as a service in the same way as you might think of software as a service then maybe one thing that might be quite powerful for researchers to think about would be the notion of APIs because in software as a service one of the key things around that is being able to release and use open APIs well generally should be open APIs so they're the hooks into different systems so maybe researchers themselves should start thinking of themselves a bit more as APIs and you should be the hook into different context for people so my colleague David Sherlock who works at Bolton and again the links have gone from the blog post that I'm referring to in this one but it'll be on slideshare when I put it up he took this idea and he thought well actually that's quite interesting yeah I want to be a hook as a researcher so other people can hook into my research but actually maybe what I want to know is a bit more about what I actually research so how can I find out using APIs the different places I go into the web and how that's all interconnected so anyway we've had this quite interesting discussion but what he's done this picture here these are all the people who've ever commented on my blog so I know you can't see it but again there's a big cluster of people in the middle that probably people I work most closely with but there's quite interesting outlying groups so again in terms of conversations there's obviously something that's happening around about my blog and people are having conversations and people are connecting so again we're able to start seeing some of the networks and some of the network connections that people have and it's quite interesting and again this just does kind of reminds me a bit of a coral reef or different things happening and there's all sorts of things happening there and we're just at the beginning of actually trying to understand these kind of things and doing more of that kind of topic mapping and seeing what else can we understand about how our innovation communities work and how they feed off each other if you like so again to go back to some nice pretty pictures we have all this kind of activity and lots of things happening and in our little innovation reef lots of things are feeding off each other and that's really nice and every now and again we get a big rush of oxygen or something and that's really important to keep us all alive and to do things and I think obviously this year and I said it earlier as well and MOOCs whatever you think about them have given a rush of something to our community lots of people are talking about it there's lots of energy and lots of things happening so there's something happening with MOOCs and even when I look at my own blog post from the last year about 9 out of 10 of my most popular blog posts have all been MOOCs related and it's a great way if you want to get hits on your blog right about MOOCs surefire hit but I think we also have to beware and just to use another little cartoon character I don't know if any of you are familiar with Finding Nemo but I love Dory she's just great isn't she I think in innovation I am quite guilty of this I see a shiny thing and I go ooh shiny and we all do that and I think we've done a bit of that with MOOCs ooh shiny shiny but we have to beware because sometimes there's something behind the shininess as well and I don't think we actually know what's behind MOOCs but it might not be just as good as we think so I think we have to beware of the shiny as well because if we're not careful then our delicate ecosystem can die this is the sad bit and I think we are facing quite a lot of challenges just now particularly in educational technology and innovation going back to oxygen and things coming in I think we've been incredibly lucky in the UK to have an organisation like JISC that have put so much money into innovation and technology enhanced learning and allowed us all to take a little bit of risk and do things and every time I go abroad people are always singing the praises of JISC and isn't it fantastic that you have a national organisation that can fund people to do this kind of work and I know JISC is going into is in a phase of transition just now but I really hope that they continue to feed innovation and technology enhanced learning because we do need that and as a sector we are sharing we are thriving and we need that innovation support funding and I just hope that it continues so that's my plea for all as well I think many people in this room have benefitted from that funding and I know I've definitely benefitted I have seen so much fantastic work from all of you people out there and a lot of us have been funded by JISC so I hope that continues in the future so my final thing I want to say is just going back to the fish that yes we are moving maybe slightly more turbulent waters we're not quite sure what's happening but I do hope that we can all keep calm and like Dory says just keep swimming and hopefully we can all keep sharing our innovation and keep sharing our good work through places like old thank you very much