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6 Digital Leaders / Matthew Smith – eLearning Manager / Chris Sharples (@gr8ict) / Lady Lumley’s School

Prezi for Pearson Education Talk on “Making the most of your Digital Leaders”

Rather than describing their role or giving advice on how to set up Digital Leaders, this session aims to look at how to most effectively deploy your team of Digital Leaders, putting them at the heart of ICT strategy for sustainable and consistent whole-school development. The session will include overviews of example projects, delivered by the Digital Leaders themselves.
Pearson – Hall/Stand: C280

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This follows on from Setting up your Digital Leaders’ Makewaves Site.

Encourage your Dls to make Multimedia Stories including interviews.  I recommend the iRig microphone for iOS OR android devices – ideal for interview stories (Thanks to Daniel M from Makewaves) and foldable microphone stand.  Lady Lumley’s DLs had a journalism masterclass from the English department.  We are developing a DL multimedia badge to follow this.

Appoint several of your older digital leaders as Senior Reporters. My Site > Edit People > More

Aim: To enable Digital Leaders and Coordinators to work collaboratively by sharing multimedia stories, blogs and feedback in a secure environment using the Makewaves Social Learning Environment.

We already have a Digital Leaders Network of Digital Leaders (DLs) and Coordinators (DLCs) contributing to #dlchat between 9.00-9.30pm on Thursday evenings and the DLN Blog –  www.digitalleadernetwork.co.uk/.  Makewaves are offering, in addition to a school joining Makewaves with the free Basic joining package, a free connection of their Makewaves site to the Digital Leaders Network Home Page and sharing of the channels.  Digital_Me is developing Digital Leaders Badges as part of Mozilla Open Badges and these will also be available to the network in the future with the first three available now.

I am using Makewaves with my DLs at Lady Lumley’s School and I am employed by NYCC to work with a cluster of North Yorkshire schools, both Primaries and Secondaries – see below.  I have been given permission to publish all the resources under a creative commons licence via my blog at www.gr8ict.com which should be just as useful for other schools within the network.

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Sheli;  I; Mark Riches (Makewaves);  Tim Riches (Digital_Me) and Glyn (SSAT) have an offer for anyone who runs Digital Leaders in their schools.

I am coordinating a number of North Yorkshire Primary and Secondary schools to contribute towards a Digital Leader Network using the Makewaves Social Learning Environment – read more here. More

Overview
You (as a teacher) do a single sign-up to join your school/DLs.
Then each student joins individually and gets approved by you. Takes minutes to join all your DLs…
Students are reporters; teachers are publishers.  (With the pro licence, students can be senior reporters and publish blogs and stories).

1. https://www.makewav.es/login and join as a teacher.
2. Create – better still get your DLs to create – a logo of 940×170 pixels and upload it to the banner.
3. Get your DLs to join and remember their usernames and logins https://www.makewav.es/yourschool/reporterjoin
Usernames are nicknames and should not be linkable to the real name.
Have a clear policy on which email to use (although they are not needed, they help alert users to comments and messages) – I insist on school email.  More

• Incredibly motivating for young people
• Young people ‘get’ the idea, and are empowered by knowing the criteria and are able to pursue the activities, learning and experiences independently. However, teachers add value (as always) by having a dialogue about what the standards mean. More

• Most important – DL coordinators used to create their open content to report on ideas – now the content is student generated and there are levels of publication and tools to publish and moderate the content. Everyone involved can see the potential for student generated content, interactions and sharing.
• Digital Leaders – Enthusiastic and competent individuals who can support and influence teachers and other students. An ideal group in a school to be engaged with and feeding back about using technology for learning via blogging and social learning platforms.
• Stories provide a simple, multimedia building block for content.
• Blogs get young people (especially boys) communicating – tell / audience / approval / feedback is a powerful loop – we need to focus on coaching and feedback. How good is learning when you apply your understanding to someone else’s and give feedback?? More

Here are the links for my two talks at Mozfest 2013.

Thank you to Mozilla, DigitalMe and Makewaves for a really informative day…

Example Digital Leaders’ makewaves site:
Lady Lumley’s Digital Leaders

Example Student:
https://www.makewav.es/r/sweetheart1
The two basic building blocks are ‘Stories’ and ‘Blogposts’. A story contains multimedia (Think V.I.S.T.A – Video, Images, Sound, Text and Animation) and is easily shared. Future stories can be collaborative between students in the same school or even in different schools.  A Blogpost is a more personal publication.

Example School:
https://www.makewav.es/roscoeschools
Roscoe school’s impact of use of Makewaves and literacy here
Free membership of Makewaves allows for 30 minutes of upload – more details here https://www.makewav.es/join and https://www.makewav.es/howitworks

Example of Makewaves being used as a collaborative tool:

https://www.makewav.es/monkswalkschool

Membership of a network means:
– students can share stories between all the schools/students in the network.
– content can feature in one place – as top stories, votes etc
– Senior reporters can moderate content knowing it can be seen by any student
– badges can be shared within the network
– there is a cross platform App to post content

Recommended Badges posts
Badges for Literacy

MakeWaves Login:
https://www.makewav.es/login
Digital Network progress sheet (password protected)
http://www.makebadg.es
https://www.makewav.es/digitalleaders
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