ELISA Presentation

This is the short presentation I gave at the ELISA Open Forum 2009. The Breakout Session Notes are also available here: http://prezi.com/93406/ »
Nicola Osborne

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Social Media Officer for EDINA
MSc in eLearning Student
Nicola Osborne
Eurovision_nicola
Who Am I?
Nicola Katherine Louise Osborne
nkl.osborne
Where Do I Find The Time?
I have a few handy non-techie tricks:
YouTube @pbriscoe
e-ventures in Studying, Working and Living!
A person/user/presence in hundreds of places
online and offline that all join up to make me! 
Here's what I get up to 
in a (term time) day! 
8am - 10am
Radio 4 
Reply to Mobile calls/texts
Twitter - check/Tweet
Update iPod
GMail - send/reply/catch up
WebCT - updates/discussions/grades
StaffMail -browse/send urgent emails
Facebook - browse/reply/check events

Delicious - bookmark anything interesting, Tweet TinyURL of anything  I want to share. All bookmarks relayed to Facebook, website, blog, RSS streams.

Paper Diary & Calendar - for meetings/dental check ups/parties/trips! 
eDairy & Google Calendar - Update with anything I want portable access to. 
10am - 2pm
Staffmail - check/monitor/circulate interesting stuff.
eDiary - check and monitor all day, all work meetings and appts. stored/added here, also some personal items.
Googlemail - checked every few hours (some work alerts here)
TweetDeck - checked every few hours, Tweet via Firefox Ubiquity, Tweetdeck or phone.
Follow up on emails & Tweets about new tech, new sites, new funding, conferences etc. Bookmark and tag everything.
University Wiki (Confluence) - main area for day to day notes/drafts. 
Full Check of iGoogle - feeds for tech/social media news.
Try out new tools as they appear - Prezi, Daytum, etc.
Listen to podcasts as I work - Guardian Tech Weekly, RadioLab, MediaTalk etc. Bookmark & tag everything mentioned of interest.
2pm - 3pm (Lunch Time!)
WebCT - login with (separate) UoE Student ID, check for updates, discussions, grades etc.
Discussions - add comments if appropriate.
FirstClass (Student eMail) - check if necessary (rare).
Print out any neccassary readings from WebCT. 
3pm - 6pm
Staffmail - checking and sending throughout day for sharing/reporting work tasks.
Googlemail - check when alerts pop up.
TweetDeck - use once or twice unless major issue/hashtag to track.
University Wiki Service - update as necessary.
EDINA Intranet - post any completed reports and check minutes here.
Bookmark anything interesting (for work, study or me) with delicious.
Listen to podcasts or RadioPop (e.g. PM) as I work. Or view and participate in streamed events/conferences.
Lots of other work tasks - meetings, reports, and lots of social media stuff!
If I'm preparing a specific report - use Word or PowerPoint in office but often save a copy to Wiki or GoogleDocs to edit from home.
6pm - Midnight
Login to WebCT & student email.
Keep an eye on Googlemail and Twitter every few hours.
Contribute to course discussions and/or course activities.
Perhaps participate in a tutorial in Second Life or on Skype.
Check Facebook, Flickr etc. Maybe chat to a friend (or my partner) on Facebook or reply to a conversation in Twitter/Flickr/Friendfeed - usually triggered by emails.
If an assignment is coming up: browse readings online, look out related readings via search and WebCT (almost never the library search), ask peers via Twitter, email or course discussion boards, work on rough draft on Google Docs, save all usable references via unique delicious tag. 
If no assignment due:synch camera to computer and Flickr and/or record and edit a podcast and/or go out for a film, to see friends and/or update blog. 
If it's Eurovision time: build up my personal website and eurovision wiki, work on our zine, set up some social media interaction: CoverItLive, countdowns, RSS feeds etc, might watch something communally with TV on and laptop backchat.
Do course readings in bed, making notes on the print outs.
...a very very understanding 
partner (with her own laptop)
A great network of family, friends and contacts to flag things up and ask me questions
I'm VERY lucky to have a huge work/study/fun overlap...
Coffee & Great Home Cooking
Very geeky friends who do things like...
test Google Latitude
MashUp their blog to their photo database
set up a film review site
fix projectors
mix their own music
 ...for fun - I learn a lot from them!
Super helpful  & supportive colleagues!
No children, animals or other regular caring responsibilities to 
schedule around... 
Home Broadband
Enthusiasm, ambition and 
a rather over-excitable mind
And, importantly:
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Nikla Tokyoska
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also...
also...
...a liking for doing 5 
things at a time!
Want to: 
Find out more about how I fit everything in?
See some handy social media tools in action?
Find out the things that work brilliantly about studying online as well as the things that make being an e-learner a bit pants?
See what tools I think you should keep an eye on?
Ask me any questions?
Come along to my breakout session!
A Day in an eLife
Lots of networks to tap into - Twitter, GirlGeek Dinners, Edinburgh Internet Marketing Meet Up etc.
 (and a very optimistic idea of 
what you can get done in a day!)
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By Day!
By Night!
[In Disguise...]
Check What's Happening in the/my World:
Check my Work World:
Everything Else:
Lots of other work tasks - meetings, reports, and lots of social media stuff!
Bookmark everything interesting with delicious.
Studious Catch Up!
And eat Lunch of course...
Read over readings and/or Media Guardian and/or work documents (e.g. JISC reports) as I eat!
Tweet or Audioboo and probably text from mobile.
Rather like the morning...
[Alongside cooking/laundry/all that sort of stuff and whilst listening to the radio, watching TV (often on iPlayer, 4OD Catch-Up) etc.]
[snack attack]

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