{"id":4962,"date":"2016-08-04T07:54:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T07:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2016-08-04T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T07:54:32","slug":"personal-review-year-digichamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/personal-review-year-digichamp\/","title":{"rendered":"A Personal Review of my Year as a Digichamp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom and I working on the Digital Literacy Session<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Post authored by Tom Davidson and originally published on the Digichamps blog<\/a><\/p>\n

Summer is traditionally thought of as a time of reflection for students (whatever you might think, it is!) and that is exactly what I aim to do in this article. Specifically, I’m going to reflect on my role as a DigiChamp over the course of the past year. I have been looking forward to writing this article as, given the fast-pace of the work and the wealth of opportunities, I have not had a great deal of time to reflect on the role so far!<\/p>\n

I became involved in DigiChamps in late October 2015, after seeing some of the team working at the Web Science Institute Distinguished Lecture with JP Rangaswami. I emailed Lisa on the off chance that she might be looking for some undergraduates with a small about of experience to get involved, and thankfully she was! From the first meeting onward, I was sucked into a whirlwind of opportunity!<\/p>\n

I’ll tentatively suggest there are 4\u00a0main strands to my current work as a DigiChamp, but am cautious of this being too restrictive! I’ll progress with them for the moment for the sake of simplicity…<\/p>\n

The first area is my involvement in the Students As Creators and Change Agents Project in Southampton Business School. This project is a massive project, and has been fantastic to be a part of. There are so many dimensions to it! Along with Tom Rowledge, I have edited the Business School Co-Creation blog, presented at the Chartered Association of Business Schools Conference in Birmingham, created interactive modlets for incoming students, written a paper for the EduLearn ’16 Conference, attended the Higher Education Conference in Amsterdam, helped integrate digital feedback services into MANG1017 and more. All of these opportunities have been fantastic, and I have learnt a huge amount. Attending conferences especially, gives you a sense of how hard academics are working to improve our learning and our learning experience. For more information about this project, please see the blog here<\/a>, and a look forward to continue working with the Co-Creation group in the future.<\/p>\n

Here is a video we produced for the EduLearn Conference in Barcelona, to give you a bit more background on the project:<\/p>\n