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Pre-Conference Workshop M6

Social Media for Learning Clinic

Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time   –   RoomCharlottenburg III Price: 160.00 € Status: places available

Workshop leader

OEB speaker Jane Bozarth

Jane Bozarth

E-Learning Coordinator, State of North Carolina, USA

Note

Participants of the workshop are expected to bring laptops (not tablets or phones) from which they can access public social sites like Twitter or Facebook (not work computers which are often configured to block such websites).

Content

In this clinic we will take a look at defining and differentiating ideas like "social learning" and "social media". We will then work with some popular public social tools -- Facebook, Twitter, blogs, wikis, a photo-based tool, and bookmarking tool -- to examine ways of enhancing and extending our practice as L&D professionals, particularly through use of collaborative approaches.

Please note that this is not a "Social Media 101" course. The goal of this program is to demystify tools a bit and help participants feel more comfortable in choosing and using them to extend their practice. To this end the workshop offers a similar activity repeated with the same framework. Depending on the tool each iteration takes about 25 minutes. Examples used are pulled from the world of workplace training (ie, Customer Service, Leadership, Safety) rather than academia. This format repeats throughout the program. We will likely also do a photo-based tool like Instagram, a bookmarking tool like Pinterest, and Twitter. The idea is that information about, say, Twitter, can mostly apply to similar messaging tools like Yammer.

Depending on time and the interests of the group we can have some conversation around policy, implementation, and measurement. I do need to stress that this is not a 'change management' workshop. I can address it but it will not be the focus.

Agenda

Opener: Discussion of social learning vs. social tools, conversation about ways people learn at work apart from formal instruction

Explore some examples of (blogs)

  • Set up a blog
  • Groups work together to write an initial post and upload this with a photo
  • Discussion of uses of blogs to extend our practice: prework, postwork, guest posts, providing a course base site, supporting initiatives/departments, etc., specific activities tied to training topics.

Explore examples of wikis or collaborative Google documents

  • Discuss difference between blogs and wikis, how they might be used differently
  • Set up a Google Doc (or wiki)
  • Participate in a collaborative activity with all participants contributing to the document
  • Discussion of uses of wikis or other collaborative tool for extending our practice

Explore examples of (Facebook groups)

  • Discuss uses of groups as compared to tools like blogs or wikis
  • Explore ideas around nurturing community

Closing: Action plan for applying ideas to specific problems/tasks at work. Immediate post-workshop assignment is to use assorted platforms of choice -- blog, conference Twitter backchannel, etc. to post comments or images or whatnot about what they are doing at the event.

Target audience

The target audience for this preconference event uses social tools for learning, training and development in the workplace, government or corporate environments (rather than in an academic environment)

Prerequisite knowledge

Learners have some experience and interest in supporting social learning in the workplace, and are willing to try and use new methods and tools

Outcomes

After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Define social learning as distinct from tools and programs
  • Explore application of social tools to extend practice through means other than broadcasting
  • Identify basics of choosing tools for particular types of activities
  • Recognize the different forms online interactions can take, from private conversations to interconnected communities