Unworkshop Objectives Announced

Learning with Blogs, Wikis, and Web 2.0 Tools

An unworkshop for trainers, instructional designers, and learning managers

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Informal Learning

• Understand the difference between formal and informal learning and when each is appropriate. (Concepts include: Learning for the 21st century. The Bus and the Bike. Free-range learners and whole body learning. The Learner Lifecycle. Recognize when to get out of the way. The learning workplace. Values supportive of informal learning.)
• Appreciate the impacts of complexity. (Nature knows best. Out of control. The Worker Butterfly Effect. World is flat.)
• Learners are workers. Workers are people. Their work is improv. Visuals. Emotions. Trust. Collective intelligence.
• Gain familiarity with the nature of networks. (Metcalf’s Law, natural evolution, role in learning. Everything is connected to everything else. Connections matter, nodes are secondary. Social networks. Organizational network analysis)

The web

• Become literate in the basic tools of the web and when to apply them to learning situations
• Conversations. Soliloquy & Dialog. Blogs & Wikis. Unconferences
• Get hands-on feel (and bragging rights) by setting up your own blog, wiki, and aggregator
• Improve your PKM (personal knowledge management). Search. Tag. Sources

Synthesis

• Understand ways to nurture communities of practice. Podcasting. RSS feeds. Collaboration. Online community building
• Get to know one another online and form a mini-community of practice
• Build framework to match informal learning solutions to your organization’s needs
• Coach one another on blogs and wikis
• Outline projects and explain where various tools & approaches might be useful
• Do on-line research and update our research collection wiki