TLG events in Melbourne

Hello all,
Thank you once again to everyone who attended our seminar on Friday morning - as promised we’ve prepared a few links and materials (including the presentation slides) from the seminar.

You may have noticed we’ve prepared this follow up material in a blog… what a coincidence! It took me no longer than a couple of minutes to create this blog (for free) this morning, which I think reinforces the points we made about the simplicity of creating content in many Web 2.0 technologies.

We’d love to see a few comments posted about our seminar on this thread – so if everyone could leave us a comment or a message, it would be very much appreciated! Maybe some thoughts on how you think this technology can be used as learning in your organisation, or issues you think are acting as barriers to using wiki’s and blogs as learning. With a bit of discussion on this thread, we may even learn something…

A lot of what we covered in the seminar on Friday involved the definition and current use of Web 2.0 technologies, and the exciting opportunities they are creating in collaborative learning within organisations. Remembering that these are not new technologies, but a new way of using and viewing them, raises many interesting and innovative opportunities for the learning & development industry. They also provide fantastic tools to use in conjunction with e and blended learning solutions, and facilitate many of the desired learning outcomes of e-learning courses.

Wiki’s and blogs especially facilitate discussion and knowledge sharing between users. Already organisations are utilising these tools internally to create effective learning on corporate culture, processes and policy exposure.

The learning opportunities that can be created through these technologies are limited only by your imagination. Be sure to look at the links below, create your own blogs, edit some wiki’s, subscribe to some podcasts - you’ll be surprised at how easy it is to set up and use once you’re in there…

Links:
www.wikipedia.org - The largest wiki on the net. Effectively an online encyclopedia that is completely authored by regular users of the site - try it out, you can add or update any page on any topic you can think of.
www.socialtext.com - A large corporate wiki. 1000’s of organisations use this wiki as a collaborative tool.
www.linkedin.com - A professional social networking service. Create a profile and network with current and previous colleagues and work peers. This is a great way of extending a professional occupation network and is very easy to set up and use.
www.blogger.com - The blog web-site that I used to create this blog.
http://del.icio.us/ - A social bookmarking service. Allows you to bookmark your favourite sites and share them with others in your network.
www.abc.net.au - The ABC website has some great podcasts you can subscribe to - check them out!

And a link to Tony Karrer’s e-learning blog that Anette highly recommends: http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/

The slides from the seminar can be found here.

Thank you again to everyone who attended - I hope these materials and links help you in your exploration of these great tools. As always, feel free to get in touch with us here at The Learning Group if you have any questions about the seminar, want some more info or need some help with your e-learning concerns.

See you next time!

Dan
Anette.Karlsson@learngroup.com.au
Daniel.Wright@learngroup.com.au
William.Gill@learngroup.com.au