Engaged Learning

DevLearn08 Thoughts - Twitter, Objections and Continued Learning

Nov 18, 2008 Social Learning SIG

(Dinner with Jay Cross, Clark Quinn and others, taking pictures of Stacey and her stolen skateboard.)

Wow.  What a fabulous conference put on by Brent Schlenker and the eLearning Guild. (I am told that handouts & PPTs will be available next week.)  Here were some hightlights from my POV:

• Tweets - I had used Twitter casually before the converence.  Then during the conference I swear I used it more in those few days than I had in all the time leading up to it. Now I can’t go back.  What a great way to give and get info.
• Meets - I met so many wonderful people. Some for the first time, some I had known online and met for the first time in real life.  During the dinners I got to know a lot of new people and had some really good discussions. You guys (and gals) are great!
• Presenting - Friday morning - early.  Who’s going to show up for a Breakfast Byte?  Actually, a lot.  Way to wake yourself up!  And thanks to everyone who chipped in and answered questions.  Then, a few hours later, what a great concurrent session I had!  Earlier in the week I had attended a session by Dave Wilkins.  It was as if I was watching myself present - the same energy, the same passion and the same information I would have given.  So, realizing that I am not the only one who knows this stuff, I asked him to join me and help present my session on the 15 most common objections to social learning and how to overcome them.  In fact, I relied a lot on the audience to come up with the information as well, trying to make it as social as possible.  It was spectacular.  For it being the last session of the last day, we had more people than I had thought would come.  And some fabulous comments from everyone.  And Dave?  We were on the same wavelength the whole time.  So glad he agreed to join me.
• Information - What I love about this is that the information lives on. I learned some great stuff there and am continuing to do so after the conference (mostly through Twitter).  It just doesn’t end!

Tags: 15 objections, Twitter