TWITTER / YAMMER – DAY 4 – Professional Uses
Dec 17, 2009 Uncategorized
Yes, that’s right – Twitter is not all fun and games (although it can be – the subject for tomorrow’s post!).
Can it be used for professional reasons? Absolutely. And once you learn this it is hard to turn back because it is so useful.
Remember when I wrote about social networks and the ability to bring geographically disperse, like-minded people together? Twitter does the same thing. I follow people (from all over the world).
People I follow on Twitter
Most of the people I follow I am similar to in some way (except for maybe the llama). Twitter brings us together to allow us to have discussions (albeit short ones).
Here are a few of the most popular professional uses of Twitter. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: #hashtag, #lrnchat, conferences, llama, questions, slqotd, Twitter
SLQOTD Blog Project: Learning is like Breathing
May 29, 2009 slqotd
Here is my SLQOTD Blog Project response: SL happens all around us at all times – like breathing. How do we take adv. of it?
This question first came up when Dave Wilkins and I were doing our last podcast. We were talking about how we learn all the time, but those in the learning profession ignore that piece and focus on creating elearning, for example. So the original question was: SL happens all the time – now what?
FIRST, we have to recognize that it happens. Too often we ignore that it exists. Or maybe, even worse, that we feel that we can’t do anything about it, so it isn’t even on our radar.
It is time. Our job is to enable learning, enable performance improvement. Yet if we ignore the most fundemental, basic ways that we learn, we are doing a disservice to those very people we claim to support.
During #lrnchat on Twitter last night, there was some discussion on learning and training: @marciamarcia: We still seem to be neglecting any mention of helping people learn how to learn or liberate their self-direction. #lrnchat. Are we helping others to learn what they need/want to learn, or are we forcing learning that they don’t want? Sure, they may need some of the latter, but what about all that they REALLY want to know?
But, truely, it happens ALL THE TIME. Learning is ALL AROUND US. How do we help others with that? It isn’t by creating a course on it.
I think of homeschooling my own kids. There are things they NEED to learn. But what about those things they are really interested in? We point them to the resources. We make learning available. We hook them up with the books, sites, people and other resources. We don’t try to give it to them in nice, neat little packages. That is like saying, “Oh, you are running and need to breathe heavily? Here let me give you this breath. And this one. And this one.” Instead it is, “Here is all the oxygen you need. Oh, and here is some more I found. Breath away.”
(Another favorite tweeet of mine was from @ hjarche: if I had to develop a lot of learning “stuff” last people I would hire would ID’s (sorry) – artists, writers would come 1st #lrnchat.)
Tags: #lrnchat, blog project, breathing, slqotd
