Wednesday, October 28, 2009

23 Things in the Community

Jennifer Koerber, Boston Public Library

Take it from working with staff to working with the community
Originally for staff: Learning 2.0
  • learner-focused
  • asynchronous
  • exploration & play
  • cheap
  • scalable
Now, take it to the public - wherever they are

Why:
  • teach information literacy
  • enable life-long learning
  • workshops
  • increase awareness and access to our resources
  • help clients navigate their world
How:
  • Blogs: sequential, interactive built-in through comments, easy using free online tools, easy for participants to grasp, doesn't scale well, often results in abandoned blogs
  • Wikis: non-sequential, easier to navigate, discussion on every page, self-contained, less adventurous, less-intuitive
  • Ning: interactions galore, easily accomodate many media, centralized, scalable, BuddyPress, overwhelming for newbies, google ads
  • LMS: learning management systems, extremely self-contained, familiar to distance learning users, supports long-term commitment, modular, can be password-protected yet anonymous, more complex set-up
How long:
  • Fixed Duration vs. Continuous/Rollling
Other models: Twitter, Facebook...

Inspiration
Don't forget to integrate face time
Customize to the community

Sean Robinson
Don't underestimate the power of play when learning.

I think that there is potential at NRCan to do this among staff and to our clients if we customized it properly.

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