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By Christine Martell | June 25, 2008
Here is an interesting chart from Ray Jimenez, PhD that he uses to illustrate his review of the new book Groundswell.
Dr Jimenez identifies the type of social media which may be most appropriate for an audience based on the way they behave when they interact with it. He describes it this way:
To help trainers analyze their participants, sort of a “technoprofile“, I developed a Framework to look at the types of learners. I divided them into an audience, actor, and creator based on their learning behaviors. Based on this framework, a trainer need to adjust the social media and social learning to use. For example, if the learners tended to be more audience, providing Podcasts, videos, and ability to read small presentations may appeal more. Whereas micro-games and exercises may appeal more to actors. And for creators the Wiki and Blog may have more high value.
What do you think? The training community as a whole is still in the early stage of adopting social media. Should we be focusing on podcasts, videos, and online presentations? I know PodCascadia continues to be the most popular place on the chapter website. Is that more significant than we have realized? Learning Frameworks Video Comment “}
- Adding video comments
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June 25th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
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July 15th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Christine, thanks for sharing this great chart from Dr. Jiminez, and for being brave enough to share your thoughts (and even your face!) with an unseen audience. This all got me to thinking: hey, I’m in the eLearning field and love what social learning technology offers…so why has it been SO hard for me to start participating in it?
It seems that I’m stuck in the “audience” technoprofile, and - despite my best intentions - am more comfortable receiving ideas than I am contributing them. I mean, expressing your opinion is risky business - you could say something inappropriate! You could reveal your ignorance!! You could even - - make a typo!!!
All kidding aside, asking people to contribute to a social learning network - and in so doing, become a “creator” - is asking many of them to step outside their comfort zone and even reevaluate their self-perceptions. (”Could I really do that? Will people actually respond to what I write, or will they just snicker?”) I believe many people WANT that to take that risk, they want to become part of that community of people who make things happen…but what makes the reward greater than the risk? What does it take to move people from “well, it sounds great, but I don’t how I can contribute” to “wow, I can’t believe I waited so long to get started!”….?
Well, I don’t know the answer. But I DO know that you are doing an amazing job of moving the kicking, screaming (and yet strangely silent) masses forward into the social learning future, ready or not. Please, please, please keep it up!
July 16th, 2008 at 9:16 am
online anxiety!
July 21st, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Hi Christine,
Thanks for using my framework as a reflection tool. I agonize about social learning. For me there is a huge jump from traditional learning to Web 2.0/social learning. I must be really growing old and part of me resists to just jump. My liability is that “I have the need” to think through, whereas the digital natives “don’t think through.” They jump into and swim. Phew … I remember the days when I too would just jump, I think ignorance has its own blessings. (Mine or the young person? Hmmmm. We are both ignorant, suppose.)
In any case I think, a lot of proponents in social learning are romantics, and I admire them. I am more pragmatic or more calculated. I think, as long as we have children taught in schools, formal and structured learning will always influence or color, at least partly, the way we look at things. Furthermore, as long as we are training for the sake of the company, we will not get away from “accountability” for results. This is the roof that provides shelter, and they do ask for rent.
But I am very optimistic - many of us can leverage this technology in helping learners learn.
So this is my proposition, which is in my blog, “we can use formal and structured learning as a launching phase to social learning, provided, we exert and put effort to deepening the process from social learning, collaboration, then work performance.”
We all start from being an audience then depending on our circumstance, we accelerate to actors then creators. But this is not a phase, rather, a dynamic behavior. For example, I am an “audience/listener” in most sites I visit. But in sites I want to get involved, I become a creator.
http://vignettestraining.blogspot.com/2008/07/1-deepening-social-learning-to-work.html
The PDF chart
http://vftstation.vftdev.com/~vftlps/blog/rayjimenez_deepening_sociallearning_v3.pdf
My insights or foundering comes from my expirements using my own software http://www.trainingpayback.com and implement social learning in my own small nook of the world.
Incidentally, I love Angela’s comment. I too, suffer, trying to in the blogsphere. It is fun. It is enlighten. I only wish, I did not have to worry about mortgage, tuition fees, and vacation to Africa .. like when I was 18, I had no worries so I can invest in any areas that would interest me. So for me, Angela, it is the small interactions and learnings from you and Christine that makes me excited!
Christine, I love the video comment. I will try this tool. I also posted 21 Wacky videos in YouTube — http://youtube.com/user/rayejimenez
Finally, congratulations on helping your chapter move forward.
Best, Ray
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