Thursday, October 23, 2008

Putting Learning Technology to Work for You
Michele Martin, David Richards, Kevin Jones, Christine Martell

Intended Audience

This program has two tracks for people who have more and less experience.

Overview

• Are you overwhelmed with all the new social media tools?
• Do you wonder how you can use them to make learning more accessible to your audiences?
• Do you know something about blogs, podcasts and screencasts but wonder how you can integrate them into your organization?

Come to this program and explore the tools and concepts that take learning out of the classroom and deliver it to learners where they are. As the technology changes, what do we have to do as workplace learning professionals to move from stand and deliver to gather and disperse? This will be a combination of ideas, case study and hands on the computer.

Track One
For people who are learning about the social media tools

• Blogging - Get hands-on experience commenting on and creating blog posts using simple, free online tools.
• Podcasting-Learn how to create a podcast with your cell phone and the many ways you can share your podcast with others.
• Screencasting- Use a free online screencasting tool to create a simple screencast, then learn how you can publish your screencast to make it more accessible.

Track Two
For people who are already using social media tools

• Blogging-- Share tips and tricks for customizing and improving your blog
• Podcasting--Enhance existing podcasts with push publishing options
• Screencasting--New techniques for using rapid elearning tools

Alignment with National ASTD Competency Model

9 Focus Areas Areas in BOLD will be addressed in this presentation.

1. Designing Learning 2. Improving Human Performance 3. Delivering Training 4. Measuring and Evaluating 5. Facilitating Organizational Change 6. Managing the Learning Function 7. Coaching 8. Managing Organizational Knowledge 9. Career Planning and Talent Management

Speakers

Michele Martin
Michele Martin is an independent consultant specializing in using social media tools to support learning and career and professional development. For the past 10 years, she has worked with federal, state and local government, nonprofits and corporations to design and deliver a variety of learning interventions, using both on and off-line strategies. Her experiences using online tools to support learning began in the late 1990s when she hosted an Internet radio show and used forums, listservs and a "virtual office" as part of a 120-hour professional certification program. With the advent of tools such as blogs, wikis and social networks, she's continued to integrate new technologies to support both short and long-term training programs. Michele blogs at The Bamboo Project.

David Richards
David Richards is the founder and principle of e-Mersion, a Portland, OR based media production company. e-Mersion designs specialized eLearning and new media solutions to help companies improve their sales, customer service, training, and support

Kevin Jones
Kevin’s work focuses on Social Learning (e-Learning 2.0) and using social media / networking tools within organizations. Although a “Training Manager,”for GTS, he also assists other companies in their efforts to integrate these new paradigms and technologies. He is also the Director of the Social Learning SIG for the chapter. You can find his blog at Engaged Learning.

Christine Martell
Christine is the VP of Outreach for ASTD-Cascadia and the incoming President-Elect. The Outreach area includes PodCascadia and BlogCascadia. She is the Principal of VisualsSpeak and her blog is VisualsSpeak: Inspiring connections through images.

 

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