Social Media for Trainers Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning

by Bozarth, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780470631065
• ISBN10: 0470631066
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780470877661
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-07
• Publisher: Pfeiffer
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Summary

New social media technologies and strategies provide quick, easy solutions to many of the challenges faced by workplace training practitioners. Social media vehicles such as Twitter and Facebook, for example, can help trainers build learning communities, facilitate quick assignments, offer updates or follow-up tips, and otherwise extend the reach of the formal training event. Social Media for Trainers is the first how-to guide on the incorporation of social networking techniques into a trainer's repertoire. It covers the most popular Web 2.0 tools for instructor-created content (blogs), community-created content (wikis), micro-blogging (Twitter), and community sharing and interaction (Facebook), all with detailed instruction on conducting several training/training-related activities.

Author Biography

Jane Bozarth, Ed.D., is an internationally known trainer, speaker, and author. She is the author of Pfeiffer's E-Learning Solutions on A Shoestring; Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint; From Analysis to Evaluation, and, with Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner, The Challenge Continues. In addition to her work as Elearning Coordinator for the state of North Carolina, USA, Dr. Bozarth is the Social Media Strategist of InSync Training, LLC and she is also a moderator of a number of popular Twitter real-time #lrnchat sessions.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Getting the Most from This Resource

The Basics

What Is Social Media?

Why Social Media in Training?

Which One?

Choosing What to Use When

Getting Started

Summary

Twitter

In a Nutshell

In a Larger Container

How to View Twitter

Advantages/Disadvantages of Twitter in Training

Why Twitter Instead of Something Else?

Why Twitter in Addition to Something Else

Getting Started

Before the Training Event

Pre-Work

In Class

Intersession Work

Formative Evaluation

Summative Evaluation

Post-Class: Extending the Life of the Training

Twitter Tools

Inside the Enterprise

Case: Microblogging at Qualcomm

Summary

Facebook

In a Nutshell

In a Larger Container

How to View Facebook

Advantages/Disadvantages of Facebook in Training

Why Facebook Instead of Something Else?

Why Facebook in Addition to Something Else?

Getting Started

Once Your Personal Page, Group, or Fan Page Is Set Up

Hosting an Online Course

Prior to Course Start

Intersession Work

Building a Learning Community with Facebook

Case: Facebook as a Community InSync Training Course Graduates

And Now, a Few Words About LinkedIn

Summary

Blogs

In a Nutshell

In a Larger Container

How to View Blogs

Advantages/Disadvantages of Blogs in Training

Why Blogs Instead of Something Else?

Why Blogs in Addition to Something Else?

Getting Started

To Provide a Course Site or Host an Online Course

Case: Public Library Uses a Blog to Host a Course

To Support a Traditional Course

Pre-Work

Intersession Work

Formative and Summative Evaluation

Final Projects

Post-Course

Building a Learning Community

Summary

Wikis

In a Nutshell

In a Larger Container

How to View Wikis

Advantages/Disadvantages of Wikis in Training

Why Wikis Instead of Something Else?

Why Wikis in Addition to Something Else?

Getting Started

Hosting an Online Course

Case: Jive Software Uses a Wiki to Host a Course

In Addition to an Online Course

To Support a Traditional Course

Pre-Work

Intersession Work

Post-Course

Formative and Summative Evaluation

Building a Learning Community

Summary

Other Tools

Google Wave

Google Docs

YouTube

Case: Interactivity via YouTube

TeacherTube

Social Bookmarking

Slideshare

Free Virtual Classroom Tools

Skype

VoiceThread

Mashups: Game Changers

UStream

Pindax

Summary

The Bigger Picture

Well First, What Is "Learning"?

What Is Social Learning?

What Does Social Learning Look Like?

Case: Online Community Owned by Employees of Government Agency

And Now, 268 Words About Knowledge Management

Social Learning: How to Do Things Versus How to Get Things Done

What's the Future?

Getting Started with Social Learning

Summary

Afterword: Be the Change

Selling the Change

Being the Change

Appendix

References and Suggested Reading

About the Author

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