Sunday, August 10, 2008

eLearning Guild Summer Seminar Series

I'm in Chicago through Tuesday for the eLearning Guild's Summer Seminar Series. More specifically, I'm attending the Collaborative Learning workshop. As described on the Guild's website:
Join Mark Oehlert and Brent Schlenker for a comprehensive look at Web2.0 technologies impacting the learning landscape of YOUR organization. And it WILL impact your organization. This not a question of “IF” but of “WHEN.” The influx of technologies like blogs, wikis, and RSS into the enterprise is a trickle that will grow into a flood in the coming year. Other “2.0” pieces like social bookmarking, tagging and enterprise-level Mashups are changing the way learning organizations think about their learning solutions, development processes, delivery methods, and adding value to their customers. The real hard part is that most of the challenges here are cultural and not technological.
Considering the topic, it seems like a good idea for me to blog about what I'm learning, possibly during the day since we were encouraged to bring our laptops, but certainly at the end of each day back at the hotel.

I'll also be trying to use Twitter to post short "microblog" updates throughout each day, either from my laptop or from my Blackberry. You can either follow me on Twitter, or you can see the most recent 15 tweets on the right side of this page.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Collin,
Looking forward to hearing about what you learn. You were probably involved in this, but the only significant blog use in classes I heard of here was at a claims class. I believe the instructors blogged daily to keep the learners' managers aware of issues coming up, both to get their feedback and prepare them to follow up after the class. You can encourage us to do much more.
Mike

Collin Kromke said...

Yes, Mike. The Claims EXCEL blogs you mentioned were an idea that I hatched and subsequently created. We did something similar with Customer Care Center also, but used them to allow instructors to communicate with SMEs regarding questions that were coming up during their classes.

Anonymous said...

Collin,
What a great idea! I will definitely check in. Glad to hear that two hours in, you're already finding it worth it!
Stacy

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