The purpose of this activity is to introduce you to social media (if you do not know what that is), but more importantly to show you its potential as a professional development resource.
What is social media?
"The term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue....(that) allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content".
Follow that link to Wikipedia if you want to read more (optional).
Included in (but not limited to) the "web-based and mobile technologies" are:
- Internet forums
- Microblogging
- Blogs
- Wikis
- Podcasts
- Social bookmarking
You have already become a social learner by participating in this course, joining a community and having online discussion, and you have already created a blog and invited your colleagues to visit it. Many of you may have a Facebook page. Some of you may be using that for professional purposes.
Workplace learning - the principle
Both the workplace and learning have changed over the years and this change is happening very rapidly in more recent times. Read this article on 5 Stages of Workplace Learning. Where do you fit in? We are probably all quite similar to the average, but through the next two activities we would like to migrate you towards the right-hand of the graphic in that article.
As the above article suggests, the principle of workplace learning is not just restricted to learning at the workplace but indicates that it is social and informal.
Jane Hart is a renowned consultant in workplace learning and here is an article with many links to explore. Read this and explore a few links that interest you. Do so with a view to forming an opinion on what you think the potential of social networking is for you as a professional.
Group Activity 10
- Having read the above articles and considered the value of social networking, participate in the online discussion called "Can we be smart workers?"
- Write concluding and reflective comments in your blog.
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