School 2.0 in SA

Today is the start of my first online blogging workshop. I have about 23 enthusiastic local learners who are going to walk this learning pathway with me so I should not be so scared, should I?

My main aim is to see how an online un-workshop can bring together a bunch of people to learn a new skill and also to pilot my self study tutorials for my subject advisors training initiative. I have decided to create it in PowerPoint so that subject advisors (and who-ever) can just adapt it effortlessly for their own learning and training purposes and I can also just embed videos and links into it. I had some good feedback from my twitter community with hints and suggestions. For instance, I forgot to cite my cartoons and am now frantically trying to figure out sources and permissions!

I am using a NING platform for the workshop and have no idea if it is going to be intuitive for those who attend. I first started in the main network space, but then realise d that it will be very difficult to keep track of discussions in a general space, so I created a seperate group where only the people on the workshop can engage. This provided my first mess-up as I have already asked everybody to introduce themselves in the main space. I have decided to wait an see how we all cope with my brain-dead moment. Indeed a very interesting learning curve for me.

So today we will just get to know each other and find our feet in the group. I have loaded the “Why Blog” learning object for everybody to look at and start thinking about. My main aim for today is to get everybody into the separate workshop group.

The Blogging workshop is here

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