This deck, which includes speaker notes prepared for a highly interactive opening keynote session, was used to set the stage for a dynamic daylong exploration ("From eLearning to Learning: The Library, Community, and Learning Innovation") for Mount Prospect Public Library's 2016 "Staff Inservice Day" May 13, 2016. The deck is part of an online suite of components designed to be used as stand-alone learning objects or in tandem with each other and benefited tremendously from continuous collaboration with the onsite "co-conspirators" who participated as co-learners..
A Storify document captures some of the online exchanges participants were having throughout the day and for a few hours after the onsite event concluded:
https://storify.com/paulsignorelli/from-elearning-to-learning-the-library-community-a From eLearning to Learning: The Library, Community, and Learning Innovation
Online documents that were collaboratively created by participants in a series of onsite breakout sessions are available to Mount Prospect Library staff on their intranet.
Links to blog articles documenting the planning and facilitation process will be posted here as soon as they are available.
For more information about how this onsite-online (blended) event was organized, how it produced concrete results for participants, or how you can work with Paul to have a similarly innovative day of learning designed for your organization, please contact Paul Signorelli (paul@paulsignorelli.com)..
1. From eLearning to Learning: The Library,
Community, and Learning Innovations
Facilitated by Paul Signorelli,
Writer/Trainer/Consultant
Paul Signorelli & Associates
paul@paulsignorelli.com
Twitter: @paulsignorelli, @trainersleaders
Inservice Day Twitter Hashtag: #mpplsid
Mount Prospect Public library Staff Inservice Day
May 13, 2016
2. From eLearning to Learning: The Library,
Community, and Learning Innovations
Facilitated by Paul Signorelli,
Writer/Trainer/Consultant
Paul Signorelli & Associates
paul@paulsignorelli.com
Twitter: @paulsignorelli, @trainersleaders
Inservice Day Twitter Hashtag: #mpplsid
Mount Prospect Public library Staff Inservice Day
May 13, 2016
59. Resources
E-learning: Annotated Bibliography for Library Training Programs
http://paulsignorelli.com/PDFs/Bibliography--E-learning.pdf
Dynamic Web Conferencing and Presentation Skills for Effective Meetings, Trainings, and Learning
Sessions
http://paulsignorelli.com/PDFs/Bibliography--Webconferencing_Resources.pdf
eLearning Guild Website
http://www.elearningguild.com/
61. ForMore Information
Paul Signorelli & Associates
1032 Irving St., #514
San Francisco, CA 94122
415.681.5224
paul@paulsignorelli.com
http://paulsignorelli.com
Twitter: @paulsignorelli, @trainersleaders
http://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com
62. Credits & Acknowledgments
Discovery Zone and Other Mount Prospect Public Library Spaces: Photos by Paul Signorelli
33,000 Feet Above: Photo by Paul Signorelli
Water Cooler: Photo from Doug Waldron’s Flickr photostream at http://tinyurl.com/jpprhln
Surrounded by Mobile Devices: Photo from Luke Wroblewski’s Flickr photostream at http://tinyurl.com/gpl25rt
Library and Other Learning Spaces: Photos by Paul Signorelli
BYOD/BYOT: Photos by Paul Signorelli
San Francisco: Photos by Paul Signorelli
Question Marks: From Valerie Everett’s photostream at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/3006348550/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Editor's Notes
Let’s use this introductory slide as a bridge from what you heard before you arrived here this morning and what we’re about to spend an entire day doing together—let’s start with the original introduction written for today’s sessions:
Many of us are unfamiliar with and uncertain about the benefits elearning provides in lifelong learning. Rethinking our perceptions and, through hands-on activities, seeing ways we can incorporate elearning into our overall learning landscape can empower us and those we serve.
This highly interactive Staff Inservice Day program is designed to help alleviate some of the fear and misperceptions that learners have regarding elearning, while also exploring ways that elearning can be incorporated into the Library’s overall efforts to be an active and vibrant center of the community; essential to the digital age; a trusted community hub (a “Third Place”); an active partner in sustaining the educational, economic, and civic health of the community; and a source of inspiration for lifelong learning and empowerment of community members of all ages.
By the end of the day today, you should be able to:
Define elearning in terms that help you and others effectively incorporate it into your learning activities
Incorporate elearning into the larger context of overall learning within the library and the community it serves
Explain why elearning is positive and learners should take advantage of it
Summarize what elearning can provide for you and other learners
Summarize what elearning can provides for those you serve
Describe what you individually and as members of a dynamic community of learning will do within the next two weeks to foster more effective elearning for yourselves, your colleagues, and those you serve
Cite at least three resources you can use to improve your elearning efforts
Seeing this sign yesterday here in the Mount Prospect Public Library, I knew we finally had a metaphor for what we’re going to attempt to accomplish here today. We’re not going to be presenter and audience. We’re not going to be instructor and student. We’re going to be co-conspirators in examining a topic of high importance to ourselves, our colleagues, the library, and, most importantly, those we serve. If we’re successful, we’ll more effectively and creatively engage our extended learning community in ways that transform individuals as well as the entire community of which we are a part.
Let’s start by seeing where we are and how we’re doing with the opportunities that surround us.
We’ll start by looking at some obvious and some not-so-obvious learning opportunities that take us online as well as into that blended onsite-online place that so many of us are finding to be a wonderful and often-overlooked part of our learning landscape.
#etmooc = The Educational Technology and Media massive open online course offering free, online from January to March 2013; learners were so engaged that they decided to continue as a community of learning that continues to operate to this day with Tweet chats, Google Hangouts, and other virtual gatherings.
Asynchronous online learning opportunities are abundant, as we can see from just a few examples.
The Khan Academy has done a great job of providing videos that learners can see when they rather than we are ready.
TED talks are a tremendously wonderful source of learning and inspiration for many of us, and can be incorporated into learning opportunities onsite as well as online.
YouTube clearly has more than videos of our babies and cats; imagine a topic you want to explore and you’ll probably find a video leading you through the learning process on that topic.
Blogs are another often-overlooked learning opportunity; my own “Building Creative Bridges” blog is designed to offer self-contained lessons with plenty of links to the best resources I can find on the topics I cover, and I’m far from alone in this approach.
Google, of course, is a tremendous resource in terms of eLearning if we stretch our definition a bit to include resources that curious learners can utilize to help meet their at-the-moment-of-need learning challenges.
The American Library Association, with numerous online and blended onsite-online offerings
The Library and Information Technology Association
The eLearning Guild, with numerous online learning opportunities and research reports
The Association for Talent Development (formerly ASTD—the American Society for Training & Development)
Online learning communities are abundant—formal as well as informal. Here are a few samples:
T is for Training, Maurice Coleman’s biweekly hour-long podcast for those involved in library training-teaching-learning efforts
#lrnchat, a community of trainer-teacher-learners who meet weekly online for hour-long tweet chats that begin every Thursday at 8:30 pm ET/5:30 pm PT
Google+ communities for those immersed in learning
Facebook, with public and private learning communities
Twitter, with is shared links to learning resources and its online tweet chats centered on training-teaching-learning
Pinterest, for visual “pins” to a variety of wonderful resources
Scoop.it!, for text-based links to a variety of wonderful; often accompanied by short annotations by those who post items on Scoop.it!
Informal learning is a huge part of our learning landscape—some of our training-teaching-learning colleagues say it comprises upwards of 90 percent of all learning that takes place in our workplaces.
The face of that informal learning has clearly shifted in many ways…
…if you have a mobile device, you have the portal to a seemingly infinite number of virtual classrooms and learning resources
Let’s look at a few library learning spaces with an eye toward how they combine onsite and online learning.
As we look at these images, let’s ask ourselves how the spaces themselves might inspire us to redefine what we mean when we talk about eLearning…
The fabulously inspiring onsite-online space for teens at the main library in Chicago
A creative learner creating his own onsite-online learning space in a wonderful library reading room…
Opportunities, in an academic library, to combine onsite and online discussions through the use of tech tools that are an integral part of the space…
As we look at this image of colleagues at an educational technology conference held in hotel meetings rooms, we stretch our concept of what eLearning is even further:
It’s an onsite event where learners reset the room (i.e., rearranged the furniture) to facilitate their own learning process.
The two learning facilitators are not at all obvious in this image because they served as co-learners rather than lecturers.
The onsite-online element includes the use of a Google Doc so learners could add their thoughts to a shared document they could continue to access long after this conference session had ended.
Bring Your Own Device/Bring Your Own Technology
…a movement that helps shape and redefine the underpinnings of our learning experiences and offerings…
a virtual-reality tool
…trying out Google Glass at an American Library Association Midwinter Meeting
…using an onsite space—the Networking Uncommons—at an American Library Association conference to bring onsite and online colleagues together; no more #alaleftbehind?
Using Google Hangouts in the ALA Midwinter Meeting Networking Uncommons
Using Google Hangouts to create a classroom that extended over a 2,000+ mile virtual space, connecting learning facilitators with onsite participants in a way that made everyone feel as if they were in the same room—which, in significant ways, they were!
Let’s see what the pre-session survey to which so many of you contributed says about where we all are in terms of our perceptions of and engagement with eLearning…
A return to our initial check-point…
Bridging the gap between where we are and where we want and need to be…
A brief review of what we will be doing for the rest of the day…[discuss break-out sessions and lunchtime unconference]
We started with the proposal that our time together is going to be spent in a literal and metaphorical space where we explore and learn together. We’re all co-conspirators in the learning process, and our goal is to walk away with a concrete plan of action on how to use what we discover and create together.
We looked at a variety of well-accepted as well as unorthodox approaches to defining and promoting eLearning.
We looked at a variety of learning communities and professional organizations that can support our eLearning explorations and offerings.
And we saw a couple of examples of how we can bring eLearning and onsite learning together so that, in the words of eLearning professional Marc Rosenberg, we can move from eLearning to Learning.
Let’s look at a several suggested resources for you…