Narrating My Work - August 20, 2012

Free world-class education for anyone anywhere.  This is the mission of Khan Academy.  I learned about this goldmine from a colleague who was reviewing statistics for an upcoming project.  Since I was writing a class on Financial Acumen, I took a Khan course on Income Statements and 12 minutes later, I was informed enough to understand this concept.

In my first post on Narrating My Work, I shared Dave Weinberger's research and belief of the benefits to an entire ecosystem where everyone shared the knowledge they've gained. 

Earlier this week, I listened to Daphne Koller explain Coursera, the program she co-founded to provide courses online for free.  Coursera's mission -  to provide everyone free access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few.

Today, I was working on an online class I'm creating for our organization as we transition to Windows 7.   A colleague showed me a Windows 7 Introduction from the St Louis Library's eCourse site.  I enrolled, completed the pre-survey and first lesson of this free class and learned something.  

This content, created by a true expert, can be linked to from our online class.  Instead of focusing on functionality, I will simply highlight our internal Windows 7 policies.  Careful explanation of what is and is not available to our people will be my focus, not how it works.

I'm intrigued with the idea of sharing knowledge freely, especially online. 

Narrating My Work - July 31, 2012

I started the day by creating a brief interview for my Needs Assessment.  I used ASTD's format to formulate some simple questions for my interview with the Subject Matter Expert this Friday.  

Next, I attempted to initiate today's narration on Storify. I'm blogging here because of my Storify experience.  The guided tour was interesting but once I started creating, I couldn't figure out how to add sources which left with me only Facebook as a resource.  Not robust enough to record my work day.  I could've googled an answer, but wasn't compelled. Back to the blog I go!

This afternoon I packaged the videos for the Financial Acumen pilot class tomorrow at Sullivan Hospital.  Next, I'm going to review videos for BJC Today to insure that lyps are sinched, or lips synched before we have them published for our online viewers.

After work tonight, it's Winslows Home for Fried Chicken.  The History Channel filmed Chef Cary last week as they compared northern and southern cuisine.  We decided to walk there tonight and conduct our own taste test.

Narrating My Work - July 20, 2012

Two weeks ago I signed up for an online course hosted by Harold Jarche and Jane Hart of the Social Learning Centre.  The class: "From training, to performance, to social" seemed to fit perfectly with my desire to learn more about social learning. It was a great thrill to find that 39 of the 41 learners were from outside the States.  What an opportunity to share ideas and be heard by other practitioners in the learning field.

We started out with the basics of training. Training can only solve a knowledge or performance issue, if there is a different issue in the workforce training is not the answer.  Next, we discussed the ID models of ADDIE, ISD and whether or not they were still applicable to today's rapid pace of information sharing.  The next assignment was reflective about how we solved an issue we had with a co-worker, was training the answer? Yesterday's assignment was on Narration of your Work. I had never heard of this concept until Harold explained that it is making your tacit knowledge (what you feel) more explicit (what you are doing with that knowledge).  I listened to a short video by Dave Weinberger where he explained Public Learning.  He used an example of software developers searching online for solutions to problems they encounter.  The developers generously share information, even though it may be with a competitor, because knowledge should not be owned.  I found the concept interesting.  Dave believes there are tremendous benefits to the entire ecosystem when everyone shares the knowledge they've gained.

One of Harold's last quotes in the Narration your Work topic is that we should focus on helping each other to turn narrating our work into a habit. He believes in the future it will be the norm to share what you are up to.  Formal documentation and stream of private emails that is current output of most knowledge workers is not going to cut it going forward.  We need to think about how we can move towards that culture.

Okay, so here's my first step in moving towards that culture.  

My Work day - Friday, July 20, 2012

Arrive at work and scan email, respond as needed and then dive into one task before our staff meeting:  reviewing an internal PowerPoint.  Because we are presenting to our peers I wanted to add a little something special so deliberated about using prezi.  Completed review of PowerPoint and headed to 2 hour meeting.

Social Media Updates - after the meeting, I visited Feedly to see what interesting posts I could add to our FB and Pinterest account next week. I found some options and used Hootsuite to schedule.  I use IE for this activity because I usually run into issues with loading graphics.  Chrome is worse for this tasks but IE crashed again today so after shutting down for a few minutes, I completed this task.

Video Review - for one of the classes I'm working on, we video-taped several of our executives.  I reviewed the final versions from the YouSendIt site to see how they looked. We had been concerned that maybe they would be too long but nope, only 2 were 3 minutes long and the other 10, were under 1:30.  This will be perfect for our class because we are experimenting with Flipped Learning for this class.  We will send out several videos and a pre-class survey in order to alleviate most of the lecture and allow our learners to spend more time working on the concepts, rather than listening to them.

Internal PowerPoint - I tried several attempts at creating a Prezi PowerPoint by next Tuesday.  It seems easy enough to use, but after an hour and no real gains, I figured I didn't have the time.

Lunch at my desk as I scheduled appointments for next week.  

I was scheduled to sit in on a demo by Splash Media to see what kind of marketing we could use for our social media efforts.  

Social Learning Centre - I read through the Narrating Your Work topic and considered attempting to use Storify like one of the participants had done.  Considering my Prezi path earlier in the day, I went back to my blog...which hasn't seen my fingers in over a year. I enjoyed this first go at work narration.  I'm going to add it to my calendar for next week.  Thanks, Harold!

 Since I don't like blogs without pictures, I've included one of my office building here!

Narrating My Work - February 15, 2013

A colleague of mine, Steven Loomis, a great Instructional Designer, thinker and motivator, and I designed an online course for new adopters of the iPhone.  BJC Healthcare made a decision last year to remove the Blackberry server, which meant all Blackberry users had to move to iPhones. 

Steven and I were tasked with designing the content.  It was his idea to add snarky humor.  Including simple scenarios, getting a text while on a way to the meeting, was our attempt to introduce reluctant users into helpful tool.

Not all employees are eligible for a company-issued iPhone so we couldn't market this course like we usually do. To increase awareness, we decided to email everyone after they'd ordered their new iPhone with a direct link to the course.  Every week, I sent an email and we received positive responses.  I've been doing this for two weeks, in a month I'll see if it did increase enrollment.

Narrating My Work - 7.20.2012

Two weeks ago I signed up for an online course hosted by Harold Jarche and Jane Hart of the Social Learning Centre.  The class: "From training, to performance, to social" seemed to fit perfectly with my desire to learn more about social learning. It was a great thrill to find that 39 of the 41 learners were from outside the States.  What an opportunity to share ideas and be heard by other practitioners in the learning field.

We started out with the basics of training. Training can only solve a knowledge or performance issue, if there is a different issue in the workforce training is not the answer.  Next, we discussed the ID models of ADDIE, ISD and whether or not they were still applicable to today's rapid pace of information sharing.  The next assignment was reflective about how we solved an issue we had with a co-worker, was training the answer? Yesterday's assignment was on Narration of your Work. I had never heard of this concept until Harold explained that it is making your tacit knowledge (what you feel) more explicit (what you are doing with that knowledge).  I listened to a short video by Dave Weinberger where he explained Public Learning.  He used an example of software developers searching online for solutions to problems they encounter.  The developers generously share information, even though it may be with a competitor, because knowledge should not be owned.  I found the concept interesting.  Dave believes there are tremendous benefits to the entire ecosystem when everyone shares the knowledge they've gained.

One of Harold's last quotes in the Narration your Work topic is that we should focus on helping each other to turn narrating our work into a habit. He believes in the future it will be the norm to share what you are up to.  Formal documentation and stream of private emails that is current output of most knowledge workers is not going to cut it going forward.  We need to think about how we can move towards that culture.

Okay, so here's my first step in moving towards that culture.  

My Work day - Friday, July 20, 2012

Arrive at work and scan email, respond as needed and then dive into one task before our staff meeting:  reviewing an internal PowerPoint.  Because we are presenting to our peers I wanted to add a little something special so deliberated about using prezi.  Completed review of PowerPoint and headed to 2 hour meeting.

Social Media Updates - after the meeting, I visited Feedly to see what interesting posts I could add to our FB and Pinterest account next week. I found some options and used Hootsuite to schedule.  I use IE for this activity because I usually run into issues with loading graphics.  Chrome is worse for this tasks but IE crashed again today so after shutting down for a few minutes, I completed this task.

Video Review - for one of the classes I'm working on, we video-taped several of our executives.  I reviewed the final versions from the YouSendIt site to see how they looked. We had been concerned that maybe they would be too long but nope, only 2 were 3 minutes long and the other 10, were under 1:30.  This will be perfect for our class because we are experimenting with Flipped Learning for this class.  We will send out several videos and a pre-class survey in order to alleviate most of the lecture and allow our learners to spend more time working on the concepts, rather than listening to them.

Internal PowerPoint - I tried several attempts at creating a Prezi PowerPoint by next Tuesday.  It seems easy enough to use, but after an hour and no real gains, I figured I didn't have the time.

Lunch at my desk as I scheduled appointments for next week.  

I was scheduled to sit in on a demo by Splash Media to see what kind of marketing we could use for our social media efforts.  

Social Learning Centre - I read through the Narrating Your Work topic and considered attempting to use Storify like one of the participants had done.  Considering my Prezi path earlier in the day, I went back to my blog...which hasn't seen my fingers in over a year. I enjoyed this first go at work narration.  I'm going to add it to my calendar for next week.  Thanks, Harold!