Backchannel resources from Learning & Skills Group Conference 2013

I've been scouring the Twitter backchannel for interesting resources that were shared before, during and after the Learning & Skills Group Conference, and here is the list that I have after one month:

General reflections and resources

• Blog post and curated tweets from s0ngb1rd
• Blog post from Alistair Cockroft
• Curated images on Pinterest from LearnPatch
• Donald Taylor's Training Ghetto blog post

 

Keynote: Work, learning and living in the future (Gerd Leonhard)

• Conference video on Annotag and YouTube
• My blog post on the session
• Gerd Leonhard's slides, resources and free e-books
• Blog post from Jo Cook
• Curated tweets and video interview from Learn Patch
• Learning Locker link shared by John Curran

 

Track 1

Session 1: Open learning - opportunity or threat? (Steve Wheeler)

• Conference video on Annotag and YouTube
• Blog post and video interview from Learn Patch
• Transformational Learning Model
• How to Change Education

Session 2: The Tin Can API: Connecting the dots with data (Megan Bowe)

• Conference video on Annotag and YouTube

Session 3: Moving to social learning (Harold Jarche)

• Conference video on Annotag and YouTube
• My blog post on the session
• Harold Jarche's Toolbox
• The Cluetrain Manifesto
• Jane Bozarth's Social Learning Bookmarks and 'Show Your Work' images
• Curated tweets of Harold Jarche from Learn Patch

Track 2

Session 1: Ensuring true interaction in live online learning (Phil Green)

• My blog post on the session
• Blog post from Jo Cook

Session 2: Using Open Badges for accreditation (Doug Belshaw)

 

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Session 3: The learning design challenge (Julie Wedgewood)
 

• Blog post from Jo Cook
• Blog post from Niall Gavin
• Bitstrips mentioned by Matt Brewer

 

Track 3

Session 1: The seven habits of highly aligned L&D teams (Laura Overton)

• Towards Maturity Benchmark Survey
• Towards Maturity article: Aligning Learning to Business

Session 2: Big Data - a guide for those without a love of statistics (Nigel Paine)

• Longer Lives website
• Harvard Business Review - Big Data: Beyond the Hype
• My blog post on the session
• Blog post from Jo Cook
• Video 'Why thinking is the enemy of innovation'
• Video interview from Learn Patch

Session 3: Mobile devices, learning and the mind (Terence Eden)

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Track 4

Session 1: Learning resources: how long is long enough? (Stephanie Dedhar)

• Infographics shared by Stephanie Dedhar: Video production strategy; Online video creation; Video marketing statistics

Session 2: Lessons from the virtual playing field (Ben Betts)
 

• Infographic on Games Based Learning

Session 3: The Tin Can API workshop - putting the Experience API to work (Megan Bowe)

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Slideshares from Learning Technologies Summer Forum

Stephen Walsh, 'From ADDIE Men to Mad Men'
Charles Gould 'Diary of a Next Generation Learner'

How Social Media has changed the way I think & learn (part 1)

So, some time ago I had an idea about getting social media used more at my workplace.  It's been on the back-burner for a while to avoid clashing with our busiest period, but that will be drawing to an end soon, and I now have a whole lot more tricks at my disposal thanks to Jane Hart's 30 Ways course. Here's a hint folks: she's running this course again - for free - starting on 29 August. Be there and remember sharing is learning!

Before I get started on my initiatives at work, it's worth taking a look at how my attitudes have changed over the last few months. The chief instigator would have to be Jane Bozarth, after I saw her talk at the Learning Technologies conference in January. Or perhaps I should blame Donald Taylor for organising that conference? I digress...  Here's the first of what will probably be a fair few posts about social media and learning.

Twitter

This was a strange step for me at first. As someone who usually likes to reflect at length ('No, really?' you ask) the idea of getting anything worthwhile out of 140 character posts sounded like anathema to me. But the idea got lodged into my head - proving also that lectures still have some use - and I signed up for my account. Initially I followed the speakers from the conference, occasionally looked at my feed, but didn't do very much. Eventually I decided that you can only really learn by doing, dared a few tweets, and actually got some reactions. I started looking for more people to follow, realised some actually follow you back, read the articles they tweeted about, and suddenly it was like I had my own personal newspaper on learning. Oh wait, I do have one <http://tweetedtimes.com/#!/jimmy_hob>

But what really kicked it up a notch was deciding to get involved in the backchannel at the Learning and Skills Group conference in June. At the last conference, I was utterly bewildered by the flood of tweets showing up on the screens. As I started to get into the swing of using Twitter more, I noticed people using hashtags to talk about conferences, particularly David Kelly's move of sharing what he had picked up from the backchannel. So along I went with a clear goal of getting engaged with the backchannel and picking up on ideas from the talks I couldn't attend. I found myself more engaged with the talks than ever before, frantically scibbling notes as usual, whilst thinking of short, succinct points to share on the backchannel. Plus I noticed how people were using the backchannel to raise digital eyebrows at contentious ideas, without disrupting the flow. Afterwards I collated all the resources I could find and put them on my blog, to share with the world through all the channels I could find. I went from 30 hits to over 300 in practically no time at all, and I started to see blogging in a whole new light - but that's for another post!

In short, Twitter has become a great extension of my thinking and learning, in a way that I can share with others, and be recognised for it.

Click here for Part 2