Social Media for Trainers
Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Pfeiffer
BBB Library: Education, Technology and Globalization
ISBN: 9780470631065
Editorial Review
New social media technologies and strategies provide quick, easy solutions to many of the challenges faced by workplace training practitioners. Social media vehicles such as Twitter and Facebook, for example, can help trainers build learning communities, facilitate quick assignments, offer updates or follow-up tips, and otherwise extend the reach of the formal training event. Social Media for Trainers is the first how-to guide on the incorporation of social networking techniques into a trainer's repertoire. It covers the most popular Web 2.0 tools for instructor-created content (blogs), community-created content (wikis), micro-blogging (Twitter), and community sharing and interaction (Facebook), all with detailed instruction on conducting several training/training-related activities.
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For successful social learning projects, we must remember that we’re dealing with people, with needs, desires, other priorities, and varying levels of confidence.
Most social software projects start with the aim of encouraging creativity, knowledge sharing, and collaboration
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Also, if you take trainees to offsite locations for long times, set up a twitter account so partners, and children can keep with what’s going on.
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