Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning

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John Wiley & Sons, Jul 30, 2010 - Business & Economics - 192 pages
A how-to resource for incorporating social media into training

Whether you work in a traditional or virtual classroom, social media can broaden your reach and increase the impact of training. In Social Media for Trainers, e-learning and new media expert Jane Bozarth provides an overview of popular tools, including blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SlideShare, Flickr, and others. You'll learn to leverage each medium's unique features and applications to deliver training, facilitate discussions, and extend learning beyond the confines of a training event. This key resource offers a new set of powerful tools for augmenting and enhancing the value of your training.

PRAISE FOR SOCIAL MEDIA FOR TRAINERS

"Clear explanations and practical examples of the use of social media for learning, make this book essential reading for all workplace trainers."
Jane Hart, founder, Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, and founding member of the Internet Time Alliance

"... a practical, intelligent book teaching trainers how to effectively utilize technology for real learning outcomes."
Karl Kapp, professor of Instructional Technology at Bloomsburg University and author of Learning in 3D and Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning

"Trainers who want to succeed in the new social learning world should read this book. Jane has made social media easy, practical, and simple to use."
Ray Jimenez, PhD, Chief Learning Architect, VignettesLearning.com

 

Contents

Cover
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
The Basics
3 Too Many Rules Discourage Participation
Twitter
1 Use of the RT and Symbols in a Twitter Stream
5 PreWork in Twitter
8 Reflection on a Reading Assignment
11 Tweetdeck Can Also Pull Feeds from LinkedIn
Facebook and Other Communities
20 Discussion Topics Appear on the LinkedIn Group Site
3-20
BlogsWhich One?
3-23
Wikis
3-48
Other Tools
5-16
10 TeacherTube Interfaces with Facebook
6-12
Be the Change
6-35

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Jane Bozarth, Ed.D., is an internationally known trainer, speaker, and author. She is the author of Pfeiffer's E-Learning Solutions on A Shoestring; Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint; From Analysis to Evaluation, and, with Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner, The Challenge Continues. In addition to her work as Elearning Coordinator for the state of North Carolina, USA, Dr. Bozarth is the Social Media Strategist of InSync Training, LLC and she is also a moderator of a number of popular Twitter real-time #lrnchat sessions.

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