It was not so long ago I was sitting in Room X at the Institute of Tropical Medicine listening to Inge de Waard introduce a group of us to Moodle(TM) as an example of an e-learning platform. Here I am again listening to her talk about blogging at the 2010 eSCART facilitator's workshop on networking of alumni and community of practice, etc. My first fruits from the seeds of this new knowledge is this blog.
So here are my first comments.
- Inga's introduction to blogging as a tool for networking was the easier part of the learning curve.
- Jean Van der Vennet's talk was material-dense and eye opening. It was nice to hear about experience from the ITM alumni groups but it current seems quite tasking and time and personnel-demanding to maintain these networks.
- More for later
The range of networking tools is simply breathtaking-ning, dimdim, adobe acrobat connect, google docs, twitter, facebook, and the list goes on.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to hear about the principles upon which facebook's success is based. Some include
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2. Connect with other networks
3. Live authenticity
4. Participatory dialog
5. Enable peer to peer interaction
6. To be up to date
7. Foster advocacy
8. Solicit a call for action
9. Empowering pre-existing pages
10. several ways to engage your audience.
One key issue was how to use the mobile devices based version of all the platforms we have been told about. Obviously my view on this is use of mobile devices for networking will always be personal. The key thing will be to make the platform chosen cater for the range of technophobes, limited internet access to technophiles with top speed internet connections.
More for later.....
...waiting to hear and see the catalyst-an email based survey tool!
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