cannot support or facilitate the learning of others if they don’t first understand their own learning path. Tags: learning technology stewardship the-big-questio This month’s “Big Question” from Tony Karrer jolted me out of my sun-gardening-induced blogging lethargy to reply to this question: In a Learning 2.0

These roots are significant because our patterns of use, our ways of embracing or rejecting technology are grounded in this history. Online It was in “helping” “save” the community after Howard lost funding that I had my first big online facilitation failure. It was my urgency to figure this out that set me on my professional path as a practitioner and learner about online facilitation. This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

What Simon Hearn of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) does for his community of Outcome Mapping practitioners is facilitation, management, technology stewardship and plain old leadership. couple of months ago Simon and I got on Skype to learn more about Simon’s community facilitation and stewardship work. Take  a listen (about I was going to say “online community management” in the title, because I know that is a hot search term, but I just could not do it. A

Then, going to learning professionals, I think there’s an additional level that is community / network facilitation. As learning increasingly happens through communities and networks, learning professionals need to be able to facilitate this. But I do think facilitation is a key knowledge workers skill in the network era, so for the sake of this post, I’ll treat the two the same but recognize that is oversimplification. It is hard to let some Tony Karrer disappointment persist. After posting my 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals in response to Tony’s

thought it would be handing in an upcoming workshop I’m facilitating for the CGIAR starting next week. Tags: international development non profits/ngos online interaction social media technology stewardship identit My friend and colleague, Shirley Williams, pointed me to a great resource on digital identity (DI) that she and her colleagues created for their students at Reading University in the UK.  It is called “ This Is Me .”

love the idea of tinkering and find it central to the practice of stewarding technology for ourselves, our communities and networks. Brown talks about a networked world as an open source world that facilitates this tinkering. Around here, countercultural attitudes towards technology– explored by John Markoff in  What the Dormouse Said  (here’s  my review of it ), Theodore Roszak (his  Satori to Silicon Valley  is still one of The word “tinkering” keeps coming up to my radar screen, and it makes me happy. I

Next in the podcast series on social media in international development is a dear friend and colleague, Simone Staiger discussing the design, technology and facilitation of a global e-consultation.  Listen as Simone talks about the technology, process and challenges of the consultation, as well as her unique addition of social media tools (Twitter and blogs) to provide a window “out to the world” on the progress of the e-consultations. Simone is orchestrating 6 regional consultations for the Global Forum on Agricultural Research ( GFAR )  in preparation for a major meeting next year.

As I reflected after the conversation, Gauresh has been serving as a technology steward for this community of practice of economists in and outside of the Bank, noticing what is needed, developing a prototype that blends with the way people are already working, then takes things to the next level. Steve Eskow and  Sarah Blackmun on the cultural and gender related aspects to bringing external (web 2) technology to communities in development contexts and Simon Staiger on planning and facilitating online e-consultations. Continuing my series of podcast conversations about the use of  social media in international development, this wee we have Gauresh Rajadhyaksh who works with the Development Prospects Group ( http://www.worldbank.org/prospects ), a central think-tank unit within the World Bank . 

All presentation proposals are peer-reviewed and selected by three reviewers on the respected Program Committee for inclusion in the conference program, Proceedings (book and CD-ROM formats) and EdITLib (Education and Information Technology Digital Library),   http://www.EdITLib.org We have to get better at “being together” using technology. Throughout the year  I’m involved in quite a few conferences and meetings. This year, the ground is shifting.

The group I am involved with is a meta-CoP of professionals who work in Jewish communal organizations - that is, a community of practice whose members facilitate communities of practice. facilitate movement from “legitimate peripheral participation” to participation in the culture of practice (Lave and Wenger, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation , 2008) Tags: Technology Welcoming New Members into a Community of Practice How do we welcome people into our communities of practice?