Dave Ferguson hosts the seventh session of the Working/Learning Blog Carnival. The carnival provides some great posts of experiences of working at learning and learning at work. Here are some of the posts participating in the seventh session of the carnival.
- Karyn Romeis starts with “a bit of a rambling romp” (her words): Learning? Work? Her own passion for learning is such that she doesn’t think it should be separate from her job, and even prompted her to form her own consultancy.
- Manish Mohan has taken up a new instrument and shows what he knows in Twitter, Twitter Everywhere…
- The anthem of Ireland is Amhrán na bhFiann (The Soldier’s Song)—martial, but less thoughful than Richard Nantel’s post, Dinner Conversation Turns to War. In part he’s examining a dilemma: preparing people thoroughly to build skills they may never have to use.
- Clark Quinn’s post fits right into the spirit of a session: Do What You Love, Love What You Do. One thing he examines is the question of what makes learning fun, and therefore someone you want to do. He’s not talking about rubber chickens or noisemakers.
- Jane Bozarth builds on a 24-year tradition: a group of people who are determined to “stamp out bad training.” In asking Wherefore Passion?, she’s looking at what makes people passionate about their profession.
- Shanta Rohse is aware that you don’t read sheet music during a session. Digital Literacy: Reading Signs along the Way is her exploration of what skills learners need if they want to join in successfully. Workplaces should take note: if you don’t encourage engagement, people may go elsewhere to engage.
- Sessions aren’t supposed to be complicated, but they benefit from skill (which can include the mastery of complexity — like Davy Spillane on the uilleann pipes. My own post, Analyzing Tasks with Paradigming, gives examples of techniques I’ve used to make complexity…well, if not less complex, then easier to grasp.
You can get more info about the blog carnival at Dave’s blog carnival page.
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