Some excellent education offerings from HIMSS in honor of National Nurses Week!
http://www.himss.org/national-nurses-week
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Work Literacy - A "Must Read" Blog
I have just found a new blog started June 1 that is on my “must read” list. It’s Work Literacy and is located at http://www.workliteracy.com/. Started by Tony Karrer and Michele Martin, this blog addresses issues of workplace information literacy, obstacles to developing new skills and learning new tools, and methods to encourage change. Two great posts to share:
“In a video presentation at Enterprise 2.0, two of the CIA Intellipedia folks mention a document on their Wiki that was put together by the OSS (precursor to the CIA) which describes how to best sabotage an organization” http://www.workliteracy.com/knowledge-work-sabotage
“…a new kind of illiteracy. And it’s worse, because it’s not a conscious illiteracy. You feel like you can still do your job. But you are slowly falling behind and as time goes by it becomes harder to catch up because you lack the learning skills that are part of this new literacy.” http://www.workliteracy.com/cognitive-age-illiteracy
This falls in quite nicely with the current initiatives in nursing to increase informatics literacy among nurses, nursing faculty, and nursing students. See the National League for Nursing newly published Preparing the Next Generation of Nurses to Practice in a Technology-rich Environment: An Informatics Agenda and The Tiger Summit Initiative. The 2007 Tiger Summar Report is at https://www.tigersummit.com/uploads/TIGERInitiative_Report2007_bw.pdf.
Of course the big question is how to accomplish those goals? I believe both clinicians and administrators want applications and education sessions they can use NOW, a "guerilla informatics" approach.
- How can I keep up to date with my clinical specialty?
- How can I use office productivity applications to decrease manual data recording and analysis?
- How can I communicate effectively with my staff or committe?
- How can I lean these things quickly with minimal classroom time or cost?
Sunday, May 25, 2008
More on grasshopper minds and a few resources to check more closely
My daughter in law replied to the posting on "Grasshopper Minds" and the reference to "age +2". She said:
"The "age plus 2" is based on Sousa's research on the primacy/recency effect of memory. The following link has information regarding this. Centre for Teaching and Educational Technologies".
A few days ago I received the latest issue of Techology in Education from Edutopia. There was a article entitled. "Multimodal Learning Through Media" with a link to a white paper by Cisco Systems called "Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says". One of the major points of the paper was clarification of the Cone of Experience Theory (we retain "10 percent of what we read, 20 percent of what we hear, 30 percent of what we see, 50 percent of what we hear and see, 70 percent of what we say or write, and 90 percent of what we say as we do a thing"). Incorporating interactive elements are more important when addressing applied skills than with basic information. How many times have we seen interactivity thrown into a class (academic or workplace related) that seemed to be rather useless as tool or means to reinforce learning?
I was led to a 2001 article on "Information Literacy in the Workplace" by Jan Oman from eLearning Technology . There is a quote from the article defining information literacy:
"The definition that is most widely accepted, and that forms the basis of subsequent definitions, comes from the Final Report of the American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, 1989 ([Online] Available: http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/ilit1st.html.):
"To be information literate an individual must recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate and use effectively the information needed. Ultimately, information literate people are those who have learned how to learn. They know how to learn because they know how information is organized, how to find information, and how to use information in such a way that others can learn from them. They are people prepared for lifelong learning, because they always find the information needed for any task or decision at hand." "
Sounds to me like an excellent reason to develop a Personal Learning Environment!
"The "age plus 2" is based on Sousa's research on the primacy/recency effect of memory. The following link has information regarding this. Centre for Teaching and Educational Technologies".
A few days ago I received the latest issue of Techology in Education from Edutopia. There was a article entitled. "Multimodal Learning Through Media" with a link to a white paper by Cisco Systems called "Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says". One of the major points of the paper was clarification of the Cone of Experience Theory (we retain "10 percent of what we read, 20 percent of what we hear, 30 percent of what we see, 50 percent of what we hear and see, 70 percent of what we say or write, and 90 percent of what we say as we do a thing"). Incorporating interactive elements are more important when addressing applied skills than with basic information. How many times have we seen interactivity thrown into a class (academic or workplace related) that seemed to be rather useless as tool or means to reinforce learning?
I was led to a 2001 article on "Information Literacy in the Workplace" by Jan Oman from eLearning Technology . There is a quote from the article defining information literacy:
"The definition that is most widely accepted, and that forms the basis of subsequent definitions, comes from the Final Report of the American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, 1989 ([Online] Available: http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/ilit1st.html.):
"To be information literate an individual must recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate and use effectively the information needed. Ultimately, information literate people are those who have learned how to learn. They know how to learn because they know how information is organized, how to find information, and how to use information in such a way that others can learn from them. They are people prepared for lifelong learning, because they always find the information needed for any task or decision at hand." "
Sounds to me like an excellent reason to develop a Personal Learning Environment!
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Finding Flakes
The default Pageflakes page has a dozen "flakes" or predefined containers for content:
1. Local Weather
2. Local News
3. "Pageflakes Central"
4. Local Flickr photos
5. Video feeds
6. "Mother of all Podcast feeds"
7. Local TV listing
8. Local events
9. Calendar
10. Local movies
11. To do list
12. Email viewer
If you are looking at Pageflakes as a potential container for your PLE, you might consider replacing/adding or creating a new page (and I believe you can create unlimited new pages) with the following flakes:
1. RSS feeds - You can add multiple rss feeds.
2. Box.net - Provides 1 Gig of free online storage for files.
3. Notepad - A place for ongoing notes.
4. Blog - Have your own blog based in Pageflakes
5. Bookmarks - You can add multiple bookmark flakes.
6. "Anything flake" - Allows you to enter your own html or use the embedded wysiwyg editor.
Search the flakes and pagecasts section. Pageflakes pages can be personal or shared. A pagecast is a shared Pageflakes page. There is one by "mlx" (a staff trainer according to her profile page with a special interest in librarianship) with the title "Personal Learning Environments" at http://www.pageflakes.com/mlx/14579658
1. Local Weather
2. Local News
3. "Pageflakes Central"
4. Local Flickr photos
5. Video feeds
6. "Mother of all Podcast feeds"
7. Local TV listing
8. Local events
9. Calendar
10. Local movies
11. To do list
12. Email viewer
If you are looking at Pageflakes as a potential container for your PLE, you might consider replacing/adding or creating a new page (and I believe you can create unlimited new pages) with the following flakes:
1. RSS feeds - You can add multiple rss feeds.
2. Box.net - Provides 1 Gig of free online storage for files.
3. Notepad - A place for ongoing notes.
4. Blog - Have your own blog based in Pageflakes
5. Bookmarks - You can add multiple bookmark flakes.
6. "Anything flake" - Allows you to enter your own html or use the embedded wysiwyg editor.
Search the flakes and pagecasts section. Pageflakes pages can be personal or shared. A pagecast is a shared Pageflakes page. There is one by "mlx" (a staff trainer according to her profile page with a special interest in librarianship) with the title "Personal Learning Environments" at http://www.pageflakes.com/mlx/14579658
Sunday, May 11, 2008
My PLE Presentation
This is the working presentation I'll be delivering at the Rutgers Twenty-Sixth Annual International Nursing Computer and Technology Conference in June.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
PLE Resources
Here are some of the resources I've used so far in investigating PLEs. There are many, many more, but these have been an introduction and stimulus as to how I can use them personally and introduce them to health care colleagues.
Graham Atwell
George Siemens:
Graham Atwell
- http://www.slideshare.net/GrahamAttwell/personal-learning-environments-46423/
- Personal Learning Environments - the future of eLearning?
http://www.elearningpapers.eu/index.php?page=doc&vol=2&doc_id=8553&doclng=6
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Downes
- Stephen’s Web
http://www.downes.ca/ - Stephen Downes on Personal Learning
http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/813
- Personal learning environments: what they are and how to implement them
http://www.masternewmedia.org/learning_educational_technologies/learning-environments/PLE-personal-learning-environments-present-future-20070615.htm
- Exploring Personal Learning Environments
http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/exploring-personal-learni.html - The Personal Learning Environment Starter Pack--What Would You Include?
http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog//2008/02/the-personal-le.html - 5 Uses for a Wiki at Work
http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/2007/06/5_uses_for_a_wi.html - Seven Strategies for Supporting Personal Learning Environments at Work
http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/2007/08/supporting-pers.html
George Siemens:
- Connectivism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectivism - Connectivism: A learning theory for today’s learner
http://www.connectivism.ca/ - Connectivism: Rethinking learning in a digital age
http://www.elearnspace.org/media/connectivism_Web_2/player.html
Friday, May 2, 2008
Notes to date
Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
Information R/evolution by Michael Wesch-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM
“This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.” http://mediatedcultures.net/mediatedculture.htm
Knowledge is constantly growing and evolving
- no single repository
- no single best medium
- resides in multiple human and electronic networks
- expert is becoming blurred - individual vs consensus
Meet Charlene by Janet Clarey - http://www.slideshare.net/jclarey/meetcharlene
Slide presentation of a Web 2.0 learner working in an Enterprise 1.0 environment.
Janet Clary is a Senior Researcher at Brandon Hall Research.
http://brandon-hall.com/janetclarey/
Continuing professional development/workplace learning
- more electronic resources
- electronic tools
- searching
- synchronous/asynchronous communication/collaboration
- learning is an ongoing process to recognize, evaluate, synthesize, and communicate patterns from multiple sources
- how can organizations facilitate this learning style
Because information is changing rapidly and located in so many places, the ability to find, collect, connect and sort information among a multitude of sources and networks is a critical skill.
Technology is a reason for information proliferation AND an information management tool.
What tools and techniques can we provide users to achieve this goal?
What is a Personal Learning Environment?
A PLE is not
- a specific software application
- a substitute for institutional or regulatory agency required documentation of education/training compliance
- a method for creating e-learning applications
A PLE is a concept rather than specific software; a group of techniques and a variety of tools.
to gather information
- explore/develop relationships between pieces of information
- browser based (potentially)
A PLE helps a learner to:
- view the subject as a landscape as well as individual pieces of information
- create a personal repository(s) of materials and relationships clustered around a unifying topic or concept
- document, reflect, communicate, collaborate
A PLE supports adult learning characteristics
- autonomy
- practicality
- relevancy
- building on prior knowledge
- goal directed
Key attribute is a central container or map (whether defined or conceptual) for files, links, notes, documents, and connections. Could be Internet based, Intranet based or stand alone.
Sources of Information – potential content for your PLE:
Non-electronic
- Books & journals
- Classroom based courses
- Professional meetings
- Live interaction with colleagues & contacts
Electronic
- Locally produced files & notes
- Internet/Intranet
- E-Learning courses
- Reference” sites
- Text, audio, video, graphics files
- Shared presentations
- RSS Feeds
- Blogs
- Journals
- Communication/Collaboration
- Discussion boards and email lists
- Social networking sites
- Social bookmarking sites
- Blogs
- Wikis
Personal Start Pages are a useful tool for consolidating Information sources into a single web based application.
- Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com, iGoogle http://www.google.com/ig
Tools to consider
- Blogs
Tumblr - microblog http://www.tumblr.com, Blogger http://www.blogger.com/ - Ecto Learning - http://www.ectolearning.com/ecto2/Default.aspx
- Diagrams - Gliffy http://www.gliffy.com
- Mind Maps
Mindmeister http://www.mindmeister.com, Mindomo http://www.mindomo.com - Multiple tool sites
Zoho http://www.zoho.com, Google Docs http://docs.google.com - RSS readers
Google Reader http://reader.google.com, Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/ - Social bookmarking - http://del.icio.us
- Social networking - http://facebook.com/
- Shared presentations - http://slideshare.net
- Wikis
WetPaint http://www.wetpaint.com, Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
First steps
Over the past year or so I have been exploring and trying to understand the concept of Personal Learning Environments. First exposed to the term via blogs (I think it was Michele Martin’s The Bamboo Project Blog), I’ve not found any references in healthcare literature. This is an attempt to collect my thoughts and understanding of the concept, potential tools, resources, notes, etc, especially how it can be used by clinical folks.
Why the name? A hornbook is a neat device; a durable and portable learning tool of the 16th century. “A constant companion to beginning readers in Colonial America, the hornbook was a popular teaching aid in England during the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. Typically, hornbooks were composed of a printed alphabet sheet tacked or pasted to a wooden bat-shaped board and covered with a thin sheet of translucent horn, but there are specimens in ivory, silver, leather and even gingerbread. Printed sheets usually included both lower case and capital alphabets, vowels, and numerals, accompanied by a cross ornament, the Benediction, and Lord's Prayer. ” (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm178.html ). Since I’m a beginning blogger, Digital Hornbook seemed an appropriate title.
Why the name? A hornbook is a neat device; a durable and portable learning tool of the 16th century. “A constant companion to beginning readers in Colonial America, the hornbook was a popular teaching aid in England during the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. Typically, hornbooks were composed of a printed alphabet sheet tacked or pasted to a wooden bat-shaped board and covered with a thin sheet of translucent horn, but there are specimens in ivory, silver, leather and even gingerbread. Printed sheets usually included both lower case and capital alphabets, vowels, and numerals, accompanied by a cross ornament, the Benediction, and Lord's Prayer. ” (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm178.html ). Since I’m a beginning blogger, Digital Hornbook seemed an appropriate title.
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