Week 5

In your journal, provide ideas on how you can incorporate some of the ideas from today's presentations in your job.

Clint Boswell - Cloud Computing

I enjoyed Clints presenting on Cloud Computing, and it made me think of having training platforms or learning management systems in the cloud. Similar to Salesforce - but instead of CRM, it'd be an LMS. Like Salesforce.com, it could be customizeable to the client.... ::::thinking with my entrepreneurial hat now:::::

Victor Fagundes - Digital storytelling

I could use digital storytelling in corporate classrooms, maybe like this:
Instead of having learners talk about their experience with a poor customer service or management experience, I could have them develop a story or scenario via digital story. They'd create one experience of what did happen that was poor, and then an "alternate ending" of what could have been done differently.

Serena Arge -copyright and intellectual property

I'm not sure how I would directly utilize this in a corporate setting with learners in particular, unless I were a. doing it myself and citing my references properly, or b. when asking learners to make presentations, having them cite material and references properly as well.

Kelly Reed -Online Group Work Tools for Higher Ed. Science

Kelly presented such a wide variety of ideas and materials. The one that stuck in my head the most was the small round tables where groups each had a laptop and a presentation board where they collaborated ideas/etc. Maybe in the future and given the right budget, corporate training could look like this - with round tables, access to computers, or maybe the table itself could be a large screen where instant collaboration and idea building could happen...

Michael Agnoletti -Privacy Issues

Logging out of my gmail/facebook/sfsu account/etc and clearing the history/cache/cookies...check!

Jay Dold -Microblogging

I've been wondering how microblogging fits into corporate culture, outside of socially using twitter to post what one person is doing/thinking/etc. Maybe in the case of training and development, the trainer could pose questions to the class and learners could tweet their answers - OR - what if learners tweeted their questions to trainers publicly, and then the trainer (or managers, even) could provide a tweeted public response so that all people get answers to the same question. For example, lets say a new employee had a question about policy - instead of just asking the person next to them, they could tweet their question, and a SME could respond - giving the questioner the answer, as well as other employees...

Joseph Trinh -Marketing via social media

Using Facebook and the like as a marketing tool are fantastic. I've been able to keep up with my favorite local artists, where they are working and new art they have thanks to social media marketing. I could use this to market myself as a training specialist too... I've thought about doing so, actually- but I'm not sure how relevant that would be, as I already have a webpage, linkedin page, and my job title is on my facebook page...I dont know if I would need ot build a "business page" on facebook for myself just yet.

Josh Sheridan -Photosharing like Flickr

I'm still wondering how I might use this in a corporate learning setting...

Caya Consunji - Vlogging

I think vlogging/blogging/microblogging are all great ways for learners to have an opportunity to express themselves creatively- in a corporate or traditional educational setting.... We are creative beings, and I think that allowing a learner to present their thoughts via any of these channels is helpful.

Richard Kim- Globalization internet

It was really neat to see how we are all connected globally - my favorite image from his presentation was the flattened earth showing all of our connections to one another.

I enjoyed all of the presentations last week, and am looking forward to learning more from my peers this coming week as well. It's fun to see what is happening in our world, and how people are creatively using the technologies that are present.