Week 10: Job Description for 21st Century Teacher

Immediate Need for 21st Century Teacher

Title: 21st Century Teacher
Start: ASAP
Location: Everywhere

Boeckman Consulting Associates is looking for a 21st Century Teacher/Learning Specialist. This individual will be responsible for supporting end users/learners with the internal learning management system, ensuring that learning activities are accurately maintained at all times, and providing support via phone, chat/instant messenger and email.

Responsibilities Include

• Quickly, effectively, thoroughly assess, research, and resolve learning management system problems in a timely and effective manner.
• Collaborate and communicate with various team members to coordinate timely and accurate training assignments.
  
• Enter, file and maintain training/learning documentation for easy retrieval.
• Enroll learners and record learning events with the highest levels of accuracy.
  
• Understand, describe and apply a blended learning approach when creating training/learning materials
• Understand, describe and make use of blogs, wikis and twitter feeds where applicable and interesting for learners
  
• Assign and remove components and qualifications from individual learning plans in accordance with department procedures and monitor completion.
• Collect training records, review records and assessments for completion and accuracy.
• Produce regular and ad hoc training/learning reporting.
• Excellent attention to detail when performing data entry, and ability to verify own work for accuracy.

Skills Required

• Expert level internet research skills
  
• Expert level use of finding new resources and creative channels for structuring learning (ie: wiki, blogs, twitter, google docs, use of mobile learning technology, etc)
  
• Understand and utilize current learning technologies & mobile learning technologies
  
• Demonstrated success working with learning technologies, trouble-shooting problems, and conducting effective follow-through with end users.
• Understanding of LMS, eLearning, web-based content development, database management and/or content management systems.
• Superb skills in Microsoft Office Suite.

Boeckman Consulting is always seeking the highest quality candidates, please pass along this posting to friends and colleagues who you feel could be the right fit for this role.

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Week 6 - Presentations

Talk about how you might apply the technologies, concepts, ideas, etc. in either the work you do or would like to be doing.

Aaron Chen, Mobile Technology

Benefits: What's nice about mobile technology, is that it allows learners to learn from a variety of locations, using a plethora of tools. It's lighter than carrying multiple textbooks, and content can be uploaded instantly, answers to questions, comments on thoughts, and feedback can all happen immediately.

Applications: could hold virtual training courses online - I mean basically anything you can do online, can be done through mobile technology. You could use games to keep learners engaged, flash cards, discussion boards, etc.

Maria Varela, Social Bookmarking

Benefits: Social bookmarking allows universal online access to find personal bookmarks and bookmarks from others interested in your field

Applications: Could have students find and bookmark valuable sites about chosen topic. Right now I'm working on building a new manager training program, and as part of the pre-workshop homework, I could have new managers seek out 3 "new manager" online resources, socially bookmark the resources, and then tag the resource with at least 3 challenges that new managers face.

Sohee Kim, Voicethread

Benefits: Voicethreads are virtual, can be instantly uploaded, and are valuable to walk through lessons or presentations.

Applications: trainers could walk through virtual exercises for learners, learners could provide explanations of their posted projects or presentations.

Scott Contini, HTML 5-

Benefits: Promises to be the new standard, (w3c) that will bring all design elements of versions of HTML into 1.

Anyone can put anything they want into a webpage without worrying its going to change things on a different system

Applications: I'm not sure how I could use this IN a training course, however, I could use HTML while designing an online course - it would help making web based training easier, cleaner, quicker to build.

Catherine Mone, Creative Commons

Benefits: The benefits of creative commons is that you can use and share amazing work and resources with more people, without having to contact the owner for permission. It enables licensing of sharable information. “This is how I want to share my stuff without you having to contact me to do so”

Applications: I'm not sure how I would use creative commons liscensing in a training course, per say, but like HTML 5, I could use it while designing and developing course content and materials

Ray Saray- Screencasting

Benefits: Screencasting is a a digital recording of computer screen output – AKA video screen capture. Programs that could be used Captivate/ Camtasia/ ScreenToaster (free) – find comparison on wikipedia. If I want to teach/show you something, I don’t have to be present to do so – I can present it, speak through it, and post. It also keeps original resolution

Applications: From a design and development perspective, I could obviously use programs like captivate/camtasia to create rapid e-learning materials for technical training. From a learner perspective, I could use this technology as a way of assessing if the learners have learned the material by asking them to record their screen when completing a technical task.

Johanna Wee, 2^nd Life

Benefits: Could be used as virtual classroom. You could have more “realistic” meetings in offices/conference rooms – more fun than seeing someone’s face, can get “dressed”. Virtual classrooms, live presenting, video, real time chat & voice are available features.

Application: Second Life would be GREAT for role play or practice conversation for language - its perfect for immersion exercises. I could imagine conducting management training scenarios, as well as customer facing scenarios where the learners could practice how they might approach a situation, given the opportunity. This might seem more realistic than in a classroom, because the avatars can be "anyone." It seems 2nd life would be great for soft skills training, situation training, as well as technical skills training.

Tria Vang – Blogging

Benefits: Can be used interally to enhance communication, externally for marketing & branding

Applications: I could have students share ideas on their projects or resources via blogs, encourage communication and feedback on given topics, and it would give me a way of knowing what they think on a topic informally - outside of having them write a paper.

Tremaine Lott- Search Engine Optimization, SEO

Benefits: Companies can manipulate key words of their website to improve site rankings

Applications: I am not sure how this relates to training and development...

Christine El Corm- Facebook

Benefits: Nearly everyone is already on facebook. Learners dont need to set up an account somewhere else/visit another website during the day. Learners may be encouraged to visit facebook page and engage in discussions because it's somewhere they already are. It's a matter of convenience.

Applications: I could use FB as a private consultant for my own business, or as a trainer, I could have a page for the given topic, like New Manager Training or New Employee training where learners could interact, participate in topic relative discussions, post pictures about their work experience, or maybe I could post videos of scenarios they could face. Using a facebook page as a way of managing content and users could be fun and exciting, however, users are likely to get distracted with chat, other personal interests, etc. Plus, making content private would be difficult if it is proprietary company information that the company would not want shared on a public site, even if it's "locked" or "password protected."