Tuesday, July 10, 2007

The Learning 2.0 Guidelines

Proposed Guidelines

  1. All Halifax Public Libraries employees are invited to participate.
  2. Participation is strictly voluntary.
  3. There are 23 things to do within six months; if you complete them, your name will be entered in a draw for a prize.
  4. You can do activities on work time, but must ask permission from your supervisor if the activities will take you away from regular work duties.
  5. You do not have to use your real name on any of the websites you try, but you will have to submit some information to the campaign team qualify for the grand prize laptop.
  6. A blog will provide tips and clues on how to complete the 23 things.
  7. One of the 23 things is the creation of a blog. You should use the "blog" to record how you have completed the other 23 things.
  8. Collaboration and sharing is encouraged. Branch managers are going to be asked to share the names of people who continuously help others complete the 23 things. These people will be recognized for their contribution.
  9. When you finish, you will be given access to a 10-question multiple choice test. This will be used to determine if you really did the 23 things. A score of 70% is required to qualify for the prizes. You can take the test as often as you like.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi Ryan
I've been meaning to mention for a while that from my perspective there seems to be something missing from our 23 things exercise ... i.e. the opportunity for us to develop an online social network among the participants. I would love to be able to view and comment on other participants' blogs, subscribe to their feeds, see what youtube videos they've posted, take a look at their flickr pictures, etc. Was there a reason for not posting links to our blogs on the main blog?

Ryan Deschamps said...

Hey Alison,

Thanks for the comment. There is no reason why I can't add people's blogs to the website. It's just that I want to go with an "opt-in" method for that.

From feedback I'm finding that some people want to get social with these tools while others want to keep everything as "mum" as possible, while still qualifying for the laptop.

I'll put a message in the next email, though.