Learning 2.0 Transform your organization through learning Sean Robinson and Kay Gregg Allen County Public Library Fort Wayne, IN

Can you handle the truth? ( “I am just winging the presentation from here”)

Technology is not going away! Some interesting random factoids Online video in being embraced by the mainstream. 57% of online adults have used the internet to watch or download video. 19% do so on a typical day. 74% who have broadband access watch or download videos (Pew Internet) 34% of internet users have logged into the internet using wireless at home or in the workplace. 83% of online Americans have used the internet to pursue their hobbies. 27% of all American have gone online looking for information on housing. This has doubled from The NAR reported that over three-quarters of home buyers (77%) in 2005 had used the internet to help in their home search. According to the Pew Internet Project’s February 2007 survey, 47% of American adults have broadband at home nearly double the 24% penetration level of three years earlier. With home broadband penetration poised to surpass 50% this year.

Surge of Technology

Technology

The oh my goodness slide

What approach will you take?

Defining Learning 2.0 Learning is a result of this program Exploration and Discovery Play, Work and Risk

The idea originally came form Stephen Abram (Sirsi/Dynix). He wanted a way to learn new and emerging technologies. He came up with a list of 43 things he wanted to learn about over the next year, specifically related to Web 2.0. Blog, Wiki’s RSS feeds etc….. Helene Blowers with PLCMC came up with the formalized curriculum of Learning 2.0 Self paced Self study 23 things

It’s fun and guilt free!

The Good and the Bad of L2.0 Our story at the Allen County Public Library.

The Good Learning 2.0 Story

Listened to Helene Blowers the creator of Learning 2.0 at CIL I loved it! I talked to our senior staff the next week. They loved it! The next week we created our online learning 2.0 site and everyone loved it! 100% of our staff registered for the program. They did all the 21 things on their own over a 10 day period, and they loved it! Our staff has now completely caught up, and is keeping pace with the ever changing world of technology and they love it!

I did go to the Computers in Libraries Conference 2007 and listened to Helene’s presentation. I came away with the conviction that we needed to support staff in their efforts to remain technologically literate.

Risk How prepared are you to engage in risk taking behavior? I’m a real risk taker. I can handle risk. I hate risk and avoid it at all costs. Let’s put this to the test!!!!!!!

Let’s Play Romance Roulette

These are the step we took Educate your decision makers about Learning 2.0 Find others within your organization that are early adopters. You might have to hunt a little but they are out there! Get permission to move forward Know why you are doing this

Create a team

Team creation is an art! Morale booster Finisher Detailer Visionary Leader

Everyone is a worker

The following are the proposed stages in project development. Write vision statement. Plan the actions. Identify the resources. Implement the actions. Monitor and review and evaluate. Conclude. Vision Statement Core Competencies and Learning 2.0 at ACPL. The most important resource to our organization is its staff. Supporting and encouraging our employees to continue to explore and develop new technological skills is the only way to keep pace with changes that we are experiencing. Our goal is to provide a sustainable program that provides opportunities for staff to increase their skill levels in an open a sharing environment and guarantees them success. We are proposing a plan to build on our existing curriculum and develop it further using the successful model of the Public Library of Charlotte Mecklenburg County (PLCMC). This program is designed with two components “Core Competencies” and “Learning 2.0” Core Competencies are a set of building blocks that staff can use to build and strengthen their existing technology skills. Core Competencies focus on ensuring that everyone has the essential skills to perform their jobs. Learning 2.0 is centered on exploration and discovery. It investigates new and emerging technologies that are affecting the library world. The goal is to expose staff to new tools, encourage play, empower individuals and eliminate fear.

Timetable What are the your 23 things? Do you need to have 23 things? How are you going to present this to the staff? What is your launch date? How much time do you need to get your material together? Is there a marketing need? Do you need incentives? Who is going to do what? Will you steal material from other programs or develop content in house? Will you do anything special to launch the program? Are there other groups that need to be educated about this program and do you need their buy-in?

Here are the steps we took. We decided there were other groups that we needed to educate about the Learning 2.0 program. We needed to talk to them. The leader of the team took on this challenge. We decided that instead of 23 things we were just going to study 21 things. Beg, borrow, steal, invent! We set a deadline for this project. Set milestones. Defined victories and celebrated! We then divided up the 21 things amongst the team members.

Our 21 things : 1.Read the blog about this Learning 2.0 program : 2.Read 7 habits of lifelong learners : 3.Check out ACPL blogs and make a post to each : 4.Setup your own blog to track your progress in this program : 5.Check out Flickr and view ACPL images : 6.Study ACPL Sook and Book Wall as mashup examples : 7.Setup an RSS Reader : 8.Add ACPL Blogs as well as other favorites to your RSS Reader : 9.Read about Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 and blog your thoughts : 10.Play with an online image generator : 11.Roll your own search tool with Rollyo : 12.Learn about tagging and discover Del.icio.us : 13.Explore Technocrati and learn how tags work with blogs : 14.Use LibraryThing to catalog your own collection : 15.Explore MySpace : 16.Learn about Wikis and how libraries are using them : 17.Check out the AskACPL wiki and add an entry : 18.Check out the Web 2.0 award winners and pick a tool to explore : 19.Explore YouTube and check out the ACPL videos : 20.Explore podcasts and check out NEIRRS podcast : 21.Summarize and reflect on your experiences in your blog

Marketing Librarians marketing

What we did to market Learning 2.0 Buttons T-Shirts License to Play

Tools that are free Collaborative wiki tool Audacity Free software for creating podcasts Wink: Free software for creating screen casts

Why Learning 2.0? People are expensive technology is cheap! MP3 player $16.99 Acer Aspire Laptop 1.8GHz 512MB 80 HD $ Digital camera DC MP works as camera, web cam and Video clips = $23.99 geeks.com The grand total of $ you can blog, wiki, rss feed, podcast, flickr, download an audio book and drive yourself crazy.

Learning 2.0 flattens organizational structures Collaboration Transforms your organizations structure Gives everyone a voice Promotes trust Supports Leads Empowers Transformational

Facebook 5 th most valuable US internet company (in order google, ebay, yahoo, amazon) Use of the library web site by college students has DROPPED over 50% in the last two years Things to think about!!!! 1% of information seekers start at the library Web site. Where are you going to meet your patrons. Are you going to have the tools to meet them in this new environment.

A nice surprise

Motivate Support

If we can do it, so can you!!!!! Have fun!