Blogs workshop Learning blogs vs. LMS (Learning management systems): 8 added value features.

Platforms (LMS, Learning management systems) tend to standards. Participative learning tends to create specifical spaces, allowing participants even to propose new tools for their introduction to the group (see participant´s twitter on Taller de Blogs; or APRENDEME , a digg clone adapted to educational-publicity purposes as a new tool of participative evaluation) Every workshop will be afresh and will integrate both previous tools or contents and new ones. Tutor will be more a conductor than a traditional teacher: His task will be to propose, to negotiate, to mark the pace, to adapt the contents to the participants. 1. FLEXIBILITY, SPECIFICITY:

Blogs were especially designed to interaction. LMSs try to do that but sometimes must recur to blogs themselves. 2. INTERACTION:

Learning will be supplemented, whenever we follow a BLOGWORKSHOP, with several web 2.0 tools. It could be a motivational impediment, something like a "fear" of the complex environment could act, but at the same time it´s an added value factor when we think about a knowledge’s society context. 3. GENERALIZATION:

This one would be the major factor, showing the superiority of blogs over any platform or LMS. We´re talking nowadays about blogs as the most important tool in 2.0 social web. Context promotes dissemination, shared knowledge, mutual help communities. Forums could be added to reinforce this important feature. 4. COMMUNITY, NETWORK:

Blog is a continuous formation mechanism, a long life learning tool, not limited to the temporary context wich limits any LMS platform. 5. CONTINUITY:

Wordpress as a natural language was the title of a post summarizing the concept. Internet and its similarities with both our own cerebral structures and functions (noomorfism), could induce learning itself. Things like HIPERTEXT and its scalability or not overcoming tests determined progress, are supposed to be better than LMS’s on citizen training terms. This is a new kind of training, not based on emulate old, probably wrong or non based usages, but on our own brain structures and how to they learn. 6. NATURALNESS:

Adult training needs proactive approaches, that will be useful in a postmodern context. Blogs can be supplemented with some PROACTIVITY generation 2.0 tools (personal participant´s blogs, googledocs, news aggregators, social netwoks, etc…) Participants´ll collaborate building contents and context. 7. ACTIVE, CITIZEN LEARNING in knowledge CONSTRUCTION:

I thought about doing some of the contents private, registering need, but soon I changed my mind. Blog as an opened training tool, as a publical forum, without any wall or restrictions is an opportunity to start afresh a new type of CITIZEN, COLLABORATIVE, DEMOCRATICAL training, 8. PUBLIC DISSEMINATION:

Establishing a parallelism with other formation/training ways: -Blog is an SPECIAL CLASSROOM where categories are something like windows to every program item. Categories are the PROGRAM ITEMS, Every post remains inscribed in one or more of them. -Feeds or immediate updates fulfill the BLACKBOARD traditional function. - Presentations, in slideshare form , are ideal tools for ABSTRACTS. - Videotutorials reinforce particularly complex points, increasing motivation. -News aggregators (digg style) suppose further collaborative EVALUATION tools, specially for those more qualified participants.

http ://tallerdeblogs.com : a learning blog example http://aprendeme.org : Digg style evaluation tool 2007, dreig, Taller de Blogs This is a slideshare abstract on the Taller de blogs learningblogs topic (unit 4) “ CITIZEN TRAINING, blog as an e-learning tool on the matter of “Creating and developing a blog” Barcelona, 23/12/2007 ¿Any question?: