Blend It 2018: Blended Learning in Our Library Learning Landscape (January 2018)
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This document outlines notes from an ALA webinar on blended learning facilitated by Paul Signorelli. It discusses the current landscape of learning spaces, including the size of rooms and connected learning. Tips are provided on learning from others, preparing technology, experimenting with new approaches, planning for failures, and documenting successes. Participants are prompted to discuss how they currently incorporate blended learning and asked to commit to one new action in this area in the next two weeks. The document provides resources on blended learning case studies and Paul Signorelli's contact information.
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Blend It 2018: Blended Learning in Our Library Learning Landscape (January 2018)
- 1. An ALA Publishing Webinar Facilitated by Paul Signorelli Writer/Trainer/Consultant, Paul Signorelli & Associates paul@paulsignorelli.com Twitter: @paulsignorelli, @trainersleaders #BlendIt18 Blend It 2018: Blended Learning in OurLibrary Learning Landscape
- 2. The Pen Is Mightier…
- 3. A Glimpse at the Landscape @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 4. A Glimpse at the Landscape @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 5. A Glimpse at the Landscape @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 6. A Glimpse at the Landscape @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 7. OurTypical Learning Spaces? @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 8. OurTypical Learning Spaces? @paulsignorelli #BlendIt17
- 9. OurTypical Learning Spaces? @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 13. The Size of the Room @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 14. The Size of the Room @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 15. The Size of the Room @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 16. The Size of the Room @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 17. Connected Learning Graphic by Nat Soti: https://clalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mimi-youth-interests.png
- 18. Expanding OurLearning Space @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18 Use the social media tool of your choice to bring someone into the room (using the session hashtag).
- 19. Expanding OurLearning Space @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18 Use the social media tool of your choice to bring someone into the room (using the session hashtag) Then post, into our chat window, a copy of your tweet or other social media note.
- 20. Five Tips: #1—Learn FromOthers @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 21. Five Tips: #2—CheckYourTech (Rehearse) @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 22. Five Tips: #3—Push the Envelope (Experiment) @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 23. Five Tips: #3—Push the Envelope (Experiment) @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 24. Five Tips: #4—Prepare forFailure (Plan B) @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 25. Five Tips: #4—Prepare forFailure (Plan B) @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 26. Five Tips: #5—Document YourSuccess @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 27. Expanding OurConversation @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18 What are you already doing in blended environments to use any of the elements we have just reviewed (learning from others, checking your tech, experimenting, preparing for failure, or documenting your success)?
- 28. Expanding OurConversation @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18 What are you already doing in blended environments to use any of the elements we have just reviewed (learning from others, checking your tech, experimenting, preparing for failure, or documenting your success)? Using our session hashtag, reach out to your colleagues on Twitter, Facebook, or another social media platform asking for tips regarding how they effectively incorporate #BlendedLearning into their work.
- 29. Blended Learning: A Case Study @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18
- 30. Blend It: An Action Plan @paulsignorelli #BlendIt18 What is one action you will take, within the next two weeks, as a result of what you experienced in this session?
- 31. A Visual Summary
- 32. A Visual Summary
- 33. A Visual Summary
- 34. A Visual Summary
- 35. A Visual Summary
- 36. Resources “Five-part Blended Learning Case Study: https://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/?s=from+elearning+to+learning Building Creative Bridges Blog: (Articles about Online Collaborative Tools, Learning, and More) http://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/ Michelle Martin, “9 Lessons I Learned From Running My First Webinar”: http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/2008/01/what-i-learned.html
- 38. ForMore Information Paul Signorelli & Associates 1032 Irving St., #514 San Francisco, CA 94122 415.681.5224 paul@paulsignorelli.com http://paulsignorelli.com Twitter: @paulsignorelli, @trainersleaders http://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com
- 39. Credits & Acknowledgments Photos, unless otherwise noted by Paul Signorelli Networking Uncommons Hangout Screenshot: From archived Google Hangout on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR2XyaFeA68 NEKLS Innovation Day Rehearsal: Photo by Robin Hastings NEKLS Innovation Day—Day of Event: Photo from Johnson County Library (@jocolibrary) Twitter feed Screenshots from Google Hangout: From archived Google Hangout on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=GR2XyaFeA68 Question Marks: From Valerie Everett’s photostreamat http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/3006348550/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Editor's Notes
- There’s something wonderful about sitting down to a well-blended cup of coffee—particularly if it’s further blended with an exquisite piece of pie. Some might see it as “dessert.” I see it as the main course. And in the same way, when I think of blended learning, with the fabulous (often free) online tools we have available to us, I feel as if someone forgot to deliver the main course if it doesn’t include a blended element of some sort. What we’re talking about here is a blending of onsite and online interactions that are so seamlessly interwoven that at least two things happen: The onsite and online venues and interactions are equal in importance—one doesn’t take precedence over the other When we are online or in a blended onsite-online setting—as happens when we are in a room with colleagues and, through the use of commonplace tech tools including our own mobile devices, are interacting with others who are not physically sitting in the same room with us—we quickly forget that we are separated by hundreds, if not a few thousand, miles. What we’re going to do in the time we have together today is explore a few facets of where our blended world is right now, review a few of the numerous tools that are readily available to most of us, and walk away with a plan of action on how to use what we discover together today as co-conspirators in the learning process. And, if we’re successful, this will actually become a blended session before we’re finished.
- By way of introduction to the visceral power of current common tech tools to bring us together, let’s start with something I experienced early last year…after telling plenty of colleagues and learners how immerse online experience can be with a little preparation. I was, at the time, serving as a virtual mentor to a colleague based in the Fort Lauderdale area, in Southeast Florida. We hit an unexpected dilemma when participants in the program we were all in were scheduled to meet onsite there in Florida. It was a bit of a stretch for me because I live in San Francisco, but the solution wasn’t at all difficult to find. My protégé—Laura—and I had been using a variety of tools, including Skype and Google Hangouts, to have our “face to face” meetings up to that point. We saw no reason to break what had been a successful pattern, so we agreed to bring me into that room with all the other program participants in Florida by setting up a Google Hangout; I set up my tablet in my home office, and she took a small laptop to the meeting. With those tools in place, we were able to work together for much of the session. When it was time for the protégés to sit together while the mentors had their own short group discussion, Laura put her laptop at the table where the other mentors were sitting, in front of the chair where I would have been sitting if I had physically been there. I could see and hear them; they could see and hear me. So far, so good: for almost all intents and purposes, I was in the room with them. Then the magic, unexpected moment happened. Someone at that table in Florida accidentally hit a Magic Marker, sending it careening across the table, directly at the laptop—which caused my right hand to move involuntarily to catch the Marker that my eyes told me was flying in my direction. That, obviously, was the moment when I, too, viscerally experienced what I had been demonstrating to so many others in a variety of settings: I was in that room. Our vocabulary is not keeping up with the experiences many of us are having in this sort of expanded onsite-online blended world. And we need to be rethinking our concepts of what it means to “be with others,” what it means to design and facilitate engaging online learning experiences, and move far beyond the fallacy that onsite interactions in learning and many other endeavors always trump online interactions.
- Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
- Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hangouts
- Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shindig_(video_chat_platform)
- Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications
- From Syracuse University
- From Syracuse University
- Upper left: An ATD Sacramento Chapter monthly meeting
- Upper left: An ATD Sacramento Chapter monthly meeting Lower left: A daylong set of interactive workshops in Pennsylvania
- Upper left: An ATD Sacramento Chapter monthly meeting Lower left: A daylong set of interactive workshops in Pennsylvania Upper right: A blended session at the New Media Consortium (NMC) 2016 Summer Conference
- Upper left: An ATD Sacramento Chapter monthly meeting Lower left: a daylong set of interactive workshops in Pennsylvania Upper right: A blended session at the New Media Consortium (NMC) 2016 Summer Conference Lower right: An earlier, informal “Blend It” session, at the 2016 NMC Summer Conference
- Let’s set up a bit of perspective here: Glancing around the space you are sitting in while participating in this virtual classroom experience—also known as our ALA Publishing webinar Blend It 2018 classroom—and thinking in terms of square feet, how big would your room is? (Please type your response into the chat window.)
- Now let’s take a minute to have everyone who is willing to play along with me type in your physical location (city and state—and if you’re outside the United States, please note that if the name of your city isn’t one that those of us who are geographically challenged might recognize). Looking at the results and calculating the physical differences, how big would you now say our “room” is?
- And how much bigger does a virtual classroom become if the physical space somewhere in the United States is connected, via an online resource like Shindig, with colleagues all over the world, as was the case with this series of interviews from the New Media Consortium’s 2017 Summer Conference near Boston?
- There’s our answer—limited only by our imaginations and our access to each other via online resources.
- There is a point to all this that goes far beyond technology: Connections We are increasingly finding engaging ways to facilitate learning opportunities to produce concrete results, as this graphic from the Connected Learning Alliance website suggests: https://clalliance.org/why-connected-learning/ Case in point: If you leave today’s session with a visceral, inspiring sense of what is possible and carry it back to your own workplace, we will have accomplished something significant. So let’s give it a whirl.
- Using your computer or a mobile device that you have nearby, think about someone you wish were here with us in our virtual learning space—someone who would benefit from being here—and draw them in by sending them a Tweet about something you have already learned here, or posting something on your Facebook account, or using any other social media tool you want to use to try to reach out and connect them with what we’re doing (e.g., Skype, Google Hangouts, Facetime, or any other tool that is easy for you to use without breaking your connection to this webinar). Be sure to use the session hashtag (#BlendIt18) if you are using Twitter. After you have done this, post a copy of your message or invitation here in the chat box so we can develop a sense of how our connected-learning tendrils are creeping out of the closed space of this webinar into the larger world around us.
- Sitting with colleagues at an American Library Association conference in January 2014 provided a wonderful reminder of the beauty and value of learning that can unexpectedly happen in the moment. The space here is the conference Networking Uncommons—a place with chairs, tables, abundant power cords, good wifi connections—and, most importantly, a standing invitation (from ALA staff to conference attendees) to use the space as a place to meet and talk and engage. The “learners” in this setting are members of ALA’s Library and Information Technology Association who agreed to meet in the Uncommons for an informal conversation; when that conversation turned to a question about whether anyone was using Google Glass yet, and it became clear that one of the LITA [Library Information and Technology Association] members actually had his Glass with him, they quickly transformed the conversation into a learning opportunity centered on their attempts to conduct a conversation via a Google Hangout connecting them via the Glass, other participants’ mobile devices, and a laptop. A great reminder here for all of us: what at first might have appeared to be a very bizarre example of a bunch of people sitting together but more engaged with tech than with each other actually shows how “blending” an experience through a combination of face-to-face and online interactions can produce a wonderful and unique learning opportunity. All that limits us in this particular case is our imagination and willingness to explore—and we could easily have taken it outside the room…as we have begun doing through our use of social media platforms while remaining as a group within the virtual learning space of this webinar.
- Rehearsals themselves really are great exercises in trouble-shooting and rehearsals. In preparing for the session we’re looking at here—for a Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) session that Maurice Coleman and I did in April 2015 from offsite, we tried several things: When our sound wasn’t initially working, I called our onsite contacts—including Patti Poe, David Lee King, and Robin Hastings—on my cell phone so all of us were at least able to hear each other. We also used the typed chat function within Google Hangouts and other video-conferencing tools to exchange thoughts about how to resolve the problems we initially faced. When I was trying to get a good idea of what people onsite would see, Robin very creatively a) used her smartphone to photograph the rehearsal in progress, uploaded the photo to an email, sent the email (with photograph) to me, and had Patti (in the lower right-hand corner of the photograph) alert me by phone that the photograph was waiting for me in my email inbox. And let’s not ignore one other great learning opportunity here: rather than cropping that photograph in a way that only showed the room, I’ve used an image here that includes enough to remind you that email was a vital part of our toolbox for the rehearsal. When we play in the world of collaborative tools, no tool—not event antiquated cell phones—need to be left behind.
- During the 2016 New Media Consortium Summer Conference, four of us agreed to facilitate a half-day workshop designed to help others incorporate the use collaborative online tools in their efforts to put into practice what NMC Horizon Reports were documenting in the field of educational technology. We hit a glitch, through, when it became obvious that one of our teammates—Jonathan Nalder, from Australia—would not be able to attend the conference. Realizing this was an opportunity rather than a show-stopper, we used a telepresence robot—a “Kubi”—to pull Jonathan into the room. Not only did the show go on, but it became a wonderfully effective learning moment for all of us in that room that expanded from the U.S. to Australia. The photograph in the upper left-hand corner of this slide, taken by someone physically present in the room, shows what all of us onsite saw.
- The photograph in the lower right-hand corner shows Jonathan’s view of the room.
- I am admittedly obsessive about having back-ups in place: My slide deck—if I’m using one—is on my hard drive, on my laptop, a thumb drive, on Slide Share, (sometimes) on my website, in the hands of my producer, and in the hands of any co-presenters I have. I have a printed copy of the slides and speaker notes (using the Notes Page format) that I have marked up with a highlighter and pen. I have a sheet that includes the log-in and password information for the session, and also have my producer’s phone number and email address on that same sheet in case we need to reach each other outside of the online space we’re using. And whether I’m working from home or from a hotel room while traveling, I’ll have multiple devices ready in case my initial toy of choice fails me.
- I’m also a fanatic about documenting the successes my con-conspirators in learning and I have. I use my blog, Storify, SlideShare, Tumblr, Facebook, LinkedIn, and a variety of other resources in addition to occasionally writing more formal pieces for publication. It’s all part of the learning process: the more time we spend reflecting upon our successes and our failures, the more sticky our learning becomes. And the real winners are all of us in our wonderfully extended communities of learning.
- An exercise in Connected Learning and Blended Learning…
- An exercise in Connected Learning and Blended Learning…
- Entire story is captured in this five-part blog posting: https://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/?s=from+elearning+to+learning
- An exercise in Connected Learning and Blended Learning…
- We started our session with a brief review of some of the tools available to us in our blended learning landscape.
- We also looked at a variety of contemporary learning spaces, and thought about what they suggested in terms of “the size of the rooms” in which we now learn together.
- After experimenting with our own expansion of the learning space we created and used today, we went through five tips for success, including the all-important notions of conducting effective tech checks and pushing the envelope to see what successes our explorations might foster.
- We then went through a case study that showed one successful approach to developing an effective blended learning opportunity.
- And ultimately, if we’re left with anything, it’s the sense that people remain at the heart of everything we do, with technology supporting rather than driving the learning process in our Connected Learning, Blended Learning environments.
- A few articles we adore…
- Our final wrap-up: Any questions about what we’re going to do next?