This document describes three workshops aimed at co-designing a help seeking tool to support professional learning networks for nurses. The workshops will gather feedback on desired features for the tool and allow participants to help design and test the tool. Participants will be able to provide input to help identify useful communication and knowledge sharing features within their existing professional networks. The goal is to create a tool that nurses can use to collaborate, share knowledge, and find advice or support from other practitioners.

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Scaling up Technologies for Informal Learning in SME Clusters
- Help Seeking Tool -
Co-designing your own
professional network
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Workshops
• Workshop 1: Professional Networking benefits
and existing tools – 16th April - Last workshop
• Workshop 2: Help Seeking – Co-designing
your own professional network – Phase 1
• Workshop 3: Help Seeking – Co-designing
your own professional network – Phase 2
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Co-designing your PLN
• Collaborate on developing a policy/procedure
with other practices
• Find out how other practices are dealing with a
particular problem or issue
• Get advice or support from others in the network
• Build on and expand your networks
• Share the workload
• Spread knowledge
• Improve practice
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Workshop 2
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• The opportunity to help co-design a tool -
Help Seeking tool - to support your own
Professional Learning Network
• The opportunity to use the Help Seeking tool
with your existing networks
• The opportunity to discuss communication
and knowledge-sharing issues across the CCG
practices and to help identify improvements

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Workshop 2
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Activities:
Help Seeking site: http://www.layers-
nurses.net/
Let us know what you want from the Help
Seeking tool: http://goo.gl/SI4rtr
Discussion

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Your feedback is essential!
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http://goo.gl/SI4rtr

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Workshop 1 - Discussion
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See the list of contacts of a colleague organized by commonalities with you
[1 – not at all important // 5 – Essential] = vertical axis
1 1 8%
2 1 8%
3 3 23%
4 6 46%
5 2 15%
Why do you think this feature is useful in your case?
*opinions were distributed similarly between
the morning and afternoon sessions

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Send a private message to a colleague
[1 – not at all important // 5 – Essential] = vertical axis
1 0 0%
2 0 0%
3 3 23%
4 2 15%
5 8 62%
How do you imagine this functionality? As an email, as a chat?
*opinions were distributed similarly between
the morning and afternoon sessions

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Send a public message within the Shared Learning Space (which includes
everybody in the system)
[1 – not at all important // 5 – Essential] = vertical axis
1 3 23%
2 0 0%
3 2 15%
4 3 23%
5 5 38%
Some of you find this option very useful, and some others don’t. Why?
*opinions were distributed similarly between
the morning and afternoon sessions

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‘Like’ a discussion
[1 – not at all important // 5 – Essential] = vertical axis
1 1 8%
2 2 15%
3 4 31%
4 3 23%
5 3 23%
The majority of you think this is not an ‘important’ feature. Why?
What happens if instead of a ‘Like’ you can use an option
‘Mark this discussion as important’ and it is ‘visible’ only by you?
*opinions were distributed similarly between
the morning and afternoon sessions

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Mark a discussion as ‘Solved’
[1 – not at all important // 5 – Essential] = vertical axis
1 0 0%
2 0 0%
3 2 15%
4 6 46%
5 5 38%
Do you would like to explore a directory of ‘Solved’ Discussions?
*opinions were distributed similarly between
the morning and afternoon sessions

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Assign Tags to a person in order to enrich her/his profile
[1 – not at all important // 5 – Essential] = vertical axis
1 2 15%
2 0 0%
3 6 46%
4 1 8%
5 4 31%
What happens if these ‘tags’ are visible only by you (and the system)?
*opinions were distributed similarly between
the morning and afternoon sessions

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What next?
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We really encourage you to:
 use the tool over the summer
 send us feedback on the forums
 share this site and populate the system with your network

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Thank you!
Next workshop: September 2014
Help us to Design your Nurses
Professional Network!
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