Steven Parker www.sparker.wikispaces.com

TLRU

Utilising Video Blogging to facilitate conversations and knowledge sharing

‘Connect don’t collect’ – Library as Social Space

• Information overload• Constant Change• Managing information flow,

‘What you need to know when you need to know it’• ‘One does not need to know the answer to every

problem but know where to find an effective solution. Today, when the problem is complex and the volumes of information overwhelming, that ‘where’ is more likely to be found through engagements in social contexts than searching terabytes of data’

Development of an e-learning knowledge sharing model – 2005 Knowledge Sharing Services Project.

• http://flexiblelearning.net.au

Past vs. PresentYesterday Today’s Reality

Expensive cameras

Cheap cameras

Expensive storage

Free storage/ cheap storage

Cumbersome equipment

Miniaturisation, Mobile embedded technology

Expensive editing software

Free editing software

High entry skill level

Low entry skill level

Video -The ideal tool for a social context

• Scripted - Communicate rich information i.e informing about resources, service etc

• Ad hoc - Used in a hands on manner in any context as part of conversation

• Capture the moment• Communicate body language• Self publishing, mobile and online commu

nication part of students day to day life• Participatory culture and knowledge

sharing networks – Free publishing tools i.e; youtube.com blip.tv

The Library as a facilitator of conversation

• ‘Conversation Theory, posits that individuals, organisations and even societies build knowledge through conversation...

…Since libraries are in the knowledge business they are also in the conversation business…Conversation Theory is very much in line with current and past library practice and show a clear trajectory for the future *Executive Summary – Participatory Networks; American Library Associations Office for Information Technology Policy* ‘Conversation Theory’ developed by Gordon Pask from ‘Conversation, Cognition and Learning’, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1975.

New ways of working Facilitating conversation with the use of Video

• Setting up a participatory space• Group learning - Setting the agenda and

providing context• What do you want to Share, Learn, Do?

Ask the questions i.e.What do you want to share?What do you want to ask?What do you want to do?

• Pass the video camera around- Don’t forget to press record…

http://sparker.wikispaces.com/Group+Learning

Example of Publishing Video http://sparker.blip.tv

Example

‘Conversation Starters’ -Incorporating Video Technology

• Design of participatory spaces• Managing access to video equipment• Hands on with students - Providing support• Facilitating use of video in conversations -

Ad hoc, in the moment planning• Utilising video to communicate services -

Scripted...

Thank you for your attention

Steven Parker – TLRU Illawarra TAFEVideo blog: www.sparker.blip.tvWiki: sparker.wikispaces.com

steven.parker@tafensw.edu.au