A wiki for training award’s judges
אוגוסט 15, 2006
My quest to “informalize” training is moving on.
Here is yesterday’s chapter:
This is the first year we have a training contest in our country. This is somewhat similar to the ASTD Excellence in Training Award, which some of you may be familiar with.
I was appointed as a member of the steering committee for this new project. Being in its first year, we have to work out all the details of the competition.
Yesterday we decided to formalize the evaluation processes and forms. We have to come out with a standard method of scoring the entries which will start flowing in in a few months time.
We knew that this should be a collaborative effort, with the judges taking part in the decision making and design processed of all evaluation tools.
True to my resolution, I suggested we start a wiki for the award judges. In the wiki we will present our first draft of the evaluation forms, asking the judges to respond or suggest changes. At the end of this process, I hope to produce a final evaluation kit which will be created by us and the judges in a collaborative manner.
Don’t ask me how I intend to do that. I was on the blog path until today, and the wiki is a total mystery for me. Now, I have to study its ins and outs in order to produce the tool I expect it to be.
If I have any questions, I’m sure I’ll get some help here. This is what our little UNworkshop is all about, isn’t it?
אוגוסט 15, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Yes, that is what our little unworkshop is all about
אוגוסט 16, 2006 at 2:08 am
ok. now you are committed.
i just hope none of my colleagues at the steering commitee read this blog. this could be rather embarassing.
אוגוסט 21, 2006 at 8:25 am
Yudit, bravo! I used a wiki last year for planning a conference agenda. The people who were embarassed were the senior IBM folks who spent most of their day jobs talking about On Demand Learning — but had never seen a wiki, much less used one. Yours sounds like a good wiki application to me.
אוגוסט 22, 2006 at 6:43 am
Hi Yudit, I have been playing with setting up a wiki for a small team of colleagues – we are the organizing group for a professional association/network here in Calgary – focused on strategic leadership issues and organizational effectiveness. So I set up a wiki and directed them to it – I made it private – thought that might help encourage them to "play in my sandbox". One member took up the challenge and added his contact info as requested.
A couple of days ago, the team lead emailed us the notes from our last conference call, so I took the liberty of posting them on the wiki (added a file). I then qot the question – so what's the big deal? what's different about this as when I open the link to the file its the same as just emailing it – i.e. not a "collaborative document" that we can all co-create.
So I remembered Jay mentioned writely.com as a collaborative word processing tools – off I went on another solo bike ride. It appears that although I can provide permission to all the "collaborators" – I am guessing they each have to go in and sign on. I am little reluctant to throw too much as these individuals – I know how I am feeling with the number of logins/accounts I have found I've had to set up to do all this informal learning! Sending them in too many directions at once, I expect they will ignore my invitations to play…
ספטמבר 10, 2006 at 10:18 pm
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