Web 2.0 How-To

For a long time unions have taken a "build it and they will come" approach to their on-line presence. However, if we want members to engage with their union on-line we need to educate and support this, in the same way we do for other union activity. That, and my observation that many people get a glazed over look when you mention RSS, has prompted me to start developing resources and modules that can be used to educate union members how to engage with their union on the web. This is my first support resource, destined for a Web 2.0 How-To page on my union's website.

Re: Using technology in education

Yay Chris!

How enlightening! We have learnt that the union education blog spot shows us that blogs can be a tool for learning rep trainees in the following ways:

- to link to our learning reps website

- to hold uploaded videos from our courses, this will help people to remember key points from our workshops when they are doing their workbooks.

- allows us to set up a chat group so people can keep in touch after the course

- hold pictures and images from the training course,

- able to hold voice recordings of people endorsing our programme and other training eg other learning reps, employers, union leaders etc

This will allow for the learning to continue after the workshop has finished!

cheers

from the 3 women at the middle table