This document discusses four tools that can be used to share knowledge: blogs, Flickr, YouTube, and wikis. It provides examples of each tool and ways they can support informal learning. Blogs allow users to share insights and reflections over time. Flickr is a photo sharing site where images can be organized, annotated, and shared under creative commons licensing. YouTube is the main site for uploading instructional videos. Wikis are collaborative workspaces that allow groups to build lasting knowledge bases. Each tool promotes learning through contributions, feedback, and access to others' shared content and experiences.

1. Building your
knowledge library:
Sharing what you have
learned
Stan Skrabut
@uwcesedtech
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2. You have formed your career around information
both retrieving and sharing.

3. As an extension educator, you can shape the
information available for self and others.

4. You may be unsure of what tool possibilities there are
for sharing your knowledge.

5. You want to be able to select the right tool to help
develop and share your wealth of knowledge.

6. I am going to show you four tools that you can share
your knowledge.

7. Blogs are great
tools for sharing
your insight as well
as a reflective tool.

8. What is a blog?

9. A blog is a syndicated column arranged in
chronological order.

10. Individuals can subscribe to blogs through RSS feeds.

11. Blogs can include images, audio, and video.

12. What tools can you use to create a blog?

13. University of Wyoming Extension uses WordPress for
program and department blogs.

14. Blogger is free and very easy to use.

15. TypePad and Moveable Type are common for self-
hosted and as part of a blogging service.

16. What are some ways you can use blogs to support
informal learning?

17. You can read blogs written by others and learn from
them.

18. Blogs do not have to be on serious topics, you can
post images, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, etc.

19. Participate in a subject as a lifelong learner, use a blog
to reflect on content and share your knowledge.

20. Share your half-baked ideas and get feedback from
your readers.

21. Write a guest post for someone else's blog

22. Expand your writing skills, write on specific
topics, specific word counts, or creating a topic
list, etc.

23. Flickr is one of
many tools for
sharing and
reflecting on visual
imagery.

24. What is Flickr?

25. Flickr is a Web-based photo and video cataloging
service.

26. Photos can be arranged in albums called sets.

27. Photos can be annotated and commented on.

28. You can share your works through creative commons
licensing.

29. What are some alternatives to Flickr?

30. Picasa is a free service through Google.

31. SmugMug is a fee service with a very professional
look and feel.

32. Photobucket is a free service that integrates with
Facebook, Twitter and other sites.

33. Facebook has a solid photo storage capability with
album features.

34. What are some ways you can use Flicker to support
informal learning?

35. Collect and organize photos into topics that can be
referenced by others.

36. Become a better photographer by posting photos to
Flickr and learning from the critiques.

37. Search through Flickr for personal inspiration.

38. Take pictures of a project during different phases to
show growth over time.

39. Conduct a visual field trip, capture the images to
flickr, add captions, and share them with others.

40. Attempt a photo a day activity, and see what you can
learn about yourself.

41. More than 72
hours of video is
uploaded to
YouTube each
minute, how much
have you
contributed?

42. What is YouTube?

43. YouTube is main site for uploading videos.

44. Videos can be collected in playlists.

45. YouTube is the second most popular search engine. It
focuses on how to do things.

46. What are some alternatives to YouTube?

47. Blip.tv tends to focus on webisodes and other serial
content.

48. Vimeo caters towards high-quality videos.

49. Flickr also stores videos but they are limited to 90
seconds.

50. Viddler is focused on companies and corporations.

51. What are some ways you can use YouTube to support
informal learning?

52. By subscribing to channels, you will be alerted to new
content when a new video is uploaded.

53. YouTube has millions and millions of videos on countless
topics; it is a great resource for learning something new.

54. Video is a great way to observe someone else
demonstrate a skill or method.

55. Create a playlist focusing on topic of interest and
share it with others.

56. Create a video to show others how to do something.

57. A wiki is a
collaborative
workplace where
lasting knowledge
can be massed.

58. What is a wiki?

59. Wikis are collaborative work spaces.

60. Wikis can be created for any discipline, project, or
program.

61. The most known wiki, Wikipedia has almost 4 million
English articles starting in 2001.

62. WoWwiki supports the game of World of Warcraft
and has over 96,000 pages.

63. What tools can you use to create a wiki?

64. University of Wyoming Extension uses MediaWiki for
program and department wikis.

65. PbWorks is a Web-based wiki available for free or at a
cost.

66. Dokuwiki is popular for maintaining documentation
for teams, workgroups, and small companies.

67. What are some ways you can use wiki to support
informal learning?

68. Use the wiki as a place to collect artifacts in an eportfolio and
reflectively write about personal learning.

69. You can develop a knowledge base on different
topics.

70. Use a wiki to record ideas and flesh out project ideas.

71. Here are the sessions scheduled for the next five
months.
Individual
Strategies
Organizational
Strategies

Collection
Strategies

Creation
Strategies
Interpersonal
Strategies

72. Questions?