Nuts and Bolts: Narrating Our Work by Jane Bozarth : Learning Solutions Magazine - The Diigo Meta page

There are so many lessons to glean from this case. They include the social aspect of publishing your learning, getting feedback and encouragement from friends and helping other friends as they learn; the fact that enthusiasm can be contagious; the willingness to share and not keep everything to yourself; the real way that knowledge is shared; the organic ways that networks grow.

 

And more to be learned here: that learning often spawns the desire for additional learning (like Web design and photography); the futility of believing we can “capture” knowledge as discrete pieces of data in a spreadsheet; that “generations” has nothing to do with anything; the ways in which social technologies can accelerate learning and give it geographic reach; and the value of a community truly committed to improving practice.

 

This is social learning. This is informal learning. This is narrating our work.

 

By sharing what we are doing and how we are learning, we distribute the tacit knowledge otherwise so hard to capture;

tie our learning to the efforts of others.