Nancy White Master Class with the Knowledge Management Roundtable
Posted by VPSCIN COORDINATION 8 November 2009VPSCIN has been invited to participate in an upcoming Knowledge Management Roundtable event featuring Nancy White.
Twenty VPSCIN members will be able to attend the event on Monday 16 November 2009 from 2–5 pm at Level 16/570 Bourke Street, Melbourne (Land Victoria).
Nancy White, will deliver a Master Class on Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities.
Nancy is an international practitioner in understanding and practicing online group facilitation of distributed work, learning and community groups (presenter, writer, teacher, coach, facilitator, rapporteur). She is also a technology steward, designer and builder of online interaction spaces (events, teams, learning groups). She has done extensive work with “web 2.0” tools and approaches and community and instructional design.
Recently Nancy, Etienne Wenger, and John D. Smith released their new book Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities. This book explores how technology has changed, what it means for communities to “be together.” It looks at the fact that digital tools are now part of most communities’ habitats. This book develops a new literacy and language to describe the practice of stewarding technology for communities.
To register for the event, simply be one of the first 20 VPSCIN members to email Helen Moreland (helen.moreland@transport.vic.gov.au).