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 * Welcome to the home page for Workshop B of the 'Driving Instructional Design with Emerging Technologies' conference.**

Wikis and blogs, which are sometimes collectively called ‘social software’, are spreading rapidly throughout today’s organisations in many ways. Education is one area that is particularly suited to using such collaborative software, notable in the trend of many software development companies targeting the area.
 * About the workshop:**

However, getting started can be difficult due to the initial setup of social software often being a blank canvas. This workshop will work through some of the issues that arise in setting up social software tools and assist you in using them to achieve ultimate benefit for your organisation.

>>Using social software to aid learning and teaching >>Realising the cultural changes required for working with social software, and outlining the rules and guidelines that can help >>Understanding the cultural and behavioral changes that emerge from collaborative work methods >>Identifying the challenges in adoption
 * This workshop will address the following topics:**

James Matheson is an independent consultant who has been working with wiki and blog technology for the last five years. James has recently started his own consultancy which establishes wiki and blog technology in a wide range of business domains including education, publishing, corporate security, mining and manufacturing. James has run a number of briefings, workshops and courses in wikis and blogs for various audiences, ranging from CEOs to migrant students.
 * About your workshop facilitator:**

Phone 612 92676089 eMail see contact details at http://www.saikore.com
 * Contact James at Saikore**

Workshop Program

Workshop Groups
 * Group 1
 * Group 2>