Thanks Lynne. I am one of those lost ones and am encouraged by your post. I am lost not so much because of the ‘noise’ but because I am so busy with other face to face activities I am currently involved in. I am out of town and I am barely able to get to my e-mails and read them. As I was browsing through some of the contributions since the start of the course I was wondering where motivating, encouraging, supporting the quiet and lost ones fit in facilitating on line. I was wondering whether there are any guides as to when and how the Facilitator should come in and play those roles. Of course, as it is happening here, the community itself can take it up – unless of course most members are more on the ‘you sink or swim’ mindset.
Cheers,
Greg B.
From: facilitating-on...@googlegroups.com [mailto:facilitating-on...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ly...@gillilandjud.com
Sent: August-01-08 7:20 AM
To: facilitating-on...@googlegroups.com
Subject: ::{{FOC}}:: Re: Newbies and experts
What I appreciate about Bron's email is that it reminds me that we can learn to take care of our own community right now in this slightly messy phase. How do we make sure everyone feels included? What is those that are up on technical stuff had some open sessions to answer questions to the ones that are lost? We also had the excellent suggestion that we form buddies - and I thank Jeffrey for being willing to buddy me and to Bron for suggesting it.
I wonder if those folks that are lost or getting lost (me included) could just shout out?
Warmly
Lynne
Lynne Gilliland
Gilliland & Jud
Do you also apply face-to-face support?
* How much facilitation is visible and public and how much is
back-channel?
* How do we decide whether pubic or private communication might be best?
* What technologies best support whole of group and one-to-one
facilitation?
* How do balance the public and private - one-to-one communication
can be very time consuming (as is group ;-))
Here's hoping one of these questions might fire up some passions for
members of the group - maybe some new experts in our group ;-) .
Bron
Hi Leigh,
Thanks. I appreciate that. What is the cost of enrolling as a paying participant. Somehow, I missed that one.
Kind regards,
Greg B.
From: facilitating-on...@googlegroups.com [mailto:facilitating-on...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Leigh Blackall
Sent: August-01-08 9:43 AM
To: facilitating-on...@googlegroups.com
Subject: ::{{FOC}}:: Re: Newbies and experts
Hi all, I strongly believe in having a buddy. I was lost sometimes ago too and if I had a person always to ask some little questions I wouldn't have withrawn from the discussion. How do we go about it then? Do we select who we will like as a buddy or the facilitator of this discussion will arrange this.
Cheers, Olufemi Olubodun Olufemi J. [ CDT; RDT (Nig) M.Ed; Pg Dip. Ed; Pg Dip. E-Teaching & E-course Dev. (UNU/GVU)]
University of Lagos, College of Medicine, School of Dental Sciences,
P.M.B. 12003, Lagos Nigeria. Mobile:+2348066389422
Office: 23401-4802011
eFacilitator
Dodo Village
--- On Fri, 8/1/08, cristina costa <cristi...@gmail.com> wrote: |
From: cristina costa <cristi...@gmail.com> |
Leigh, I think the idea of a buddy sign-up page is a great idea.
Is there a link on the WikiEducator homepage to this page? I could not find one, and am hoping that perhaps for organizational purposes we can have links to everything (such as the buddy thread) from the one central home page.
Looking forward for week 2!
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Jeffrey Keefer
jef...@silenceandvoice.com
Blog: www.silenceandvoice.com
Website: www.jeffreykeefer.com
Leigh-
Great!
I know, the page is a wiki and this is something we should be empowered to do on our own, but the hold of unidirectional education is a strong tradition to break.
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Jeffrey Keefer
jef...@silenceandvoice.com
Blog: http://silenceandvoice.com
Website: http://www.jeffreykeefer.com
Thanks Leigh,
Taking all things into account I’d opt to stay as a non-paying enrolee in the course for the moment.
Cheers,
Greg B.