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I’m thrilled to learn that the great work of Tony Carr and his colleagues at the Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town in South Africa have completed the Facilitating Online: a course leaders guide ( PDF here .). Facilitating Online is a course intended for training educators as online facilitators of fully online and mixed mode courses. A few years ago I said to Tony that I really had not done a good job keeping my resources up to date and I wanted to “open source” them but in a way where others would build upon and improve them.

I love things you can touch and play with when facilitating face to face. This is probably why I was so attracted to the “drawing on walls” involved in graphic facilitation , kinesthetic modeling and just plain PLAY as a way to work together. Tags: creativity facilitation knowledge sharing visual thinkin I have a stack of different card decks that have been created for various purposes that I use. I

In a way, they are a glimpse back into the early days of the practice of online facilitation. Online Facilitation Course Curriculum Rev  Aug 2002 ...Tags: Tags: facilitation online facilitation online interaction curriculu This curriculum and materials have not been updated in many years, but they are still a valuable resource that emerges from not only my work, but that of my teachers, Lisa Kimball , Howard Rheingold , Michele Paradise and many, many others. I

It’s more about the social computing practitioner helping a CoP Facilitator help themselves. ie what are the conditions that a facilitator can create to get their CoP off the ground. What are the reasons for a pilot again? • Helps to discover and squash tech issues before release • Helps to discover and assist in user issues - that’s why a cross-section of people is important in the pilot • Deployment team can get an idea of early good practices, This is not a post about social computing deploying/piloting/adoption in general. All these are applicable

The problem is that this person is not a Subject Matter Expert (SME), and does not have the interest, passion or time to facilitate the community in a non-technical way. Facilitation is not just technical design/support, part of it is monitoring how people use the community and encouraging things, and re-purposing others…I briefly listed Facilitator’s duties at the end of my post, Community of Practice for Facilitators : pilot, adoption and participation . I’m finding that some Communities of Practice (CoPs) at work are lacking leadership even though they have a community leader.

Tags: online community online facilitation online interaction elearnin I've been exploring Ning a little further than I did and compared it to other forums like socialgo, collectivex and grou.ps . Gro.ups is open source, has a lot of similar functionalities to ning (and more- you can upload files easily) and is also without advertisements (for free!). The advantage of ning

What Simon Hearn of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) does for his community of Outcome Mapping practitioners is facilitation, management, technology stewardship and plain old leadership. couple of months ago Simon and I got on Skype to learn more about Simon’s community facilitation and stewardship work. His main responsibility is the coordination, facilitation, I was going to say “online community management” in the title, because I know that is a hot search term, but I just could not do it. A

Graphic Facilitation Workshops Beyond doing graphic recording myself , I offer two kinds of workshops on the practice of graphic recording and facilitation. One focuses on the use of visuals associated with specific facilitation techniques and group processes, and the other is a simple, hands on introduction to graphic recording, also known as “I CAN DRAW.” Using Well, I guess it is time to walk my talk and declare I CAN DRAW. After doing it on the side, teaching it to others, I realized it was time to declare this part of my practice on my website.

Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation. Blog About Ed Projects Services Three types of online facilitation January 19, 2008 – 9:01 pm This post compliments my earlier post about the three types of community where I described three ways of looking at communities from the point of view of centricity and the login. It is meant to give you an idea about the challenges and opportunities offered to facilitators and community managers in an increasingly distributed