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

Candace Whitehead, the Facilitator Support Specialist for the Florida Online Reading Professional Development project  funded by the Florida DOE and housed at the University of Central Florida  http://forpd.ucf.edu contacted me last month inviting me to participate in a web meeting with the cohort of online facilitators working in learning and particularly around literacy issues. First, it is helpful to clarify what we mean by “engagement” online or offline. The chance to have a conversation with practitioners is always an automatic YES for me.

back channel facilitation in online groups where you make a decision to address issues privately and not “in front” of the whole group. Raising the bar at online events Interventions: in front or behind the curtain – an older piece focused on facilitation aspects. A DM Tweet today caused me to go and look and see what resources I’ve posted on the blog about back channel work.  For me,  back channel refers to a number of things that fall into two broad categories:

Alan Levine wrote a deliciously provocative post on last month that I’ve been meaning to comment upon, Five Ways to Run a Deadly Online Seminar . It has been a while since I wrote about synchronous online facilitation is a focused way.  inside the online meeting room) When I read it, my head was bobbing in agreement and recommendations. Alan shares 5 deadly things.

If you hesitate between a public ning (attracts new members online) or a private ning (makes it easier for members to share information that they don't want to be public) you have the option to choose for a public homepage and a private rest of the site. 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

For the third time I was going through all my resources- files and bookmarks to find online icebreakers. 10 online icebreakers (the picture relates to number 10!): 1. Source: Using online icebreakers to promote student/teacher interaction 2. Source: Using online icebreakers I thought I'd do myself (and you) a favour by listing the most interesting ones.

Community Leadership and Facilitation This is my old stomping ground both online and offline.  A subset is online community management but I’ll confess to placing more emphasis both on facilitating vs managing and servant leadership vs top-down leadership. For this post, community is defined as a group of people with bounded membership who have some shared, congruent interest and interact with each It has become clear. I’m long-winded on the topic of new skills for knowledge workers and learning professionals, even if I don’t quite understand

The history approach also shows that while the term “social media” was not in play when I jumped in, the social use of online media has been growing for many years - well before my online time. Online Community My first real step into what we now call social media was logging on to Howard Rheingold’s “ Electric Minds ” online This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

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. 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 A Take  a listen (about 27 minutes  - it was too good to stop him) and hear the story of the Outcome Mapping Community, how Simon  fosters participation

Home About Full Circle Resources Contact Us Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Sunday, April 29, 2007 Updating my basic article on online facilitation OK, what do you think should a) come out of this article, b) is missing and needs adding in, and c)needs to be better reframed for the current context. Im short on time for HTML tweaking!) Facilitating Online Interaction Originally from: http://www.fullcirc.com/community/communityfacilitation.htm