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Friday, May 22, 2009
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
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
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
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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.
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
One of the joys of facilitation is the opportunity to work across organisations and communities and observe similarities and differences. And I wondered what some of my friends and colleagues across the globe were noticing about facilitation, particularly the trends, and their hopes for facilitation in 2009.
Here’s a wordle made from the responses to facilitation trends.
I’ve ve noticed that there are a lot more similarities, especially in the challenges and aspirations, than differences.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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 [link] 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. Now that some very crude and un-scientific definitions of engagement are on the table, let’s look at how we, as facilitators, can encourage engagement online. The chance to have a conversation with practitioners is always an automatic YES for me.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
But trained runners hearts beat slower. Designing and Facilitating meetings
...Tags: Tags: communities of practice facilitatio This is the nineth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick late last year in the context of communities of practice as part of online learning initiatives. I
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Monday, December 10, 2007
« Connecting | Weblog Home | Twitter backlash » November 23, 2007 Facilitation or hosting? Chris Corrigan writes about a distinction between facilitation and hosting. Facilitation comes from a mechanistic view of organizations, that they are machines that can be fixed. Facilitators typically take a neutral stand, bring their tools and tool kits to help things run easier. The facilitator is the mechanic and the group is the machine. Hosting, on the
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
What is essential for facilitating adoption of weblogs in knowledge-intensive environments?
Facilitate the broadest possible reach. Provide blogging tools if you can, give basic how-to training or, better, ask a few experienced bloggers to coach newcomers by giving them time and recognition.
Promised to blog this piece from the dissertation in February (together with What pragmatists might want to know about blogging ), but wasn’t happy with it. Still not happy, but here it is (in a slightly updated form).
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
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: [link] . This article had its genesis in 1999 and has been updated about every two years.
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