Week 1 Notes - FDO: The Big Picture

Your Technical Skills

Facilitating FLO requires intermediate-to-advanced editing/creating skills in a Learning Management System (we use Moodle) and a web conferencing tool (we primarily use Blackboard Collaborate but like to experiment with other platforms).

It is also preferable to have some knowledge of at least a few fun, free, easy-to use tools to demonstrate and pass on to participants. The idea is to model technology use to serve teaching and learning goals, and one trap of any LMS is it tends to force the over-use of forums. While not the focus of FLO, we do want to encourage people to explore a variety of collaboration and communication tools: pick the right tool for the job.

If you don't have these skills, how/can you either get them fast, or secure support to get that job done?