Do you find these questions helpful for documenting your experiences?
I'll answer that one. The answer is no.
This is not the first time I've had trouble answering these sorts of questions. I followed the #change11 sessions last year and volunteered to participate in the survey. I honestly could not answer their questions either because they were not relevant to my experience. It not that I need help with the big words. The questioner assumed I was some sort of "professional educator" with a defined objective that I hoped to achieve.
To me scope is a guild meeting, geek fair and pioneer school rolled into one . I like it that way. It feels more like a natural , albeit technologically enabled- social activity than a course. It is a place where kind people gather to learn how we can encourage meaningful dialogue in an online setting.
For it to work, there needs to be a human-ness about the place, which you Sylvia, as the community manager, cultivate very nicely. It is through your example and the experience of participating in an online seminar that we realize there are subtle nuances at play here.
While we can articulate our understanding of holding online conversations to some degree, experience is still the best teacher.
Therese