Facilitator Development Workshop Online - MAR14-OER

General news and announcements from your FDWO facilitators.

Posts made here will be highlighted in the "Latest News" block on the top right of the main course view. You are also "force subscribed" to this forum, which means you will get an email copy of anything posted here.

This general/classwide forum is for all of us to request - and give - help, clarification, guidance, and advice. 

Introductions - FDWO

Please post a brief introduction to your colleagues here in the FDWO, and tell us...

• a bit about yourself, and why you are taking the FDWO
• a bit about what, specifically, you are hoping to learn in the FDWO
• one (or more) things about your ISWO participant experience that you...

Forum Activity: Your ISWO Intro Posts

This is an activity designed to give you an immediate and practical jump on your ISWO preparation - it has two parts:

• Part 1: Please craft and share your ISWO facilitator intro post.  In other words, pretend you are co-facilitating the ISWO right now and ...

Case: Sue Bizzy!

Please read the case, Sue Bizzy! and then respond to these questions...

1. What goes through your mind when you read this? What thoughts, considerations, etc?
   
   
2. How will you respond to this person? (write your actual response to the participant, in email format)

Week  1 - Your ISWO Facilitator Checklist Activities - Report Back

In week 1 of FDWO, you are asked to review the ISWO Facilitator Checklists for Pre-course and Week 1 , choose some activities from each checklist, try them out in some way, and share briefly what you did and how it went.  This ...

ISWO Facilitator Checklist Activities - Report Back on Weeks 2-5

In week 2 of FDWO, you are asked to review the ISWO Facilitator Checklists for Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, and Week 5, choose activities from each checklist, try them out in some way, and share briefly what you did and how it went.  ...

Please read the case, Instructor Bulletins Gone Bad?

Then, create a post with:

1. a short list of 3-5 specific observations you made about the message - name/briefly describe aspects that could be improved
   
   
2. your revised version of the message - re-write it so it works

Note: We are using the "Q and ...

Please read the case, Hear Me Roar.

Reflect a bit on what's being expressed (and how), in the two messages. 

Choose one message to focus on (either Hear Me Roar, or Are You Kidding?).  Then, create a post here that includes:

• what do you think, when you read this message?
• how/would you actually r...

Class Forum: Design Disaster?

This activity is about exploring one of the potentially more complicated mini-sessions in ISWO - the wiki activity.

We have set up two possible "design disaster" scenarios (Wiki 1 and Wiki 2) for you to work on in pairs.

• Please go the course schedule to see which ...