Instructional Skills Workshop Online - NOV2014-OER

Open Forum

This forum is for asking for - and giving - help/clarification/guidance about this course, introducing topics of interest to you, sharing tid bits, and just generally shooting the breeze. 

Weekly Journal Share: Moving from thought to action

A learning journal can be a powerful tool for individual reflection, synthesizing and sense-making. You are asked to keep a journal (any format you like) as you move through this course, and share a little "nugget" from it each week in this ...

Facilitators appreciate thoughtful and helpful feedback during and especially after their mini-sessions. They will use your comments posted in this forum and suggestions from their own reflection activity (the FLIF) to improve their facilitation skills.

Please, consult Suggestions for Giving Good...

Introductions 

One of the goals of this unit is to get to know each other, share experiences and start to create a sense of community.

This activity links to the following Learning Outcomes:

Discussion: Online Community Building

The goal of this discussion is to explore the qualities, benefits, challenges and responsibilities associated with online community building. This discussion is linked to the following Learning Outcomes:

We are working in a Wiki this week. Instructions are posted on the main page of the Wiki. Your contributions should be added to the Our Views on Adult Learning Online page. We'll use this forum for announcements and Q&A about the Wiki activity.

Our office hours:

Charlotte > Monday, Tuesday, ...

Course Review Task Force Case (Class)

This activity is designed to get you thinking about Adult Learners and Learning Styles.

To get started, please read this case, Course Review Task Force

Your mini-session facilitator(s) will provide direction on next steps.

This activity is linked to these ...

This forum is for the week 2 mini session team members to communicate and plan. Only the ISWo facilitators and the mini-session facilitators for Week 2 will be able to see posts to this forum.

Your team may find it's not the best tool for planning. There are many other options: phone, Skype, ...

FORUM: Week 3 Mini-Session Discussion

Hello everyone, and welcome to week 3 of the ISWO. You are halfway there!

Please Note: This is an individual mini-session and you will not be working in teams for the completion of this mini-session! You will be creating individual topic posts for your ...

FORUM: Week 3 Mini Session Planning Team

This forum is for the week 3 mini session team members to communicate and plan. It is intended for, and visible to, the facilitation team only. However, you may choose to make it visible to ALL participants. This way everyone can learn from your planning ...

Hi everyone.

For this week’s activity, you will be working on a case study in your colour teams (Orange, Purple and Green). There are 4 tasks that you will need to complete for this activity, with one optional task (see "Mini Session Overview - Your Tasks").  

Please use the thread for your ...

FORUM: Week 4 Mini Session Planning Team

This forum is for the week 4 mini session team members to communicate and plan. It is intended for, and visible to, the facilitation team only. However, you may choose to make it visible to ALL participants. This way everyone can learn from your planning ...

Looking Back, Looking Forward 

The goal of this activity is to help you engage in and share your reflective practice by taking stock of your learning in ISWo and making concrete plans for next steps.

Use the following prompts to craft a response. Use any kind of multi/media - up to you!

Looking ...

Assessing Participation

Mini-session facilitators will provide direction for this activity.

ISWO Learning Outcomes related to this activity: