Sylvia Currie

Canadian Association for Distance Education [CADE-ACED]

Awards of Excellence Program 2006

Objectives

To recognize excellence in open and distance education projects, both nationally and internationally, through a competition adjudicated by a committee of professional peers from across Canada.

Awards

Five CADE Awards of Excellence will be available for presentation in each of English and French. Thus, a total of ten Awards may be presented.

a) Excellence and Innovation in Instructional Design

b) Excellence in Graduate Research

c) Excellence in Research

d) Excellence and Innovation in Partnership/Collaboration

e) Excellence and Innovation in Student Services

Invitation to Submit

We invite you to submit your outstanding distance education project for consideration for a 2005-2006 Canadian Association for Distance Education Award of Excellence. All sectors of the CADE membership are eligible for this awards program. Deadline for the Intent to Submit is Friday, January 13, 2006.

Intention to Submit and entry forms are available on the CADE website.

CADE website:

http://www.cade-aced.ca/ <http://www.cade-aced.ca/>

I just received an email update from John Smith of CPSquare of all the things happening in that community. The next 7-week online/teleconference combo Foundations of Communities of Practice Workshop begins February 6th, 2006. Most of you have already heard me rave about this workshop so I probably don't need to say more!

Do you know of other online workshops for community enthusiasts? Post them here!

One of my next projects for SCoPE (after I catch up on all of the others ) is to create a SCoPE community blog, or perhaps more than one. I've been trying to wrap my head around how to best integrate blogs into online community life.

I have a few purposes in mind:

1. An ongoing newsy blog to highlight activities, changes in the community, tips, etc. I suppose it could potentially replace the MicroSCoPE newsletter
   
2. A community coordinator reflection blog which would be more like a journal of what I do and why. This came to mind from an experience teaching the "Role of the eModerator" course in Knowplace. I kept a daily log of what I saw happening in the forum discussions, my thought processes around whether or not I should intervene, what I wished I had done differently, etc. The participants found it very useful, especially in that context where the focus of the course was on moderating. As a community coordinator reflection blog I suppose there would be parts I would want to keep private though!
   
3. An alternative method of ongoing discussions. I have no idea how this would work. 
   

How have you used blogs in your communities? As a community coordinator/host/moderator do you find that maintining blogs means duplicating content? Is your blog taking away from your community listserve & forum discussions in any way?

Please point us to your blogs!

Mark Frein, senior learning designer with the Learning Strategies Group at SFU and a faculty member in the School of Business, will be talking about games tailored for learning purposes in a webcast today at BC eLearning Marketplace & Expo. He will be showing "Project Management Fundamentals," a course custom-built by the Learning Strategies Group at Simon Fraser University and Lambda Solutions for the Vancouver semiconductor firm PMC-Sierrra.

When: Tuesday, 22 November (11:00 AM Pacific)

Access the webcast directly: http://community.bccampus.ca/expo?go=1045807

Organized by BC eLearning Marketplace & Expo http://community.bccampus.ca/expo

This announcement for a second call for proposals was just posted to Nancy White's Online Facilitation list. (It's great having this list feed directly into this SCoPE SIG!)

IADIS International Conference
Web Based Communities 2006
San Sebastian, Spain

26-28 February 2006
http://www.iadis.org/WBC2006

Deadline for submission is 6 January 2005

Is anybody planning to go? Any urges to write a paper together?