Sylvia Currie

Awhile back when members of the ETUG Steering Committee were chatting about the ETUG 20th Anniversary celebration, Amanda Coolidge had [yet another] brain wave. How about setting up a virtual face wall? So we did -- on Pinterest. Now it's time get your stuff on the ETUG 20th Anniversary Face Wall!

Here are some guiding questions:

• Where were you and what were you doing in 1994?
• In your view, what is the most significant educational impact since 1994?
• ... the most significant technical impact since 1994?

Steps:

Option 1:

Have or want a Pinterest account? Follow the board and we'll follow you back + give you access to post to the wall.

Option 2:

Post your stuff elsewhere -- as a reply in this thread, on your blog... anywhere you'd like. Tweet the link, use the #etug hashtag, and we'll pin it! 

*Participation in this activity will help to you to earn the Social Networker Badge

Hello Community Enthuiasts,

It's been awhile!

The last Vancouver gathering we organized was in 2012. We all have fond memories, and fantastic harvests! While we don't currently have the resources to organize another one, we are thrilled to be able to spread the word about these other events that are a perfect fit.

For those who participated in the 2012 Gathering of Community Enthusiasts you will remember the activity using the Group Works card deck, faciltiated by Dave Pollard. The Deepening Your Facilitation Practice workshop is an opportunity to use the pattern language to think about your own projects and practices.

And as always, I'm open to suggestions about how we can bring everyone together to discuss and advance our work.  

Sylvia

DEEPENING YOUR FACILITATION PRACTICE: Workshop in Burnaby BC, Sat. May 24

Calling all project leaders, teachers, facilitators, coaches, public engagement practitioners, non-profit board members, and others whose work involves empowering people to participate in groups, workplaces, and communities in a more dynamic and effective way!

We invite you to attend a professional development session where you will have the opportunity to: 

• Reflect on your practices
• Share dilemmas with colleagues
• Get support on upcoming meeting designs
• Storyboard events (past and future) to identify opportunities for more effectively employing the patterns of excellent group process
• Integrate exemplary patterns into your professional life (and start to speak the shared “pattern language” of facilitation)
• Engage with others who care about these things!

We’ll be using the deck Group Works: A Pattern Language for Bringing Life to Meetings and Other Gatherings as our lens. While familiarity with the deck will be helpful, it’s not essential — you’ll recognize the patterns from your own practice and pick it up quickly.

If you participated in the last workshop Group Pattern Language Project offered in BC, we expect this session will be sufficiently different to make it worth your while to join us again.  

When: Saturday May 24, 10:30am to 4:30pm. A simple soup/salad/bread lunch (vegan & gluten-free) will be provided.

Where: Cranberry Commons Cohousing, 4274 Albert St (at Madison just north of Hastings), Burnaby BC. 

Cost: Sliding scale $25-$150. 

Registration: Please register in advance so your hosts can plan appropriately; sign up at http://groupworksdeck.org/event_reg/GPL_Reg.php. If you have any further questions contact Daniel Lindenberger at daniel@smallboxcms.com.

Pre- and post-event Work Sessions: The day before and the day after the workshop we'll be hosting work sessions for those committed to supporting this work:  growing the language, articulating potential new applications, and promoting and nurturing the project. Some of the issues we’ll be exploring are developing curricula for self-guided study of how to use the cards,  new “e-versions” of Group Works, and outreach activities to spread the word. If you'd like to participate or learn more about this, please email Dave (dave.pollard@gmail.com).

Led by: Sue Woerhlin, Daniel Lindenberger, & Tree Bressen. To learn more about them, check out the following:

Sue  http://www.antiochseattle.edu/contacts/sue-woehrlin

Daniel http://sourcefacilitation.com/our-team/daniel-lindenberger/

Tree treegroup.info/services

Come participate! and let others know too: This should be a great networking and peer learning opportunity. Hope to see you there!  Please forward this invitation to other people you think might be interested in attending.  

—Daniel Lindenberger and Dave Pollard   Group Pattern Language Project

I hope this doesn't seem too selfish of me! I just posted this on my blog and it occured to me that the perfect crowd to be asking this question to is right here in this SCoPE seminar. So I'm copying it over. Feel free to respond on my blog or here or privately (scurrie@bccampus.ca) or, of course, not at all :-)

I'm in one of those situations where I'm preparing a talk, I think I know what I'm trying to get at, but I'm not sure if it's something I'll be able to articulate.

The presentation is about learning communities and networks, and the audience is primarily higher education faculty who are seeking to make their online courses and their own professional learning more relevant and engaging. Then I thought d'oh, why not get the question out there to my own communities and networks?

So, I'm curious, what do you think about when you read this phrase:

Learning where it happens

(emphasis anywhere, punctuation optional)

"Learning to Fly" by Liz

Welcome to Footprints of Emergence.

About this seminar

This seminar is an exploration and discussion of how learning does (or does not) take place in complex learning environments, such as open online courses, and how this interacts with learning design.

To do this we will share our past and current research into emergent learning, which has been published in two papers. In particular, we will explain and discuss the framework we have developed for ‘complex’ learning environments – Footprints of Emergence.  

This framework enables learners and learning designers to articulate, map out, and reflect on critical aspects of learning in open, emergent learning events, both individually and collaboratively and results in visualisations of the learning experience – see the Footprints of Emergence open wiki for examples of learner experience footprints.

There are two webinars scheduled as part of this 2-week seminar discussion. They will take place in the SCoPE Blackboard Collaborate Room: http://urls.bccampus.ca/scopeevents

1. Tuesday, 19 November 18:00 GMT 
   

   We will introduce ourselves and discuss what emergent learning is and the progress of our research. This will be followed by asynchronous discussion in the forum, where we can discuss further questions and any issues arising from the webinar.

2. Tuesday, 26 November 18:00 GMT 
   

   This webinar will focus on drawing footprints of emergence and a discussion of the critical factors, which we use to describe and map out the learning experience. We will encourage all participants to draw their own footprints. In the following asynchronous discussion forum, we hope that you will share your footprints, so that we can critically reflect on the approach, and methodology, in order to improve it and to continue to make it accessible, available and relevant to the broader research and design community.

About our facilitators

Roy Williams is an academic, designer, facilitator and researcher, responsible for e-assessment, e-learning, and research in the Dept. of Mathematics and the School of Computing at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (South Africa). More about Roy... 

Jenny Mackness is an independent education consultant and researcher, based in the UK, who specialises in designing, authoring and facilitating online learning programmes for national and international markets, and researching open online learning. She has participated in many MOOCs and worked with a team to design and run one of the UK’s first MOOCs (FSLT12). More about Jenny...

Simon Gumtau Simone is a visual communication designer specialising in interactive media design, and an academic lecturer and researcher. More about Simone...

Participating in SCoPE Seminars

SCoPE seminars are free and open to the public, and registration is not required. You are welcome to come and go according to your schedule and interests. To contribute you will need to create an account on the SCoPE site -- a quick process. Are you new to SCoPE or wondering how to manage your participation? Check this resource.

If you have any questions about participating in SCoPE don't hesitate to ask here in the forum, or get in touch with me directly:

Sylvia Currie
scurrie@bccampus.ca 
skype:webbedfeat 
+1 250-318-2907

(edited post 19 Nov, 2013 to correct date of second webinar sjc)

Reminder! The first Footprints of Emergence webinar takes place tomorrow!

When: Tuesday, 19 November 18:00 GMT, 10:00 PST

Where: SCoPE Blackboard Collaborate Room: http://urls.bccampus.ca/scopeevents

What: We will discuss what emergent learning is and the progress of our research. This will be followed by asynchronous discussion in the forum, where we can discuss further questions and any issues arising from the webinar.

How to prepare:

• If you are new to Blackboard Collaborate check that your equipment is ready ahead of the session.
• Plan to join a few minutes prior to the start of the event.
• Enter your full name when prompted.

Note: You may enter the Blackboard Collaborate room at any time to ensure there are no technical issues. 

This is an open invitation so please spread the word!