Sylvia Currie

Thanks everyone for sharing your ideas and offering feedback about the next steps for SCoPE. I also received a number of private messages which have been helpful as well. The main purpose of this 10-day discussion was to bring you into the community and make some progress on important details such as  the community name, layout, and possible discussion topics and other activities. I'd say we've definitely made headway!

Over the next while we'll be packing up and moving to a production server and we'll also continue to work on the site. Meanwhile, feel free to continue to contribute here! I don't know exactly when the move will be and I'd hate to see us sit idle while we're waiting. In particular, if you have questions and suggestions about navigation it would be great to hear from you.

And if you don't have time participate now, don't worry...we'll have many opportunities to talk about SCoPE while it is taking shape. (I've sensed a wee bit of guilt from some people  )

Thanks everyone for sharing your ideas and offering feedback about the next steps for SCoPE. I also received a number of private messages which have been helpful as well. The main purpose of this 10-day discussion was to bring you into the community and make some progress on important details such as  the community name, layout, and possible discussion topics and other activities. I'd say we've definitely made headway!

Over the next while we'll be packing up and moving to a production server and we'll also continue to work on the site. Meanwhile, feel free to continue to contribute here! I don't know exactly when the move will be and I'd hate to see us sit idle while we're waiting. In particular, if you have questions and suggestions about navigation it would be great to hear from you.

And if you don't have time participate now, don't worry...we'll have many opportunities to talk about SCoPE while it is taking shape. (I've sensed a wee bit of guilt from some people  )

As some of you know, I was community coordinator for the Global Educators' Network (GEN), and online educator community supported by the TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence. Through participation in seminar discussions, ideas for new topics were always emerging. Sometimes members would suggest a topic and also volunteer to moderate. Other times, I would search for someone out there who had expertise in a topic area that had been recommended by our members, and ask if they would be interersted in sharing their work in GEN. Usually the answer was yes!

By the end of my time as community coordinator, I had accumulated quite a list! Now I need your help in identifying further topics, and potential moderators. It would be ideal to be able to kick-off SCoPE by showcasing SFU work and/or research.

- Are you interested in facilitating a SCoPE seminar discussion?
- Do you know of some exciting projects at SFU (and beyond) that we could organize SCoPE activities around?
- Would anyone you know like to use SCoPE to as part of their research? (Research in online communities, disseminate requests to participate in surveys, organize online focus groups, etc)?

Here's that almighty list I've been carrying around since GEN days:

The Benefits and Drawbacks of Peer-to-Peer Technologies
Tips and Tools for Conducting Virtual Tours
Online Language Teaching
Research Tools
Helping Students to Succeed in Online Studies
What Your Students Should Know About Internet Research
Use of Internet Technologies and K-12 Policy Changes
Wireless Solutions for Online Learning
Copyright Issues
Design and Integration of Interactive Media
Protection of Privacy
Open Source Part III
Use of Mind Mapping Tools
Video Production for Online Delivery
Strategies for Collaborative Writing
Problem-Based Learning
Open Content
The Educational Application of Games
Do it Yourself Series (programming, web design, cascading style sheets,
quizzes, etc)
The Use of BLOGS in Online Education
Exploring appropriate metaphors for learning management systems
Part II or Part III to any of our seminars (see archives)
Opportunities for Freelance Instructional Designers
Professional Readers Book Club
Choosing a Learning Management System
eMentoring
Courseware
Building Student Portals

As some of you know, I was community coordinator for the Global Educators' Network (GEN), and online educator community supported by the TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence. Through participation in seminar discussions, ideas for new topics were always emerging. Sometimes members would suggest a topic and also volunteer to moderate. Other times, I would search for someone out there who had expertise in a topic area that had been recommended by our members, and ask if they would be interersted in sharing their work in GEN. Usually the answer was yes!

By the end of my time as community coordinator, I had accumulated quite a list! Now I need your help in identifying further topics, and potential moderators. It would be ideal to be able to kick-off SCoPE by showcasing SFU work and/or research.

- Are you interested in facilitating a SCoPE seminar discussion?
- Do you know of some exciting projects at SFU (and beyond) that we could organize SCoPE activities around?
- Would anyone you know like to use SCoPE to as part of their research? (Research in online communities, disseminate requests to participate in surveys, organize online focus groups, etc)?

Here's that almighty list I've been carrying around since GEN days:

The Benefits and Drawbacks of Peer-to-Peer Technologies
Tips and Tools for Conducting Virtual Tours
Online Language Teaching
Research Tools
Helping Students to Succeed in Online Studies
What Your Students Should Know About Internet Research
Use of Internet Technologies and K-12 Policy Changes
Wireless Solutions for Online Learning
Copyright Issues
Design and Integration of Interactive Media
Protection of Privacy
Open Source Part III
Use of Mind Mapping Tools
Video Production for Online Delivery
Strategies for Collaborative Writing
Problem-Based Learning
Open Content
The Educational Application of Games
Do it Yourself Series (programming, web design, cascading style sheets,
quizzes, etc)
The Use of BLOGS in Online Education
Exploring appropriate metaphors for learning management systems
Part II or Part III to any of our seminars (see archives)
Opportunities for Freelance Instructional Designers
Professional Readers Book Club
Choosing a Learning Management System
eMentoring
Courseware
Building Student Portals

We've had an ongoing discussion since the beginning of this community project about what to call it. We were looking for one word, easy to remember, carries some meaning, etc.  Scope was suggested and then we began to play with what it could stand for.

SFU's community of practioners of elearning
SFU's community of practicing educators
SFU's community of practice for educators
Scholarly centre of ...

You get the idea.

Anyway, despite the fact that we couldn't find an ideal long name, the short name, Scope, has remained. It has some clever bits to it -- Liz pointed out that we could emphasize the CoP part, which has become the standard way to abbreviate Communities of Practice. Also in designing the spaces, we started to play with the words, like telescope and periscope (Thanks for noticing, Steph!)

This brings us to part 2. You may have noticed if you've logged in more than once that we are cycling through some logo examples on the main page. Jason Toal is busy behind the scenes. We'll organize a way for you to view, vote, and provide feedback on these logos so stay tuned!

Obviously we need to be sure about the name SCoPE before investing too much time in designing a logo based on that name. But both of these are basic items we need to decide to prepare for launch. So first things first: