Hey! and I'm thrilled that you're here in the flow with us :-)
Nick Noakes
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Welcome Carla, Kaj, Carol and Christina ... that's a heap of 'k' sounds!
I think I might be an online learning junkie! ... My first course was on teaching online with Tina Joy Pitt in DU MOO and email (pretty much pre-web) ... which covered quite a bit to do with structured online facilitation. I've done so many courses online now I've lost track ... Nancy White's OnFac, Concord's MooM with Sarah Haavind, Gilly Salmon's e-Moderating, Communities of Practice workshop (most of these I think I share with Sylvia but we did them at different times). These were all quite spread out time wise for me and I was doing a lot of seat of my pants stuff in between too! And then there wa thes 2-year online (baring 2 x 1-week n UK) research MEd in Networked Collaborative Learning, and then ....etc etc ... well you get the picture, as I say, an online learning junkie!
With Nancy and Sarah's courses, they both walk the talk really well and I learned as much from the content and activities/processes, as I did observing and reflecting on what they did and the way they did it - language is so key to all of this, as is stance/perspective. Nancy goes meta frequently (and uses a different colour to help differentiate those comments too!) and this really helps ... this making the tacit explicit of what the facilitator is attending to and why, what assumptions and criteria they bring to bear in making judgments and decisions about ways to interpret and respond in narrow-bandwidth environments. Phew that was a bit of mouthful of a sentence ... sorry folks! 7pm ... time to get the hell outta the office!
I hope other people will start posting in here too ... thanks for getting the ball rolling Bee and Kelly. :-)
With Nancy and Sarah's courses, they both walk the talk really well and I learned as much from the content and activities/processes, as I did observing and reflecting on what they did and the way they did it - language is so key to all of this, as is stance/perspective. Nancy goes meta frequently (and uses a different colour to help differentiate those comments too!) and this really helps ... this making the tacit explicit of what the facilitator is attending to and why, what assumptions and criteria they bring to bear in making judgments and decisions about ways to interpret and respond in narrow-bandwidth environments. Phew that was a bit of mouthful of a sentence ... sorry folks! 7pm ... time to get the hell outta the office!
I hope other people will start posting in here too ... thanks for getting the ball rolling Bee and Kelly. :-)