I've been promised I will get my desktop back this weekend, so how about a closing session in Second Life? If you're up for it, please post a note with preferred days and times.
Thank you all for your contributions over the past three weeks.
Nick
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There were a number of key ideas I left with from our live chat/conf call, such as:
Facilitation now and in the future - Facilitating LEARNING Conversations - deep vs ping ping interactions & levels of thinking. What is appropriate at IM/Ping level, what has to go deeper? 'Transparent Facilitation' - making "understanding of what really is going on" part of the group practice, e.g. what makes a good email/forum post, reading between the lines, understanding silence, non-verbal conversation. And from this a new tension as this needs more time, but people are shouting that they have less time and need things that reduce time. increasingly diverse skill sets and knowledge required, e.g. participant facilitators identifying and capturing the time to slow down. Providing learners/participant facilitators with the mechanisms to sense when to move between ping and deeper interaction and thinking - NOT facilitator signaling.
EA, Ian and Emma have already started to pick up on a couple of these. Are you up for taking one (or more) of these ideas, or one of your takeaways, beyond this ping?
- Complexity - facilitation, technologies, life
- Proliferation - of tools, of knowledge
- Fractured/fracturing/fracturation (not a word but should be) - as a consequence of proliferation and complexity, inclusion-exclusion
- Expectations - mis-match (gulf? chasm?), management (solving it needs immersion)
- Faciltator's role - baggage of transmission approach (connects to expectations too), knowledge capturing and sensemaking, glue, collaborator - and how to spread role to others
- Learner and learning center stage - starting point of shared value of learner driven, e.g. personal learning environment (PLE)
- Tensions - (i) conforming to one tool vs. multiple tools, (ii) focus on individual vs. focus on group, (iii) being together vs. being apart - level of commitment needed for being together
Facilitation now and in the future - Facilitating LEARNING Conversations - deep vs ping ping interactions & levels of thinking. What is appropriate at IM/Ping level, what has to go deeper? 'Transparent Facilitation' - making "understanding of what really is going on" part of the group practice, e.g. what makes a good email/forum post, reading between the lines, understanding silence, non-verbal conversation. And from this a new tension as this needs more time, but people are shouting that they have less time and need things that reduce time. increasingly diverse skill sets and knowledge required, e.g. participant facilitators identifying and capturing the time to slow down. Providing learners/participant facilitators with the mechanisms to sense when to move between ping and deeper interaction and thinking - NOT facilitator signaling.
EA, Ian and Emma have already started to pick up on a couple of these. Are you up for taking one (or more) of these ideas, or one of your takeaways, beyond this ping?
Sorry for my continued absence, my desktop at home is in the shop and my only connection is via an old laptop which needs rebooting every 30 mins (baring the few mins like this I can grab in my work lunch hour)!
I am trying to work on a summary though .... but if I anyone else can step in and relieve my guilt it would be really appreciated! :-)
I am trying to work on a summary though .... but if I anyone else can step in and relieve my guilt it would be really appreciated! :-)
Nancy and I were both recording for backup. Not sure how this will compate to Nancy's as it was done from Skype rather than the conferencing service.
http://www.bestsharing.com/files/7iZcMx243336/Nancy_SCoPE_2007-03-15.mp3.html
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http://www.bestsharing.com/files/7iZcMx243336/Nancy_SCoPE_2007-03-15.mp3.html
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