I hope people will post here following Stephen's offer to take us down a rich storytelling route - stories are a great way of facilitating online (as well as onground!) :-)
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The only software I know that does this is Inspiration - no web-based version yet but it does come in Win and Mac flavours.
Nick
The only software I know that does this is Inspiration - no web-based version yet but it does come in Win and Mac flavours.
Nick
Carol thanks very much both for suggesting this and for carrying it through to make it concrete.
One of my top sites I subscribe to is Nancy White's blog and her website has a wealth of resources ... if you are new to this, check out Nancy's online facilitation toolkit on her Resources page. Like Bron, Jenny Preece's book is a great one as is the one from the MooM course, Facilitation Online Learning and also Gilly Salmon's e-Moderating.
It's all about the people and the language and behaviors we use and implicitly model. :-)
One of my top sites I subscribe to is Nancy White's blog and her website has a wealth of resources ... if you are new to this, check out Nancy's online facilitation toolkit on her Resources page. Like Bron, Jenny Preece's book is a great one as is the one from the MooM course, Facilitation Online Learning and also Gilly Salmon's e-Moderating.
It's all about the people and the language and behaviors we use and implicitly model. :-)
It's really interesting reading all of these. There is a very strong element of get stuck in and do it, learn some by the seat of your pants adapting what you can from onground facilitation experiences. Then coming to online courses and/or books with a little experience under your belt, so that what is said on these courses has a personal, experiential context to make it stick. The virtual head nodding of people when people read something (either in sync chat or async forum) has been almost palpable in responses in these situations.
It's only in the last 6 years that the theory behind this practice of online facilitation has started to really take off. Although I'm starting to feel a little bit (not unhappily) like the odd one out as I actually took a course before trying to teach and facilitate online, I was probably lucky that I just happened to chose a course that had a great facilitator and teacher who walked the talk!
Thank you all for your posts and I hope it will encourage others to post here and in the current landscape thread! :-D What about others experiences?
It's only in the last 6 years that the theory behind this practice of online facilitation has started to really take off. Although I'm starting to feel a little bit (not unhappily) like the odd one out as I actually took a course before trying to teach and facilitate online, I was probably lucky that I just happened to chose a course that had a great facilitator and teacher who walked the talk!
Thank you all for your posts and I hope it will encourage others to post here and in the current landscape thread! :-D What about others experiences?
Warm welcomes to Diego, Brigitte, Robin and Maggie .... late in async is fine right! :-)
A good friend, Cyprien Lomas, is one of the co-organizers of Northern Voice. I have still not made it to Vancouver :-( and would love to be there for an NC (un)conference.
A good friend, Cyprien Lomas, is one of the co-organizers of Northern Voice. I have still not made it to Vancouver :-( and would love to be there for an NC (un)conference.