Talking the Walk: Narratives of OLC: March 22-April 02, 2006

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Talking the Walk: Narratives of Online Learner Collaboration
Facilitator:
Paul Beaufait
Description: On threads to extend from the Stories & Reflections connection (below), I, an Eagerfoot, want to elicit short stories of online learner collaboration. I invite you to share your best tales, and to reflect in turn upon those of others.

By sharing stories and then reflecting jointly upon emergent themes, paths, tensions, & havens; let us strive to illuminate philosophies, principles, and processes for fostering and facilitating online student collaboration. If all bodes well, we may even map the road ahead.

Early comers to SCoPE may see Talking the Walk as a follow-on to the Dance of the Instructional Designers that Vivian Neal facilitated (Oct. 31 - Nov. 20, 2005). More recent SCoPErs may see this as a spin-off from the Role of Online Communities in Developing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning that Liz Wallace facilitated (Feb. 17 - Mar. 5, 2006). I'd like to invite participants from both those events to join in this telling.

Best need not mean most successful. Inspiration springs from efforts far less so than we might hope. So please stretch out, breathe in deeply, and type us a tale of online learner collaboration.

The Road goes ever on and on

Down from the door where it began.

Now far ahead the Road has gone,

And I must follow, if I can,

Pursuing it with eager feet,

Until it joins some larger way

Where many paths and errands meet.

And whither then? I cannot say. (Tolkien

Reference
Tolkien, J. R. R. (no date). The Fellowship of the Rings. Retrieved March 13, 2006, from http://www.quoteland.com/author.asp?AUTHOR_ID=716 [QuoteLand]

List of discussions. Showing 4 of 4 discussions
Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies
Welcome to Talking the Walk	Paul Beaufait 21 Mar 2006	Sylvia Currie 3 Apr 2006	12
Elements of Collaboration, Appropriate Tools, and Suitable Strategies	Paul Beaufait 27 Mar 2006	chris macrae 3 Apr 2006	3
OLC Stories & Reflections	Paul Beaufait 22 Mar 2006	Nick Noakes 3 Apr 2006	22
Understanding Collaboration	Sylvia Currie 23 Mar 2006	Paul Beaufait 2 Apr 2006	34