Comments on Facilitating Online: Sorting out definitions and roles

Thanks for that, Stephen....look forward to readin...

2009-08-26T09:15:03.755+12:00

Thanks for that, Stephen....look forward to reading it

Summarising is a good idea - I reached for the dic...

2009-08-26T09:13:57.752+12:00

Summarising is a good idea - I reached for the dictionary straight away when I came across heuristic!

John D Smith is co-author of Digital Habitats with Etienne Wegner and Nancy White (my copy in the mail), and teaches at CPSquared. He'd definitely be a good person to talk with.

Will think about inviting him to participate in mini conference.

You're right Stephen, a good paper with logical ad...

2009-08-26T05:52:43.141+12:00

You're right Stephen, a good paper with logical advice. We should fit this in as an extra resource..

Would be good if we could summarise and simplify the reading further even. Perhaps you could facilitate a session, inviting the writers to talk briefly about their paper, at the course mini conference?

Regardless of the actual technology being used, a ...

2009-08-25T16:53:19.262+12:00

Regardless of the actual technology being used, a sense of dislocation early on seems to be fairly common.

Quite by chance I found this article: "Weaving together online and face-to-face learning: a design from a communities of practice perspective" by John D Smith and Beverley Trainer.

The straight forward table makes so much intuitive sense as experience the relative dominance of technology in the early phases of a new online community, then move through to mastery. Implications for what worked are drawn out.

Recommended reading.

See: http://cpsquare.org/2006/02/weaving-together-online-and-face-to-face-learning/