Facilitating online communities/Conference/FOC08

Organisers, enter a proposed event in the dates below and start a thread in the discussion area for your proposal. All times in UTC please (NZ time is UTC +13 hours):

Community Leadership Development
Title: Community Leadership Development - review and feedback

Date: online discussion

Duration: throughout the conference period

Facilitators: Valerie Taylor with guests and friends

Venue: blog posts, discussion page threads

Description:


 * Community Leadership Development - online, open education and skills development for individuals and groups working with community-based organizations to provide leadership training, needs assessment and planning, coordination and management of projects to benefit the community.

As Community Leadership Development is a new course modeled on FOC08 and CCK08, participants in the FOC08 Mini Conferences are uniquely qualified to provide input, feedback and suggestions.

Throughout the Mini Conference, questions about the content and the process for the course will be posted for review and comment. Summaries and links to contributions will be posted each day.

Questions, offers of collaboration welcome.

Moodling Online Learning
Title Moodling Online Learning

Facilitator Craig Hansen

Time 8pm

Description

I will be interviewing Bill Pugh, Director of BISAM (www.bisam.co.nz).

Bill provides advice and guidance to us at the New Zealand Support & Education Trust about making the best choices with ICT. We are developing online learning opportunities for people working in OSCAR childcare programmes in New Zealand. Moodle is our platform, and Drupal is the front end.

The ability to use both Open Source packages has significantly reduced our costs, opened new opportunities for making learning meaningful, and provided a plethora of communication and collaboration tools.

I'll be doing the interview 1-1, after receiving questions from interested parties.

The recording of the interview will be online and advertised on my Blog http://craighansensblog.blogspot.com/

Managing Multimembership in Social Networks
Title: SCoPE seminar discussion: Managing Multimembership in Social Networks: Oct 27-Nov 9, 2008

Facilitators: Bronwyn Stuckey, Jeffrey Keefer, Sue Wolff, Sylvia Currie

Description: How do you track and keep up with blog conversations? How do you manage your time as you engage in social networks? What are our limits as we integrate social learning into our work environments? When you do find yourself becoming disconnected from your networks and organized activities, how do you return to the fray? As facilitators how do you manage multimembership for your participants?

Many of us confess to fumbling along and we engage in multiple networks. Yet, many networks are essential for the projects, sectors and people that we work with, and for staying abreast of hot issues. Multi-membership and multi-platform overload is becoming a BIG challenge!

During this 2-week discussion we invite you to share tips for managing participation in social networks. This seminar is organized as part of the Facilitating Online Communities course mini-conference. There are many ways to participate! Take our survey, leave a Voice Thread, and join the asynchronous discussion.

Venue: SCoPE is an open, online community supported by BCcampus and hosted by Simon Fraser University. Membership is free and open to the public and our discussions are facilitated by volunteers. Access the seminar discussion directly.

Planning for the event: A record of our planning steps is on a subsequent wiki page: /multimembership

The Role of an Online Facilitator
Date: 7pm on Wednesday 5th November UTC (8am on Thursday 6th NovemberNZ DST) Check the time in your zone.

Duration: approximately 1 hour

Facilitator: Vida Thompson

Venue: Skype (contact skype user: vidathompson in advance to join this session)

Description I recorded an interview with a Community Facilitator here in Alexandra, Central Otago, New Zealand. For the mini conference I would like participants to listen to the inteview and then discuss their perception of the role of an online facilitator and how that compares to the role of a face to-face community facilitator. This discussion will be held on skype on Wednesday 5th November at 7pm UTC. (Contact skype user: vidathompson in advance to join this session).

All interested people are welcome to attend. It would be good if participants could listen to the interview before the event. '''Note: The interview does take a while to start as I edited the beginning out.

Please contact Vida Thompson in skype prior to the event so you can be included in the event when it starts (contact skype user: vidathompson or by e-mail address:vidat@tekotago.ac.nz) There is a limit of 9 participants who can talk but no limit to the chat contributions. /The Role of a Facilitator Chat Log/

Interview About Second Life in Second Life
Title: About Second Life

Date: Wednesday 05 Nov UTC at 9.00pm (Thursday 06 Nov 10.00 am New Zealand Time)

Duration: 30 Minutes

Facilitator: Grant Comber (aka Avatar: Clinty Inglewood)

Venue: Explorer Island in Second Life

How to get there? Click on this SLurl Link and then click on the Teleport Now button to zoom to Explorer Island. The Second Life Grid coordinates for the Venue are 195,208,22 (PG) Your Host Clinty Inglewood will meet you. Reminder: Min computer specs - RAM: 500mb (preferably 1 Gig) Chip speed: 800 MHz Pentium III or better, Screen 1024x768 pixels Internet Connection: Cable/DSL Microphone/headset needed for Chatting

Description:An interview between newbie Grant Comber (Clinty Inglewood) and seasoned Second Life user Harold Atkinson (Hat Carter). General questions on the use of Second Life and sharing of unique experiences. Opportunity for all avatars in FOC to gain some insight into using Second Life especially those who are newbies like Grant!

So if you want to philosophize, go didactic on us or just talk some technical turkey issues please pop in for this casual interview.

My thanks to our guest Harold Atkinson who is a fellow teaching colleague of mine with much Second Life experience. See you there! Signing Off: Clinty Inglewood

Stigmergic Collaboration: The Evolution of Group Work
Facilitated by: Daryl Cook with guest Dr. Mark Elliott.

Mark completed a PhD in 2007 that developed theoretical frameworks for collective activity and mass collaboration in conjunction with a number of real-world projects and now runs a consultancy that provides services surrounding online collaboration and social media / web2.0. In our meeting, Mark will assist us to explore:


 * Stigmergic collaboration as a means of explaining how co-ordination is achieved in ad hoc, massively scaled collaborative contexts (i.e. Wikis)
 * How we can, as facilitators, use Wikis to collaborate, share and learn
 * His experiences from the Future Melbourne project — the world's first, wiki-based, collaborative city plan.

The one hour session, will include a very brief presentation, but will mostly be informal and conversational. Definitely no Powerpoint.

Please join us!

DATE: Thursday 6th November 2008 at 7PM EST or check the time in your time zone.

VENUE: Join this online event at the Elluminate Meeting Room

Beforehand, please ensure that you computer is ready to use the web conferencing software (Elluminate).

RSVP: [mailto:daryl.cook@gmail.com daryl.cook@gmail.com]

ENQUIRIES: For any enquiries and/or for any assistance with Elluminate, do not hesitate to contact me.

International Online Collaboration Group meets FOC08
Title /International Online Collaboration Group/ This is a FANTASTIC opportunity for the group to meet with teachers who are currently completing a subject called Facilitating Learning Online in Australia. Come and discuss your experiences. Topics will include: - Introductions (where are you from and what area are you teaching in) - Virtual Classrooms - Do you like this platform? Will you use it with your students? Why or Why not? Any tips on using these platforms. - Time Management - How does your Institute allocate time for online delivery? Is it the same as for face to face? - Marketing - how can you get students or participants to join in an online dicussion or virtual classroom session? PLUS you have a chance to try a different virtual classroom platform.
 * Date and Duration - UTC Thursday 6 November 10pm-11pm UTC (Friday 7 November 9am – 10am East Australia time)
 * Facilitators: Kerry Trabinger (CIT Australia) and Leigh
 * Description
 * Venue - VET VIRTUAL (a virtual classroom used in Australia VET Sector - www.vetvirtual.com) Instructions for access

(Think, Learn & Create) Using Mind Maps
Title: TLC Using Mind Maps (TLC - Think, Learn & Create) - Online Discussion, followed by Presentation, - Friday 7 Nov 2008 11.30 am - 12noon NZ DST (10.30 pm - 11 pm Thursday 6 Nov UTC)

Facilitators: Kay Lewis and Elaine Dittert

Description:
 * Have you had difficulty keeping up with the 'overload of information' during this course?
 * Got confused or lost by trying to view all the discussion threads?
 * Have you jotted down some thoughts and ideas you've read and heard but by the time you're ready to go over your notes they make no sense?

If this sounds like you, this 30 minute session may be just what you need. It is designed to give you some pointers to help you gather and organise large amounts of data and provide a clear overview, analyse your thoughts, identify problem solving ideas and generate more ideas with clarity, efficiency and accuracy.

We plan to have one special guest speaker:


 * Jennifer Goddard, BBus (Admin), Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Master Trainer in Buzan Advanced Learning Techniques, inspirational Director of the Buzan Centre in Australia and New Zealand and co-founder of Mindwerx International. OR
 * Jennie Vickers, Buzan Licensed Instructor (senior advanced coach), Masters of Management, Diploma in Business Administration (University of Auckland), BA Law (Honours). Jennie is also an Alumni of the Leadership NZ Programme.

Venue: From your feedback in the discussion here, we will use Elluminate Meeting Roomto host the presentation.

Recording of the event:

To view the Chat Recording: /Recordings/

To listen to the Audio recording :Elluminate audio recording

Storytelling
Title: Storytelling

Date: November 7, 2008 at 4PM EST or check the time in your time zone.

Duration: 60 minutes ?

Facilitators:
 * See list

Venue:


 * Join the event on WiZiQ
 * Join the event on Connecting Online.

Description:


 * Do you think of stories when you look at a photo, a video, or listen to music? Does the topic interest you as a tool for instruction and learning or are you just curious? In any case, for whatever reason you may have, you are invited to join this storytelling mini conference.


 * We will have a live storytelling event on WiZiQ or Elluminate. Please refer to the main page of Connecting Online for further discussions on the topic.

Further Information


 * Storytelling Mini Conference


 * Please add your name to the list and/or ask questions here.

Recoding of the Session
 * Video recording of the session via TipCam and BlipTV
 * Recording of the live online session on WiZiQ
 * Please add your comments here. --nelliemuller 10:07, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Midnight Heart2Heart Online
Title: Heart2Heart Online

Date: Tentatively Saturday, November 8, 2008     00:00 UTC Time

Duration: 90 minutes

Venue: TBA (Skype, Elluminate Meeting Room or WiZiQ)

Group Size: Maximum of 8 people

Facilitator: Greg Barcelon assisted by partner Ivy (guest)

A place where we can simply be ourselves… sharing ourselves at a deeper level without the fear of condemnation, unsolicited advice, interruption or being judged.

Traditionally we got this deep level of connectedness with our true selves, and assist others in doing the same, from our families. But, with many people experiencing difficulties in their family life today, we need communities that can become "Schola Amoris," a School of Love, in which all learn to first of all accept themselves as they are, and then in a greater way accept others unconditionally – the greatest yearning we collectively have.

More about it here.

Connecting Online in Developing Countries
Title: 8 Nov-7AM GMT - Connecting Online in Developing Countries

Date: 7AM GMT, Saturday November 8, 2008. Check your time here.

Duration: 60 min?

Facilitator: Joy Zhao & guest speakers Nalin Abesysekera, Minhaaj ur Rehman, and Nellie Muller Deutsch

Venue: WiZiQ

Description: We are connected online and forming various online communities. Do you know what problems people living in developing countries meet when they try to join in online communities and maintain the connection? What is the situation of online communities in developing countries? Our guest speakers are all very experienced and skilled in this topic. Come and share your thoughts and you will get more information than you expected.

Recording of the WiZiQ Session

What are Webheads? An introduction
Title: 9 Nov-11 am GMT - What are Webheads? An introduction

Date: 11 am GMT, Sunday November 9, 2008. Check your time here.

Duration: 60 min

Faciliatator:  Minhaaj ur Rehman

Venue: WiZiQ

Description: Webheads is probably the most vibrant and diverse community of ESL teachers. It has been a role model for communities of teachers for quite sometime now with respected members like Nellie Muller Deutsch, Vance Stevens (founder), Doris Molero and Cristina Costa. In this session Vance Stevens will talk about Webheads, their philosophy and contributions to ESL teaching. Minhaaj will be facilitating this open session.

Video Recording


 * Video recording of the interview conducted by Minhaaj Ur Rehman

Jimmy Wales at Roda Viva
Title: Jimmy Wales interview at Roda Viva

Date: 13:30 GMT, Monday November 10th, 2008 Click on the link to check your local time.

Duration: 60 min

Facilitators:  Barbara Dieu and Pedro Markun

Venue: Roda Viva live stream, Twitter and Twemes ]

Description: This is an “experiential participatory transmission” Brazilian TV Cultura is conducting: streaming the Roda Viva interview program raw and live footage on the Web before its polished taped version is shown on TV. The idea is to get online participants to interact with the program through the Radar Cultura Roda Viva page and Twitter while the interview is being carried on. In order to interact, write your comments/questions in Twitter using the #rodaviva hashtag. The interview we are facilitating online today will be with Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder. He has come to Brazil for a series of interviews and round tables, during which he will answer questions about the Wikimedia Brazil Chapter. TV Cultura will release the interview under a Creative Commons License