Making the Transition/Schedule

Making the Transition: from teaching to online facilitation
A modest task: some minimum experience, understanding and knowledge to be online as a tutor, lecturer, teacher.
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Following is a sample schedule for a workshop. We have encouraged people to print this off, and stick it to their wall, enter the dates into their PDA/Calendar or whatever. Anybody wanting to run this workshop will need to carefully consider the structure for their own particular situation. Our schedule is reasonably simple – columns for conversational themes, activities and sandbox challenges.

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Copy of a possible schedule

TOPICS One week on, one week off. Ten Weeks.	Conversations THEMES	Application & practice ACTIVITIES	Playing with your online learning environment and the web. SANDBOX
Weeks
0. Onramp		Socialising of goals, expectations and timeline Getting online	Links Find: cut and paste
1. Learning theory Facilitation Interaction patterns	Learning Stories: Describe any online experience where you were involved, as a participant or leader. What was set up? What did you do? What did you learn? What does a facilitator actually DO? Learning theory: the absolute minimum you need. Have a read. Comments? Nancy White’s article . Read and reflect.	Find a link, find a quote on Online facilitation	Choose a caption Just three words Images
ASIDE: If there is a focus specifically on Web 2.0	Blog theme: After you have done the activity, and read a few of the blogs, list some of the features of blogs. What makes a blog a blog? Blogs vs forums	What is web 2.0? For now, concentrate on blogs, wikis, tags (Delicious) and RSS (Bloglines) Find a blog, read it, post the URL with a brief description.
2. Design and structure of activities Facilitator roles	Conversations as vehicles of learning. Interaction patterns. Case studies of learning. Affordances.	Optional: Write a comment on a blog Field Trip I [choose from list] Set up a discussion. Responses in forums. Skype (VOIP)	Web 2.0 Blogs and Wikis Personal Learning Envionments (PLE) a) Blogwatch http://bloglines.com b) Wikis
3. Processes Being online	Interaction design: ecological models. Memories of Online: features, advantages and benefits. Managing online identity. Open and closed. Public and private.	Field Trip II: Choose from list. Do something collaborative: Ning. Facilitate a discussion.	Web 2.0 Tags, Folksonomy and http://del.icio.us Shared tags Flickr
4. From course outline to implementation Tips and Tricks	Educational Design Design an activity Host an expert	Field Trip III: Choose from list Interview an expert	Web 2.0 Social software Facebook (or similar) Twitter Bloglines
Analysis and Evaluation of experience Assessment	Reflections. Teaching/learning statement of practice	Party.
Offramp