Nurturing Community/Schedule

In formal taught courses: nurturing community
A hugely challenging task task: finding and nurturing community in course members.
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Following is a sample schedule for the 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

One week on, one week off. Ten Weeks. TOPICS	Conversations THEMES	Application & practice ACTIVITIES	Playing with your online learning environment and the web. SANDBOX
Weeks
0. Onramp Getting Online	Introductions	Socialising of goals, expectations and timeline
1. Learning Theory	Learning Stories: Conversations and Reflection. Learning Styles: do they exist? 2. Learning theory" the absolute minimum you need. Scaffolding. Advance organising. Metacommunication. Community: what is it?	Learning style inventory Find and post a quote POSSIBLY: Who’s connected?	Choose a caption Just three words View a YouTube or TeacherTube video
2. Community or not? Facilitator roles	Learning communities: What makes one? Case Study? Facilitator Roles. Tools for Online: affordances. (Twitter) Conversations as vehicles of learning. Interaction patterns.	Read a blog. Public/private reflection Visit a wikispaces wiki	Add a link Add an image
3. Community design. The darkside of Community	Elements in a successful community: engagement and identity. Community design: ecological models. Web 2.0 Tools: Blogs	Visit a community? Blog vs discussion POSSIBLY: Find a blog and write a comment	Embed a YouTube video Join skype Try out skype
4. From course outline to implementation. Tips and Tricks	Educational Design. Getting it all together: Community needs a place. OnRamp: Gilly Salmon Web 2.0 Tools: wikis FAB/PMI	Design an activity: wikis, blogs, YouTube.	Change a page in a wikispaces wiki
Analysis and Evaluation of experience. Assessment	Reflections and Wrapup. Forums vs Blogs Teaching/learning statement of practice	Course Design: Features. Advantages and Benefits
Offramp		Party.