I’ve just welcomed the 71st member to the new Ning community for ELESIG. It’s great to see so many e-learning researchers and practitioners who have an interest in the learner experience. The take up for the community and for the inaugural workshop – was it only last week? – has
As an article in the Guardian today points out, travelling among different cultures can be a minefield of misunderstandings and possibilities to cause offence http://www.guardian.co.uk/../culturaltrips “Flowers may seem like the perfect gift to delight your gracious hostess with, but beware, in many countries particular varieties, colours and even numbers have
This is the second Knowledgeboard book, written by community members from their own experiences, and at first glance is extensive and informative. http://www.edmitchell.co.uk/blog/?p=71
I was preparing a “checklist” for e-moderators of online communities and thought I’d post some of the more important and skilled tasks that e-moderators need to do and to evaluate themselves on. So often we hear managers who believe that anyone can run a community – they think: “how difficult
I’ve just found out that my local Freecycle group has changed affiliation. They are now part of Realcycle. The local group has left the Freecycle network for a variety of reasons indicative of a breakdown of community. I can see Freecycle’s point of view – they want to “upgrade” the
Useful resources, especially for beginners Otis Online Tutoring e-Book NCSL’s e-learning facilitation toolkit and 70,000 heads are better than one
A community of practice defines itself along three dimensions:– What it is about – its joint enterprise as understood and continually renegotiated by its members– How it functions – mutual engagement that bind members together into a social entity– What capability it has produced – the shared repertoire of communal
In conversations I’ve had recently about public online communities and social networking sites, the point has been made that if a community is moderated (particularly pre-moderated, that is before publication) then it is closer to a “publishing model” and the owners of the community can be seen as responsible for
In my e-moderating courses recently we have been discussing whether or not ground rules are necessary to manage student expectations. I’m a great believer in groundrules: I think people like to know where they stand, and if expectations are made clear at the beginning, then it is easier to manage
Community is not the same as commonality People at a bus stop are not a community. people who go online are not a community. “A community is a group of people who form relationships over time by interacting regularly around shared experiences, which are of interest to all of them