Online workshop at BGI.edu for faculty, on designing online class interactivity using the same-time/different-place collaboration tool Elluminate.

1. Designing
Elluminate Sessions
for Interactivity

2. Week 2: Designing Elluminate
Sessions for Interactivity
Opening Circle
Agenda
Some Logistics
Shared Doc
Agenda
Check In
Pre-Elluminate Assignments
Two Models (Time Space, Drexler-Sibbet)
Stretching Break
About Opening Circle, Check In, Pre-
Elluminate Assignments, Shared Notes
About Interactivity
Break Out

3. Some
Logistics

4. Default Layout This is the default layout

5. Wide Layout However, in most cases Wide Layout is better

6. It is very easy to switch back and forth, but this
Wide Layout one gives more room for participants and chat

7. Use each before session,
Audio Setup Wizard even if you’ve done it before

8. On Macintosh, hold down option-key and click
Select Sound Device volume menu to select input and output device

9. Shared Doc

10. Shared Google Doc
Open the class Shared
Shared Doc Doc
Ideally log in using your
@BGI.edu account
If you have not already,
add your name as a
Participant
Share the note-taking
effort by adding to the
Shared Notes

11. Open the Class Shared Document
We use Google Docs Use your @BGI.edu email account

12. All the documentation for this Elluminate session
Shared Doc is located in a shared Google Doc

13. Participants List Add your name to the list of participants

14. Share the note-taking effort
Shared Notes by adding to the Shared Notes

15. Shared Class Notes
Anyone who is very comfortable
with Google Docs want to take the
first lead in keeping notes?
But this doesn’t mean that others
should not share in the note-taking
load!
no free-riders! ;-)
The lead notetaker can (and should)
ask to switch to someone else every
20-30 minutes

16. Check In

17. Type a few words into the
GOOGLE DOCS
Check In SHARED NOTES a next to
your name:
a few words on how you
are feeling tonight
a few words about a topic
you are excited to learn
about this quarter
a few words on something
you learned this week
a few words about a
concern
If you comment on someone
else, use different colors

18. Pre-
Elluminate
Assignments
A Review

19. Readings
Required Readings
“Pay Attention”
“CSCW Matrix”
(aka Time-Place Model)
“Five Interactive Ways to Improve
Synchronous e-Learning Delivery”
“Ten Habits of Highly Effective
Elluminate Live® Moderators”
“Thirteen Best Practices for Live
Online Learning”

20. Assignments
Optional Readings
Read one optional reading
Summarize it

21. Time Space
Model of
Interactivity

22. Shared Language
Time Place Model
Same-Time/Same-Place, Same-Time/
Different-Place, Different-Time/
Different Place, Different-Time/Same
Place

23. Same Time Different Time
Same
Same Place Different Place
Place
Different
Same Time Different Place
Different Place Different Time
Same Different
Time
Time Place Model

24. Graffiti,
Same
Face-to-Face
Posting Board
Intensive
Place
Different
Elluminate, Moodle,
Chat, IM Email
Same Different
Time
Time Place Model

25. Drexler-
Sibbet Team
Performance
Model

26. Shared Language
Team Performance Model
Orientation, Trust Building, Goal
Clarification, Commitment,
Implementation, High Performance,
Renewal

27. Drexler/Sibbet
1. TM 7.
Orientation
WHY
Team Performance Renewal
WHY
am I here?
2.
model 6.
continue?
Trust
Hig h
Building
Performance
WHO
WOW!
are you?
3.
5.
Goal
Clari cation Implementation
WHAT WHO does WHAT,
are we doing?? WHEN, WHERE?
4.
Commitment
HOW
will we do it?
CREATING S USTAINING
Drexler/Sibbet
http://www.grove.com/site/ourwk_gm_tp.html
Team Performance Model

28. Drexler/Sibbet Resolved
Team Performance
Resolved TM Recognition &
P urpose celebration
1. C hange mastery 7.
T eam Identit y
model
Orientation Membershi p S taying power Renewal
Resolved
WHY S pontaneous interaction
WHY
am I here? Resolved S ynergy continue?
Mutual regard S urpassing results
Forthrightness
2.
Reliability 6. Unresolved
Unresolved Trust Resolved Resolved
Disorientation Hig h B oredom
Building E xplicit assumptions Clear processes B urnout
Uncertainty Clear, integrated Alignment Performance
F ear WHO goals Discipl ined WOW!
Unreso lved
are you? S hared vision execution
Unresolved
C aution 3. Overload
Mis trus t 5.
Goal Disharmony
F acade Resolv ed Implementation
Clari cation Assigned roles
Unreso lved WHO does WHAT,
Apathy WHAT Allocated
S kepticism are we doing?? resources WHEN, WHE R E? Unresolved
Irrelevant Decisio ns ma de C on ict/confus ion
competition Nonalignment
Unreso lved 4. Missed dealines
Dependence Commitment
Resistance
HOW
will we do it?
CREATING S USTAINING
Drexler/Sibbet
http://www.grove.com/site/ourwk_gm_tp.html
Team Performance Model

29. Goal Clarification
WHAT
The more concrete work of the
team begins with clarity about team 3.
goals, basic assumptions and vision. Goal
Terms and definitions come to the
fore. WHAT are the priorities? Clari cation
WHAT
are we doing??

30. Goal Clarification » Commitment
What keeps someone from moving
forward? 3.
Goal
Dependence Clari cation
Resistance WHAT
are we doing??
What is required to move to
Commitment? 4.
Commitment
Assigned roles HOW
Allocated resources will we do it?
Decisions made

31. Drexler/Sibbet
1. TM 7.
Orientation Team Performance Renewal
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Team Performance & http://www.educ.msu.edu/epfp/photos/mvu/website/
Time Place Model images/team_performance.gif

32. Breath Cycle of Learning
There is a natural “in & out” cycle in
team work
We have a similar “in & out” cycle in
how we teach
Intensives are the peak of our
inward, same-time, same-place
interactivity
Between intensives we breath
outward and use Elluminate (same-
time different-place) and The Channel
(same-time different-place)

33. Stretch
Stretch – 9:40-9:45 Photo credit: Glen Scott on Flickr using CC-BY-NC

34. About
Opening
Circle

35. In the time before the Elluminate Session
Opening Circle starts, do an opening circle icebreaker

36. Week 1 Write your name beneath a chair

37. Week 1 Write your name beneath a chair

38. Week 2 Put your picture beneath a chair

39. Week 3 Bring your own chair!

40. Week 4 Other ways to model a cirle

41. Week 5 Other ways to circle up

42. Circle
“Circle” models a physical world
behavior, reminding them of culture
and shared community
It is a pre-Elluminate exercise, causing
participants to be more on time and
more engaged at start of session
There are many more kinds of
icebreakers — take a look at book
“GameStorming” for others that can
be adapted to online.

43. About
Pre-
Elluminate
Assignments

44. The Syllabus & Agenda
Before each Elluminate I require a
selection of pre-readings, slidecasts,
videos, or short assignments
Ideally I should say something about
WHY each selection is important — For
instance, I add Keyquotes to readings

47. Cooperative Learning:
Students Working in Small
Groups
KEYQUOTE: “Collaborative group work
requires careful planning on the part of
the instructor, and is not without its
difficulties for students. But the benefits
can be substantial, including increased
participation by students in all
components of the course, better PDF: Stanford Center for Teaching &
understanding and retention of material, Learning (Winter 2009). Speaking of
mastery of skills essential to success in Teaching - Stanford University
the course or in a career, and increased (Retrieved from http://
enthusiasm for self-directed learning— www.stanford.edu/dept/CTL/
the kind of enthusiasm that can spur Newsletter/cooperative.pdf )
students on to independent research or
honors projects.”

48. Pre-Elluminate Readings
Should be about ~1 hour, something
that students can do easily
I also ask participants to post some
first thoughts
During the session I will randomly
ask a participant to summarize their
thoughts on one of the advance
readings
I will also quote useful first thoughts
You can also offer optional material
for advanced students

49. More Context Needed
“In person facilitation is something I'm interested
in, but I hadn't given any thought to online
facilitation. The post outlining ways to get involved
in online facilitation was interesting.
More context might help me understand this topic.
What are some examples of online facilitation in Bria
personal and professional settings? It might just be Schlottman
that it's late and end of quarter, but my mind keeps
going back to facilitating team meetings on skype,
which seems different than what was discussed in
the videos.”

50. Pre-Elluminate Readings
For some topics there are too many
advance readings
I will sometimes ask for a post about
the optional readings in a forum
Better, I ask participants to each
choose one and prepare a single slide
I ask the participants to be ready to
guide the discussion when their slide
comes up

51. What is Whuffie?
Whuffie is:
The currency of social capital!
The five principles of whuffie are:
1. Stop talking & start listening.
2. Become a part of the community
you serve.
3. Create amazing customer
experiences.
4. Embrace the chaos.
5. Find your higher purpose.

52. About
Check In

53. Check In
“Check In” allows the participants in
the session to feel listened to and
appreciated
We ask typically an provocative or
inspiring question
There isn’t enough time to do this in
Elluminate so we use Google Docs
You can do this in less then 5 minutes
as everyone simultaneously edits
We have had many as 75 edit the
Check In at the same time.

54. Type a few words into the
GOOGLE DOCS
Check In SHARED NOTES a next to
your name:
a few words on how you
are feeling tonight
a few words about a topic
you are excited to learn
about this quarter
a few words on something
you learned this week
a few words about a
concern
If you comment on someone
else, use different colors

56. Acknowledge key check in thoughts
Celebrate and positive behaviors

57. About
Shared
Notes

58. Shared Notes
We also use the Google Docs for
Shared Notes
It can be useful to ask someone to be
focused on Share Notes, but best to
encourage all to participate
If someone is focused, swap them
with someone else after 20-30
minutes
People who miss meeting can add to
Shared Notes while watching
recording

60. About
Breakouts

61. Breakouts
Elluminate has the ability to “break
out” into separate rooms, useful for
many smaller team discussions and
exercises
Breakout rooms can still participate
globally by using the Share Notes for
communication between rooms

62. Shared Notes between Encourage communication and modeling
Breakout Rooms of good behaviors in breakout rooms

63. About
Interactivity

64. Interactivity
Ideally every 6-7 minutes
A variety of techniques
Post-It exercise

65. List in the Elluminate G
Shared Notes a few
Post-It – Groups your online groups, in
particular groups in some
way associated with the
goals and mission of BGI
or you have a leadership
role in?
(one per line)
the group name
the number of people
your role in each group
Photo credit: iStockPhoto

66. Write in the Elluminate
G Shared Notes for
Post-It – Form each of your online
groups, the form of the
group:
ME serves the individuals
WE serves the group
or NETWORK
Photo credit: iStockPhoto

67. Write in the Elluminate
Post-It – G Shared Notes for
Inequality each of your online
groups, the nature of the
Participation Inequality of
the group:
9-1
90-9-1
900-90-9
Photo credit: iStockPhoto

68. Write in the Elluminate
G Shared Notes for
Post-It – Roles each of your online
groups, what you would
now call your leadership
role in the online group?
Photo credit: iStockPhoto

69. Write in the Elluminate
Post-It – Size G Shared Notes for
Problems each of your online
groups, list any group size
problems.

71. Interactivity
Ideally every 6-7 minutes
A variety of techniques
Post-It exercise
Many more techniques and exercises
are available
Book: “75 e-Learning Activities” by Ryan
Watkins
Book: “The Online Learning Idea Book”
Book & Blog: “Game Storming”
Website: “Innovation Games”

72. In break out, come up with
an Elluminate activity that
Break Out mirrors something you
teach Face to Face
teaching.
Document in the Shared
Notes as you go, note any
problems.
Photo credit: iStockPhoto

73. In break out, come up with
an Elluminate activity that
Discussion mirrors something you
teach Face to Face
teaching.
Document in the Shared
Notes as you go, note any
problems or questions.
Photo credit: iStockPhoto

74. Questions?
Feedback?
Christopher.Allen@BGI.edu