1. Leading and learning online
Presented by Tessa Gray, Online facilitator, Blended e-Learning
Programme, Core Education, Te ToiTupu
2. This session will clarify:
How can I
help
others?
Why people How can I
come extend my
together learning
online? online?
How online
communities
can facilitate
new learning?
Purpose of the
Enabling e-
Learning
community
groups
5. Communities of practice are groups of people
who share a concern or a passion for
something they do and learn how to do it
better as they interact regularly.
Etienne Wenger
6. Where do your interests and passions lie, current
focus at school?
7. How can you pursue/enhance your professional
interests/foci online?
How could you share your experiences/expertise
to enhance the learning of others online?
8. People can learn informally by
Viewing
Listening
Reading
Talking to each other
Inquiry
10. What does this look like already?
A shared repertoire of resources, experiences, stories, tools, ways of addressing common issues
• Messaging
Leadership
• Blogging
Technologies
• Bookmarking
Teaching
• File sharing
Professional
Learning • Forums
• Live events
15. This takes time and sustained interaction – plane analogy from Etienne Wenger, “A good
conversation with a stranger on an airplane may give you all sorts of interesting insights,
but it does not in itself make for a community of practice”
Don’t underestimate the lurkers.
17. How might we: Develop
practice
through
inquiry?
Welcome,
encourage
and motivate? Socialise and Construct
culturally knowledge?
connect?
Exchange
information?
18. Tips for growing your PLN
• Sustain and maintain your
personalisedportal
• Find mutual friends, join and make
specialisedgroups your favourites
• Keep up-to-date and informed
through RSS feeds, email
notifications, bookmarkingfavourites
19. Tips for growing your/our community
• Understand the purpose for connecting and sharing, model this by
initiating conversations in your communities
• Take people on a walking tour in the VLN
• Send personal messages, shoulder tap
and mentor others online
• Provide regular postings - questions
rather than statements work best in own or EE groups
• Encourage sharing of links, resources, ideas, experiences etc
• Demonstrate good practice, share stories
Notas do Editor
Play this as an introduction via web tour safeshareyoutube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtL51VME4QoKM – Love it!...what’s the key learning here?
An e-learning portal – purpose of Enabling e-Learning: to raise student achievement through the effective use of e-learning tools and processesKM – love it!
Take-a-ways…All very good – I wonder if we need to tailor them to a schools’ context i.e. how would an individual use it with their colleagues? Maybe separate the slide into two…ideas for them on their own with their PLN – and ideas for use with colleagues (blended)?