1. Building a social environment online
Four main areas
• encouraging sense of community
• socialising into the community
• tasks and tools for the social environment
• role of the e-tutor
2. Basic principles
This Google Docs Community video illustrates some of the
basic principles of online community
Click image to view video.
4. Sense of community
Social presence has a positive
influence on learning
(Garrison et al., 1999)
supporting sociability
reducing anonymity
sense of belonging
netiqutte
building group dynamic
(Preece, 2001; Hockly, 2004)
5. The online social environment
Learning is a social process
(Vygotsky, 1978)
online identity
familiarising
bonding
connectedness
interaction
trust
(Rovai, 2002; Salmon, 2000 ; Lave&Wenger, 1991)
6. Designing tasks
5 principles of collaborative learning
• positive interdependence - all must succeed
• individual accountability - everyone makes active contribution
• interaction - interact meaningfully / exchange information
• social skills - leadership /conflict resolution / communication
skills (ensures effective functioning)
• team reflection - reflect whether team is functioning & make
action plan
(Kagan1985;Johnson & Johnson 1987; Slavin 1990)
7. Socialising tasks
• online jigsaw - post piece of info / every member posts reaction to
all others / each member collates & presents to group
• online project - assign roles / divide up work / provide resources
online / timeline
• "Hollywood Stars"- post name of film actor and/or character /
others guess why person relates to them
• "What do You Do ?” - post three hyperlinks with clues about
profession or interests / others ask questions to guess
14. Tools...
• blog: personal online journal - often updated daily
• glog (graphical blogs): blogs that include audio and
video
• wiki : collaborative information website that includes
work from many different authors
• podcasts: collection of digital media files distributed
online
• video sharing websites: users upload, view and
share video
• social bookmarking: web based collaborative
repository of internet bookmarks
• voxopop: share audio recordings of
introductions with other participants
• glogster : digital poster sharing
15.
Chats
synchronous communication
online
• text chat
• audio or voice chat
• public chat
•private chat
(Dudeney & Hockly)
(How to teach English with
technology, 2009)
17. Role of the e-tutor
• participant induction
• guidance for online behaviour
• encouraging bonding- similar interest groups
• set up socialising area
• socialising & collaborative e-tivities
• encourage networking
• enhance social presence
• bridge social, cultural,
& learning environments
(Salmon, 2000; Rovai, 2002)
Notas do Editor
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Here are just 4 examples of socialising tasks for the beginning stage of an online course.\n
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E-tutor\nadapted from Gilly Salmon (2000)\nE-moderating: the key to teaching and learning online\n \nHer seminal work on e-moderating in which she developed a 5 step model for e-moderators.\n \nSocialising is stage 2 in Salmon's model.\n
