E-moderating knowledge

Dancing fires

Gilly SalmonUSQ

17th November 2011Nova Copernicus Project 1

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5 stage model picture: inside the Forge

1. Access & Motivation

2. Culture Building

3. Co-operation

4. Collaboration

5. Development

5 stage model for productivelearning forums

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1. Access & Motivation

2. Culture Building

3. Co-operation

4. Collaboration

5. DevelopmentLink, Feedback, Search

Interact

Navigate, save time, personalise

Receive and Send

Access

5 stage model for productivelearning forums

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1. Access & Motivation

2. Culture Building

3. Co-operation

4. Collaboration

5. Development Guide

Facilitate

Lead

Host

Welcome

5 stage model for productive learning forums: the role of the e-moderator

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E-moderating: roles

Recruit

experience(environment)

Understanding

Train

enable

enable

Develop

deploy

sustain

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E-moderating: recruitment

Experience as an e-learnerGood regular (& mobile)

accessPace & use time, ability to

multitask, succinct, interruptablity

Determination & personal development

In Strict Confidence by computerartsde

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E-moderating: recruit & induct:understanding online as a social & learning environment

Build trust and purpose for groups

Appreciation of pedagogy, affordances & scaffolding

Create concise, energising messages & responses

Build learning from tiny chunks of contribution & resources

Switch rapidly from task to task

Build e-identity

Great Blue Heron by mikebaird

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E-moderating: training

Enable others, foster discussion, weave, summarize, restate, challenge, monitor understanding & misunderstanding, promote collaboration

Take & give feedbackEffective use of personal timePromote vicarious &

connected learningBirds flying in formation over Maghreb by kali.ma

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E-moderating: training

Enable groups, bring in non-participants, pace discussion

Understand scaffolding process

Scale upShow authority with

sensitivityEnhance social & emotional

aspects of learning online

Ready to RockJames Jordan

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E-moderating:development

Explore & develop arguments

Deploy sparks of information for discussion

Promote reflection & consideration

Create links with e-learning & make choices for programmes

Celebrate & use diversityBe positive about e-learning

Torched by talkingplant

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E-moderating:development

Deploy range of approachesDeploy range of technologiesCommunicate with technical

designersCommunicate without visual

cuesDiagnose & solve problems Use humour appropriately,Work with emotion, handle

conflict constructively Sustain a useful, relevant e-

learning community Bird Houses by See-Ming Lee

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• Weaving: pulling together selected contributions, looks forward, adds value

• Summarizing: looks back, inclusive, adds value

Braid, jenny downing

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How do you know you’re successful

as an e-moderators?

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15:44:3

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Carpe diem

“Never doubt the power of a small group of people to change the world.

Nothing else ever has.”Margaret Mead

“Be the change you want to see in the world”Mahatma Ghandi

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No budgets or humans were harmed in the making of this presentation

THANKS FOR TAKING PART“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers." Mignon McLaughlin

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All images from Flickr.com, Creative Commons Licensing.

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Art work by Rod Angood