While I was attending a local college in the early 1970s in rural Alabama my brother-in-law came through the house one day and saw me reading a book. He asked...
Hi, These days after my visit to Oxfam counterpart in Oxford, i have seen that participation in MySpace, Second Life, facebooks and others, is substituting...
Hello Mar Ruiz :-) Sounds to me like what you describe is more a social network than a community. It’s not that I am picky about definitions, but definitions...
ok so what you mena is having a space in Myspace is networking and having a participation space at your site is community building, but does the first help...
Mar Ruiz, I don't think things are this cut and clear. However, as an approximation, it could be true. What I meant was that wherever there are spaces for a...
yes, but then if actions in myspace could also be considered as community building, then is this a good strategy to foster community at my space or it would be...
Mar Ruiz, According to my experience having no common space and doing myspace or facebook contacting is NOT good for community buiding, UNLESS the community ...
Hi all, Good question Mar, excellent points Rosanna, and Zbigniew for that very handy visualisation of the increasingly distributed nature of communities. Here...
Hi Ed, all, re your question, I think the community will dilute as members are encouraged to work on their own. A central resource acts as a focus for shared...
Hi all - I'm doing my workshop again. Just FYI, half of the scholarships are all filled. As always, past online facilitation workshop alumni are welcomed to...
Hi Mar, have a look at this, if you don't already know it: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=109701792 As Rosanna says,...
Mar, I think your visit to Oxfam (and your postings here) raise some interesting questions. (Notice the mix of venues for learning -- your community members...
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Hi Miguel, all, I have put my responses in Miguel's text - I hope this is acceptable behaviour on this list :) ... Absolutely. What we are seeing is that the...
As facilitators of online learning, I am hoping my question is relevant to this forum. The members of my small training department (1 manager, 1 admin and two...
Amanda: You seem to be asking mainly for a development tool - for this I would suggest Raptivity - www.raptivity.com. Conference for professionals in...
I've been around various flavors of eLearning for around 8-10 years. I have no idea how many users you need to support (whatever you think it is now, plan for...
Hi. I apologize for the cross posting but I am trying to cast a wide net in search of some factual information. I wonder if anyone knows of research that...
Hello online facilitator colleagues, I've been wondering a lot lately about issues like quality and effectiveness of online professional development. I'm...
Good morning, afternoon, or evening, all! I haven't yet heard from anyone on this question (below), or one that I posted a few weeks ago (which I've pretty...
Jackie, So I can't talk specifically about online facilitation but I can talk about learning measures & online communities. And hopefully my remarks will be...
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Tom, this looks really interesting. If you or anyone else from the group is going, it would be great to get a report afterwards!! N ... Nancy White - Full...
I'd really like to hear about some specific examples where technology supports ethical and moral skills? ~ Jon ... -- Jon Lebkowsky jonl@... * Partner,...
Greetings Online Facilitators: InSync Training is offering a 25% discount on its 'summer' offerings of the Synchronous Facilitation and Synchronous Design...
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