Leading and learning online
- 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
- 4. How does this speak to me?
- 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
- 9. Online communities Facilitate/extend new learning Encourage connections Foster collaboration Invite participation Expand accessibility
- 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
- 14. Technologies
- 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.
- 16. How might we lead and learn in the VLN groups?
- 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
Editor's Notes
- #4: 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?
- #11: 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!
- #19: 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)?