Clark contends that “leaders are needed to define the environment, keep it safe, give it purpose, identity and keep it growing”. He gives a set of mantras for teacher/leaders in any online community:
- all you need is love
- control the environment, not the group
- lead by example
- let lurkers lurk
- short leading questions get conversations going
- be personally congratulatory and inquisitive
- route information in all directions
- care about the people in the community; this cannot be faked
- understand consensus and how to build it, and sense when it's been built and just not recognised, and when you have to make a decision despite all the talking.
He cites confirmation that “personal narrative is vital to online learning communities. Personal stories and experiences add closeness, and provide identity, thus strengthening online communities.”
- William Klemm has a more pragmatic approach[9, 10] to student participation, one that tends to coerce the engagement of post-secondary students in online collaborative learning. A minimum level of online participation as well as a deliverable piece of work relevant to the community activity is a mandatory course requirement. Many universities adopt a similar approach in order to ensure minimum online engagement of each student in collaborative study.
her guidelines[14] for growing communities within a class of students:
- communicate frequently with the class
- make as much interaction public as possible
- create a space for non-classroom-related interaction
- understand the limitations and strengths of the technology you're using in terms of fostering interaction
- ask questions often, and interact with students in the forum you have devised for class interaction.
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WebTools4u2use » About This Wiki
- The purpose is to provide information about some of the new web-based tools (Web 2.0) and how they can be used and are being used by school library media specialists and their students and teachers.
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Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » When you need incompetence fast - Annotated
how NOT to be a good leader/administrator
- Leave training to chance.
- Put training in the hands of supervisors who are not trained instructors.
- Make training unnecessarily difficult.
- Make training irrelevant to the students’ purposes.
- Schedule performance for times when people are not at their sharpest.
- Select people for tasks they have intrinsic difficulties in performing.
- Do not provide response aids (e.g., magnification of difficult visual stimuli).
- Design the job so it has no future.
- Avoid arranging working conditions that employees would find pleasant.
- Give pep talks rather than incentives to promote performance in punishing situations.
Creating Incompetence (individual level)
Knowledge
Capacity
Motives
A professional development course for community college educators.
possible tool for elearning - share an image, everyone in room can see image, can comment on image - what about digital photography?
Learnlets » Like riding a bike… - Annotated
elements of great learning experiences right tools, motivation, support, and environment - good story
- The lesson was that with the right tools, motivation, support, and environment, learning is magic. Are you making your learning experiences like that?
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - Annotated
Eye-tracking software was used to determine on several web pages the pattern people view the pages. Consistently it is in a F-Shaped pattern. Do students do the same with web content?
- Users won't read your text thoroughly in a word-by-word manner. Exhaustive reading is rare, especially when prospective customers are conducting their initial research to compile a shortlist of vendors. Yes, some people will read more, but most won't.
- The first two paragraphs must state the most important information. There's some hope that users will actually read this material, though they'll probably read more of the first paragraph than the second.
- Start subheads, paragraphs, and bullet points with information-carrying words that users will notice when scanning down the left side of your content in the final stem of their F-behavior. They'll read the third word on a line much less often than the first two words.
Implications of the F Pattern
The F pattern's implications for Web design are clear and show the importance of following the guidelines for writing for the Web instead of repurposing print content:- Users won't read your text thoroughly in a word-by-word manner. Exhaustive reading is rare, especially when prospective customers are conducting their initial research to compile a shortlist of vendors. Yes, some people will read more, but most won't.
- The biggest determinant for content usability is how users read online - and because people read differently, you have to write differently.
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