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    1. Strategies that Promote Collaboration Online Jo Gibson Authentic Encounters Online Ltd
    2. Strategies that Promote Collaboration Online
      • A case study insight involving:
      • 10 years within online environments
      • Interaction with 23 countries - mainly with NZers
      • Individuals, classrooms and GATE students
      • Students aged 7-15 years: age irrelevant vs strategies
      • Technical, design and management strategies
    3. What is a collaborative online environment?
      • It’s the result of a paradigm shift
      • It’s a learner-centred paradigm not instructor-led
      • It’s where there are time & distance boundaries
      • It’s where the learning theory is constructivist
    4. Spotlights Eg: Pauline McLeod ICTPD Facilitator, Cambridge Currently in Turkey, beaming back to 80+ students Learn-Now: an online learning centre for extension & enrichment. The reference base for examples given alongside strategies presented.
    5. Strategy #1
      • Develop a leadership/planning team - varies in style, eg:
      • Guest: Pauline & Learn-Now staff
      • 12 year old: WW2, Henry VIII & Elizabeth 1
      • Classroom teacher, a guest + 2 Learn-Now teachers
    6. Strategy #2
      • Develop a shared vision, objective & timeline
      • The framework & the big picture
      • Student interest, capturing the moment, curriculum
      • Eg: Pauline: to show several schools in her cluster, the tools available for learning online, using an inquiry focus
    7. Strategy #3
      • Sell the idea
      • Inviting participants on board - staff and students
      • Detailed presentation of intent absolutely crucial
      • Give a clear indication of support and opportunities
      Approximately 80 students are virtual tourists to Turkey - increasing by word of mouth
    8. Strategy #4
      • Create a colourful, image laden site
      • Technical elements help capture participants
      • Captivating titles - avoiding cluttered menus
      • Students click clear, easy to read links first
      • Pages & threads need images galore
      • Select images that foster collaborative interaction
    9. Strategy #5
      • User Orientation & Navigation
      • Administrators to set up the login
      • Personal emails share login details & link
      • Students find site and initial components
      • Project banners secure them to the ‘right site’
      • Introductory overviews orientate to hyperlinked next steps
      • Activity#1: introduce yourself in the members Lounge
      • Activity#2: understand mechanics in the orientation zone
    10. Strategy #6
      • Experiencing the tools
      • Assume no experience, unless otherwise known
      • Target commonly used components first: forums
      • How to start? Instruct / Read other messages. Insist
      • Use bold to highlight key elements
    11. Strategy #7a
      • Protocols & Skills: Live chat/workroom
      • Address first, as an actual live chat session
      • Chat: most in danger of abrupt & upset interactions
      • Target patience when waiting for responses
      • Response time = thinking, typing & editing time
      • Live chat = oral equivalent: spelling is irrelevant
      • Write in short bursts - send mid sentence
      • Accept several discussion threads at once
    12. Strategy #7b
      • Protocols & Skills: Forums
      • Address in the workroom - as a discussion
      • Reply to threads requiring intervention, re: ettiquette
      • Encourage resetting subject threads
      • Encourage basic composition rules - beginning, middle, end
      • Emphasise ending with a question to promote interaction
      • Emphasise revisiting 2-3x a week / checking short cut areas
    13. Strategy #8a
      • Develop a sense of community
      • A crucial strategy
      • Students: desire to talk & be social
      • Teachers: keep them well informed
      • Teachers: need to facilitate the learning
      • Students: desire being in charge of their learning
      • The learner-centred paradigm now very evident
    14. Strategy #8b
      • Developing that sense of community…
      • Community: an ambiguous buzzword
      • Discussion boards + chatrooms only?
      • Learning context:
      • Vehicle for connecting people
      • Connecting stories and experiences
      • Vehicle for mentoring, facilitation, tutoring, teaching
      • Result: extended & enriched learning & knowledge
    15. Spotlight
      • Community = A TEAM = successful collaboration
      • Invite participants to nominate a team leader
      • Expose skills, knowledge & interests
      • Teams do justice to collaboration: less so the go-solos
      • Integrate various communities/teams together
      • Integration: new audience, knowledge & viewpoints
    16. Strategy #9
      • Seed the collaboration
      • A must for the facilitator
      • A strategy that strengthens a learner-centred focus
      • Post some questions/challenges…then fade out
      • Resist temptation to respond to everything: overkill
      • Engineer further depth through other students
      • Reiterate that students ‘end with a question’
      • Email invitations to contribute…even just ‘thoughts’
    17. Strategy #10a
      • Give enough time: Timelines
      • Reality checks are crucial on eg: 10 weeks
      • 30mins/week x 10 weeks = 5 hours: a school day
      • Is a school day enough time to do a full project?
      • Involve students in assessing weekly time needed
      • Ownership = healthier perspectives on achievement
    18. Strategy #10b
      • Give enough time: Forums
      • Single thread: all done within 24-48 hours if full time
      • When collaborating with other classes: 2-3 weeks
      • Schools: have to often cater for shared computers
      • Home: cater for dial-up and family demands
      • Time zones: great application for 24hr time in Maths!
    19. Strategy #10c
      • Give enough time: Live Chat / Workroom
      • Patience: crucial skill
      • Multi-tasking: encourage during ‘wait time’
      • Allow 3 minutes before intervening incoming chat
      • Allow for : think time, typing, editing, mentoring time
      • 3 minutes+? Hello? Support usually needed…!
    20. Strategy #11
      • Give feedback
      • Risk overkill during the first 2-3 days
      • Give to all student threads / send emails to teachers
      • Verify, support and ‘seed’ further interaction
      • Suggest, recommend, challenge, query, redirect…
      • Avoid direct demands: less depth/replies received
    21. Strategy #12
      • Ensuring Return Visits: feature…
      • Edification of success evident
      • Seeded next-step action
      • Opportunities for assemblies
      • Mystery guest workroom sessions
      • Treasure Hunt challenges
      • Home page quick link navigation
      • Resistance to restructure site design
      • Ensuring Return Visits:
      • Email highlights
      • ‘ Coming Soon’ items
      • New blood: guests
      • Another audience
      • Learning logs/blogs
      • Feedback to teachers
      • Student leadership
    22. Good Luck!
      • The 12 Strategies Learn-Now? All evident within a 2 month collaborative programme
      • Ideal strategy: look ahead at the big picture
      • Problem solve all issues through
      • Don’t forget visual and kinesthetic learners
      • Ensure variation & feedback
      • Never be afraid to hand it over to students

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