Leading and learning online




  Presented by Tessa Gray, Online facilitator, Blended e-Learning
  Programme, Core Education, Te ToiTupu
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtL51VME4Qo
How does this
speak to me?
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
Where do your interests and passions lie, current
focus at school?
How can you pursue/enhance your professional
                         interests/foci online?




How could you share your experiences/expertise
to enhance the learning of others online?
People can learn informally by


           Viewing
                        Listening
Reading

             Talking to each other
Inquiry
Online communities
Facilitate/extend new learning

            Encourage connections
Foster collaboration
                   Invite
           participation
Expand accessibility
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
Teaching and learning
Leadership challenge
Professional learning
Technologies
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.
How might we lead and learn in the VLN
              groups?
How might we:                                         Develop
                                                      practice
                                                      through
                                                      inquiry?
    Welcome,
    encourage
  and motivate?          Socialise and    Construct
                           culturally    knowledge?
                           connect?




            Exchange
          information?
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
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

Leading and learning online

  • 1.
    Leading and learningonline Presented by Tessa Gray, Online facilitator, Blended e-Learning Programme, Core Education, Te ToiTupu
  • 2.
    This session willclarify: 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
  • 3.
  • 4.
  • 5.
    Communities of practiceare 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 yourinterests and passions lie, current focus at school?
  • 7.
    How can youpursue/enhance your professional interests/foci online? How could you share your experiences/expertise to enhance the learning of others online?
  • 8.
    People can learninformally by Viewing Listening Reading Talking to each other Inquiry
  • 9.
    Online communities Facilitate/extend newlearning Encourage connections Foster collaboration Invite participation Expand accessibility
  • 10.
    What does thislook 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
  • 11.
  • 12.
  • 13.
  • 14.
  • 15.
    This takes timeand 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 welead 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 growingyour 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 growingyour/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)?