This document provides an overview of a learning module on building a network culture. The module is aimed at experienced e-facilitators and consists of 4 units delivered over 4 weeks. The units focus on understanding the importance of networking, learning practical skills for using online social networks and communities, exploring Web 2.0 tools, and examining real-world network examples. Pedagogical approaches include readings, videos, tasks, forums, and developing an ICT toolkit. The module aims to help participants strengthen networking skills and apply their learning to their organizations.

1. Learning Module title:
Building a network culture
Position within the curriculum:
Stage 3 (mature) / Category 1 (management and organi-
zation)
Description of training units ((((of each moduleof each moduleof each moduleof each module):
Title of the
Learning Units
Duration Learnings aims/outcome Learning Contents
(What is taught)
Pedagogies and Educational
Methods (How)
Techniques, Instruments and Materials Learning Unit Actors
(Who)
Evaluation
Profile entrance of students:
Professional profile midium, minimum of 4
months being an e-facilitator
Knowledge:
Knowledge of the telecentre.
Knowledge in working with groups and in the
management and implementation of the cross
lines.
Skills:
Technology standard skills (office, multimedia)
Relationship skills in dealing with the groups in-
volved.
Competencies:
Standard telecenter management skills.
Skills in planning activities for key groups.
Skills in cross-project planning
Output Profile of students
Profile of a social network driver
Knowledge:
Knowledge of the importance of advancing to-
wards in developing a culture of networking in
social organizations and the key concepts in the
way of building a network.
Skills:
Acquire skills in the course of collaborative
work.
Management skills of essential technological
tools.
Competences:
Management skills of essential technological tools.
QA (Quality Assurance) :

2. Opening Module
Unit
Introducing
Module
1 week Acquire knowledge and abili-
ties in managing the learning
environment
Information about how to
the use of the platform.
We offer to the student the
opportunity to access to the
platform a few days before the
start of the module in order to
provide him/her relevant in-
formation about the course
and module in order to facili-
tate the further development
of learning units.
The first action we ask to stu-
dents is to introduce them-
selves to the group and read
messages from other students.
Modules presentation:
•Goals of the module.
•Contents of the module.
•Target of the module.
•Module structure and methodology
•Personal and technical requirements
•Tutorship of the Module
•Forums
•Module plan
Information about how to the use of the
platform.
•Short guide about the Use of Moodle plat-
form.
•Guide to retouch the photo of your profile.
•Bulletin board and news
• Forum presentation of the students and
tutors
Students and tutors
It isn’t an evaluation
unit.
It serves to connect
students to the training
process.

3. Unit 1:
Network spirit
5 hours of
manda-
tory mini-
mum
commit-
ment.
1 week
Acquire knowledge about the
significance of networking.
Assess positively the reasons
for incorporating the
networking to the task of the
telecenter.
Knowing a possible route to
build a network among
associations.
Learn about social
movements and their use of
networks.
Networking elements.
Reasons to incorporate a
culture of network in the
world of the social.
Charting the way in the
construction of associative
networks.
Linking social movements
and the Network
It is offered to the student an
individual task of reflection
and consciousness raising on
key aspects of networking.
Video "Three brothers"
Likewise, the student must
contribute with some news
related to networks into forum
of the course.
Reading and vídeo: “Los tres hermanos”
Introducing Forum where it is asked to the
student to answer why he/she think he/she
needs to do this course. It is also asked to
write some relevant information about the
organization where students work.
Reading: Diez Razones para trabajar en red.
URL: Web de Telecentre.org (english)
URL: Web de Telecentre.org (español)
Reading: El trabajo en red, tejer complici-
dades y fortalezas.
Reading: Etapas en el camino de construc-
ción de redes asociativas.
URL: Crac, Centro de recursos de Cádiz y la
Bahía
Task: Analysis of experience in networking.
Forum of news (for exclusive use of the
tutor).
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Extra Reading: El deseo de enredarse y el
peligro de liarse.
Extra Reading: Movimientos sociales, globa-
lización, educación popular y trabajo en red.
Students and tutors
Task 1: Analysis of
experience in network-
ing.
Task 2: Introduce
oneself into the
Introducing Forum.
Task 3: Participation in
the Forum News.
Task 4: Access to
materials and readings.
Self Evaluation Unit 1

4. Unit 2:
Weaving the net
5 hours of
manda-
tory mini-
mum
commit-
ment.
1 week
Acquire practical knowledge
and skills in the use,
management and use of a
social network
Know the online social
networks and communities.
Practice in building a
community with a social tool.
Knowing the importance of
the blog.
Make the community
“Building a network culture”
take contact with the
community technology
training in Grouply, created
especially for that module.
The module invite the
students to interact in a real
social network:
• Build their own profile.
• Participate in the spaces
offered: open forums,
discussion groups, etc..
• Use this space to share
ideas, experiences and issues
overexposed in the reading
"Tareas fundamentales que
hay que resolver en una red".
• Use the spaces of
participation to know what
are the communities of prac-
tice and collaborative
working groups on Internet.
The unit focuses on making
contact and enlarging the
acquisition of knowledge
about the use of social
networks based in Grouply.
Each student receives the
indication to entry. Part of the
activity is shifted from the
Moodle training to the
entertainment Social Network.
Reading: Tareas fundamentales que hay
que resolver en una red.
Task: Virtual Communities.
URL: Web Voluntariado.net
URL: Web IRC Hispano – Chat.
URL: Web Sindominio.net
Reading: Utilizar la comunidad virtual Grou-
ply.
URL: Wikipedia: Virtual Community
URL: Comunidad Virtual Redes Asociativas
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Extra-Video: ¿Qué es un blog?
Extra-URL: sedic.es
Extra-Reading: Taller de urbanidad y buenas
maneras en los blogs.
Students and tutors Task 1: To participate in
the entertainment
Social Network of the
module, edit a profile,
post into the blog,
participate into the fo-
rum.
Task 2: Access to the
content and readings.
Self Evaluation Unit 2

5. Unit 3
The potential 2.0
5 hours of
manda-
tory mini-
mum
commit-
ment.
1 week
Understand the meaning of
the concept web 2.0
Participate in the social
network of the training
module.
List, explain and see
examples of the main ICT
tools.
Reflect on the use of ICT
tools in the field of social
organizations.
Develop an "ICT Toolkit" for
networking.
Enumeration, explanation
and examples of the largest
and most useful ICT tools.
Use of ICT tools in the field of
so-cial organizations.
Development of a "kit of ICT
tools" to work in a network.
The unit aims to analyze useful
resources for networking and
building with them an
essential toolkit 2.0.
Tutor proposes to students
building their own toolkit 2.0
and discuss about the process
in the social network module.
The intensity of work is
distributed between e-learning
platform and social network
module.
Video: La Web 2.0, la revolución social de
Internet
URL: Concept web 2.0 Wikipedia
Reading: Herramientas y buenas prácticas
para las organizaciones no lucrativas en el
uso de las tecnologías de la información y la
comunicación.
Task: Tools and Resources.
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Extra-Reading: El poder de las redes. David
de Ugarte.
Extra-URL: Blog de David de Ugarte
Extra-URL: Sociedad de las Indias Electróni-
cas
Students and tutors Task 1: Identify which
tools and resources
from ICT (specially so-
cial web or 2.0) stu-
dents can use and de-
velop in their organiza-
tion to enlarge net-
working.
Task 2: Participate in
grouply network.
Self Evaluation Unit 3
Unit 4
Building Net-
works
5 hours of
manda-
tory mini-
mum
commit-
ment.
1 week
Know and analyze real-world
examples of different types
of social network.
Acquire skills in evaluation
and diagnosis of a social
network.
Network of Organizations:
How does a Social forum
work?
Conversation with Jordi Calvo
from the Catalonia’s Social
Forum.
Involvement into the
community of Associative
Networks.
Questionnaire to evaluate
the student’s organization’s
network.
The unit tries to specific the
experience of students by
establishing a dialogue with
two active social actors with a
forum of questions and
answers with each of them.
Each represents a different
type of social network.
It also seeks to bring the
lessons learned to the stu-
dent's daily practice, proposing
an analysis of social network
next to the student.
Video: “Homenaje a Cataluña II", an investi-
gation about networks.
URL: Foro Social Mundial.
Reading: Social forums, from Jordi Calvo.
Asking & answering Forum with Jordi Calvo
from the Catalonia’s Social Forum.
Task: Evaluation of the situation of our
network.
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Extra-URL: Link: Associative Networks Vir-
tual Community
Video: Web 2.0 and some fun.
Students and tutors
Representatives of
two social networks
Task 1: Diagnosis
questionnaire of a
social network.
Task 2: Participation in
asking & answering
Forum.
Self Evaluation Unit 4

6. Closing module
Unit
Forum and eval-
uation question-
naire
1 week
Become aware of the
achievements of the module
Evaluation Forum.
Evaluation Questionnaire.
Students will be proposed to
answer a questionnaire
evaluation of the module and
to participate in a dialogue-
forum evaluation.
Evaluation Forum.
Evaluation Questionnaire.
Final Exam.
Students Final Exam
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