Collaborative Process to date

Hi am going to put a summary of our collaborative process to date here (also as a back up just in case we loose some information from live binder).

March

• Emails sent out to initiate group formation
  
• Heather sets up blog to encourage exchange of ideas.
• Paramaters for assignment outlined and research/resources exchanged.
  

April

• 15th April - 1st face-to-face session to expand on the brainstorming that took place on the blog and to determine the mode of presentation. (Heather, Nicolete and Christine)
• 30th April - 2nd face-to-face session to bring together elements for the group presenation. Determined that the model by Gilly Salmon was appropriate for our e-learning community (Heather and Christine)
• Emails between group members to divide focus areas for each of us.
• Live-binder set up to draw together our work so that we can use this to present with on the 14th May.

May

• Further emails between group members to clarify points and finalise assignment/presentation.
  

Meeting #2 - Face 2 Face Minutes

E-Learning

Saturday 30^th April, 2011

@ 10:00am Eastgardens

Group members: Heather and Christine.

We need to add some notes to our previous ideas:

• The focus of our blog is on 'me' as the driver of learning. (We need to get some research to back this up - Nicollete can you do this?)
• The aim of our Me-learning community is to help people gain ICT skills particularly in the use of Web 2.0 tools. It is designed to be a platform that ICT integrators use to bring their teachers together to learn tools that are relevant to each user. The ICT integrator will be the moderator for that group. There will also be support for the moderator from the hosts of the site.
• The Me-learning community is designed to be used at a school level. That is, for each module, teachers from the same school work together through the module. This aims to solve problems of: timings as it is accessible at the users chosen times/differentiation/reduce training costs/building richer learning communities particularly as the communities can be developed from real face-to-face communities.
• There will be networking and discussion forums that will be open to all users of the site. This can encourage schools to work collaboratively on projects or modules too.
• Once a year there will be a Me 2 Conference. This can be delivered face-to-face or via a webinar.
• We need to build into the site a strong purpose as to why people are members. The key aim of the site is to acquire new skills through various modules. This helps keep people engaged and can help reduce the feelings of being isolated.
• Storyboarded ideas for the e-learning community. Heather to scan and upload to here.

For the group presentation - we are still going to drive everything through our blog and live-binder.

We have split up the topics so that each of us can polish a section of the presentation and submit this on the live binder (a folder has been set up for you). If you cannot access this for some reason please EMAIL all of us with the information and Heather will upload it to the live binder. We are aiming to do this to the standard required for the group task which is due on Friday 27th May.

To be ready for our group presentation on Sat 14 May:
Christine to do

• A brief outline of the key features of the e-learning community (integrate the model we are using) - 30/4/11 - done and uploaded into both livebinder (as a pdf) and blogger.com.
  
• A justification for considering the proposed e-learing community as a collective learning opportunity
• Summarise the collaborative prcess we have used. 30/4/11 - done but needs to be updated as the process continues.
  
• Type up minutes and upload to blog 30/4/11 - done.
  
• Email everyone what they are doing. 30/4/11 - done.

Heather to do

• A storyboard or diagram that represents the e-Learning community design, 1/5/11 I have uploaded a draft storyboard idea into our Live Binder. If you guys have a chance, can you please give me feedback. At this stage, I do not have the descriptive text as I will do that once eveyone is ok with what it looks like. The buttons at the top are hyperlinked and are working, as is the module button for Blogs. accompanied by a descriptive text, which includes sufficient detail that the structure and functions are clearly apparent.
• Change the heading on live-binder between Christine and myself, this has now been done. (see notes from meeting)
• Keep blog current

Nicolete to do

• Get well soon
• Educational rationale for the design elements, informed by our experiences in communities and readings in the subject. Note: the model we are using has been posted to the blog - click here to go to it
• Please upload to blog and or Live Binder so that all resources are at all of our fingertips.

Christopher to do

• A summary/synthesis of 6 readings/research in this subject on learning in technology-mediated communities. Please link these readings to how they are useful for us in developing our own me-learning community.
• If you are unable to upload to the blog and or Live Binder, please send to Heather for uploading.

Can we aim to have all of this done by Wednesday 11th May by 6pm. This will give Heather and Christine time to ensure the live-binder is all ready to go for our presentations.

2nd f2f Meeting

Second f2f meeting @ Cicco coffee shop - top level Broadway shopping centre 10:30am Sat 30 Apr

To do:

I will post things for us to do on here a bit later.

Thanks for a productive meeting!!! :)

I have added a page called LiveBinder. When you get a chance, can you register with livebinder.com so I can add you to the group LiveBinder I started, that way you will be able to add to it. Let me know if you have any problems. H

Hi Heather- I'm trying with all my might to edit the live binder to no avail. I've got a training manual from livebinder but I just don't think I've got the access??? I've put a hyperlink to the training manual hope it works. C

I looked at the binder and saw I could send you an email to let you know you have access (as mentioned previously you need to register with LiveBinders using your gmail account). Let me know if access is still a prob. H 18/4

Some Possible Resources for Models

e-Learning Some Examples: Integrating Teaching and Research

All Things in Moderation Running E-tivity Plenaries
[Christine] - this looks really good. I like the simplicity but also that there are a number of features in this model that are essential for an e-learning environment]

Deb's Place This is an interesting wiki that belongs to a teacher in Melbourne

Heather placed these here Tue 12 Apr - sorry my head is all over the place, thus the very different resources I have listed. Hopefully they will in some way be useful for one of our assignments ;)

[Christine placed this here] This is a link to a paper which discusses a demand-driven learning model (McDonald et al, 2001, p.5) . It may be useful for us to use this as the foundation for our learning community? There is also a really nice and simple Communication medium model on page 7 (figure 2) which I really like. Keeps it  a lot more tangible I think. 

Possible dates for 1st Face 2 Face

Can everyone please list suitable dates and times they are available to meet, that way we can settle on one that works for all. It would be great if possible, if we can meet sometime next week (week starting 12 April).

As I have not created a group blog before, I am not sure at this stage if you are able to select the edit (pencil) to add your name and times directly to this post. That would be the easiest visually, but if it will not allow you to do that, then post your response as a comment.

Thanks!

Heather: Available any day next week, except for Tuesday.
Christine: Available Friday next week.
Nicoleta: Available Friday - UTS library if pos.

First f2f meeting @ coffee shop - top level Broadway shopping centre 10:30am Fri 15 Apr

Welcome

This blog documents the planning, resources and outcomes for Assessment 2 in e-Learning Experiences 1.

Team members are: Chris, Christine, Heather & Nicoleta


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