Learning Design Plan for 3/25/04

Learning Design Plan for Unit 4

DESIGNING & DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

UNIT TIMEFRAME: 4/1 – 4/6/04

Face-to-face Meeting – 4/1/04, 9 AM – noon, Marina 5, San Diego Sheraton

Online Synchronous Session #4 – 4/1/04, 10 – 11:30 AM PST

Catch-up session – 6:30 – 8 PM PST

OUTCOMES/WORK PRODUCTS

By the conclusion of this unit (which began after the 3/25 synchronous session, and goes through 4/6 – just before the next synchronous session), we would expect that institutional teams would be able to:

Relate the development of themes and shared images of the preferred future (as is done during steps 3 and 4 of the Appreciative Inquiry process) to the definition of community purpose and domain (to begin to evaluate how your team might use Appreciative Inquiry).
Explore the elements that define communities of practice (audience, purpose, domain, activities, community activities and operations) as a framework for organizing and planning your institutional team projects.
Develop locally relevant stories and scenarios for use in institutional visioning about the use of a community of practice to support transformation of teaching and learning with technology.

PRE-MEETING PREPARATIONS

Homework Assignment, Part 1: meet in your institutional team, explore themes, find the patterns and arrive at consensus about the three most important themes, and then work together on creating a shared image of the preferred future to create an image collage. Have your team liaison post the top three themes that your separate team discussion came up with, with the image collage attached, in Discussion/Facilitating Innovative ID/Themes.

Homework Assignment, Part 2: as individuals, take a look at the posts in the Discussion/Facilitating Innovative ID/Themes and make additions, comments, responses as they occur to you. (note that each small group facilitator is responsible for reviewing transcript of small group breakout #1 during Synchronous Session 3, and summarizing the results in this Discussion area by 3/26/04, so you will have a mixture of postings from the small group breakouts, and postings reporting institutional teams’ results as well.

Homework Assignment, Part 3: as individuals, read through postings in Discussion/Communities of Practice/Culture of Evidence and Inquiry. Add your own commentary, questions, or suggestions as they occur to you. (Facilitators will have collected notes from Small Group breakout session #2, harvested results, and posted these by 3/26 in this Discussion).

Homework Assignment, Part 4: as institutional teams, at your team meeting this week, pick one of the reflection tools (or devise your own) and use it to guide a discussion about your community of practice project – addressing the implications of embedding a mindset of inquiry and evidence in the community, and developing a first draft statement of the community’s audience, domain, purpose/goals/outcomes and how these would be tied back to the community’s culture of inquiry and evidence. Have the team liaison post the results of your meeting in the Discussion/Communities of Practice/Culture of Evidence and Inquiry.

NOTE: We recognize that most teams did not complete Homework Assignment, Part 4, and will be working with meeting participants to help teams complete the assignment for next time.

DAY OF 4/1/04 – Face-to-face meeting and online synchronous session

Presenter: Vicki Suter

1.0 9 – 10 AM FACE-TO-FACE MEETING ACTIVITIES

See separate agenda

2.0 9:30 – 10 AM PST GETTING ORGANIZED & CHATTING

You are welcome to come on into the meeting room to chat with others informally, to begin to know the other community members. (Virtual appetizers will be served.)

ARE YOU READY? Make sure you have . . .

dialed into the audiobridge (1-877-944-2300, confirmation code 99202#)
Logged into the Bridging Community (http://www.conferences.icohere.com/bridging)
Opened the scheduled Meeting Place for this synchronous session, Synchronous Session 4 Meeting Room, in the Bridging Community
Clicked on Introductions link in this Meeting Place – checked out the list of resources you will need during this session, and downloaded all of them – see list in box below.
In particular, make sure you have downloaded the Powerpoint presentation for this session (“Powerpoint-Unit4-04/01/04”) and have opened it – we will *not* be using HorizonLive so you will need to download the Powerpoint presentation and follow along on your own.
Note that another resource is this document, the learning plan for this unit of the focus session (“Learning-Activities-Plan-Unit4-04-01-04”), which you can print and follow along with as we go through the synchronous session.
Collected any previously downloaded resources that you might want to refer to during the session.

RESOURCES NEEDED FOR SYNCHRONOUS SESSION

Learning-Activities-Plan-Unit4-04-01-04(this document)*

Powerpoint-Unit4-04-01-04*

COP-Project-Description*

*Look for these and other documents to download under “Introductions” in the Meeting Place for this synchronous session. Note that all needed resources will also be made available under: Resource Center/2004 Online Workshop (Spring)/Resources for 4/1 (by 8 AM EST on 4/1/04).

NOTE: We will not be using HorizonLive during this synchronous session, so you will need to download the Powerpoint presentation (Powerpoint-Unit4-01-04), start the presentation and follow along on your own.

3 10 – 10:25 AM PST

START UP, ANNOUNCEMENTS, CHECK-IN & DYADS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS (AI Imaging Process)

Are you ready? Make sure you have . . .

Make sure you have

· dialed into the audiobridge (1-877-944-2300, confirmation code 99202#)

· downloaded the Powerpoint presentation for Unit 4 (Powerpoint-Unit4-04-01-04) and started up the presentation in a separate window so you can follow along yourself – we will *not* be using HorizonLive (Presenters will say, “next slide”)

· opened the Meeting Place for this synchronous session in another window in the Bridging Community

· downloaded the other documents from the “Introduction” link at the top of the Synchronous Session 4 Meeting Space.

3.1 BREAKOUT SESSION #1 (10 – 10:15 AM)

(Facilitators will pair people up as they log in, send each off to a separate Quick Meeting)

Dyad Reflection on Appreciative Inquiry Core Process 4: Dream – Create Shared Image of a Preferred Future –
Discuss with each other the process your institutional team used to examine the themes and arrive at the collage.

What were the initial themes?
What were the final themes?
What were the images suggested?
What were the final images?
What did you find useful in the process?
How might you use this visioning approach in other situations?

Before you close your Quick Meeting, save the transcript, and make arrangements for when the two of you can “meet” in the community later to do Homework Assignment Part 1 (due 4/5/04)

Homework Assignment, Part 1: This will be Part 1 of your homework assignment due 4/5/04

Schedule a meeting with your pair partner (as assigned during the “Question of the Day” exercise above or found in the list of pairs – see “Pair-Partners-04-01-04” listing); meet in The Coffeehouse for your meeting.

Before the meeting with your pair partner (sometime between 4/1 and 4/5):

Read your partner’s Directory entry, and take a look at their postings in the different discussions, starting with their posting in the Discussions/Introductions/Spring Focus Session Participants (to find out how to search through Discussion threads for postings by particular contributors, see Discussions/iCohere Suggestions/Questions/Tips on Discussions).

During the second meeting with your pair partner (the one that you schedule by 4/5), finish up the discussion you started on 4/1, and additionally discuss the following question:

How has your understanding of community changed over the past two weeks?

3.2 Reminder - Communication Protocols Review/Technology/Resources for this Session

· Reminders about:

o Put phone on mute

o Don’t put phone on hold if musak is played

o Auto scroll reminder

o Abbreviations and misspellings are OK

o Use short responses for QM

o Refer to message number when responding to a post

o Remember to say “brb” if you have to briefly attend to something else while you are in a quick meeting, and say “bye” before leaving a quick meeting (and close the window when you are leaving for good so you don’t leave your “ghost”)

o Remember to log out of the Bridging Community when you are ready to leave.

o Where to go for help –

On-Line: Tourist Info/Help

At bottom of screen – Click Here to Initiate Quick meeting with Help Support Staff

On the phone: 1-877-944-2300, confirmation code 99200#

(Phone and help staffed by Darren Cambridge)

Quick Tip for Today – Search Feature in Discussions (News announcement)

· Technology in play today

o Audiobridge (1-877-944-2300, confirmation code 99202#)

o Meeting Place for entire group

§ Click on Introductions for resources needed – NOTE: by popular demand, we are *not* using HorizonLive, so you will need to download the Powerpoint presentation for this session, and follow along on your own machine

3.3 News & Announcements

The Coffeehouse for meetings (goodies will be served)

Tips (in Discussion)

4.0 10:25 – 10:50 AM COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Are you ready? Make sure you have . . .

Make sure you have

· dialed into the audiobridge (1-877-944-2300, confirmation code 99202#)

· opened the Meeting Place for this synchronous session in another window in the Bridging Community

· downloaded the Community of Practice Project Description form.

Presentation by Vicki Suter (25 minutes, 10:25 – 10:50 AM)

“Translating Themes (Shared Image of the Preferred Future) to Community Purpose and Domain”

5.0 BREAKOUT #2– breakout into institutional teams (15 minutes, 10:50 – 11:10)

Tell a story, from the perspective of some Anne Jackson on your campus who represents the intended audience for your community, of a peak experience this individual would have had in the last week - if the community you imagine already existed.

Homework Assignment, Part 2: At your institutional team meeting this week, by 4/5/04

Discuss questions in the “COP-Project-Description” form, and fill it out

Identify a team liaison who will post the results of your discussion in Discussion/Communities of Practice/Project Descriptions and be prepared to do a three-minute audio presentation on the following four items on behalf of their teams on 4/7/04 (3 minute presentations) on the following:

Briefly review community audience, domain, purpose

Tell the short story about the representative persona from that audience (that the team developed during the Breakout Session #2 today)

What is the biggest question or challenge that you are still facing that you’d like to engage this larger community to help you address?

6 11:10 – 11:30 AM WRAP-UP

Report in on some of the insights or discoveries you made while working on the persona and scenario.

What are we working on next?

Complete the community project descriptions.
Help teams identify preliminary next steps for the development of an institutionally-based community of practice.
Explore resources on communities of practice (and virtual communities of practice) for assistance in completing community of practice design and development plans.
Discuss what’s next for the Bridging Community, after the last synchronous session on 4/7.

Where/when do we meet next?

Wednesday, April 7, 10 – 11:30 AM PST (Bridging Community, Synchronous Session 5 Meeting Room)

What is our pre-meeting preparation for the next synchronous session (Review of homework assignments due 4/5/04)?