Learning Design Plan for Unit 5

INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE PROJECT TEAMS

UNIT TIMEFRAME: 4/7/04

Online Synchronous Session #5 – 4/7/04, 10 – 11:30 AM PST

OUTCOMES/WORK PRODUCTS

For the individual institutional team participant, the outcomes we expected to result from the online focus session/workshop are that participants will have:

• Found a new way to work with others in teams and establish new collaborative relationships
• Evaluated a virtual community experience and the use of technology to support that experience
• Learned new methodologies for consultation and communication with others

For the institutional team, the work products and outcomes we expected to result from the online focus session/workshop are that teams will have:

• Practiced a new methodology to use in conducting an institutional inventory to identify achievements, assets, unexplored potentials, innovations, strengths, opportunities, benchmarks, lived values, traditions, strategic competencies – and visions of valued and possible futures for the institution that relate to the transformation of teaching and learning using technology.
• Developed locally relevant stories and scenarios for use in institutional visioning about the transformation of teaching and learning with technology.
• Identified preliminary next steps for the development of an institutionally-based community of practice.

For the Bridging Community, the work products and outcomes we expected to result from the online focus session/workshop are:

• Feedback about the virtual community environment for use in refining the environment, community processes and community support infrastructure.
• Refined definition of audience, purpose, domain, and potentially important community activities for the future.
• Shared stories and scenarios for use in visioning the transformation of teaching and learning with technology.
• Initial community launch and member recruitment.

For the NLII as a sponsor, the Bridging Community is a design experiment in the full utilization of virtual environments to support face-to-face and online collaboration and communication in a professional development context, to advance our knowledge about the use of technology to transform teaching and learning. Desired outcomes for the community include the development of virtual communities of practice on participants’ campuses, in addition to development of a good set of data about how to effectively use these online tools, and the corresponding facilitation techniques and community support infrastructure.

PRE-MEETING PREPARATIONS

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:

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, 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?

Homework Assignment, Part 2: At your institutional team meeting this week,

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?

1.0 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#)
• downloaded the documents in Resource center/2004 Online Workshop (Spring)/Resources for 4/7
• including the Powerpoint presentation for Unit 5 (Powerpoint-Unit5-04/07/04), and started up the presentation in a separate window so you can follow along yourself – we will *not* be using HorizonLive - Vicki will say, “next slide”
• Logged into Bridging Community, and opened Meeting Places/Spring Online Workshop Session #5 Meeting Room

RESOURCES NEEDED FOR SYNCHRONOUS SESSION

Learning-Activities-Plan-Unit5-04-07-04(this document)*

Powerpoint-Unit5-04-07-04*

*Look for these and other documents to download under “Introductions” in the Meeting Place for this synchronous session. Note that all needed resources are also available in: Resource Center/2004 Online Workshop (Spring)/Resources for 4/7 (by 8 AM EST on 4/7/04).

NOTE: We will not be using HorizonLive during this synchronous session, so you will need to download the Powerpoint presentation (Powerpoint-Unit5-04-07-04), start the presentation and follow along on your own.

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 Refer to message number when responding to a post

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

2. 10 – 10:15 AM PST Metaphor, Image & Bridging Community Resources

Presentation by Vicki Suter

3. 10:15 – 10:30 AM BREAKOUT SESSION #1

· You will have received an assignment to a small group breakout room when you logged into the Bridging Community/Meeting Places/Spring Online Workshop Session #5.

· Go into Meeting Places and either Small Group 1, 2, 3, or 4 Breakout Room as assigned, and discuss the following with your fellow small group members:

In the Small Group Breakout rooms, take a quick look at the map created by Nick Noakes and Joan Canfield in Discussions/Community-Oriented Technologies/Power of Place & Presence (post #70) and then kick of a discussion of the following questions:

• How do we create environments where we feel safe to explore the technology to support new learning-centered teaching and learning practices?
• Who do we need to include in responding to such a challenge?
• Based on our collective experience, what do we need to do to make this happen?
• As practitioners and scholars, what resources do we need to have?

We’ll create new discussion threads branching off the map, and the facilitators for each small group discussion will post a summary in the Discussions/Community-Oriented technologies/Power of Place & Presence by the end of the week (4/9/04).

4 10:30 – 11:00 AM INSTITUTIONAL TEAMS STORIES

Five minutes for each team, discussing the following:

· Briefly review community audience, domain, purpose

· Tell the short story about the representative persona from that audience

· 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?

Team representatives, in order of presentation, are:

· James Penrod, Professor, Higher & Adult Education Leadership, The University of Memphis

· Mary Rose Grant, Director of Core Curriculum, Saint Louis University

· Elizabeth Winston, Director-Project TIEM.Online, Northeastern University

· West Coast Independents

· Liwana Bringelson, University of Waterloo

5 11:00 – 11:15 AM A CONVERSATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO TEAM

Vicki Suter with Liwana Bringelson, Dawn Howard-Rose, and Tracy Penny Light

6 11:15 – 11:30 AM WRAP-UP