FOC08 reflections

THis post comes rather late, but before beginning new things I want to wrap up what’s over. I was quite disappointed that I couldn’t finish the course, although time-wise it looked deceptively easy to take my time to complete.  However, even though I only go through about half of it, it really encouraged me to [...]

FOC weeks 4-5 roles of facilitator, moderator and teacher

Try to determine the role and behavior of these three roles: Facilitator Moderator Teacher After quite a while of pondering and reading and fruitful conversations,  as well as a discarded post along the way, I now feel ready to tackle this task. First, what are the roles of facilitator, moderator and teacher?  Defining what they [...]

What is a community? Reflections on weeks 2 and 3

After following the threads of the FOC course and reading through some of the blogs, my idea of what a community has started taking a different form. In one of the threads Leigh reacts to a blog post from Minhaaj saying: Minhaaj then goes on to point out something possibly overlooked in the consideration of [...]

Reflections on FOC week 1

I didn’t really have any expectations about this course and how it would be run, but simply threw myself into cold water. And I’m more than happy with what is going on. It looks like the discussions will be deep and the learning will be steep. It has been an intense week with a lot [...]

Facilitating online communities

I’ve just started a new course called Facilitating online communities through wikieducator and so this blog will be mainly dedicated to reflecting on this course over the next couple of months. I’ve been a part of an extremely nurturing online community, one filled with role models, many probably out of intuition rather than theory. So [...]