Here are a few recommendations for designing a Faculty Learning Community centered around new technologies:
Evolving Outcomes: Begin with clear outcomes for the community, and ask faculty to articulate their own project objectives in their applications for participation. However, keep in mind that there is an inherent openness to this process. Rework project outcomes as needed and provide progress updates at the beginning of each meeting.
Multi-channel Communication: Include multiple types of interactions throughout the term to meet the many needs of participating faculty. Allow the participants to design the format of their face-to-face group meetings. Then supplement these scheduled sessions with one-on-one design meetings, online communications, self-help resources, and triage sessions.
Campus Partners: Use the participant applications to imagine what types of support the faculty might need, and identify the people on campus best able to offer this support. Reach out to these campus partners in advance of the FLC, gauging their interest and availability to offer demonstrations, create online learning tools, purchase technologies, or meet with faculty one-on-one.
Community Building: Remember that this is a community, and build it as such: work to develop a good rapport among participants; listen deeply to each participants’ goals; learn about disciplines outside of one’s own; require a certain level of participation; and bring drinks and food. Good learning environments tend to blend the formal and informal, supplementing expectations and plans with the free flowing nature of discussion and discovery.
I am especially interested in the “Evolving Outcomes” mentioned. How do we go about articulating initial outcomes for an FLC at my organization?
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June 15, 2020 at 03:06PM
The IndieWeb WordPress community could use some more theme options. Let’s get together as a community and host a Theme raising (a play on the idea of the old barn raising).
We can all work/hack together to make some of the popular WordPress themes more IndieWeb friendly. We’ll discuss methods for ad…
Chris, I’m looking forward to attending. Thank you for organizing this event!
I’ll be hosting a Domain of One’s Own meetup on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at at 9:00 AM Pacific / 12:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM CEST. Everyone who is interested in the topic is welcome to attend.
We expect there will be students, teachers, designers, web developers, technologists, and people of a…
I’m looking forward to attending this session offered by Chris Aldrich and David Shanske. I have already learned a lot from both of them through their blog posts, video recordings, and help in the Indieweb Slack channels.
I’m particularly interested in the following:
- Post Kinds, Format, Categories, and Tags. I know each of these are in fact different and serve different purposes inside of WordPress. But I’m interested in understanding the distinctions between them especially in terms of how people have used them to organize their posts.
- Syndicating to Twitter. I’m interested in the cleanest way to post to Twitter from my WordPress block. I don’t intend to share every post on Twitter but I’ve had mixed results with some of the methods that I’ve seen described by other Indieweb folks.
Chris Aldrich, a very approachable and helpful person involved who is active on the Indieweb Slack Channel and whose WordPress site has been a very helpful model for my own, invited me to participate in an event: A Domain of One’s Own Meetup on July 23, 2020. This is a topic that I have long been interested in learning more about. As an adjunct instructor in undergraduate and graduate programs at a university serving pre-service teachers and educational technologists, I’m keen to see models of how I could incorporate DoOO in my courses.
I’ll be hosting a Domain of One’s Own meetup on Thursday, July 23, 2020 at at 10:30 AM Pacific / 1:30 PM Eastern / 7:30 PM CEST. Everyone who is interested in the topic is welcome to attend. We expect there will be students, teachers, designers, web developers, technologists, and people of all a…
The last few months have provided me with ample opportunity to listen to music while working. Flowstate is a newsletter and subscription that provides an abundance of new music that I find *perfect* for this purpose. And once a week, they provide mixes that are really outstanding.
Sacha Chua is a prolific blogger who I have followed for years, especially when I was a heavy Emacs user. She wrote a terrific book, A No-Excuses Guide to Blogging that is available as a free/pay what you want ebook. There are many wonderful prompts and ideas to get you started blogging in this collection.
Quick test post to micro.blog.
