Onlline Facilitation Workshop

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Poison Pills for your Online Program - what should you do:
- negotiate/allocate time
- ask for help
- work with others
- plan/flexible
- introduction / explain what you're doing
- identify client needs
- obey the rules (anti virus protection, firewalls)
- give clear explanations
- interact regularly with participants
- motivation
- getting team onside
- good record keeping
- reflect / modify
- access for all
- compatable technology
- provide handouts/support materials

Catriona Ward - adelaide-i-globe TAFE SA Adelaide South - E-moderating:
Moderating & Faciliating online - how is face to face different from online?
- ask for feedback/reflection
- blended learning
- explicit information/instructions
- interactive environments
- need guidance
Skills required:
- Pedagogical (teaching skills) - guidance, challenging, education, questioning
- Social (share info about each participant; social interactions; chatrooms; discussion forums, explore) promoting human relations; group cohesiveness; group dynamics
- Managerial - scheduling, record keeping
- Technical - students need to become comfortable with the technology
Role of Facilitator:
- goal setter
- discriminator
- the host
- the pace setter
- the explainer
- the entertainer/motivator - log-on to monitor activity; games/quizzes
- the communicator - phoning participants who seem to be "lost" or not contributing
Other components to e-facilitating:
- teaching processes
- interpersonal qualities
- technical skills
- communication
- technques
- content expertise

Online Role Playing:
- similar issues to classroom role-playing
- toolboxes/pretend environments - good for individuals
- take on particular roles - good for groups
- simulations of real life situations
- what happens if individuals are all at different stages in the online environment or there's continues enrolment?