Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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Avril - I'm Certified Scrum Trainer and a whole bunch of us 2 day workshops. People have already started facilitating and succeeding?with two day workshops. We have a small advantage, by granting a
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Mark Levison
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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I love this. I don¡¯t have any ideas, being one of the people who are very new to this, not enthusiastic about online meetings, and not skilled beyond the basics - but I realize I am going to need to
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Avril Orloff <a.orloff@...>
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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Thanks for the summary and key words list. I especially appreciate the reminder (from Hildy, I think) that "What do we want this class to accomplish? What needs to be in place for students to
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Bill Withers
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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Hello! Nancy, thank you for sharing your late night ponderings! I too have a three day and one day in- person workshops that I¡¯m trying to take online and the points about asynchronous participation
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Catherine Borgman-Arboleda
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Re: List of Online facilitators? Need an experienced one for 4h meeting on 3/27
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Hi all, Does another list exist besides the specific one Nancy indicated for LS practitioners? And if not, should we expand this one by adding a column to indicate specialties (like LS in this case)?
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Amy Lenzo
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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Building on ?response to allow people to respond in the most comfortable medium, the aversion to writing long posts is not just generational. Depending on a person's learning style, they are going to
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elana
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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Lovely - I think that's a first concrete answer to a way of "new school" (just talking from my position - this could be turned into an infographic and thus be "digestable" for millennials ;) Thanks so
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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I love this thread :-) I¡¯ve summarized the discussion so far. Each one of the headings could be a thread in itself! Bev *The question* How do we convert meetings to a combination of synchronous and
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Re: Practice session! Virtual Ice-breakers and energizers
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HI Here is a ton of icebreaker questions - haven't looked at them in details, hopefully they are helpful
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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The free version of Slack has a limit on messages. The paid version is by seat, which is ok within orgs, and much more challenging for groups that are not within an org boundary. There is no higher
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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Bev, What about Slack? It seems to have taken the place of listservs and does have search and category capabilities. And as Simone says, many features I haven¡¯t explored. Peggy
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Re: List of Online facilitators? Need an experienced one for 4h meeting on 3/27
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Y'all should be able to add yourselves. Just a point of clarity - there are no implicit or explicit recommendations. So if you are looking for someone, keep that in mind. Those adding yourselves, if
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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Christina, Bill, et al, When we have taught online at the college level, as well as in our own courses, we have encouraged people to express themselves as makes sense to them. If people are more
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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Dear Bill - Very much to the point - the length of our traditional writing. Especially the younger generations cannot handle that. With discussion forums and threads we are transferring this challenge
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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I love the idea of adding asynchronous content, maybe even in the middle of a live session. In the best f2f settings, we add time to reflect. We are trained somewhat to use online tools to quickly
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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Bev - good morning from Ottawa. I can provide one small bit of useful information This still exists in the right context. Obviously google groups has some basic functionality. The big winner is
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Mark Levison
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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Hi Bev, We recently started to use Mattermost (https://mattermost.com/pricing/) with our NASA-USAID program SERVIR. It has the features you mention. We still do not use it at its full potential but it
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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Hello everyone, I've been watching from the sidelines, absorbing and enjoying this journey. In answer to the question you posed, Nancy, I can share our experience at Creating the Future, when we
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Hildy Gottlieb
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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Hey there :-) Crossing messages. I like your thought and indeed I did consider it. Students even would have prefered to record it, actually. What probably gets lost is the spontaneity of the
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Christina Merl
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Re: The New/Old Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
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I'd love to add one thing here - depending on who is your target group, especially the younger generations are not used to participating in those former text-based discussion threads. They do not have
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