criticalfriends

Contact Info (add what you like) || email || mobile || work || Department || GD NFP Mgmt ||
 * Steve McAfee || smcafee@unitec.ac.nz || 027 659 0994 || 09 815 4321 x8754 ||  ||
 * Isaac Flitta || iflitta@unitec.ac.nz || 0212269153 || 09 815 4321 ex 8663 || Design & Visual Arts ||
 * Carol Scholes || carol@thresholdmanagement.co.nz || 021626199 || dont have an ext || Community and health studies
 * David McGaughey || dmcgaughey@unitec.ac.nz ||  || 815 4321 x7755 || People Capability ||

Methods of critical appraisal 1. Self reflection on wiki 2. Questions A5 3. Feedback from Dev and Ett 4. Survey monkey? Vickel? Issac 5. Bring a buddy 6. Invite the other teams

Carol - discussion board (announce Tuesday)

Thought wall

Questions Relevance to work/eLearning coordination at Unitec Scale What are you hoping to gain from this course? What were your expectations at the start of the course? What new skills have you learnt?


 * Role of Critical Friends?** Note from Keith - I have tried to have a look through the wikis and Ning and it is obvious that there is a great deal of information (feedback) that can be captured from these electronic sources. My comment is that it is quite hard/time-consuming to go into everything in the electronic format and extract all the little gems that are in there and it is probably more efficient to do it in a face-to-face way (which is happening as I write, probably!). However, I am sure that there are some people amongst our CoP who may have the skills to do this and this sort of 'editor' role could be an important one for any future CoPs. //Adapt or delete the the table below as you see fit.//


 * Wiki. Not very reader friendly or graphically attractive?** I find this interface inadequate for conveying large amounts of information. Perhaps we should rethink our tabular presentation using this wiki. Or, set up a new page dedicated to the feedback? Rob


 * __Consolidated feedback from discussion forums on Ning__**
 * Marae session was a good way to unite the group and lead us into working together as a group
 * A better overview of what the week had in store should have been given on the first day as lots of people were quite confused on day one
 * As the week has gone on, people have gained clarity, skills and enthusiasm for the roles
 * Facilitators have been very good at opening the discussion
 * Participants have been open minded
 * Room heating, design and facilities need to be improved for large group meetings such as this
 * The CoP has a lot of potential
 * concern that IT are not able to support e-learning initiatives properly (hopefully visit by Tom to class has allayed these fears to some extent)

Wednesday feedback session
 * ||= Questions re the Critical Friends role ||= Comments and suggestions ||
 * Carry out ongoing reflection and feedback to drive the **self-design** || The **self-design** of what? The **self-design** of Feb workshop or future CoPs? ||  ||
 * Prepare for collecting feedback from the participants, including people who just came to the morning sessions ||  ||   ||
 * Run relection and feedback activites. Capture feedback on the wiki. ||  ||   ||
 * Consolidate feedback into suggestions and recommendations for future events and activites ||  ||   ||


 * ~ =__ CRITICAL FRIENDS SURVEY RESULTS __=

__ 1. What are you hoping to gain from this course? __
1. I had hoped to have some interchange of use of technologies - what people had used and what worked and didn't work - probably a future outcome from a CoP

2. To become part of a network that promotes the idea of a CoP.

3. Ideas for implementing the roll-out of eLearning to staff & students in the Department of Architecture

4. tools to drive grow a cop, networks, support

5. To build connections with the wider Unitec E-Learning Community

6. a better insight of our current and future elearning capabilities

7. Free lunches

8. Share best practice

9. TPA - find out where folks are so we know how to tilor our services.

10. even more motivation than I already have and fuel for the future in terms of stories and experiences shared, how best to work with people in eLCC and as an eLCC how to get the most success with others

11. A community of practice that exists, thrives, sustains itself and develops itself into an ongoing community that meets its own and the institution's needs

12. eLearning skills, models, best practice, support network Download

__ 2. What were your expectations at the start of the course? __
1. Not what eventuated! The focus turned out to be on CoPs, whereas I saw the CoP as simply a means to an end.

2. I thought we where going to learn about moodle.

3. That the week would mostly involve learning software to aid us in training others in eLearning

4. open minded

5. To come out with a clear plan for the rollout of communities across the campus

6. I was expecting to be working more on available resources and tools. But, I am enjoy the path we are exploring

7. To listen, learn and enjoy

8. That we would be doing training on the eLearning strategy and clarify exactly what our role would be in implementing this within our department. I certainly thought there would be more training in IT and eLearning tools.

9. TPA - to discover where folks are.

10. learn about communities of practice and setup a community for eLCC

11. That it would be a valuable contribution to the eLearning strategy and that I would personally learn new things

12. the course would be about elearning rather than CoPs

__ 3- What new skills have you learnt? __
1. To be honest by the time I got to Wednesday I felt I'd had enough of CoPs and just wanted to get into something useful to take back to the department whose expectations are e-learning and technologies based. However I have enjoyed the engagement with others from across campus and am hoping that what I thought was going to be at least started by mid-week (!!) will be an ongoing future outcome.

2. Not so much skills but connections and insight related to community building.

3. Learning theory & philosophical concepts appear to be far more important than practical hands-on enabling where people learn value of technology by using it. Haven't spent much time utilising tools - just talking about & around them.

4. practices, techniques, a language

5. Some skills around managing my department community

6. how to start a wiki (Work in progress)

7. How to wiki, how to cafe, how to log on remotely 8. How to use a wiki. How to establish a CoP.

9. TPA - have expanded knowledge and experience of nurturing new learners.

10. I have more information than before and have more understanding so know can better determine approaches that will get engagement with Unitec staff

11. Heaps! Mainly process ones in terms of how to sustain a community

12. meeting people with skills rather than learning new skills ||