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Facilitation Toolkit

Facilitation Toolkit

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I am grateful to Hilary Messeter from the National College of School Leaders (NCSL) for agreeing to present at a recently Community of Practice workshop I co-hosted. The NCSL have created a Facilitation Toolkit for their community of over 100,000 members. This is primarily focused on communities within the education sector, but the toolkit is a great resource for anyone who is new to the world of on-line facilitation, or indeed for anyone who is currently supporting a community of…

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Architectures for Conversation

Architectures for Conversation

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I came across this excellent slideshow presentation from Andrew Hinton, which goes some way to explaining what is meant by "Information Architecture". It touches on Social Media, Web 2.0 and communities of practice, and even manages to draw some interesting parallels between social networks and the M-16 and AK-47 assault rifles. I particularly liked the quotation attributed to Groucho Marx – "Time flies like and arrow, but fruit flies like a banana". See how a banana might help you to…

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Social Media Montage

Social Media Montage

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Dave Briggs over at LGNemedia has assembled an excellent montage describing Social Media as a vehicle for collaboration and knowledge sharing. I’m looking forward to meeting Dave today at the IDeA’s Community of Practice Workshop, which I’m co-hosting. We’ve also got Ed Mitchell and Hilary Messeter from the National College of School Leadership who will sharing their considerable knowledge of on-line facilitation with the assembled delegates, who are all members of the IDeA’s Facilitator’s Community of Practice

Launch of Progress through Partnership

Launch of Progress through Partnership

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I presented today on the topic of Communities of Practice for the launch of the Progress through Partnership programme, sponsored and supported by the South East Employers (SEEMP). The Progress through Partnership (PtP) is a peer led programme with the objective of creating an environment for knowledge sharing and identifying examples of best practice and innovation for Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) The programme includes the launch of a new portal site with a link to the CoP platform. The idea…

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