<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>Wow! We'll have to make you a "sister" yet!<br><br><br><span style="font-size:87%">From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.</span><br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>Subject: [Dialogue] Group Facilitation - Online <br>From: Wayne Nelson <wnelson@ica-associates.ca> <br>To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> <br>CC: <br><br><br><div style="word-break:break-all;">Just a wee update.<br><br>We are teaching our very first Group Facilitation course in a totally online environment. We're teaching the straight-up GFM course, but not trying to teach them to facilitate online at all. <br><br>There are a total of 6 two hour sessions. 3 for the Focused Conversation method and 3 for the Consensus Workshop method. Monday - Wednesday and Friday. They have homework assignments between sessions including practicing the method in a real setting.<br><br>We have people from across Canada as well as one in Barbados and one who is, for this week, located in Hawaii.<br><br>We're using Blackboard Collaborate - a shared whiteboard - small group rooms - very good audio and a bunch of group work tools. We can share our own computer screen, go to a website, play videos. It uses PowerPoint for contextual material, instructions and pages for group work. For example, we upload the Focused Conversation worksheet and they can type directly on it. A small group works together to help someone design a conversation. The person can download it, refine it and use it. At least one of the participants will be using the conversation in his church group this evening.<br><br>They seemed to grasp the basics of the method and they can see themselves using it in their life and workplaces.<br><br>It's our first time and there are a few clumsy spots, but we are very excited about the possibilities.<br><br>\\/<br>- - - - - - - - - - Wayne Nelson<br>wnelson@ica-associates.ca<br>O - 416-691-2316<br>M - 647-229-6910<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Dialogue mailing list<br>Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net<br>http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net<br></div></body>