Thrashing+out+a+seminar+design

Hi all

I thought it might be useful to start throwing some ideas together into a draft that can be edited and adapted over the next day or three. Do - please! - alter and rework.

Such as it is, we've got two weeks worth of work to put together, around 20 -25 hours for the participants of the seminar.


 * We create a website for the seminar, which contains - or is linked to - all our relevant readings that we want participants to study / look at / skim in order to be able to participate. The website also has video / audio clips which we've found (e.g. the Khan academy you tube) that we want the participants to view / listen to as resources.


 * We clearly outline in the website what we are trying to do, and the different activities we want the participants to engage in.


 * We link the website to discussion forums and / or wiki in Stream (we will need to get Maggie to arrange this for us I suspect)

Question: Do we want to try to incorporate any other tools/technologies (so far we've got: website, stream forum, audio discussion, surfing resources that we've found and that are related to the topic).
 * From the website - participants also link outside to sources that our seminar materials have referred to and have some guided activity requiring them to learn about these resources.
 * There are connections made in the notes between global and NZ contexts and participants are encouraged with forum Qs to discuss the relevance of each "developing country" issue covered in the notes to their own context in NZ: do they face similar issues and why/why not?
 * An asynchronous discussion takes place through this website (after participants have gone through some of the groundwork above) with participants downloading audio/video files and then uploading their responses and contentions.
 * Suggestion for the end of the seminar = a scenario activity where participants consider real (or imagined based on first part of seminar) obstacles facing their use of E-Learning in their own context and consider the tools and initiatives that would help to surmount those obstacles. OR / AND participants then listen/read and respond to at least one of these with some suggestions or an alternate perspective