To be a "Guide on the side", a facilitator should aim at improving learner's performance by supporing, stimulating, challenging, encouraging, negotiating and creating enabling learning environment.
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What subject area are you working in, Edutainment Today? And what age are your students? Do you have computers available for your students which are sufficiently powerful to be able to run SL?
I'm just starting on a Work Package on the Avalon EU ...
Roberto Avila, my apologies again for neglecting your comment (it's been a very busy time up here in Sweden). I'm sure that the AVALON project would be very interested in your participation. One of the aims of the project is to investigate how 'mo...
Anchat, sorry it's taken such a long time to reply, but I recommend you contact Dr Bryan Carter at the University of Central Missouri (bc69@mac.com). Bryan's university is one of the Kamimo partners, and he's responsible for Virtual Montmartre and...
"Guide on the side" facilitation in the online courseroom is different than "sage on the stage" teaching in the classroom. As we innovate and share our ideas here, let's discuss the unique role of online facilitator.
Hi Anchat,
You're welcome. I usually use the Time and Date site to work out exact equivalences in other time zones (as you probably know, US and European summer times don't change on the same day). The web address is: http://www.timeanddate.com/
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With your work in Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
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