A few months ago, I had a discussion with
Ben Hazzard about how we might engage educators in producing an e-book to assist and encourage change agents. The result of our efforts was a workshop that took place this afternoon at
Educon 2.2.
Instead of providing a 'presentation-style' workshop, our goal was to leverage
easy-to-use collaborative web tools and to lead interested co-learners in the creation of practical, shareable content. Teaching by doing, we did our best to model:
1] how to build relationships among project participants;
2] how to contribute to shared documents simultaneously;
3] how to attribute
Creative Commons licensed content;
4] how to offer 'choice' to participants;
5] how to take shared responsibility in creating a product;
6] how to engage remote participants in a meaningful way;
7] how to create and distribute a product for a real world audience.
"This Field Guide for Change Agents was developed during a workshop at Educon 2.2 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in January 30, 2009. As workshop leaders, we were honoured to have participation by educators from around the world, including remote participants who joined us via Elluminate."The creators have agreed to license their work with an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Creative Commons license. You are free to share or adapt the work, on the condition that the author page and photo attributions are included.Late addition: One of our online participants, Lorna Costantini, has written a
blog post about the experience that really affirms the value of the processes we adopted.
Thanks for visiting the blog today, I'm not here. I'm in Philadelphia attending Educon 2.3 where Zoe Branigan-Pipe and I are facilitating "Classrooms of Tomorrow" as a culminating task for attendees.
