Group Blogs

In this post you need to only 3 questions:

1. Your Name and Institution
2. Are you willing to host a blog?
3. What topic would you like to suggest for the blog?

This post will remain active for 48 hours as people step forward to respond. As the close of that time - we will divide off the groups and merge partners so that the new blogs can get started.

Working solely online without communicating in a classroom setting can be confusing - so please email with questions if you need to know what direction to go in next.

Your task for today is to use the comment link to respond to this post answering the three questions above.

star@tltgroup.org

Open Space Learning in a BLOG???

The process we are following for the division of our online groups is a moderated version of "Open Space Learning".

Here are some brief quotes from the open space process:

Open Space is based in the belief that organizations and communities run on passion and responsibility. It allows groups of any size to self-organize around what they really care about to get things done. It's been called passion bounded by responsibility, the energy of a good coffee break, intentional self-organization, spirit at work, chaos and creativity, evolution in organization, and a simple, powerful way to get people and organizations moving -- when and where it's needed most.

There are 4 principles:

• "Whoever comes is the right people"
• "Whenever it starts is the right time"
• "Whatever happens is the only thing that could have"
• "When it's over, it's over"

If you would like to read more on open space visit - http://www.openspaceworld.org/.

The post following this information will help you to start forming groups! Post comments about Open Space to this section.

Start of Group Blogs Instructions

We would like to have a number of you form your own group and start working on individual blogs. Here are just a few parameters to get you started:

1. The Blog does not have to reside on this Blogger.com server. If you would like to highlight another service that would be great.
2. The focus of the blog would most useful if it provided a forum for discussion and exchange of information in a topic related to the workshop - but any topic that help the group ingage in a blog is OK.
3. Groups should be of around 2-3 people at the post for those moderation the blog - this is to help everyone get the chance to work on the administration of the blog.
4. The post following this one will give people the opportunity to post topics that they are interested in pursuing and we will help divide you out for the groups.

Archives and Links

The archives for the slides and the synchronouse session are now posted at -http://www.tltgroup.org/blogworkshop/archives.htm.

If you would like to view just the links - you can see them at http://www.tltgroup.org/blogworkshop/links.htm.

If you have a link or resource to contribute we would be happy to add it to the site.

If there are resources you would like to see addressed, please use the comments link and respond to this post.

Different Shared Blog Services

Blogger.com is only one of many blog sites available for you to use. Use this post and respond using the comment link to contribute other blog services.

Include information on the blog site, costs, and features. Be sure to leave a link so that other can visit.

If you visit the site and would like to comment if you have used the site or have information to support that application you can add that to the comments in the post as well.