On Common Ground
As we begin our work together in this class, we will learn together. We will become members of a learning community. Our focus will be to learn and support each other to gain common ground. By following a set of groundrules, our community will develop, thrive and survive. By participating in this course, you will need to follow and abide by these groundrules.
What is a community?
A community is a group of individuals who work together in support of a common goal or interest. We are working together to support the successful achievement of our learning outcomes. You will learn from each other in this class through a process of exploration, sharing, and reflecting.
As a community member, you agree to:
What is a community?
A community is a group of individuals who work together in support of a common goal or interest. We are working together to support the successful achievement of our learning outcomes. You will learn from each other in this class through a process of exploration, sharing, and reflecting.
As a community member, you agree to:
- Treat contributions made by others with respect and understand that differences in opinion, interests and abilities are not only natural but encouraged and supported.
- Have a sense of patience, a sense of humour and a risk taking attitude with educational technology.
- Keep an open mind and ‘turn to wonder’.
- Ask for help when you need it and assist others when possible.
- Contribute regularly to collaborative activities to ensure other members of the community have opportunities to read, listen, reflect and respond to your ideas.
- Respect diverse opinions and viewpoints of each member of the community.
- Understand that communications shared through text have a higher likelihood of being misinterpreted than the spoken word. When you type a thought, reflection or comment, read it carefully before you submit or post. Read it out loud to yourself to see if it makes sense and is grammatically correct. Rephrase or rewrite to ensure clarity.
- Contribute regularly. With face to face class time and online contributions, think of your contributions as part of an ongoing conversation. Each of your contributions play a role in building the content, ideas and understanding in our community.
- Solve problems or issues through open, honest questions and active listening.
- Report groundrule violations or unresolved issues to our community leader (your course instructor).
Participation
In order to have a common understanding of how students are expected to behave and relate to each other, you need to review the resources and images below. This will inform you about ‘professional’ conduct in a digitally supported, face-to-face classroom context. If you have any concerns, please contact the course instructor.
This course is offered in a face to face setting. This course blog is a compilation of classroom materials, resources and activities. It will guide the in-class portion of the course and supplement the classroom learning with additional information, links for further learning and ongoing self directed learning. Not all items in this course blog will be covered or discussed during class sessions. This course blog will serve to support students in further inquiry.
Our collective, electronic conversations will be conducted in a password protected Desire 2 Learn (D2L) course site. Only class members should have access to this D2L course site and comments/discussions should be contained only within the classroom and/or the D2L forums. Please DO NOT give your password or access information to these private spaces to any person not registered in this course.
This course is offered in a face to face setting. This course blog is a compilation of classroom materials, resources and activities. It will guide the in-class portion of the course and supplement the classroom learning with additional information, links for further learning and ongoing self directed learning. Not all items in this course blog will be covered or discussed during class sessions. This course blog will serve to support students in further inquiry.
Our collective, electronic conversations will be conducted in a password protected Desire 2 Learn (D2L) course site. Only class members should have access to this D2L course site and comments/discussions should be contained only within the classroom and/or the D2L forums. Please DO NOT give your password or access information to these private spaces to any person not registered in this course.
Talking about Etiquette
Norms of Collaboration
