The Greek Teachers group on Facebook: Can moderators create a Sense of Community and how

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The Greek Teachers group on Facebook Can
moderators create a Sense of Community and how?

• Niki Lambropoulos
• Consultant, Research Student
• Centre for Interactive Systems Engineering, LSBU
• Sofia Papadimitriou
• Greek Educational Television

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Agenda

• Web 2.0
• Our understanding
• Collaboration cooperation
• Clarification
• What is a community?
• Our experience
• Moderation
• Tips and more tips
• Furthermore
• Sense of Community, Technology Social Action

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by Tim O'Reilly 09/30/2005
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Web 2.0

• Design Involve Stakeholders
• Socio-Technical Design
• User-Centred Design
• Participatory Architecture
• Interactivity
• Personalisation
• Presence co-presence
• Light Applications
• Collaboration
• Social Networking
• Communities of Practice

Usability
Sociability
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in reality...

• Web 2.0
• is a State of Mind

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Collaboration Cooperation

• Collaboration (co-laborare)
• Work together on the same subject in the same
  project (joint construction)
• Cooperation (co-operate)
• Work together on a different subject in the same
  project (jigsaw)
• (Teasley Roschelle, 1993235)
• In reality we do both!

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What is a community?

• People connected by a shared interest
• Purposes as the motivation
• Practices to keep the community going
• Sense of belonging?
• Then you are one of us
• You Feel the Sense of Community
• Online Community?
• All of the above the medium

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Case study the Groups
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Greek School Network group
(governmental)
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Hellenes Educators group
(initiative)
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Hellenes Educators
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Friends Before After
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Sense of Community
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Behind the scenes

• Collaborative activities
• Shared interest
• Shared experiences
• Co-creativity (forum, wiki)
• Idea generation
• Idea sharing
• Idea discussion
• Idea implementation

• Moderators Role
• Team leader
• Empathic
• Motivator
• Facilitator
• Coordinator
• Co-Creator
• Supporter

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Communication
Emails, messages, webinars, Message All, votes,
polls, chatbots, etc..
Chats, forums, wiki, blogs
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Use of Spatial Metaphors
group support
Immediate feedback
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Shared Cognitive Space
Wiki-mono
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Tips

• Define the community (socio-cultural viewpoint)
• Find a shared interest
• Find techniques to break the ice
• One two ways of communication
• Start by sharing experiences
• Arrange videoconferences f2f meetings
• Feel the rhythm
• Remember that participation is not a
  prerequisite however, it is necessary.

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More tips

• Multiply Yourself
• The members copy moderators behaviour
• Engage them in discourse and build a relationship
  
• Help them to express themselves
• Find interesting tasks (Multimedia in Education)
• Use motivation for engagement
• Members do respond to Message All
• Work from the core to the periphery and vice
  versa (centripetal CoP)
• Build strong and weak links

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Furthermore Sense of Community
Technology Social Action

• Distributed Leadership
• Objectives - Processes - Products

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Thank you..

• For your attention!
• nikilambropoulos_at_gmail.com
• sofipapadi_at_gmail.com
• Community Management Docs
• Intelligenesis.eu gt Web 2.0 Toolbox