e-tivities

ICT is a very hot topic i education both in Norway and Cambodia. Students and staff keep developing their skills in ICT and trying to integrate it into the different subjects. Here at PTTC (Teacher Training College) in Siem Reap they’ve got a very nice open resource center where students and teachers learn how to use computer. The challenge is to take it further so it can be a tool in increasing knowledge and skills. Gilly Salmon has done a lot of research on active online learning, and she is writing about how to succeed as a e-moderator. She present a five-stage model that provides an example of how participants can benefit from increasing skill and comfort in working, networking and learning online, and what e-moderators need to do at each stage to help them to achieve this success. The model shows how to motivate online participants, to build learning through appropriate e-tivities and to pace e-learners through programmes of training and development.
I find this model very interesting and I tend to follow it in my weblog-project.

Gilly Salmon (2002) : E-tivities. The key to active online learning: Kogan Page Limited, London