In our first week of OLTD 503 we began to learn the process of building online community by engaging in some introductory activities aimed at establishing online socialization (Stage 2 of Gilly Salmon’s Five Stage Model of online learning) among our colleagues in this course (Salmon, 2003), while also beginning to formulate ideas about our own philosophy of online communication. Using padlet to post our OLTD selfies and the Flipgrid intro videos were fun and simple ways to learn a little bit more about each other and build our comfort levels before sharing our deeper ideas and questions in the following weeks. I found the image of online communication activity to be a good way to review and process some of my own previous experiences, and I appreciated learning what the experiences of other cohort members had been as they validated some of my own experiences, like the fast pace mentioned by Shannon and the need to re-model and attend to student differences described by Lindsey, while also sparking new ideas. When selecting my own image of online communication to represent my philosophy and experiences with online communication to date, I chose a concept to represent online communication as being a bridge between the individual worlds that the teacher and each student brings to the learning community in order to emphasize the importance of relationships to the learning process. In response to my image, Marieke shared with me the Community of Inquiry framework for online courses (Garrison, Anderson and Archer, 2000). This COI framework has played a key role in revising elements of my philosophy of online communication over the following five weeks by expanding my understanding of the teacher and student relationship pieces, but also integrating the content and the meaning construction, or learning itself, as a crucial element. References:
Garrison,D.R., Anderson,T.& Archer, W.(2000).Critical Inquiry in a text-based environment: computer conferencing in higher education model. The Internet and Higher Education, 2(2-3), 87-105. Salmon,G.(2003). The Five Stage Model. Retrieved from https://www.gillysalmon.com/five-stage-model.html
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