The Participant's Handbook
Although workshop participants are very much co-creators of the
Foundations of Communities of Practice workshop, as the workshop has evolved, there's definitely more of a learning curve and some people feel that by the time they get completely comfortable, the workshop is over.
This handbook was designed with several purposes in mind. First it is meant to allow you to prepare yourself for the workshop. Second, it is a way to share explicitly the design of the workshop and its rationale. Finally it should serve as a reference as you become involved in various activities and conversations. We suggest that you look through it before the start date for the workshop.
Download the Participant's Handbook
The table of contents is shown below:
PART 1 - Workshop overview Describes the overall idea of the workshop, the design, the kinds of people you will interact with, and the overall structure of activities.
PART 2 - The learning space Describes the various activity structures you are invited to engage in. Each activity space corresponds to an aspect of the life of real communities.
PART 3 - Groups you will be joining As a participant, you will be joining a number of different groups over the course of the workshop. This section explains what these groups are for and when you will be joining them.
PART 4 - Schedule of activities This section provides an overall schedule for the workshop, some information about what to do before, during, and after, as well as a description of each week. On each week’s page, you will find explanations of any new space and processes that may arise as we move through our cycle of community, domain and practice foci. The goals and related activities for each week are listed in a box at the top of each page. To support your ongoing activity, even in personally busy times we have also proposed a minimum level of activity that will keep you engaged in the main discourse for that week of the workshop.
PART 5 - Advice, wisdom, and FAQ’s This section provides some advice about how to maximize your engagement and learning, including some useful tips, advice from former participants, and frequently asked questions.
PART 6 - The Web Crossing platform This workshop is built on a specific software platform called Web Crossing. This last section gives you an overview of the features and functionalities of the workspace we will be using, some of which are inherent in the platform, and some of which we have built especially for the workshop.
Posted by smithjd at December 20, 2003 12:01 AM
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I am impressed at how deep go our feelings towards past experiences with CPsquare workshops!!! Of course that we had the f2f Setubal Dialogue (June 2002) though I remember feeling exactly the same way even before some of us met in flesh...
I really appreciate your work and congratulate you all for the great capacity to get people to feel welcome and inspired! It is definitly a learning-by-doing experience and a collective one in every sense of the word.
I really miss you all and I am looking forward for closer collaboration sometime in the future!
Meanwhile, keep at your best!
AS a participant in last workshop, i'm looking forward to be part of the mentor team this time. I admit I did spend a good deal of time to develop a personally meaningful navigation stragegy inside the workshop environment, and now that I open and skim the manual, it is a great feeling of déja vu of the interface as well as the workshop programme. What I still have to wait for, is who are going to be our guest participants.
I hope to get some active and inspiring weeks, with engaged and active participants, and to meet online with you and our leaders, John Etienne and Bronwyn, to whom I send my warmest greetings from Denmark.
Sus