ETUGONLINE COMMUNITY

ETUG EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY USERS GROUP

AS A GRASSROOTS GROUP, ETUG HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE SINCE 1994. OVER THE YEARS ETUG HAS PRESENTED THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS IN SUPPORT OF INNOVATION AND BEST PRACTICES IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN BC:

annual face-to-face workshops held in the fall and springannual bc innovation awards in educational technologyonline discussions on topics of interest to membersreal-time web-based eventsinstitutional updatesthe etug news (a monthly newsletter)

BACKGROUND STUDY

the members

professional learnersSUPPORTIVE AND SHARED LEADERSHIP

COLLECTIVE CREATIVITY

SHARED VALUE AND VISION

SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT

SHARED PERSONAL PRACTICE

why do we keep

coming back ?Great place to try things out and get practice at presenting and getting feedbackValue: collaboration and collegialPositive and enthusiastic environmentGet support from innovative foward looking peoplePlace where people can talk about similar interest Place where institutions talk to each otherPositive and welcomingThe value of being connected Fun and great networkingLearning from each other

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SCETUG MEETINGINNOVATION AWARD AND SHOWCASE

COMMUNITY SHEPHERD

NEWSLETTER

ONLINE EVENT (ELLUMINATE)

FACE TO FACE EVALUATION

EVENT FOLLOW-UP

FEEDBACK FROM MEMBER

SHARING RESOURCES

PROFILE USERS

NOVEMBER 3RD, 2011

IDEAS FROM

ONLINE COMMUNICATION

THINKING THROUGH OUR

http://etug.ca/

what can we

Clarity Around The Purpose Of The Website

Define The Use Of Group Tool

Differentiate Between Page And Post

Forum And File Sharing For The Each Group And In General

Support Page For The Website

Engage The Member With Online Activity

Great place to try things out and get practice at presenting and getting feedbackValue: collaboration and collegialPositive and enthusiastic environmentGet support from innovative foward looking peoplePlace where people can talk about similar interest Place where institutions talk to each otherPositive and welcomingThe value of being connected Fun and great networkingLearning from each other

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EXISTING COMMUNITIESlearning from

http://blogs.ubc.ca/ http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/

CUNY ACADEMIC COMMONSwhy it works?

Featured group is listed in the homepage; get people's attention about different group

Online member is shown in home page; enabling communication between members.

Gallery: flashing pictures showing what people can do in the website and one or two current news

Clear tab: home; people; group;blog; wiki; news; about

Well thought out help section; faq, help forum, help blog, email support, take a tour

UBC BLOGSwhy it works?

Paragraph explaining the community briefly, with all the essential link such as forum, group, etc

Simple tab : home group blogs forums member activity

Have general group, everyone is automatically joining this group once become a member

Show all forums posted in any groups

Well thought help section; faq, contact us, face to face.

YOUR COMMENTSIt was great to network and I really enjoyed that aspect. You had time built into the schedule for that and it was great to see everyone talking and sharing. What a great group of people.

I've attended ALL of the workshops! I am an ETUGGER for LIFE

Try to develop the ETUG website as a place where we can keep these f2f connections going. Perhaps focused synchronous online sessions combined with focus discussions (kind of like like SCOPE) to attract & keep people at the site?

Networking & reconnecting with colleagues is always valuable. I did feel a bit trapped with only a single stream of sessions.

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