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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14-fTAxxp9OeL7ICqBVDcTHB2ORd-Zbgmf6p7rkqNOmE

Grace renno

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Two competencies of an online facilitator will be problem solver as all the learning is taking place online. In case of any technical issues the facilitator gets in touch with the respective team(lead facilitator or online pd team) to make sure the problem get solved in the shortest possible time. In F2F any issue like this will be sorted out by the school hosting so the WSL will not have to much to worry about it.

The second one is E-learning savvy because in the online forum you have to choose and use the online platform in an effective way. S/he has to ensure that the e-platform and forum discussions are relevant or inspire further inquires and critical thinking amongst the participants.
Job Description:

An online workshop facilitator should be a good insight of how to use the online Moodle platform and know whom to contact in was of technical errors.

S/he must know how to solve these problems in the shortest possible time to ensure e-learning goes on.

Deepa

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An organized online facilitator (Alfonso)

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An organized online facilitator (Alfonso)

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Online facilitator characteristic:

Professional: An online facilitator is a professional individual who is cordial, punctual, courteous and responsible. As in any learning activity, a facilitator plays a key role in the learning process. He or she is responsible for ensuring that the each participant's learning experience is efficient, effective and of high quality.

IBEN Capability: Self-Management, Organizational Skills. Organization that inspires confidence by demonstrating preparedness, management, prioritization, and clarity. It is used to model processes and structures.

Job Description: An online facilitator is expected to show professionalism by demonstrating preparedness, management, priorization and clarity.

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A facilitator who gets to know participants and promotes rich and purposeful collaboration (Alfonso)

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A facilitator who gets to know participants and promotes rich and purposeful collaboration (Alfonso)

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Competency of online facilitator:
Team builder: An online facilitator is capable of creating group dynamics and nurturing team-work and team-building in an online workshop. He or she is able to step in when the need arises and nurture participation from those who have demonstrated limited participation or interest. He or she understands the group’s limitations and strengths, encouraging members to share their strengths and learn from others, in order to address their weaknesses.
IBEN Capability: Social Collaboration that demonstrates a respect for multiple perspectives with a goal of achieving specific outcomes.  It is used to demonstrate the power of the peer learning model.
Job description: An online facilitator is expected to promote diverse and meaningful grouping strategies to create the conditions for participants to be engaged, come out of their comfort zones and generate ideas with others.

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(by Anna Maria Zosa)

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Competencies of an online facilitator
Problem-solver
An online facilitator finds solutions to problems. If there is a technical issue, a content issue or a registration issue, he or she will liaise with appropriate person in the Online Professional Development team to ensure that the problem is resolved in a short time.

IBEN Capabilities
Thinking (Transfer)
The educator effectively demonstrates the application of skills, knowledge, and attitudes in new context always going beyond personal experience.

Job description
An ideal facilitator is one who anticipates situations that could affect the participants and establishes possible alternative solutions for each person to assume the path of their learning. At the same time, he or she is able to establish learning activities that detonate the interest to change the routine practice and motivate innovation through the practicality of what has been learned.

Gustavo Páez

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- Is efficiently organized in a way that inspires confidence and thoroughly demonstrates preparedness, management, prioritization, and clarity. (capability)
-  Monitors participation in discussion forums and the completion of assigned tasks via the registration log and via the submission of completed work. (role and responsibility)
-  Organizes groups of participants so as to encourage collaborative work when needed. (role and responsibility)
-  The online facilitator demonstrates organization by forming groups of participants to engage in social learning and creating engagements in which participants collaborate to gain a deeper understanding of knowledge and skills.  S/he manages and monitors participants’ contributions by asking probing questions to encourage participants to dig deeper, communicate clarity when necessary, and providing feedback to inspire confidence. (job description)
Cat Blas

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As one of my selected competences, I selected creativity. I suppose as an arts educator, the creative process is something I feel attached to. Research has shown that within the creative process the opportunity to fail is paramount. Often, one can learn only after making mistakes. I find that some of the most significant learning happens in an environment where this is possible and feasible. I like this aspect of WSL competencies. Creativity inspires open-mindedness and exploration . I hope to instil such a culture in the online workshops.

IBAN Capability - Self Management Affective Skills:

Diplomatic solutions are central to finding solutions to issues that at times cause anxiety. Being open - minded and trying to  seek multiple ends to a goal are also essential in the process. I hope I can find / develop a process where online learners are able to find their own paths in an environment that makes sense to them. This will most probably happen through episodes of frustration. When I reflect on my own students, I find that the students that have gone through some sort of frustrating experience have often ended up with deeper threads of understanding

Jim

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Selected online facilitator competency: Professional
Being professional is the key to effective high-quality teaching and learning at all levels with workshop participants as well as with students. Being professional means being fully responsible and conscientious, savvy in the subject, skilled in its communication to different learners in differentiated ways, while creating a respectful and supportive learning community, inspiring each of its members to reach his /her full potential.

Selected IB educator capability
Self-management
Being prepared, clear in communicating information and in setting priorities,   inspiring participants to participate following guidelines and respecting deadlines, being attentive to others' ideas, perspectives and capabilities, offering clear and constructive input all along the learning process.

Job description
A good online facilitator is a facilitator who walks the talk, a good strategy for effective leadership. For example, a professional online facilitator can role-model by setting the friendly and supportive tone to inspire and build a community of learners and boost their exchanges, yet clearly demonstrating the sense of responsibility and conscientiousness expected for a high quality and effective learning experience for all participants. The workshop online platform structure with its high quality multi media resources and scaffolded individual and group activities discreetly yet effectively led by our facilitators, burning questions, etc. are actually great examples for that, while the profile section, coffee corner, first learning engagement “Meet and greet” are also great examples for setting the friendly tone and team spirit needed to make all participants confident and inspired learners.

Dorsaf Kouki

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Online forums open the door for reflective thinking, allowing facilitators and participants to post, reconsider and respond to comments and ideas from others.  This reflection time allows us to consider different examples, texts etc which can be used to augment our arguments.  For example to illustrate how language choices can influence our reactions I would play a short video on the power of words.  Stop the video just before the end and have participants predict what she wrote.  The answer is not the most important aspect, but the exercise in language choices is important.

A second need for an online facilitator that I struggle with is being organized, not with the content, but with the multiple personalities and the multiple perspectives that they eschew. I envision a desk with pieces of paper, and copious notes as I try to read and follow all of the discussion threads etc. The key will be deciding what I don't need to include and what must be responded to. Looking at all of the posts on this page gives me a sense of the issue.
John Syvitski

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| Competencies of an online facilitator
Creative
| Facilitating an online workshop requires a certain degree of creativity in the areas of interaction between and among participants and facilitator(s), and in the delivery of assignments and tasks.

| IBEN capabilities
| Thinking skills The online
facilitator should be able to think critically and creatively while thinking of the community of the workshop as he/she needs synthesis of ideas to go beyond personal experience to inspire the participants to think critically and creatively which lead to new ideas and deep understanding.

Job description

While preparing for an online workshop the online facilitator should take inconsideration that the assignments he/she designing must give the participants the chance to deal with what required from different perspectives which allow for verity of response and which lead for rich discussion which could generate new ideas. As well the online facilitator should read all the responses and should gives comments related to good ideas and maybe to add for those ideas which encouraging creativity and thinking critically

Ibtihal Mahmoud