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The relationship building will be most important during online learning. I will work to use steer technics to keep my teachers engaged and know that I care about their learning.

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Reflecting back, I am reminded that the keys to online facilitation is relationships. Within relationships, we must listen, support and guide the conversation with facts, but must also step back to allow the participants to find meaning that can be applied in each individual case.  We must also use the skills to facilitation in a scaffolded model to ensure all participants are able to engage fully without constraints of technology or other non content related issues.

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The past two weeks have been a whirlwind; this asynchronous training was not only perfectly timed but quite relevant to my real-world job! As we transition to online professional development at the county level, my roles, responsibilities, and modes of delivery are changing at a rapid pace. I appreciated learning about the skills necessary to be an effective online facilitator, including building trust and collaborative culture, tools for motivating and sustaining authentic engagement, and protocols for providing effective and timely feedback. Interacting with colleagues has been enlightening, and the opportunity collectively to learn and explore new ideas in a safe space is meaningful and appreciated. Thank you for the learning experience and opportunity to hone my skills as we prepare to facilitate AVID Digital XP; I look forward to applying this learning with my CoP group in the upcoming week.

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These past two weeks have been enlightening and interesting in so many ways. Understanding the methods that AVID will use in the DigitalXP sessions helps focus my thoughts as a facilitator. The provided reading, from the Salmon model to sustaining engagement, gave clarity in what was expected. I appreciated the specific strategies given for addressing the audience and keeping everyone engaged. I truly believe we can use each of these to adapt our face-to-face experience to the DigitalXP world. AVID is known for its amazing training and I have no doubt that we are being prepared to give that amazing training through a digital format.

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What I've learned is the skill of engaging meaningfully with participants in digital settings, but not in a way that I would've expected. What I've loved is that we've done this through discussion and active participation. And, with my notes, I have the opportunity to revisit, because I know that a lot of these different strategies, because what I've learned I'll need time to process and remember. However, more than anything,  I've re-learned the importance of relationships and making people feel valued and listened to. And, while this is different than how we do this in person, what I do feel confident about is my ability to learn this skill, bit by bit, day by day.

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The last two weeks have flown by and I have experienced so much during the time. I appreciate the information shared among colleagues as we deepened our understanding of becoming an effective online facilitator. As many of us have been facilitators in the real world, or what we call face-to-face, the now digital experience is new to most of us. Our lives have changed in a few short months and many of us are using what we learned in these two weeks, in our every day job as we become online teachers and facilitators. Will our world change again as we prepare to end this school year, and make plans for next? Yes, yes it will change and I plan on using what I've learned.

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One of my favorite pieces over the last two weeks was the article, “Your Online Voice: How Can You Set the Tone?” I learned a lot about how to encourage and support participants online, despite the lack of non-verbal cues. One piece that really resonated with me was about letting your participants see/hear your real personality throughout the online PD. It is important to be flexible and ready for anything. A smile and a sense of humor will get you through!

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I have enjoyed this training. My understanding of what it takes to be an effective online facilitator has deepened. The way I approach teaching online has nuances that I had not considered in the past.  I most appreciated the conversations on engagement and moderating discussions. I see how important it is to set expectations and allow everyone to share. It's also essential to manage time to check in on discussions. I will now be using the effectiveness of this experience to gauge the effectiveness of future online courses, ones that I teach, or take.

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I appreciated the pacing of the course by breaking the learning into chunks.  This allowed time to process and then come back for new information the next day.  This was manageable.  I appreciated the varied opportunities to interact with content through discussion and learn from the other members of this course.  I saved copies of the resources and added much of the information to my notes.  I plan to revisit it when we begin facilitating to refresh.

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I have really enjoyed this training. Talk about timely and relevant! With the shift to online learning, my role as an instructional coach has changed a lot. Focusing on the skills necessary in being an effective online facilitator has reinforced the idea that best practices are 'best practices'. (establishing a solid culture & environment, having tools to foster engagement and providing feedback that supports growth - to highlight a few.) Thank you so much for the opportunity to grow my craft!

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I enjoyed the time we have spent together. The pacing of the course, the material and the ability to gather my thoughts as we move toward facilitating AVID Digital XP has been great! I loved all of the information on providing feedback as well as how to transition presentation strategies into the online facilitation world. Thank you for the growth opportunity.

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This was a very informative experience. It has me thinking how important the organization of content delivered is. There must be intentionally scaffolding to support all learners virtually and I am really looking forward to seeing how AVID has translated strands to virtual learning. It is still a big wonderment as this two week course did not mirror that of the Digital XP experience. I wonder what it would actually feel like to have 90 sync. 90 mins async. etc. from home. I wonder it will be like to monitor participation and my biggest question, how do we monitor that learning is taking place. Still lots of wonderments and I am sure through the next two weeks it will become clearer.

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There was a lot of great articles and strategies for presenting and I look forward to utilizing them. The methods we learned will come in handy in my 'day job' as well as my online facilitation for AVID. Being able to diffuse a dominating personality, make effective, positive suggestions or guide an online conversation will make me more effective at both.
I feel like my cup is full and I need practice to further develop my skill with them.

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As I reflect on these past two weeks, the key point that resonates with me is that the role of the facilitator is to be the "guide on the side." As a facilitator, we help develop relationships and foster a positive learning community where participants feel safe to take the risks necessary to grow as a learner. We guide the learners to individually and collectively explore new ideas via inquiry so that they may deepen, expand and/or gain new understanding. Using 5 Stage Model,  effective feedback,  questioning and suggestion strategies, etc., we strive to facilitate a  student-centered experience that includes appropriate scaffolding while also encouraging student agency and ownership of their ideas.  Success can be measured in the learner transferring their new knowledge and skills to positively impact their own teaching practices.

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I love how AVID organizes staff development! This has made me focus in about my participants. Between Salmon's model and Start-Steer-Summarize, I have reflected on feedback and participant engagement. Everything is ebb and flow between where people are and what they need. At the same time, it is remembering that people are at different stages and only through feedback, will we really know. Discussions will be very important in our work.

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This was another example of how AVID provides the best staff development- the tools I am coming away with are going to be helpful to me in my everyday roles, beyond facilitation. I think we all can use work on providing feedback, but in a n online setting, we need to be especially mindful. While many of us are able to use visual or vocal shifts to help transitions, or show examples, or be humorous, we will have to be grow and be ready to do this in new written ways.

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There are so many great things that resonated with me over the two weeks and the learning in this course.  Making sure feedback is timely, and moves the learning forward and deeper is probably my biggest take away.  I also really liked learning about Gilly Salmon's model as well as "Start - Steer- Summarize".  Both of these models I will also be implementing in my classroom and with my staff at the school I work at.  It is also very important that the participants remain engaged and that the information and strategies presented are relevant and able to be implemented upon return to their classrooms.   It was a great course and I am excited to begin!

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The facilitator acts in different roles as the participants progress in their learning. Within each stage the modules of content will be delivered in a start-steer-summarize. Level of summary and coaching will depend on what stage participants are in within the stages of online learning. Feedback is imperative to building community, creating pace, and continuing engagement. Making connections allows for participants to connect with one another and build community, takes those that feel they don't need the content to find a place to look forward with their learning, and finally - making connection allows for the learning to feel cohesive in a space that can often feel one dimensional or disconnected.

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Providing timely, specific feedback can help steer the online asynchronous discussions and keep all the participants learning and engaged.
It is also important to continue with our AVID model of professional learning using that immerse, engage, and debrief- or online- start-steer-summarize so that participants can dive into the learning, have ownership, and make connections within and among ideas so that their learning stays with them.