To examine which of your programs might be moved to an online format:
• Start thinking about the 'online component’ of your community activities as a core activity, not ‘just an add on’. I put my monthly notices, calendars and resources online and am reviewing my curriculum to determine which might work on-line.
• Look at what e-tools you already use and consider how you might extend those uses to communicate with your community members eg. collect email addresses from your community members and send regular newsletters online (saves postage) and gives you the chance to incorporate a variety of media.
• Decide how to facilitate your community's activities and what tools you’ll need to do so i.e. whether to use discussion boards, blogs, voice, audio/video streaming or chats etc.
• Think about what you plan to do from your own, your colleagues and, of course, your participants’ perspectives.
• Take some time to consider how you will model what you consider to be ‘best online practice’, in whatever form that takes.
• Finally, have a class from your area high school or community college design and set-up your online presence.
Be open to ideas and demonstrate a willingness to listen and adapt to changing conditions (last year, nobody knew about tweeting).
Have fun!
• Start thinking about the 'online component’ of your community activities as a core activity, not ‘just an add on’. I put my monthly notices, calendars and resources online and am reviewing my curriculum to determine which might work on-line.
• Look at what e-tools you already use and consider how you might extend those uses to communicate with your community members eg. collect email addresses from your community members and send regular newsletters online (saves postage) and gives you the chance to incorporate a variety of media.
• Decide how to facilitate your community's activities and what tools you’ll need to do so i.e. whether to use discussion boards, blogs, voice, audio/video streaming or chats etc.
• Think about what you plan to do from your own, your colleagues and, of course, your participants’ perspectives.
• Take some time to consider how you will model what you consider to be ‘best online practice’, in whatever form that takes.
• Finally, have a class from your area high school or community college design and set-up your online presence.
Be open to ideas and demonstrate a willingness to listen and adapt to changing conditions (last year, nobody knew about tweeting).
Have fun!
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