The objectives of the teachers’ weekends are to:
- Show the power of the Connexions platform for using, building, sharing and adapting resources
- Promote the formation of new communities forming that use Connexions as a use to support their activities and provide the possibility of for new communities to form
- Provide an environment that can enhance existing communities or swap and share groups
We don’t prescribe groups, we don’t force communities and we let workgroups find their own organising principle. What we promise is to support any groups/communities that do come out of our training. This makes it a little harder to ensure that a certain number of groups come out of any particular training exercise but should mean that they are less reliant on us and more sustainable.
The good news is that it is paying off, today we got our first concrete support request from a group that has formed from some teachers who were at our Cape Town workshop but, more excitingly, also teachers they’ve recruited to the group that didn’t attend our workshop.
They are already organising their own meetings without our prompting or coordination (sustainability!) and we’ll send a rep to their next meeting to help them form a workgroup on Connexions and answer technical questions.