OCC faculty member training
By Clare Roberson • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: IBLast week we held a three-day training session for six “new” OCC online faculty members*. We hold these training sessions once or twice a year at IB Cardiff so that new online faculty members can get hands-on experience of managing their own parts of the OCC and be introduced to, and start to become familiar with, e-moderator skills. This year we also ran some sessions on the use of RSS feeds and aggregators, social book marking websites like del.icio.us, and we also played around on a wiki. The training session is a great opportunity for faculty members to connect with each other, and equally important, it helps to establish good working relationships with IB staff.
We currently have 89 online faculty members across all three IB programmes. Our newest members are:
Middle Years Programme
Suyi Wang: Chinese B
Marcela Bidegain: arts in Spanish
Diploma Programme
David McIntyre: English A2
Dave Mulkey: computer science
Cynthia Ballheim : DP coordinators
All three programmes
Lynda Slattery: academic honesty.
Welcome everyone, to our online community!
* OCC online faculty members are responsible for managing the OCC discussions forums and resources in their own subject area.
Thanks Dimitris, you missed an excellent Indian meal at Cafe Naz, and another group of promising pedagogical practitioners!
James, I like your new haircut!