We have a Hangout culture in ALC land. At least once a week I get on a Google Hangout call and talk, coordinate, share, or co-work with my peers. It’s great fun and easy (especially when we’ve set up special hangout links that are always the same, but that’s for another tutorial). Sometimes, though, we …
Category: Process
ALC Network Holding Proposal 2016
Nearly 2 years ago I attended the first ALF Summer at ALC Mosaic in Charlotte, NC. This event marks, in my opinion, the creation of the ALC Network. It was a point when the people and resources came together to support new and emerging ALCs. Now, as we enter our third year, I feel that …
Setting up ALF Summer 16 Documentation Plan
I love documentation and am alerted when information is created and not captured. It’s probably because I grew up on the internet and learned so much from things that were documented by others. I’ve had many experiences where some random bit of information—something seemingly small and insignificant—has had great impact on me. That goodness someone …
Community Mastery Board for ALC Oahu
The CMB is used during the Change Up meeting which is held each week at ALC Oahu. In an effort to make the agreements around community practices available to everyone at any time we decided to digitize the CMB using Trello.com. Click to learn more about how we made a physical board work online.
Daily Intention Board
After sharing an awareness that ALC Oahu wasn't marking down individual intentions at the opening meeting each day one of the facilitators came up with an elegant solution in the form of the Daily Intention Board. Everyone puts their intentions on the board and marks intentions they wish to share. At the end of this board is referenced for reflection.
Online Community Guidelines
I’ve been trying to gather feedback for a card on the ALF Community Mastery Board: I feel like it isn’t being taken serious largely due to the amazing community we have who operate from a place of trust, respect, and understanding. It doesn’t feel like a big deal to define agreements because if something comes up we …
How do we make new ALFs and ALCs?
This weekend on the ALF Summer planning call we began talking about what the process for turning people into Agile Learning Facilitators (ALF) and how to establish schools as Agile Learning Centers (ALC). This post will cover my ideas on these two subjects which are, in my mind, related. I’m going to focus on three ideas. Trademark and protecting …