Moderation script : © Social Networking 2009 Moderation script
Slide 2 : © Social Networking 2009 Moderator 1 starts session:Good morning everybody. Welcome to Social Networking: Thriving as a community of practice, a fully free online event for English teachers around the globe. My name is ______________________. I am an EFL/ESL/ESP/BE teacher at ________________and an Avealmec/ARCALL member. It is a great pleasure for me to introduce (guest speaker’s name), one of our guest speakers for today. He/she will be talking about ____________________________. Welcome (guest speaker’s name), and thank you for accepting our invitation!
I would also like to introduce the other two members of the moderating team for this session: (Mod 2’s full name and Mod 3’s first full name). (Mod 2’s first name) will give us a brief biography on the guest speaker and mention some rules we all have to follow during this presentation. (Mod 3’s first name) will be taking notes on participants' turn to ask question to our guest speaker at the end of his/her presentation.So, (Mod 2), would you please tell us a bit about (guest speaker’s name)?(Mod 1 mutes mic and gives the floor to Mod 2)
Slide 3 : © Social Networking 2009 Moderator 2 says hello, introduces him/herself and the guest speaker:
Hi! (or Good morning/afternoon/evening) My name is ____________________________.
I am an (EFL/ESL/ESP/BE) teacher at ________________and an Avealmec / ARCALL member.
(Guest speakers’ name) is __(Biography) ______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________
We are really proud to have you here, (guest speaker’s name).Before listening to (guest speaker’s first name)’s presentation, a quick reminder on netiquettes (Mod 2 reminds netiquettes and protocol for the round of questions).
Well, (guest speaker’s first name), the floor is yours.
(Guest speaker starts presentation and Mod 2 mutes the mic.)
Slide 4 : © Social Networking 2009 Moderator 1 speaks again:
Thank you, guest speakers’ name, for such an interesting presentation. Now we will start the round of questions. (Mod 3’s name) will take note of your names according to the request order and announce each participant's turn to ask the corresponding questions. Please, use @ if you want to ask a question and get the question ready before your turn.
Moderator 3: After making a list of participants, announces via Chat one by one the turn to ask and prevents the following turn. Moderator 1 can help reading the questions, if need be.
Slide 5 : © Social Networking 2009 Moderator 1 gets back as soon as the round of questions ends:
If there are no more questions for___________ I will quickly summarize what s/he talked about in this session: (Summary goes here).Before finishing the session, we would like to thank (guest speaker’s name) and all the people who attended this session today. Just a reminder, the chat will remain open some minutes for you to interact with the guest speaker and other participants, or just say goodbye and get ready for the next session.
Our next session will be _________________and start at _____GMT time _____VEN ______ARG. You are all cordially invited. While the session starts, you can visit our forums in Moodle (gives the link) and leave your comments there.
Mod. 1 thanks Mod 2 and Mod 3 and ends the session.
* This is just a sample of what we should say. Some expressions or words are modifiable, but the steps must be kept.