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Introduction to communities of practice by Etienne Wenger

Tags: community, education, plc on 2009-06-17 and saved by 4 people -All Annotations (2) -About

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Small study of reflective blogging to build a learning community with teachers. Overall, the results were positive and the teachers felt the experience was beneficial, but there were some technical and other difficulties.

Tags: blog, community, education, research, plc on 2009-05-27 and saved by 4 people -All Annotations (4) -About

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A 6th grade teacher talks about the advantage of threaded blog comments for building a writing community. This encourages much more of students talking to each other and makes it easier to follow blog conversations.

Tags: writing, blog, education, community, k-12 on 2009-02-25 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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Not a whole lot new to me here, but a solid collection of principles to guide online facilitators. If you're looking for an introduction for facilitators or administrators who aren't familiar with online learning or don't really "get" why you can't just shovel face-to-face content into an LMS to have a great course, this would be a good way to help show what's required to go beyond the mediocrity typical of many online courses.

Tags: e-learning, education, highered, community, assessment, instructionaldesign on 2009-01-27 and saved by 24 people -All Annotations (34) -About

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JALN article on creating a community of inquiry through online discussions, with positive results for students' perceived learning and satisfaction. Specifically, the authors found that, at least in this context, cognitive and teaching presence were correlated with both learning and satisfaction, but social presence only improved satisfaction. Registration required to download the PDF.

Tags: e-learning, education, inquiry, community, discussion, research on 2009-01-08 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Ning community set up by the authors of Reinventing Project-Based Learning, used for a course. The group is currently dormant, but the archived discussions still have some interest and will likely provide some inspiration for the project-based learning with multimedia course I'm revising.

Tags: pbl, education, 21stcenturyskills, MEGA, ning, community on 2009-01-07 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Introduction to Creative Commons explaining how CC licenses benefit content creators who want to share their work with the world. Includes an overview of the differences between licenses.

Tags: creativecommons, copyright, community on 2008-12-04 and saved by 7 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Michele Martin debriefs the experience of teaching the Work Literacy online course via Ning. Several things they did were very successful. Ning was a good platform, even though it's intended as a social networking tool rather than a CMS. Explicitly saying that different levels of participation were acceptable meant that lurkers felt comfortable dipping in and out as legitimate perispheral participants. Was the course a success? It sounds like they all learned from the experience; to me, that means it's a success even if some aspects didn't work as they hoped.

Tags: e-learning, ning, socialnetworking, community, learnercontrol on 2008-11-14 and saved by 6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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5 minute presentation on slideshare with tips for guiding online communities

Tags: fun, community, leadership on 2008-10-28 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Describes several smaller social network platforms with some pluses and minuses, including Ning, Grou.ps, Buddy Press, and Elgg.

Tags: socialnetworking, opensource, tools, community on 2008-09-29 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Course from Wikieducator on communication and community for online facilitators. Offered as a formal course with a facilitator or informal participation at your own pace.

Tags: e-learning, community, communication, teaching on 2008-07-25 and saved by 51 people -All Annotations (4) -About

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Although this is written specifically for online tutors, much of the information and advice applies to online facilitators as well. The authors examine cultural differences in the online learning environment, including how diversity affects language, written text, images, metaphors, communication style, and online presence. Appendix B is a chart comparing different linguistic groups and cultures.

Tags: FST, diversity, e-learning, teaching, communication, community on 2008-07-01 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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22-page article on designing for diversity in online learning. Examines how cultural differences can affect learning and shares culturally inclusive instructional design models. Table 1 on page 6 compares high-context and low-context learning (such as how formal student-teacher relationships are).

Tags: e-learning, highered, diversity, communication, community, context, instructionaldesign on 2008-06-26 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Wiki Patterns explanation of participation in a wiki with the 90-9-1 theory. This includes some of the statistics of participation for Wikipedia and other community sites.

Tags: community, wiki, patterns, engagement on 2008-05-20 and saved by 9 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Best practices for wiki adoption in organizations:
* Start with what you already do
* Don't mandate--let it grow naturally
* Invite Senior Leadership
* Find the Champions
* Practice what you preach

Tags: wiki, community, orgculture on 2008-05-14 and saved by 8 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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One of the founders of Flickr writes about building online community. One of his big points is that if you create too many hard and fast rules, people are less creative and open to conversation. It's better to build community by providing spaces for people to negotiate the guidelines for themselves as much as possible.

Tags: community, flickr, conversation, learnercontrol, creativity, quoteable on 2008-05-06 and saved by 22 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Collection of posts and ideas about etiquette and expected behavior in the edublogosphere, including dealing with inappropriate comments, online reputation, and healthy debate.

Tags: blog, community, education, citations, reputation on 2008-05-01 and saved by 16 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Better view of the site community around my site, showing which pages are bookmarked, how many have been bookmarked, and who saved them.

Tags: community, diigo, socialbookmarking, socialnetworking on 2008-03-31 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Vanity search on Diigo to see everyone who has bookmarked my blog. They call this the "user community" around the site.

Tags: community, diigo, socialbookmarking, socialnetworking on 2008-03-31 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Resources and descriptions for teaching practices using open source tools

Tags: community, education, highered, learning, opensource on 2008-03-26 and saved by 6 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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