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Wenger, Etienne; Trayner, Beverly; & de Laat, Maarten. (2011). Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks: a conceptual framework [PDF]. Retrieved June 18, 2011, from www.social-learning-strategies.com/documents/Wenger_Trayner_DeLaat_Value_creation.pdf
in list: Social Networking
This page provides access to "a practitioner-oriented summary of the book [Digital Habitats] that you can download for free. It is couched as an “action notebook” in the sense that it summarizes dozens of practical steps you can take to support your community" (Action Notebook, ¶1, 2011.06.16).
in list: Educational Technology
Vance Stevens recaps recent Ning corporate decisions influencing virtual educational community developers, and outlines alternatives.
in list: Educational Technology
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it would be folly for educators having suffered inconvenience at best, data loss at worst, to commit their content yet again to a potentially unreliable cloud provider. Alec Couros sees this kind of thing happening more and more in the crystal ball future and suggests that schools and educators would be better off investing in self-hosting using FOSS, free and open source software (Couros, 2010).
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As suggested above, the only reliable alternative to Ning is to host your community yourself, or at a trusted institution, where you do your own regular backups, and your content is safe behind a firewall, with a UPS power source in case of power outages, and perhaps some sort of RAID system to keep you running through system crashes.
"... building or hosting an online community? Looking for specific tips, tools and ideas? Start here." (Last edited 1/06, retrieved 2010.06.11)
"Fortunately Facebook, Ning, Google and Yahoo Groups and many other options for social networking don’t work that way. Those communities can continue for as long as the members of the community put in the effort to keep it alive. This can be very useful for students to stay in contact for social, professional and learning opportunities" (Ross, 2008.10.06).
in list: Teacher Education
"... [A]s your site grows, you must think about creating and leading a team of individuals who can help you to deal with the increased activity, and maintain the goals that you've set for your community by enforcing your user guidelines" (Patrick O'Keefe, 2008.04.30).
in list: Online Collaboration
This thought-provoking slide show defines communities of practice (CoPs), compares F2F and online CoPs, includes a quotation that seems to misconstrue cooperation as collaboration (slide 12), and provides illustrations of online CoPs in various venues.
in list: Online Collaboration
tag archive from from Washington State University CTLT blog
in list: Electronic Portfolios
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Assessment of learning by a community inside and outside the classroom is a key component to developing students’ global competencies and building a strong relationship between college learning and society.
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The point here is that when we talk about blogging, most of us focus on writing. We tend to ignore the fact that a class blogging community provides teachers with a very valuable opportunity to use informal instructional conversations to engage our students as thinkers and writers. These conversations can help our students immerse themselves in the rich tapestries of voices that characterize blogging communities.
"Rick Schwier has done some research on online communities, and one of his findings is that the most important element by far in an online community is trust. Trust is the glue that holds any community together. It is especially important in online communities because it is the key form of social capital" (Rob Walll, 2007.06.04).
Recent definition of communities linking to Stephen Downs video about groups and networks:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4126240905912531540
James Farmer's WiZiQ session for Blogging with Educators (2008.02.13) highlighting, among other concepts, Garrison and Anderson's "Community of Inquiry" from E-learning in the 21st Century -- a shortened audio-only (poscast) version is available
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