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There are 30 comments in this document
  1. About This Report (4)
  2. Why We Need to Connect and Inspire Educators (17)
  3. The Educational Potential of Online Communities of Practice (0)
  4. Documented Benefits of Online Communities of Practice (0)
  5. Extending Established Practices and Research on How Educators Learn (0)
  6. Opportunities—and Challenges—for Online Communities of Practice (1)
  7. Practical Guidance for Online Communities of Practice (0)
  8. Core Qualities of Notable Online Communities of Practice (4)
  9. Current and Aspirational Roles and Responsibilities (1)
  10. Community Technology Matters (2)
  11. Metrics to Evaluate the Impact (0)
  12. Balancing Guidance and Community Tensions (0)
  13. Next Steps (0)
  14. References (0)
  15. Acknowledgments (0)
  16. List of Tables (0)
  17. Table 1. A Sample of Community Technologies, Descriptions, and Functions (0)
  18. Table 2. Matching Sample Community Technologies and Orientations (1)
  19. Table 3: Community Tensions (0)
bastetswarrior
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In the style of the "What Works in Distance Learning", what is the research strength for each? Or a ranking of their importance? For those of us with limited resources, systems that have all 7 of these qualities might not be immediately feasible.
lauragibbs
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I credit Steve Hargadon's Classroom2.0 with really waking me up to the power of social learning. As Classroom2.0 got very large, one of its participants, the wonderful Connie Weber, created a Ning, FiresideLearning, which recruited folks from Classroom2.0 who wanted a smaller Ning experience. We've been going strong for some years now. I do not have enough good things to say about the Ning experience: if Dept. of Ed. could offer a free Ning-like network, that would already be something wonderful and very welcome. Kudos to Steve Hargadon for having been such a great leader in all of this! I use a Ning (which I pay for out of pocket) for my online courses at the Univ. of Oklahoma - what a great way for people to share and learn together online!
lauragibbs
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RSS please!!! Plus, take a lesson from the great widgets that Twitter offers, allowing people to embed a nice content stream (their own tweets, or tweets from a list of accounts) in other webpages, etc.
lauragibbs
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Please don't forget social sign-on - you are not starting from a blank slate here! For people who have active Facebook, Google or Twitter online identities already, being able to use that log in with a network is great. Ning.com now supports Google and Facebook sign-ons and I believe they are about to support Twitter sign-on also. I sure hope this kind of social sign-on will be part of what this program will promote; don't wall yourselves off from all the great stuff already going on at Ning, Facebook, Twitter and so on, including people already using Google to blog, etc.
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