3. Community of Practice
Share common interest
May be organized by someone like a teacher,
department head, administrator, pro-d chair, or
professional association.
Members know each other and meet face-2-
face periodically
May or may not rely on technology
4. Network of Practice
Share a common interest
Decentralized
Do it yourself
Members may not know each other or ever
meet
Rely on technology
Fun, exciting, empowering, viral, disruptive
8. What Can You Do?
You need to:
Get involved in your Community of Practice
Participate a Network of Practice
Build your Personal Learning Environment
Use some of the tools
10. For me one of the greatest advantages in
networking via blogs, tweets and online social
networks has been the ease with which I am
finding that exposure to other perspectives and
ways of thinking. In an easy and fluid way this
forces me to keep a critical mind.
Betty Gilgoff
12. I'm no expert in Web 2.0, but via Twitter, RSS,
del.icio.us, etc., I can subscribe to the brains of
people who are. This stuff is really amazing. You
gotta try it.
@skydaddy
19. At its best, the social medium is a
perpetual, personalized news service
about topics of your choosing —
whether health care reform, tech
news or the latest episode of “Gossip
Girl” — filtered and served to you by
people who care a lot about what you
care a lot about.
New York Times
20. But for those who stick with it, those
who are active enough to allow
themselves to be drawn into
conversations, start to see their
transaction spaces change. New ideas
flow into them which begin to widen
horizons.
SpEdChange
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38. Create a Twitter Account
Fill in your bio
Add a photo
Protect your timeline, or not?
51. “Knowledge becomes personalized after
conversations and interactions with others.”
“In the net-gen world, it is what I have done and
shared, not what I own that is important.”
John Seely Brown Tech It Up 2009
52. If you can be replaced by a computer then you
probably should be! The truth is that technology will
never replace teachers, however teachers who know
how to use technology effectively to help their
students connect and collaborate together online will
replace those who do not.
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
Alec Couros McToonish (Heather) Dean, Murch, Bud (the teacher)
teacher led to online to tutor (web 2.0
http://compfight.com/
The change acknowledges that Twitter has grown far beyond the more personal status updates it was originally envisioned to convey, and has morphed into a sort of always-on, source-agnostic information network that is wholly unique. Twitter says they don’t expect the change to at all influence how people actually use Twitter, but might “make it easier to explain to your dad.”
The change acknowledges that Twitter has grown far beyond the more personal status updates it was originally envisioned to convey, and has morphed into a sort of always-on, source-agnostic information network that is wholly unique. Twitter says they don’t expect the change to at all influence how people actually use Twitter, but might “make it easier to explain to your dad.”
The change acknowledges that Twitter has grown far beyond the more personal status updates it was originally envisioned to convey, and has morphed into a sort of always-on, source-agnostic information network that is wholly unique. Twitter says they don’t expect the change to at all influence how people actually use Twitter, but might “make it easier to explain to your dad.”