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Now you can start your own blog community. It uses a Wordpress engine, so it will be quite familiar!

Using Blogs to Enhance Critical Reflection and Community of Practice

The aim of this workshop is to get teachers and members of NGO's (my 2 pet favourate groupings :-) to create and maintain a focussed blog while supporting one another using twitter. We will use twitter as our main communication channel and explore how it can help us to do advocacy for our blog, get quick ideas and discover the learning magic! This way we should be able to get into the habit of "blog-twitting" and also explore how we can use it in all aspects of our lifes, organisations,schools. The blog can be a personal blog, school blog, class blog or a organisational blog!

Students working together as a learning community to create a new culture of learning and teaching through blogging positively affects learning in many ways. I've found the following process effective in accomplishing this goal.