This is a great example of a well maintained page that has the feeling of a sales pitch for potential new students.

While not an example of student learning, this facebook page serves as a quick reference for admission questions for new students, and could easily be tied to learning outcomes.

This is a great example of a well maintained page that has the feeling of a sales pitch for potential new students.

This is San Diego State University's facebook page, which effectively uses, through a bill board style, links to all major parts of campus. This is similar to the links you would find on a webpage for the school with the added benefit of seeing current student activity in bulletin boards, and finding services with relative ease.

Facebook page for UNF international center. provides mediums for new students to contact current students - with indicated moderation of appropriateness.

This site dicates how facebook, twitter, and youtube were all used as social media for a school platform. While it does not make any strong conclusions it does indicate that it was positive, and how they made it so.

This site explains how facebook was setup at one learning center and some of the perceived accomplishments. It indicates increased communication and promotion of services and events with community.

This article was accessed via login at Boise State Library. The research article is a survey of a small sample of graduate students who indicate that many students are used to using facebook in informal ways, but perceive the potential for acceptable grading and learning outcomes through a facebook format.

This article was accessed bia Boise State Library login. This article reveiws a survey of students in a case study where facebook was used as an LMS. The findings are that it can be used to supplement, or substitute an LMS; and that it is most appropriate for younger students. Privacy was an important concern.

This research is an indication from a librarian at the amount of communication at a university. The primary preferred tool for undergraduate students was facebook.

This project case study offers a mixed review, but with one valuable conclusion: student prefer to use Facebook for communication and will voluntarily participate in academic discussions.

Here is my positive digital footprint plan, and one quick quote "I've usually don't see people get hired for their online reputation but I've seen them get fired for it." - Roy Hansen(my wise brother) http://toddhansenlearninglog.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/managing-digital-reputations/

Scholarly review of different theories in communities of practice.

Some history on learning theories and the origins of communities of practice.

From Harvard business school this text by Dr. Etienne Wenger with its brief outline is for "cultivating" communities of practice.

Professional community of practice dedicated to training and develoment, with not only a good definition of COP but also employment offers, crtifications, and pd.

By Dr. Etienne Wenger tthis is a stong definition oa community of practice with some thought given to implementation.

By Etienne Wenger, this site offers her defintion and categorization of communities of practice.

A community of practice that you could belong to and learn from.

This is a site that offers a lot of unique resources for online learning environments. I picked this book which offers another simple definition of PLE amongst other things.