I wanted to embed a working spreadsheet into my project this week. I spent several hours looking and testing something that would work. I don't know if it's but only one, but Microsoft Office web ...
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2690 This article explains the difference between just collaboratively working together compared to actually forming a CoP. Most teachers see working in...
http://www.educationnews.org/ednews_today/157355.html Students share essays, projects, and poems, short stories, book reports on a secure password protected webpage. By doing this students are ab...
Probably the most useful tool in a low-paper (or paperless) modern language class. Showbie is principally a paperless inbox for students to turn in work. Teachers can correct the work directly in t...
Hi, I just joined this group. One of my go-to sites lately has been this one: http://www.p21.org/our-work/4cs-research-series There is a lot of talk lately in my work circle about the 4Cs: Collab...
Hi Jenni, Thanks for sharing this article. I appreciated the practicality and metaphors used within this article in describing a personal learning network. The importance of PLN's for students was...
Hara, N. (2008). Communities of Practice: Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place. Springer. Hara's book documents a fascinating study he conducted observ...
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/conf/olkc/archive/oklc5/papers/e-4_cox.pdf. Although I am assuming this paper was written around 2002, it clearly documents the evolution of communities of ...
I found this resource to be helpful in understanding a CoP more objectively. So many of the resources I found and read focus on education, which is my profession, but I think viewing CoP examples f...
This blog post, written by Urbano Reviglio, provides a nice overview of connectivism and how it relates to learning in today's world. His summary of Siemens' original work on connectivism is incred...
Hey Terrence! You're welcome. I hope I did it right. :) It seemed logical to do things that way. Cheers! Buffy
http://valenciacollege.edu/faculty/development/tla/documents/CommunityofPractice.pdf In this article, Smith summarizes the work of Lave and Wenger related to their social learning theory known as C...
This was a great article on Communities of Practice. This week, I have really enjoyed understanding more clearly exactly what that means. I really liked the simplicity of Wenger's definition. "they...
This website discusses the learning theory of Lave and Wenger. This website discusses how communities of practice are a way to improve knowledge. They state, "People see [communities of practice] a...
I found both these links very interesting and informative this week as I was working to make a presentation more interactive. Drag and Drop PowerPoint Macro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQHhh...
I was working with the Songify app and Voki. Songify produces an audio file that Voki doesn't recognize. This site was able to convert it for me: http://www.convertfiles.com/convert/audio/M4A-to...
This article has a great list of new trends in the culture of learning. The trend that I found most surprising and relevant to PLN's is the formal education is no longer the majority of our learnin...
This is a great paper talking about connectivity with "what we learn" "How we learn" and "Where we Learn." The author is from Chile is give a good perspective on this works world wide.
This article compares the real application of MOOC to the theory of connectivity and how it is meant to work.
