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Interviews with four CoP practitioners including Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, May 2012. PLP uses three buoys for worksites--Ning, wiki, and website.

A nicely organized record of Sheryl's interviews over several years, published in May 2012

This is a wonderful blog that details different configurations of and commitments to online learning by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, April 2011, prompted by her frustration over someone dismissing all online learning opportunities. Read the whole thing!

Look at this description of the Powerful Learning Practice ecourse offered by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and others at PLPNetwork

This excerpt from an interview with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, PLP founder, captures critical points for PD online. "Will and I agreed that we would only work with teams of school-based educators because the research made it clear that it was collaborative teams within in a school, working together, that really brought about sustainable improvement. That would give us what we needed to anchor the virtual experience in a local context. We also wanted participants to experience a global community of practice-to be able to have conversations with people very different than themselves, with fresh perspectives. Our thinking was that if we put teams of educators who had different ideologies, different geography, different purposes and challenges, all together in the same space, then they could each bring what they did well to the table and people could learn from that. Ultimately that would mean public, private, Catholic, and other kinds of schools; educators teaching well-to-do, middle-class, and poor kids; educators in different states and nations, at different grade levels, and in different content areas and roles. What ultimately grew out of our brainstorming was a three-pronged model of professional development that emphasizes (1) local learning communities at the school/district level; (2) an online community of practice that's both global and deep; and (3) a third prong that is more personal-the idea of a personal learning network that each educator develops as a mega-resource for ideas and information about their particular interests and areas of practice. (These three prongs are described in depth in a new book, The Connected Educator, where PLP community leader Lani Ritter Hall and I tell the story of the evolution of our model and the very solid research base behind it.)

TodaysMeet is a chat tool used recently by PLP's Sheryl Nussbuam-Beach for a group of 500 Ohio based educators. It was one of three chat channels used in the workshop with the other two being Twitter and PLP's Community Hub discussion space. Might be a tool worth using in synchronous sessions sometimes?

I joined Sheryl N-B's Google circle and have wandered through her posts including her Connected Learner Manifesto (that I believe came from a Twitter request she made, subsequently summarized into Circle document). I wrote a couple of entries. Note that on this page advertising the PLP Live 2012 event, they stress the need to do "embedded job learning" with their learners. Makes me wonder if we need to be more specific about the types of transitions/situations we wish to help women with. Because all learning needs to be applied/reflected on/? to be owned and used as a springboard for the next phase? Writing reflections or doing representations of learning advance learning and certainly document waypoints but are they enough?

Another excellent resource from PLP for Connected Educators (available through Dropbox) to kick off Connected Educators Month. What if August were also Women's e-Quality month? or Women's Webquality Month? August 26 is Women's Equality Day . . . something to think about for next year? Wonder which women's organizations might bite and support such an event.

Look at her book club invitation and description

Excellent infograph on the Connected Educator. Great visual for building a how-to map for adult learners

Free PLP (Professional Learning Practice) options at PLP Network

Pricing chart for year long Connected Learner Experience