Sep 11 2008
Collaboration and Communities of Practice
A couple of things this week
My Leadership class continued to work on their professional learning community last night. A wiki has been created to help each member of the class work together as a collaborative group in forming their purpose and goals for this community for teachers. We are in the first stages of this community development.
The discussion was good with many questions and ideas flowing. It is a tough task to collaborate when ideas are disparate and goals are a little cloudy. This will soon change, once each student begins to research the idea of an online professional learning community they will begin to settle in on specific goals and guidelines. Keep track of their progress at their project wiki.
On this note of collaboration I ran across the WikiEducator site. This is a resource that provides content and vast opportunities for discovery and participation. I have created an account and cannot wait to explore this resource further in the days ahead.
Another found wiki site is the EduPlan site. A site that explores the planning stages of creating 21st century learning environments for a school district. What a great resource and tremendous idea!
On another note, I got a comment a few weeks ago about feeding my student blogs into one central location so I would not have to search around to read each posting. Thanks for this terrific comment and offer for help. I have found bloglines which helps feed my blogs into one central location so I have only one place to look for student postings. If there is another tool that does this well, please share with me. There are a few kinks with bloglines but overall I have found it to be sufficient.
