Communities of Practice

and Web 2.0 Tools  

Finding, Organizing, Evaluating and Sharing

by Lauren Fee

Instructional Technology Services of Central Ohio

What does

mean to you?

Communities of Practice

WhatWhyWhoHow

3 Characteristics Domain (Relevance) Community (Reflection) Practice (Contribution)

Active participation Self-organzing/self-regulating Intention/unintentional Generates knowledge/value

WhatWhyWhoHow

We need to It’s a new age Social interaction helps construct knowledge, not just share information

Galaxiki Collaborative Novel Wiki

Process is the product

WhatWhyWhoHow

Students Teachers Administrators/Schools Parents

Are you a part of a CoP?

What is it and how did you become involved?

Are your students a part of a CoP?

Should they be?

A Moment for Reflection

WhatWhyWhoHow

Find Organize Evaluate Share

Find

Organize

Evaluate

Share

Others in your CoP Create a PLE Podcasts for PD

How

Find

Organize

Evaluate

Share

How

Your own investigation Go2Web2.0 Office 2.0 Database Solution Watch Techcrunch MoMB eHub Read/Write web

Find

Organize

Evaluate

Share

How

Social Bookmarking Community Wiki:

Connected Learning Online documents

How

Reflection/Role 7 Things You Should Know Abo

ut Use it! Consider individual vs.

community needs

Find

Organize

Evaluate

Share

How

Just Start! Groups Classroom 2.0/Edu 2.0 Blogs/Wikis Podcasting

Find

Organize

Evaluate

Share

How can you turn social networking technologies into richer and more

meaningful communities of practice?

A Final Reflection:

Thanks!

Lauren Feelauren@itsco.org

www.itsco.orgwww.itscoteam.org/~lauren

‘It’s just a tool, it is what you do with it that matters!’

References

http://www.ewenger.com/theory/

http://technologyforcommunities.com/

http://www.cpsquare.org/resource_base.htm