Subscribing to Professional Communities of Practice (CoP)
Assignment: Subscribe to TWO professional communities of practice--
Assignment: Subscribe to TWO professional communities of practice--
You will be writing reactions to postings on communities of practice, which means you need to be subscribed to this community, and you need to read the incoming messages regularly. However, you do not need to respond to the messages directly, unless you wish to do so. We will be "lurking" behind the scenes and sharing our reactions only among the course participants. Below are the steps you need to follow.
Course participants teaching in a K-12 environment should also check out Subscriptions for K-12 Teachers for their second subscription.
1. Directions for subscribing to the Webheads online community (required)
Webheads is where the latest technology tips are published within the ESL/EFL/general education community. It grew out of an online session in 2002 held as part of the Electronic Village Online, which I co-founded and led from 2000-2004, and am still involved in. The session was run by Vance Stevens, founding member of the CALL Interest Section of TESOL. It is by far the most active, productive, and supportive discussion group that I have belonged to, with new ideas, good downloads, questions, suggestions, and answers being posted daily. Most of its members are teachers in many different areas in the world that use technology in the classroom on a daily basis. I strongly recommend subscribing to this community to learn more about CALL and technology in the classroom in general. Since this group generates anywhere from 10-20 messages per day, some social, some technology-related, it is strongly recommended that you edit your membership options to set yourself to receive a daily DIGEST only; you will receive one email per day, with all posts to the group collected therein.
To join, you must become a Yahoo! member first. This is free and we will use more of Yahoo's offerings, so please register now.
Obtain a Yahoo!ID by going to https://edit.yahoo.com/registration and completing the registration form. (A Yahoo!ID is needed in order to access the documents and archives areas of the courses. Without a Yahoo!ID you can participate in the email discussions only.)
2. Directions for subscribing to an Electronic Village Online session--January-February (5 weeks):
Mid-January only: One of
the 5-week sessions offered by the Electronic
Village Online --click
<http://evosessions.pbworks.com/>
and follow the directions to subscribe to one of the sessions. Several of them
will be run through YahooGroups as a learning management system, others through
Moodle or Wikis. If you decide to participate in a session, please let the
instructor know, as it will replace one of your course assignments.
Click on Electronic
Village Online and
choose one of the sessions. Click on the link to the session and follow
the instructions to join. You will need a Yahoo!ID first--see the instructions
in 1. above.
You should post
reactions each week and the project you will produce in this session will
substitute a project in the CALL course. Also, since these sessions
generate anywhere from 10-20 messages per day, some social, some
technology-related, it is strongly recommended that you edit
your membership options to
set yourself to receive a daily DIGEST only; you will receive one email per day,
with all posts to the group collected therein.
3. Other free subscriptions
subscriptions for K-12 teachers: Click the link.
techLEARNING: The Resource for Education Technology Leaders-- includes Technology & Learning Magazine and free Webinars. Send a confirmation to the instructor.
T.H.E. Journal -- To subscribe to the free paper or electronic version, complete the complimentary subscription. Send a confirmation to the instructor.
LearningwithComputers -- a Yahoo!Group started in 2006, now managed by Vance Stevens; announcements of Sunday Webinars and Google+ Hangout sessions; get a YahooID first, then go to <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/learningwithcomputers/> and click Join this group.
Faculty Focus -- Please browse for technology, technology teaching strategies, or other topics related to technology.
Campus Technology -- an excellent source for technology in education
Educause -- Click on Teaching and Learning and/or Research and Publications.
Wired -- Learn about current and future trends in technology in various areas, including education.
Now go to the Syllabus--Interaction & Projects.
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