The first of these spotlighted communities will be Jokaydia a CoP that has its home base in Second Life but impacts on the professional lives of its members well beyond that environment. This month restarts the Community Capers project to case study some of the brilliant examples of communities of practice that exist across the globe. It is en educational community that cuts across geographic, systemic and sectoral boundaries to serve the needs of educators in K-12, academic, vocational, corporate and not-for-profit environments. “

This concept of a Community of Practice (CoP) is key to understanding how braided learning works online. The term CoPs was coined by Lave & Wenger (1991) with acknowledgement that it refers to a human process of working and learning together that has been operating for centuries (e.g., It has been described by researchers as a CoP “with an active and passionate core’ (Stuckey, 2005, p. It’s taken a long time but since 1992 MirandaNet members have been learning how to communicate on line. Now an e-mature community our discussions are becoming more and more sophisticated.

Tags: research case study Community capers IMCoPs action research Research Findings MirandaNet education CoP community of practic Through this blog we will hear about communities from a number of perspectives. I will relate my research perspective, we will meet the community managers and members, take field trip to each community and have several opportunities to listen to

Some song causes political controversy (such as the outcry over ‘Cop Killer’, or the Marilyn Manson/Rammstein hysteria after Columbine) and the company could be pressured to delete entirely legal copies for political reasons. Via the Rationalitate blog: “ 8220; Tim Lee has an interesting analysis of the shortcomings of Apple’s iPad, but at the end he makes what I believe is a very prescient, more general point about the future of intellectual property and digital media: “This is of a piece with the rest of Apple’s media strategy.

wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit. I got the list of random thoughts below via a forwarded email. It’s OK, it came from the one friend who actually sends over funny stuff. This is a fun read.

In the future our CoPs at work will be complemented by a social network, which amplifies sense-making even more. Mark Gould has a great post which has picked up on a thread in one of the LinkedIn forums on the "Pulling" and "Pushing" of information. Mark’s post also covers some blog discussion on the difference between sharing and communication, which I may add to in another post.