Joanna Kay opened her spaces in Second Life in November 2007 with leasehold areas offered to other educators to support the cost of the then one sim. Jokaydia now covers 3 sims (islands) and is home to hundreds of educators. They vary from small scale builds by individuals with projects, like this Community Capers blog, through to large educational institutions and not-for-profits. Come visit Jokaydia and meet the community members Field trip  Friday 25th September (USA) 01.00

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. “ The Island of Jokaydia is designed to provide a flexible and dynamic space for educators in Second Life which includes informal and formal meeting spaces, plus a range of interesting objects and tools to explore. This month restarts the Community Capers project to case study some of the brilliant examples of communities of practice that exist across the globe. The

Braided Learning: Promoting Active Professionals in Education The MirandaNet Fellowship is a professional organisation of educators, researchers, policy makers, and developers of software and hardware who have a uniting conviction that teaching and learning can be transformed by the use of digital technologies. Such collaborative problem solving is important to many ICT teacher educators, who have relatively little access to technical support or to view new developments. It’s taken a long time but since 1992 MirandaNet members have been learning how to communicate on line.

quot; The session featured a facilitated conversation about how hospitals and health care providers are using new media and social networking software to support their primary objectives — treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. As I blogged previously , I've been at South by Southwest Interactive these past few days. For me, one of the most valuable sessions was " E.R.

The model falls apart when we distribute content and extend the activities of the teacher to include multiple educator inputs and peer-driven learning. This cozy comfortable world of outcomes-instruction-assessment alignment exists only in education. Educators and universities are beginning to realize that they no longer have the control they once (thought they) did. “ George Siemens describes how networks disrupt traditional teaching : The old model, he writes, “works well when we can centralize both the content (curriculum) and the teacher.

My own view is that communities can evolve, but cannot be designed top down. So begins one of my favorite education writers although I think he might be more appropriately thought of as a learning advocate. I suppose that technically no one is outside of a community when he or she learns, but much of what we call education these day seems isolating and by oneself. My own view is that communities can evolve, but cannot be designed top down. I agree with him. Textual Gastronomy TEX2ALL Home About November 26, 2006 The Dangers of “Retrospective Coherence” In my last post I left the reader in a bind–what are we supposed to do in the face of an unresponsive hierarchy?