Transcript Communities of Practice

Communities of Practice…
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GTANSW Presentation Annual Conference 2007 by Martin Pluss
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“Communities of Practice” …
Simply put they are “groups of people who share a
concern or a passion for something they do and learn
how to do it better as they interact regularly”.
Wenger
The Model
• A learning theory conceptualized by Jean
Lave and Etienne Wenger proposing the
idea that
– Learning is social and comes largely from our
experience of participating in daily life
– A process of engagement in a 'community of
practice'.
According to Wenger…
CoP defines itself along 3 dimensions:
• What it is about
– Joint enterprise as understood and
continually renegotiated by its members.
• How it functions
– Mutual engagement that bind members
together
• What capability it has produced
– Shared repertoire of communal resources
(routines, artefacts, vocabulary, styles, etc.)
developed over time
(http://www.infed.org/biblio/communities_of_practice.
htm)
3 Elements
• The domain
• The community
• The Practice
Domain
Community
Practice
Domain
(Defines the issues)
• Members have …
– Identity defined by a shared area of interest
– Commitment to domain
– Shared competence
Community
(People who care about the domain)
• Members…
– Participate in joint activities & discussions
– Help each other
– Share information
– Build relationships so that they learn from
each other
Practice
(Shared ideas, tools, info., goals)
• Members are …
– Practitioners
• Develop a shared repertoire of resources
– Experiences
– Stories
– Tools
– Ways of addressing recurring problems
Key Features of CoPs
• Communication: Managed by making
connections
• Shared Domain of Practice, knowledge and
resources
• Focus on value, mutual exchange and learning
• Crosses operational, functional and
organizational boundaries
• Defined by people, not tasks
What CoPs Do
• Facilitate collaboration/communication
• Develop/Identify Subject Matter Experts
• Filter out incorrect information by peer
groups
• Capture knowledge (intellectual capital)
• Prevent re-inventing the wheel by sharing
knowledge and experiences
• Share successful (best) practices
• Decrease learning curve
• Increase organizational learning
Benefits of a CoPs
• Access to knowledge and experience
• Build relationships with those who have
expertise in a particular domain
• Develop best practices through
discussions and sharing of ideas
• Learn how others have solved problems,
instead of reinventing the wheel
• Keep up-to-date at the time and pace of
the individual member
• Develop a community spirit.
Facebook founder Mark
Zuckerberg.
ttp://www.smh.com.au/news/web/facebook-founder-stole-our-idea/2007/07/25/11850431563
Social Networking Sites
http://mashable.com/2007/07/31/comscore-socialnetwork-global-growth/
Wenger Model
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C of P the next level
1. Cool Running Australia
2. EDNA
3. GTANSW
GTANSW CofP
• GO to the GTANSW Home page and
enter GTANSW Portal:
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/gtansw
• You will be taken to this page. Click
Register.
Technology Adoption Cycle
Web 2.0 makes it work
My definition
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Connectedness
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Top 13 Web 2.0 Products
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www.bloglines.com rss feeder
www.del.icio.us online favourites
www.flickr.com online photos
www.wikispaces.com collaborative learning
www.youtube.com online videos
www.facebook.com social networking
www.43things.com goals organiser
spreadsheets.google.com online spreadsheets
podomatic.com host your own podcasts
www.rollyo.com/ roll your own search engine
www.digg.com collaborative favourites
www.ning.com/ social networking
www.secondlife.com 3d online digital world
www.gliffy.com/ draw and share diagrams on the web
A Student Survey
“Why do I have to watch a teacher struggle
to use yesterday’s technology?”
The Next Curve Mick Waters 2006
A Conference in Belfast
Lisa Smith Batchen – Ultra Runner
• "Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So
throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover."
--Mark Twain
Creating Passionate Users
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/08/are_your_users_.html
You should try new things and…
…sometimes things go a
cropper…and
…then you live to tell the story