Tendrils+of+Learning

Planning the Talk
On August 16th I'll be giving a talk in Bogota, Columbia, on the role of community in learning. Topics (waay too many, as usual) I've been asked to bring up in my talk (which will be translated to Spanish) - 55 minutes including Q&A. I'm putting notes, references and resources here. I'll also embed my draft slides and eventually the final set. Any contributions are appreciated, particularly those in Spanish.
 * about Communities of Practice.(most of our community is not that familiar with CoP ideas )
 * how do they relate to concepts like Learning Communities, Learning Networks and Virtual Communities
 * some of your experience on learning in these kind of communities,
 * why are they important to lifelong learning, for example.
 * some insight about the way that CoP can relate or interact with formal education courses/programs.

Notes from the larger conference, Quality in eElearning My [|Flickr Photos] from the Conference

Key Points
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 * See DRAFT slides v2 - I will put the final slides up later and am working on uploading the Spanish translations right now.

Stories to Reinforce or Make Key Points

 * I'm working on these

**Resources**

 * About CoPs**
 * In English**
 * Etienne Wenger's site - the place to start for CoP theory http://www.ewenger.com/theory/
 * Fred Nickol's CoP resource page [|http://home.att.net/~discon/KM/CoPs.htm]
 * CPSquare's CoP Bibliography Wiki http://cofpractice-biblio.wikispaces.com/
 * Shawn Callahan's useful blog posts on CoPs http://www.anecdote.com.au/archives/communities_of_practice/
 * The Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/index
 * Anecdote blog http://www.anecdote.com.au/index.php

From Miguel Cornjeo:
 * In Spanish** comunidades de practica
 * Diego Leal http://www.diegoleal.org/social/blog/blogs/index.php/EduTIC/2006/10/12/tecnologia_para_comunidades
 * Comunidades de Práctica; Cuando el aprendizaje produce resultados http://www.nexiconsultores.com.ar/download/nexi_nota_comu.pdf
 * Impact Alliance's resources in Spanish http://www.impactalliance.org/ev_es.php?ID=1773_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC (hm, but no actual resources in Spanish)
 * Wikipedia definition in Spanish http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comunidades_de_pr%C3%A1ctica
 * John Smith on CoPs (in Spanish) http://www.learningalliances.net/talks/Telares-visit.htm
 * My CoP Tech images translated to Spanish http://www.flickr.com/photos/23933444@N00/sets/72157594350367890/
 * Half the http://emekaeme.wordpress.com site is in Spanish, and it deals mainly with CoPs. At its Publicaciones tab you can find three pieces that might come in handy:
 * Introduccion a las Comunidades de Praica (1) http://www.macuarium.com/cms/index.php?option=com_remository&itemid=0&func=fileinfo&id=95
 * Introduccion a las Comunidades de Praica (2) http://www.macuarium.com/cms/index.php?option=com_remository&itemid=0&func=fileinfo&id=110
 * Comunidades de Conocimiento: un modelo de rentabilidad y utilizacia http://www.knowledgeboard.com/item/666 (A talk at the "Mundo Internet 2004" event about Cops, value creation, and value capture)
 * There's some very nice work from the MIK people, but most can only be found in print... or in basque: http://www.igorcalzada.com/informe-investigacion-rutinas-creativas . There used to be some case materials at [|http://www.gestiondelconocimiento.com] but the site is now defunct and contents aged.
 * Or "gestion del conocimiento". But as you will see, CoP resources are scarce. (Miguel reflects on this http://emekaeme.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/gestion-del-conocimiento-en-espanol-apendice/ )

Some more resources Miguel Cornejo noted on his blog ([|http://emekaeme.wordpress.com/tag/espanol/)] earlier:
 * - http://newkmanager.blogspot.com/
 * - http://www.fundecyt.es/
 * - http://nomada.blogs.com/jfreire/
 * - http://eadminblog.net/post/2007/07/08/redes-y-comunidades-la-figura-del-dinamizador

Some less specific ones:
 * One not too bad is a wiki-format monography I just found. The CoP part is this: http://www.wikilearning.com/el_arte_de_la_no_direccion_en_las_comunidades_de_practicas-wkccp-3285-27.htm
 * http://www.madrimasd.org/ is a nexus for innovation and research... it's more than it seems :-).
 * http://www.cibersociedad.net/ is an interesting reference in KM and online communities, among other "ciber" things.

From: "Fernando Santamaria
 * In my [|del.icio.us] are reference:http://del.icio.us/lernys/comunidadesdepractica

References:
 * [|**Síntesis Comunidades de Práctica** http://www.nexiconsultores.com.ar/download/comunidades.pdf Cortese, Horacio plus more from Horacio http://www.nexiconsultores.com.ar/publicaciones.htm>]
 * http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comunidades_de_pr%C3%A1ctica
 * http://gabinetedeinformatica.net/wp15/2006/09/25/comunidades-de-practicas/
 * http://www.uoc.edu/in3/dt/20088/index.html
 * http://www.uoc.edu/rusc/dt/esp/sanz.html
 * http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:kbyxMxUTlf0J:unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/CLAD/clad0043914.pdf+CoP+%22comunidades+de+pr%C3%A1ctica%22&hl=es&ct=clnk&cd=16&gl=es&client=firefox-a

**About Learning Communities and Networks**

 * [|23 Bites of the Elephant,] a great look at how social software can be used to support learning communities, particularly in education

About Learning Technologies

 * John Seely Brown on Passionate Learning and Web 2.0 http://news.com.com/Futurist+To+fix+education,+think+Web+2.0/2100-1032_3-6140175.html
 * Top 100 tools of educational technologists http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html
 * Decameron Web - Example in action http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml
 * More on http://www.twitter.com from a twitter user http://twitter-casts.wikispaces.com/

**About Online or Virtual Communities**

 * Nancy White, Blog Based Communities in Spanish http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog/2007/03/blog-communities-en-espanolspanish.htm and in English