2008年10月20日 星期一
What is NAAE's Communities of Practice?
This video is mainly talking about a community of practice in the Internet called NAAE. The narrator is a teacher, so she took educators as an example. She said educators had questions, problems, and great ideas, but they don’t have many channels to share or ask for help. NAAE created a place in the Internet for educators ask each other questions, post resources they want to share , help connect each educator.
We all know whatever questions or problems we have , there probably another educator there who has answer or advice. But without NAAE CoP, they don’t know who you are and when you need help. Through NAAE community of practice, they can get together, and discuss together. It is organized, so it’s easy for you to find what you want.
The narrator, Carol, a high school teacher, she has taught for four years. She wants to open some new classes not in her speciality-planting, she wants to know how to teach well, and not let her students in chaos. But she can’t anybody to help her by her side. Then she thinks of community of practice. She posts questions there. In NAAE, she finds so many materials about planting , there are so many advices , and someone even upload worksheets, which Carol can share with the whole class. Because of this, she does a great job in the class. After a semester, she even sets up her own blog for planting.
Even though this video is very like advertising, it reminds us how importance community of practice is. Through our life, no matter what careers we take, we all have problems to ask. Therefore, community of practice in the Internet is a good way for us to let our questions have answers, we can also get other people’s experience, later we can even share our own experience. And in the Internet, those people are from so many different countries. We would not limit ourselves in one corner, special life experience can make our life more colorful.
After watching the video, I have checked the Internet, NAAE.( http://naae.ca.uky.edu:8080/clearspace_community/index.jspa). It is a really fantastic website. So many different regions are posted, it seems like no matter what your question is, you can find your answers there, so when you have problems, go ahead and have a try.
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I got from my 學長 a list of websites that might interest you.
Just as below.
Carnegie Mellon University 卡內基梅隆大學
http://oli.web.cmu.edu/jcourse/webui/free.do
Harvard@Home 哈佛大學
http://athome.harvard.edu/
MIT OpenCourseWare 麻省理工學院
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
Now with the ubiquitous Internet, sharing makes everything possible. And by doing so it also empower every sharer to get what they need through some proper intermediaries without time-spice limitation.
As far as I am concerned, it is really important for people to share thoughts with each other. In effect, it may be one of the most efficient ways to solve a problem and to learn new things. However, it would be wonderful for you to provide more examples to illustrate your annotation.
It is a interesting video which explain the meaning about communities of practice clearly. I think this is a great reference. Discussing on the Internet can really save our time and makes our discussion convenient. Besides, according to the video, it mention a strong idea that we learn by discussing! Sharing the ideas with each other is an important way to learn. Our problems usually can be solved by discussing. It is a great evidence to support your argument!
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