Beverly Wang
Professor Liang
English Composition 2A
9 January 2009
Community of Practice Help Students Participate
What is Community of Practice? Communities of Practice (CoP) are a key element in modern organizations. The term community of practice has been brought up in the 1990s. It’s a group formed by people with the same specific interesting. For example: a group of students working on the presentations, a group of white collar workers working on similar problems. The concept has turned out to provide a useful perspective on knowing and learning. A growing number of people and organizations are now focusing on communities of practice as a key to improving their performance.
Every people has a domain of their interest, members of this domain can engage together to have activities, make discussions and share their material. But members of community of practice do not necessarily work together. For instance, they can meet in cafes to discuss the game they were playing on the Internet. And in the communities of practice, members seeking their experience with their partners. No matter what sizes of communities of practice we are in or what style we and our partners meet and discuss, we all belong to communities of practice.
By the way, community of practice can be also used in education. Because of this concept, educators can have the opportunities to embed what they learned and social relations, and educators have to create opportunities for students to solve real problems with adults or friends, in real learning situation.
When I first heard this topic in the class, professor mentioned some connections with my issue paper. After that, I searched some materials about this concept. I realized that what we do in school can be as communities of practice. According to Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott and William M. Snyder(2003) Cultivating communities of practice a guide to managing knowledge. When we want to start a cop, we have to start small and expect surprises instead of results. And get contact with interested people inside and outside your organization. Then show the outcome and let others benefit of your activity. Last but not least, don’t bother too much, whether your interaction is a CoP or not. You will realize it in time.
Recalling those activities I have joined and compared with the idea of communities of practice. When I joined those activities, first, we have a leader, and usually there is a secondary leader. Then the leader would divided us in some different groups, all the groups have their specific things to do. And about a week or two, we have to report to the leader what we have done in those days. Each group can be called as a community of practice. When we make discussions, we have the same goals, because we want to achieve the goals, we can make up our minds to make all things in order or even perfect. And take my learning in college as an example. In college, we have many discussions in classes. During the discussions, the members would have brainstorming. All members can share their own opinions and thoughts. And other members even can overthrow what you said, but they have to make their opinions reasonable and make you think their ideas are more constructive than yours. We can get some new ideas through our discussions, those ideas that we may never think of, or because of this idea, our brain would flash into other more interesting ideas.
Sometimes, communities of practice would face a problem that is people may think they are peripheral guys, they may think they are abandoned or have uncomfortable feelings when they participate CoP. Why do those feeling would come from? When we participate in a group, at first, we may be appointed what we have to do by authorities. If we are be appointed some jobs that we think not important at all, or not related much to the core. We may think that whether our authorities think we are not able to do more difficult one.
I have those feelings when I participated in activities. When those bad feelings came to my mind. I would tell myself that what I do today may help me someday during my life trip. And all the experience I have gone through can be a lesson to me. Even though sometimes, I would think that authorities did not respect me, because of this reason, I really want to make all the things in order or even perfect to make other people know that I am the person you want.
The article I put in research and annotations mentioned there are so many choices can be seen in school. It may be overwhelming, but getting involved in new activities with new people is a fun way to challenge yourself. No matter what choice we take, we all have to get involved in what we joined. Because of involving, we can learn what we want to learn. Therefore if we did not pay much attention or not care at all, we got nothing. We all want to get benefits from those extracurricular activities we joined. When we joined those extracurricular activities, we get the chance to explore our physical creative, social, political, and career interests with like-minded people.
Besides, if we want to difference between people, it is a good way to join clubs. Because of joining clubs, we have the opportunities to meet people who are different from you. Those programs can bring youth together. By doing this, we can also learn how to make friends and talk with those people when we first meet them. That is to say how to conquer the nervous when we first step into an unfamiliar place. We can learn other skills we won’t learn in the classroom. On the other days, we may use those skills when we are in working. Take Apple and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs for an instance, when he was in college, he joined a calligraphy club. In this club he learned many different styles of calligraphy. When he invented the first line of Macintosh computers, he used this skill he learned in the club to input those special styles of calligraphy in Macintosh computers. It made Macintosh computers have the unique forms of printed characters.
But we still have to find the right activities for us. At first, we have to review all the activities our school offers and listen to other students’ experience to make choices. In different CoPs, we would have different roles. No matter what roles we play, we are important. Each role can not be excluded in communities of practice. Through those clubs, we have experienced, we can learn many things, such as how to get involved in, how to play your roles good and how to make ourselves progress.
I searched on the Youtube about communities of practice. I found this video. (http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=be_k4BH2EvU&eurl=http://beverlyw.blogspot.com/2008/10/community-of-practice.html)This video is mainly discussing 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 with the friends online , 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.
Since Community of Practice is still confusing in Taiwan, so I found a periodical to help everybody realize communities of practice.
Like what I have said, communities of practice is still confusing in Taiwan, so Ministry of Education starts a plan about how to make innovation and knowledge management connected with community of practice. Creativity and innovation have become more and more important, if you are a guy with those talents, you have the advantage to compete with others. But the education in Taiwan now seems not put much emphasis on social education, this make our children know how to study but do not know how to jump out from books. Due to this reason and the force of globalization, Community of Practice is used to stimulate our total creativity and innovation capability.
Many multi-national companies have used CoPs to develop their advantages of competition. Although enterprises are an important part in our society, we can not let our children to know how to progress their ability of social education until they go to the society. It is too cruel and late to know.
When we are in schools, we have to know what things happened around the world, and we have to make our knowledge renew everyday, so we have to keep learning new ideas. This article takes P&G as an example. P&G is an international company with many brands in the market like Oral-B and Pert. P&G uses community of practice as a way to identify and expand their new way of research and development. CoP plays an important role in this company.
However teams and communities are two things, communities can be used on the Internet, that is to say, on the virtual way. For example, electronic community and Network Learning Community, so we students can get on the Internet and take a look at those communities and even join in. by joining those communities, we can make friends from many different countries and learn what we can not learn in schools.
I joined a activity held by ASUS, a famous computer company, this semester. It is called campus CEO. In CEO, I met so many people with the same interest as me. We can discuss the surveys in the market or the product we are ready to make a research on. This is a really special experience during my college life, I think everyone can have a try in what they have interest in.
During our life, we have so many chances to meet different people, when we are in different Community of Practice, I think all of us have to seize the opportunities to know the people from dissimilar domain.
References
1. Richard McDermott and William M. Snyder(2003) Cultivating Communities of Practice a Guide to Managing Knowledge.
2. Sy-Feng Wang,Kai-Ming Chen(2002,DEC.)Community-of-Practice and Creativity: Theory & Implication.[Electronic version]. 社會教育學刊.
(http://www70.psy.fju.edu.tw/sfwang/paper/COPcreativity.pdf)
3. http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/definitions.shtml
4. NatlAgEducators(2008, May 16) Youtube
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=be_k4BH2EvU&eurl=http://beverlyw.blogspot.com/search/label/annotation
5. http://naae.ca.uky.edu:8080/clearspace_community/index.jspa
2009年1月14日 星期三
revised issue paper
The reason why I choose Community of Practice as my topic is because that I want to know whether participate so many activities are worthy or not.
There are so many extracurricular activities held in NCU every semester. Including clubs, camps and the activities of their own departments. Almost every student has the experience of participating extracurricular activities. Some people would even have two or three extracurricular activities at the same time. They would sleep at an exaggerate time like four or five o’clock in the morning for preparing for an activity.
I have experienced about four activities after I was received in NCU, including three camps and a activity of my department. A camp held for children studied in elementary school is the first extracurricular activity in my freshman life. For me, it was very special to hold activities, because I just joined the activities and did not know how the activities from zero to a real one. But after so many activities, I feel confused. Because I just feel tired and do not know what I have learned and got. Maybe I did not sense the growing of myself. But I still have some problem about my mind, I do not know why should pay so much and get nothing. Sometimes I would even think that it is waste of time, but I do not want to stay in the dorm all day and play computer. Is it the only motivation for me to join an activity?
I have asked some people who have much experience about activities. They told me that I have to change my mind and build my mind. During the preparing period, it is normal for me to feel tired. But after seeing the happy face of those students who came to join this activities, you would feel that everything is all right. Now I am preparing a camp for freshmen in English department, I hope that I can get new touching!
Review the activities your school offers and listen to other students' experiences to find an activity that meets your needs. Think about your interests, abilities, and time — is your sister tired of playing chess with you? Do you wish you had more computer time? Are you tired of shooting hoops alone? Are you looking to meet friends or get support? Do you need to increase the appeal of your college application? Don't limit yourself to the familiar — try something new.
Think about different roles within groups that you might want to try — president, captain, participant, leader, support person. Each role is important. Being president teaches you leadership and management skills, but involves more responsibility; being a member gives you structure and is less stressful. You can also lend your skills in areas that are needed, such as using your financial skills to be a group's treasurer.
Recalling those activities I have joined and compared with the idea of communities of practice. When I joined those activities, first, we have a leader, and usually there is a secondary leader. Then the leader would divided us in some different groups, all the groups have their specific things to do. And about a week or two, we have to report to the leader what we have done in those days. Each group can be called as a community of practice. When we make discussions, we have the same goals, because we want to achieve the goals, we can make up our minds to make all things in order or even perfect. And take my learning in college as an example. In college, we have many discussions in classes. During the discussions, the members would have brainstorming. All members can share their own opinions and thoughts. And other members even can overthrow what you said, but they have to make their opinions reasonable and make you think their ideas are more constructive than yours. We can get some new ideas through our discussions, those ideas that we may never think of, or because of this idea, our brain would flash into other more interesting ideas.
Sometimes, communities of practice would face a problem that is people may think they are peripheral guys, they may think they are abandoned or have uncomfortable feelings when they participate CoP. Why do those feeling would come from? When we participate in a group, at first, we may be appointed what we have to do by authorities. If we are be appointed some jobs that we think not important at all, or not related much to the core. We may think that whether our authorities think we are not able to do more difficult one.
I have those feelings when I participated in activities. When those bad feelings came to my mind. I would tell myself that what I do today may help me someday during my life trip. And all the experience I have gone through can be a lesson to me. Even though sometimes, I would think that authorities did not respect me, because of this reason, I really want to make all the things in order or even perfect to make other people know that I am the person you want.
The article I put in research and annotations mentioned there are so many choices can be seen in school. It may be overwhelming, but getting involved in new activities with new people is a fun way to challenge yourself. No matter what choice we take, we all have to get involved in what we joined. Because of involving, we can learn what we want to learn. Therefore if we did not pay much attention or not care at all, we got nothing. We all want to get benefits from those extracurricular activities we joined. When we joined those extracurricular activities, we get the chance to explore our physical creative, social, political, and career interests with like-minded people.
Besides, if we want to difference between people, it is a good way to join clubs. Because of joining clubs, we have the opportunities to meet people who are different from you. Those programs can bring youth together. By doing this, we can also learn how to make friends and talk with those people when we first meet them. That is to say how to conquer the nervous when we first step into an unfamiliar place. We can learn other skills we won’t learn in the classroom. On the other days, we may use those skills when we are in working.
I searched on the Youtube about communities of practice. I found this video. (http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=be_k4BH2EvU&eurl=http://beverlyw.blogspot.com/2008/10/community-of-practice.html)This video is mainly discussing 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 with the friends online , 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.
Communities of Practice is still confusing in Taiwan, so Ministry of Education starts a plan about how to make innovation and knowledge management connected with community of practice. Creativity and innovation have become more and more important, if you are a guy with those talents, you have the advantage to compete with others. But the education in Taiwan now seems not put much emphasis on social education, this make our children know how to study but do not know how to jump out from books. Due to this reason and the force of globalization, Community of Practice is used to stimulate our total creativity and innovation capability.
Many multi-national companies have used CoPs to develop their advantages of competition. Although enterprises are an important part in our society, we can not let our children to know how to progress their ability of social education until they go to the society. It is too cruel and late to know.
When we are in schools, we have to know what things happened around the world, and we have to make our knowledge renew everyday, so we have to keep learning new ideas.
During our life, we have so many chances to meet different people, when we are in different Community of Practice, I think all of us have to seize the opportunities to know the people from dissimilar domain.
There are so many extracurricular activities held in NCU every semester. Including clubs, camps and the activities of their own departments. Almost every student has the experience of participating extracurricular activities. Some people would even have two or three extracurricular activities at the same time. They would sleep at an exaggerate time like four or five o’clock in the morning for preparing for an activity.
I have experienced about four activities after I was received in NCU, including three camps and a activity of my department. A camp held for children studied in elementary school is the first extracurricular activity in my freshman life. For me, it was very special to hold activities, because I just joined the activities and did not know how the activities from zero to a real one. But after so many activities, I feel confused. Because I just feel tired and do not know what I have learned and got. Maybe I did not sense the growing of myself. But I still have some problem about my mind, I do not know why should pay so much and get nothing. Sometimes I would even think that it is waste of time, but I do not want to stay in the dorm all day and play computer. Is it the only motivation for me to join an activity?
I have asked some people who have much experience about activities. They told me that I have to change my mind and build my mind. During the preparing period, it is normal for me to feel tired. But after seeing the happy face of those students who came to join this activities, you would feel that everything is all right. Now I am preparing a camp for freshmen in English department, I hope that I can get new touching!
Review the activities your school offers and listen to other students' experiences to find an activity that meets your needs. Think about your interests, abilities, and time — is your sister tired of playing chess with you? Do you wish you had more computer time? Are you tired of shooting hoops alone? Are you looking to meet friends or get support? Do you need to increase the appeal of your college application? Don't limit yourself to the familiar — try something new.
Think about different roles within groups that you might want to try — president, captain, participant, leader, support person. Each role is important. Being president teaches you leadership and management skills, but involves more responsibility; being a member gives you structure and is less stressful. You can also lend your skills in areas that are needed, such as using your financial skills to be a group's treasurer.
Recalling those activities I have joined and compared with the idea of communities of practice. When I joined those activities, first, we have a leader, and usually there is a secondary leader. Then the leader would divided us in some different groups, all the groups have their specific things to do. And about a week or two, we have to report to the leader what we have done in those days. Each group can be called as a community of practice. When we make discussions, we have the same goals, because we want to achieve the goals, we can make up our minds to make all things in order or even perfect. And take my learning in college as an example. In college, we have many discussions in classes. During the discussions, the members would have brainstorming. All members can share their own opinions and thoughts. And other members even can overthrow what you said, but they have to make their opinions reasonable and make you think their ideas are more constructive than yours. We can get some new ideas through our discussions, those ideas that we may never think of, or because of this idea, our brain would flash into other more interesting ideas.
Sometimes, communities of practice would face a problem that is people may think they are peripheral guys, they may think they are abandoned or have uncomfortable feelings when they participate CoP. Why do those feeling would come from? When we participate in a group, at first, we may be appointed what we have to do by authorities. If we are be appointed some jobs that we think not important at all, or not related much to the core. We may think that whether our authorities think we are not able to do more difficult one.
I have those feelings when I participated in activities. When those bad feelings came to my mind. I would tell myself that what I do today may help me someday during my life trip. And all the experience I have gone through can be a lesson to me. Even though sometimes, I would think that authorities did not respect me, because of this reason, I really want to make all the things in order or even perfect to make other people know that I am the person you want.
The article I put in research and annotations mentioned there are so many choices can be seen in school. It may be overwhelming, but getting involved in new activities with new people is a fun way to challenge yourself. No matter what choice we take, we all have to get involved in what we joined. Because of involving, we can learn what we want to learn. Therefore if we did not pay much attention or not care at all, we got nothing. We all want to get benefits from those extracurricular activities we joined. When we joined those extracurricular activities, we get the chance to explore our physical creative, social, political, and career interests with like-minded people.
Besides, if we want to difference between people, it is a good way to join clubs. Because of joining clubs, we have the opportunities to meet people who are different from you. Those programs can bring youth together. By doing this, we can also learn how to make friends and talk with those people when we first meet them. That is to say how to conquer the nervous when we first step into an unfamiliar place. We can learn other skills we won’t learn in the classroom. On the other days, we may use those skills when we are in working.
I searched on the Youtube about communities of practice. I found this video. (http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=be_k4BH2EvU&eurl=http://beverlyw.blogspot.com/2008/10/community-of-practice.html)This video is mainly discussing 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 with the friends online , 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.
Communities of Practice is still confusing in Taiwan, so Ministry of Education starts a plan about how to make innovation and knowledge management connected with community of practice. Creativity and innovation have become more and more important, if you are a guy with those talents, you have the advantage to compete with others. But the education in Taiwan now seems not put much emphasis on social education, this make our children know how to study but do not know how to jump out from books. Due to this reason and the force of globalization, Community of Practice is used to stimulate our total creativity and innovation capability.
Many multi-national companies have used CoPs to develop their advantages of competition. Although enterprises are an important part in our society, we can not let our children to know how to progress their ability of social education until they go to the society. It is too cruel and late to know.
When we are in schools, we have to know what things happened around the world, and we have to make our knowledge renew everyday, so we have to keep learning new ideas.
During our life, we have so many chances to meet different people, when we are in different Community of Practice, I think all of us have to seize the opportunities to know the people from dissimilar domain.
annotation4
http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/definitions.shtml
From this article, we can get some definition of community of practice. When we first know a topic, we have to know what the definition of this topic is, we can start our research. Because of this reason, I search some materials about the definitions of community of practice.
First, Bonding by exposure to common problems.
There are many shades of definition of this concept, but the author define it as "a group of professionals, informally bound to one another through exposure to a common class of problems, common pursuit of solutions, and thereby themselves embodying a store of knowledge." Like French club or English communication club.
Secondly, Common practices and language
"Communities of Practice" is a phrase coined by researchers who studied the ways in which people naturally work and play together. In essence, communities of practice are groups of people who share similar goals and interests. In pursuit of these goals and interests, they employ common practices, work with the same tools and express themselves in a common language. Through such common activity, they come to hold similar beliefs and value systems. I think when you join this kind CoP, you can find what you want.
Thirdly, Commons sense of purpose
There are many communities of practice within a single company, and most people belong to more than one of them. Most of us belong to more than one, and not just on the job: the management team; the engineers, some in your company and some not.
Fourthly, Members evolve more creative practice
A community of practice is "a diverse group of people engaged in real work over a significant period of time during which they build things, solve problems, learn and invent...in short, they evolve a practice that is highly skilled and highly creative."
Last but not least, from water coolers to commitment. More than a "community of learners," a community of practice is also a "community that learns." Not merely peers exchanging ideas around the water cooler, sharing and benefitting from each other's expertise, but colleagues committed to jointly develop better practices.
From this article, we can get some definition of community of practice. When we first know a topic, we have to know what the definition of this topic is, we can start our research. Because of this reason, I search some materials about the definitions of community of practice.
First, Bonding by exposure to common problems.
There are many shades of definition of this concept, but the author define it as "a group of professionals, informally bound to one another through exposure to a common class of problems, common pursuit of solutions, and thereby themselves embodying a store of knowledge." Like French club or English communication club.
Secondly, Common practices and language
"Communities of Practice" is a phrase coined by researchers who studied the ways in which people naturally work and play together. In essence, communities of practice are groups of people who share similar goals and interests. In pursuit of these goals and interests, they employ common practices, work with the same tools and express themselves in a common language. Through such common activity, they come to hold similar beliefs and value systems. I think when you join this kind CoP, you can find what you want.
Thirdly, Commons sense of purpose
There are many communities of practice within a single company, and most people belong to more than one of them. Most of us belong to more than one, and not just on the job: the management team; the engineers, some in your company and some not.
Fourthly, Members evolve more creative practice
A community of practice is "a diverse group of people engaged in real work over a significant period of time during which they build things, solve problems, learn and invent...in short, they evolve a practice that is highly skilled and highly creative."
Last but not least, from water coolers to commitment. More than a "community of learners," a community of practice is also a "community that learns." Not merely peers exchanging ideas around the water cooler, sharing and benefitting from each other's expertise, but colleagues committed to jointly develop better practices.
annotation3
Sy-Feng Wang,Kai-Ming Chen(2002,DEC.)Community-of-Practice and Creativity: Theory & Implication.[Electronic version]. 社會教育學刊.
CoP is still confusing in Taiwan, so Ministry of education starts a plan about how to make innovation and knowledge management connected with community of practice. Creativity and innovation have become more and more important, if you are a guy with those talents, you have the advantage to compete with others. But the education in Taiwan now seems not put much emphasis on social education, this make our children know how to study but do not know how to jump out from books. Due to this reason and the force of globalization, CoP is used to stimulate our total creativity and innovation capability.
Many multi-national companies have used CoPs to develop their advantages of competition. Although enterprises are an important part in our society, we can not let our children to know how to progress their ability of social education until they go to the society. It is too cruel and late to know.
When we are in schools, we have to know what things happened around the world, and we have to make our knowledge renew everyday, so we have to keep learning new ideas. This article takes P&G as an example. P&G uses community of practice as a way to identify and expand their new way of research and development. CoP plays an important role in this company.
However teams and communities are two things, communities can be used on the Internet, that is to say, on the virtual way. For example, electronic community and Network Learning Community, so we students can get on the Internet and take a look at those communities and even join in. by joining those communities, we can make friends from many different countries and learn what we can not learn in schools.
I joined a activity held by ASUS, a famous computer company, this semester. It is called campus CEO. In CEO, I met so many people with the same interest as me. We can discuss the surveys in the market or the product we are ready to make a research on. This is a really special experience during my college life, I think everyone can have a try in what they have interest in.
CoP is still confusing in Taiwan, so Ministry of education starts a plan about how to make innovation and knowledge management connected with community of practice. Creativity and innovation have become more and more important, if you are a guy with those talents, you have the advantage to compete with others. But the education in Taiwan now seems not put much emphasis on social education, this make our children know how to study but do not know how to jump out from books. Due to this reason and the force of globalization, CoP is used to stimulate our total creativity and innovation capability.
Many multi-national companies have used CoPs to develop their advantages of competition. Although enterprises are an important part in our society, we can not let our children to know how to progress their ability of social education until they go to the society. It is too cruel and late to know.
When we are in schools, we have to know what things happened around the world, and we have to make our knowledge renew everyday, so we have to keep learning new ideas. This article takes P&G as an example. P&G uses community of practice as a way to identify and expand their new way of research and development. CoP plays an important role in this company.
However teams and communities are two things, communities can be used on the Internet, that is to say, on the virtual way. For example, electronic community and Network Learning Community, so we students can get on the Internet and take a look at those communities and even join in. by joining those communities, we can make friends from many different countries and learn what we can not learn in schools.
I joined a activity held by ASUS, a famous computer company, this semester. It is called campus CEO. In CEO, I met so many people with the same interest as me. We can discuss the surveys in the market or the product we are ready to make a research on. This is a really special experience during my college life, I think everyone can have a try in what they have interest in.
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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. Take me for an example, when I have questions, sometime I would go on the PPT(BBS) to present my questions.
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.
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. Take me for an example, when I have questions, sometime I would go on the PPT(BBS) to present my questions.
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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Bored? Looking for a new challenge?
You can watch basketball, baseball, track, gymnastics, tennis, aerobics, volleyball, and weight lifting on ESPN, or you can get out and enjoy them by joining your school team. Not into team sports? There's French club, the debating team, chess club, student government, radio, newspaper, yearbook, environmental club, computer club, and more.
So many choices can seem overwhelming, but getting involved in new activities with new people is a fun way to challenge yourself. Here are some basics and benefits of getting involved.
Benefits of Extracurricular Activities
So what's in it for you? You get to explore your physical, creative, social, political, and career interests with like-minded people. You'll find friends: Trying something different may bring you in contact with people you didn't know who share your interests and curiosity. A club or group also can be a great way to meet people who are different from you. Lots of youth programs bring people together with those who are different as a way to break down the barriers between people.
Participating in extracurricular activities helps you in other ways, too: It looks good on college and job applications and shows admissions officers and employers you're well-rounded and responsible. Specific activities help with specific goals — if you want to teach language or get a bilingual job, being the president of the Spanish club shows the depth of your commitment.
The most basic reason for joining a club or team is that it gives you something better to do than staring at the wall, wandering the hall, or napping all afternoon. People who are involved and engaged are less likely to become addicted to bad habits, like smoking or drinking.
Finding the Right Activity for You
Review the activities your school offers and listen to other students' experiences to find an activity that meets your needs. Do you wish you had more computer time? Are you tired of shooting hoops alone? Are you looking to meet friends or get support? Don't limit yourself to the familiar — try something new.
Think about different roles within groups that you might want to try — president, captain, participant, leader, support person. Each role is important. Being president teaches you leadership and management skills, but involves more responsibility; being a member gives you structure and is less stressful. You can also lend your skills in areas that are needed, such as using your financial skills to be a group's treasurer.
How to Get Involved
Ask questions of the activity advisor before you join. Some things to ask include:
Age. You may have to be a certain age or in a certain grade to join an activity.
Fees. Do you have to pay to join? How much? Are there fees for outings, uniforms, costumes, or other expenses? You may be required to help raise money.
Physical. If you're joining a team, you may need to take a physical. Talking with your family doctor may help you decide whether a team is a good choice for you.
Grades. Many groups require a minimum GPA to join.
Time. If you're involved in competitive sports, you need to have the time to practice and compete. There's also the time it takes to get ready emotionally for a game, and the time you spend getting pizza with the team after games. Too Much of a Good Thing?
It's easy to join one too many exciting activities. Ask as many questions as possible before you join. Sit down with your school schedule, work schedule, and other activities and try to map out what's realistic. Are you taking a class this semester that requires extra studying time? Do you need to focus on grades? Does your bus only come once an hour by the time practice is over instead of every 15 minutes? Will you have time to eat, sleep, and relax? Everyone needs downtime. If an activity adds lots of stress to your life, it's not for you.
Once you've joined an activity, if you feel stressed out, reconsider। It's important to keep a balance between schoolwork, extracurricular activities, a job, social life, and your health. If you join a club and need to quit for any reason, talk with the advisor or coach. Be direct and polite and explain your situation and feelings. Sometimes it's just not the right match for you or it's too time-consuming. Perhaps you can participate in a less time-consuming way or rejoin later. You won't be helping yourself or the group if you frantically do homework during a competition or fall asleep during practice. Saying "no" can be the most mature and responsible thing to do.
You can watch basketball, baseball, track, gymnastics, tennis, aerobics, volleyball, and weight lifting on ESPN, or you can get out and enjoy them by joining your school team. Not into team sports? There's French club, the debating team, chess club, student government, radio, newspaper, yearbook, environmental club, computer club, and more.
So many choices can seem overwhelming, but getting involved in new activities with new people is a fun way to challenge yourself. Here are some basics and benefits of getting involved.
Benefits of Extracurricular Activities
So what's in it for you? You get to explore your physical, creative, social, political, and career interests with like-minded people. You'll find friends: Trying something different may bring you in contact with people you didn't know who share your interests and curiosity. A club or group also can be a great way to meet people who are different from you. Lots of youth programs bring people together with those who are different as a way to break down the barriers between people.
Participating in extracurricular activities helps you in other ways, too: It looks good on college and job applications and shows admissions officers and employers you're well-rounded and responsible. Specific activities help with specific goals — if you want to teach language or get a bilingual job, being the president of the Spanish club shows the depth of your commitment.
The most basic reason for joining a club or team is that it gives you something better to do than staring at the wall, wandering the hall, or napping all afternoon. People who are involved and engaged are less likely to become addicted to bad habits, like smoking or drinking.
Finding the Right Activity for You
Review the activities your school offers and listen to other students' experiences to find an activity that meets your needs. Do you wish you had more computer time? Are you tired of shooting hoops alone? Are you looking to meet friends or get support? Don't limit yourself to the familiar — try something new.
Think about different roles within groups that you might want to try — president, captain, participant, leader, support person. Each role is important. Being president teaches you leadership and management skills, but involves more responsibility; being a member gives you structure and is less stressful. You can also lend your skills in areas that are needed, such as using your financial skills to be a group's treasurer.
How to Get Involved
Ask questions of the activity advisor before you join. Some things to ask include:
Age. You may have to be a certain age or in a certain grade to join an activity.
Fees. Do you have to pay to join? How much? Are there fees for outings, uniforms, costumes, or other expenses? You may be required to help raise money.
Physical. If you're joining a team, you may need to take a physical. Talking with your family doctor may help you decide whether a team is a good choice for you.
Grades. Many groups require a minimum GPA to join.
Time. If you're involved in competitive sports, you need to have the time to practice and compete. There's also the time it takes to get ready emotionally for a game, and the time you spend getting pizza with the team after games. Too Much of a Good Thing?
It's easy to join one too many exciting activities. Ask as many questions as possible before you join. Sit down with your school schedule, work schedule, and other activities and try to map out what's realistic. Are you taking a class this semester that requires extra studying time? Do you need to focus on grades? Does your bus only come once an hour by the time practice is over instead of every 15 minutes? Will you have time to eat, sleep, and relax? Everyone needs downtime. If an activity adds lots of stress to your life, it's not for you.
Once you've joined an activity, if you feel stressed out, reconsider। It's important to keep a balance between schoolwork, extracurricular activities, a job, social life, and your health. If you join a club and need to quit for any reason, talk with the advisor or coach. Be direct and polite and explain your situation and feelings. Sometimes it's just not the right match for you or it's too time-consuming. Perhaps you can participate in a less time-consuming way or rejoin later. You won't be helping yourself or the group if you frantically do homework during a competition or fall asleep during practice. Saying "no" can be the most mature and responsible thing to do.
book review
This book provides students a very systematic procedure which they could follow along while writing without further confusing questions. And it is a good book for students who learn about composition writing. When they have any questions about writing, it seems that they can use this book very conveniently. Teachers who teach composition could profit by this book, too. Instructors can even learn something from this book. They could instruct their students along with the book so that they can both gain something valuable. And it is actually quite different from other writing books because it contains many details that students may have in writing. And since it illustrate its contents clearly, teachers may skip some simple parts that student read by themselves and explain more difficult chapters. And it fuses many aspects of writing, too. For instance, it contains the forms of writing of movies, paintings, etc. This book contains all sorts of genres of writing and different materials we may write about, from literature, visual arts and film.
We can follow the tips which have been given to us in the book. And the professional writers’ articles (as examples harmonizing with each chapter’s theme) enlarge readers and students’ scope of horizons, which inspire them to work harder by maybe imitating them in the first place. After being familiar with professional articles, students may use them to begin their own original work since they are really masterpieces. It provides students essays, which encourage students to write as good as them and sympathize them since they make similar mistakes. We also think there is another key point the book teach us from the basic theory. For example, it mentions how to summarize an article. As a matter of fact, this is the first step to learn how to write a good composition.
From these student essays, we can know how to revise our problems, just like our discussion in class before, we compare two articles and then we can notice which one is better. And when this book talks about paintings, it would give us many paintings for students to practice. It provides students with essays, which encourage students to write as good as them and sympathize with them since they make similar mistakes. What’s more, this book is endowed with vivid illustrations helping readers understand its words. Its wording and typesetting are impeccable with different colors and sizes of words. We think in the book, it provides many question to think after reading the article. And it is very important because we can realize some points which we ignore before. We find that the questions the book provides after the article are the key point.
Questions make/force us to think, and to reflect. They would also sharpen our interpretative skills. There is also another good point. In the book, it has a "remember column.” It can remind us of some writing tips. Also, sharing is quite important in the writing pedagogy. Students' own thoughts and teachers' are interacting if they share thoughts with each other. In conclusion, we think that this book is very good in general.
We can follow the tips which have been given to us in the book. And the professional writers’ articles (as examples harmonizing with each chapter’s theme) enlarge readers and students’ scope of horizons, which inspire them to work harder by maybe imitating them in the first place. After being familiar with professional articles, students may use them to begin their own original work since they are really masterpieces. It provides students essays, which encourage students to write as good as them and sympathize them since they make similar mistakes. We also think there is another key point the book teach us from the basic theory. For example, it mentions how to summarize an article. As a matter of fact, this is the first step to learn how to write a good composition.
From these student essays, we can know how to revise our problems, just like our discussion in class before, we compare two articles and then we can notice which one is better. And when this book talks about paintings, it would give us many paintings for students to practice. It provides students with essays, which encourage students to write as good as them and sympathize with them since they make similar mistakes. What’s more, this book is endowed with vivid illustrations helping readers understand its words. Its wording and typesetting are impeccable with different colors and sizes of words. We think in the book, it provides many question to think after reading the article. And it is very important because we can realize some points which we ignore before. We find that the questions the book provides after the article are the key point.
Questions make/force us to think, and to reflect. They would also sharpen our interpretative skills. There is also another good point. In the book, it has a "remember column.” It can remind us of some writing tips. Also, sharing is quite important in the writing pedagogy. Students' own thoughts and teachers' are interacting if they share thoughts with each other. In conclusion, we think that this book is very good in general.
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