Community Building 2.0 Discussions - Classroom 2.02024-03-29T09:56:51Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/group/communitybuilding20/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noGlobal Virtual Classroomtag:www.classroom20.com,2010-07-17:649749:Topic:4893872010-07-17T15:58:38.411ZJanet Barnstablehttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/JanetBarnstable
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande'; color: #5e5e5f">The <a href="http://www.virtualclassroom.org/"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #3501ee">Global Virtual Classroom</span></a> (GVC) is a collection of free, online educational activities and resources. It aims to complement the efforts of governments and educators around the world to integrate technology into their classrooms and curricula and to link their schools to the Internet in…</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande'; color: #5e5e5f">The <a href="http://www.virtualclassroom.org/"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #3501ee">Global Virtual Classroom</span></a> (GVC) is a collection of free, online educational activities and resources. It aims to complement the efforts of governments and educators around the world to integrate technology into their classrooms and curricula and to link their schools to the Internet in educationally productive ways.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande'; color: #5e5e5f">The GVC vision is to empower, enable and connect students around the world using Internet technology. It provides students with a stimulating, positive and enjoyable environment along with the opportunity to develop skills that are essential in the 21st century: cross-cultural communication, collaboration through teamwork, information technology and website design. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande'; color: #5e5e5f">The major projects of the GVC are the annual <a href="http://www.virtualclassroom.org/overview.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #3501ee">Contest</span></a> and the <a href="http://www.virtualclassroom.org/clubhouse.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #3501ee">Clubhouse</span></a> Program. During the Contest, teams from schools from around the world compete in an effort to build websites that best meet contest objectives. Each team is made up of students from schools in different countries working together. The websites are judged<br/> on the quality of their content and presentation, effective collaboration,<br/>
and a focus on helping others through knowledge or activities. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande'; color: #5e5e5f"><br/> The contest runs from October through April, with winners announced and cash prizes awarded in May. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande'; color: #5e5e5f">The Clubhouse is a non-competitive flexible program focused on collaborative learning. Projects can include any topics such as: language class exchanges, environmental research, collaborative science projects, and discussion groups. This program can begin at any time and last months or multiple years.</p> Digital Media and Learning Competition is now open!tag:www.classroom20.com,2008-08-27:649749:Topic:1824542008-08-27T15:16:41.950Zmdaileyhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/mdailey
We would love to have more teachers know about and apply to the 2008<br />
HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition,<br />
which just opened last week. This year's theme is participatory learning, which includes the many ways that learners (of any<br />
age) use new technologies to participate in virtual communities where<br />
they share ideas, comment upon one another's projects, and plan,<br />
design, advance, implement, or simply discuss their goals and ideas<br />
together<br />
<br />
---PLEASE DISTRIBUTE…
We would love to have more teachers know about and apply to the 2008<br />
HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition,<br />
which just opened last week. This year's theme is participatory learning, which includes the many ways that learners (of any<br />
age) use new technologies to participate in virtual communities where<br />
they share ideas, comment upon one another's projects, and plan,<br />
design, advance, implement, or simply discuss their goals and ideas<br />
together<br />
<br />
---PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY---<br />
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Digital Media and Learning Competition 2008<br />
$2 Million Competition<br />
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Focus: Participatory Learning<br />
Application Deadline: October 15, 2008<br />
Full information at: <a href="http://www.dmlcompetition.net">www.dmlcompetition.net</a><br />
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The second HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition is now open! The focus is participatory learning.<br />
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Awards will be made in two categories:<br />
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Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards support large-scale digital learning projects<br />
$30,000-$250,000<br />
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Young Innovator Awards are targeted at 18-25 year olds<br />
$5,000-$30,000<br />
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Full information at: <a href="http://www.dmlcompetition.net">www.dmlcompetition.net</a><br />
2008 Digital Media and Learning Competition is now open! › Community Informatics Initiative (CII)tag:www.classroom20.com,2007-07-23:649749:Topic:352612007-07-23T17:48:35.521ZSkip Zillahttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/skipzilla
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the home of the <a href="http://www.cii.uiuc.edu/">Community Informatics Initiative (CII)</a>. CII's stated mission, goals, and core values can be found below as excerpts from its website. Perhaps investigating CII may be useful to this <i>Community Building 2.0</i> group. For various professional and personal reasons I'm drawn to CII's reason for being.<br />
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CII Faculty Co-Directors<br />
Ann P.…
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the home of the <a href="http://www.cii.uiuc.edu/">Community Informatics Initiative (CII)</a>. CII's stated mission, goals, and core values can be found below as excerpts from its website. Perhaps investigating CII may be useful to this <i>Community Building 2.0</i> group. For various professional and personal reasons I'm drawn to CII's reason for being.<br />
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CII Faculty Co-Directors<br />
Ann P. Bishop<br />
Bertram (Chip) Bruce<br />
Graduate School of Library and Information Science<br />
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br />
501 E. Daniel St.<br />
Champaign, IL 61820<br />
217.333.3280 (V), 217.244.3302 (F)<br />
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CII Managing Director<br />
Paul Adams<br />
padams@uiuc.edu<br />
Prairienet Community Network<br />
510 E. Daniel St.<br />
Champaign. IL. 61820<br />
Voice: (217) 333-5218<br />
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see also:<br />
Association for Community Networking<br />
Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN)<br />
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<b><i>Mission</i></b><br />
The Community Informatics Initiative (CII) works with people to develop information and communication technologies to achieve their goals. It fosters collaborations across campus, local, national and international communities. Together we build innovative community networks, community technology centers, software, and library services.<br />
The core of the CII is community inquiry: collaborative action to create knowledge and technology connected to people's values, history, and lived experiences; the development of models of engagement that are just, democratic, participatory, and open-ended; and the integration of theory and practice in an experimental and critical manner.<br />
We see the challenges facing community inquiry and informatics in the form of key research questions:<br />
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* How do actual communities work to address their problems?<br />
* What theory adequately accounts for the complexity and diversity of distributed, collective practice?<br />
* What tools are needed to mediate work on concrete tasks within communities?<br />
* What is the most effective process for developing shared capacity in the form of knowledge, skills, & tools?<br />
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<b><i>Goals</i></b><br />
The CII has four primary and intersecting goals:<br />
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* Research: To create new knowledge about community inquiry, including its processes, practices, technologies;<br />
* Teaching: To help both individuals and organizations engage in more productive community inquiry;<br />
* Public Engagement: To engage in community inquiry through the development of, and action in, living laboratories that bring together people from all walks of life;<br />
* Institutional Infrastructure: To establish democratic and sustainable infrastructure for community inquiry.<br />
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<b><i>Core Values</i></b><br />
The CII strives to align its work with the following set of core values:<br />
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* Underlying specific community or pedagogical aims is to help all participants develop a critical, socially-engaged intelligence.<br />
* Users should be empowered to participate actively in design, development, implementation, distribution, use, and evaluation of resources, not simply as informants (some participatory design processes), but, as John Dewey argues, to enter into the process of authority.<br />
* Dialogue across differences is not a necessary evil, but the generative force behind change and growth.<br />
* Knowledge construction depends upon community processes--sharing and building upon each other's work.<br />
* There must be a balance between free exploration of new territories and the maps derived from the work of others; this might be called appropriate scaffolding.<br />
* Every situation is unique; there is no absolute value in education or technology. Nevertheless, we can all learn from the experiences of others.<br />
* Diversity is a resource; every individual must be respected, regardless of race, class, religion, nationality, gender, age, or physical ability.<br />
* Ordinary experience is fundamental, but it is through reflection on experience that individuals are able to grow and prepare for enlarged experiences in the future.<br />
* Inquiry is a process of transforming situations, not simply acquiring knowledge or skills. Thus, it involves embodied action in the world as much as it does thinking.<br />
* Growth in knowledge is hollow and even harmful if it is not accompanied by moral growth as well. In her work, Jane Addams struggled to illuminate the "affectionate interpretation" that lies at the heart of justice and peace. questions about using technology to build a community of learnerstag:www.classroom20.com,2007-06-25:649749:Topic:293652007-06-25T13:52:30.821Zsschwisterhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/sschwister
The following questions were brainstormed by participants in the Classrooms of the Future conference, held at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in May 2007. What questions do YOU have about using technology to build a community of learners? How would you answer any of the questions below?<br />
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What do you do to be an effective facilitator with the use of technology?<br />
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How do you assess your effectiveness as a facilitator and find the "fine line"?<br />
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How do you incorporate humor and laughter…
The following questions were brainstormed by participants in the Classrooms of the Future conference, held at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in May 2007. What questions do YOU have about using technology to build a community of learners? How would you answer any of the questions below?<br />
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What do you do to be an effective facilitator with the use of technology?<br />
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How do you assess your effectiveness as a facilitator and find the "fine line"?<br />
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How do you incorporate humor and laughter appropriately in an online class? How do you balance the fun and the serious?<br />
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Do students have a sense of us using social networking and whether we belong?<br />
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If the "medium is the message" - what is the effect of our orientation to technology on social structure and relationships? Should we be doing what we are doing? Just because we can, should we?<br />
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How can we have our students use the technology so the technology doesn't get in the way of the learning?<br />
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How can we gauge the audience and do what we need to build community?<br />
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What makes/comprises/defines an effective facilitator?<br />
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Who is in control?<br />
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Do learners need to be posting a certain number of days per week in order to achieve optimal online community?<br />
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In a strictly online environment, do you have any ice breakers that instantly help students connect? what role can techology play in building (a learning) community?tag:www.classroom20.com,2007-05-22:649749:Topic:218982007-05-22T15:29:24.136Zsschwisterhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/sschwister
What role can technology play in building a community? In building a learning community? What technology tools and applications have you used to build community, and how have you used them?
What role can technology play in building a community? In building a learning community? What technology tools and applications have you used to build community, and how have you used them? all about communitytag:www.classroom20.com,2007-05-22:649749:Topic:218972007-05-22T15:27:02.967Zsschwisterhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/sschwister
What communities do you belong to? What's your definition of a learning community? And what are some ways you've used to build community?
What communities do you belong to? What's your definition of a learning community? And what are some ways you've used to build community?