Educational blogging: Theory & usecase

June 22, 2009

Task 6: Please research which theorys fit to educational (micro)blogging. Take one of them and develop a small usecase for your future pedagogical field of practice using this theory.

Communities of Practice

During my research for this task I mostly stuck with different constructivist theories, and decided to chose Wenger’s and Lave’s “Communities of Practice” for my usecase. This theory was first developed during the 1990s, though Wenger states that “the phenomenon it refers to is age-old”ยน. Communities of Practice (CoP) are groups of people with a common interest, who interact with each other to share their learnings and thus learn from each other’s experience as well as their own practice. Read the rest of this entry »


How to use a book

April 23, 2009

A nice little video to send to people who think new technologies aren’t necessary:


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