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A group of bloggers who focus on online and blended learning reflected on what they learned at the Virtual School Symposium 2012 in New Orleans.
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Teacher’s Lounge: Collaborative Communication for Online and Blended Learning Educators
• Jonathan Oglesby, Rob Darrow, Kristin Kipp, Mike Shumake• Bekci Kelly, James Brauer, Joy Nehr
• VSS: October 2012, #vss12
Introductions
Our Purpose
• To increase our knowledge about how to blog in a non-threatening supportive environment
• To build a community of online educators who like to blog
• To provide the online or blended teacher/administrator/parent/student voice to the ongoing state and national discussion about online and blended learning (stories, experiences, etc.)
Overview: What we have done
• Series of activities to become a blogger– Wiki: inacol.wikispaces.com
• Weekly online meetings, Wednesdays at 5 ET via Blackboard Collaborate
• Comment on each other’s blog entries– Blog: inacol.wordpress.com
Wiki: inacol.wikispaces.com
Blog: inacol.wordpress.com
Individual Experiences/Transformations
• From non-blogger to blogger
Logistics of Blogging and Engaging Others
Focus: Voices of Online and Blended Learning
Why is this Critical?
• Communities of Practice
• Professional (and Personal) Learning Network (PLN)
• Professional Development
How to be visible?
“Whip Around” (Final
thoughts/comments by everyone)
Hockey Circle Panorama Planet. http://www.flickr.com/photos/29143375@N05/5294224165/. CC attribution.
Contact Information
Key Links:– Wiki: http://inacol.wikispaces.com/– Blog: http://http://inacol.wordpress.com/
•Rob Darrow, ([email protected])
•Jonathan Oglesby, ([email protected] )
