By: John David Smith

John David Smith — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:05:58 +0000

Thanks for that, Margaret. Your response gives me a chance to mention that after I hit “publish” I realized that there were A LOT of other interesting things to observe and re-tell about the activities at Pepperdine. I’m afraid there was a lot more interesting design and experimentation happening there than I could possibly do justice to in a rushed blog post! It’s interesting to me that one of the issues behind the work at IRL 20+ years ago was “the transfer problem”. In retrospect that very question has a very “domain” feel. Your comment puts it in a “community” frame — what communities do we move TO when we leave a program steeped in practice like the one at Pepperdine? (In fact that kind of question was behind my efforts to get CPsquare going in the first place — after finishing the “foundations workshop” and having nobody to talk with about a way forward.)

By: Margaret riel

Margaret riel — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:43:31 +0000

John,
We were so pleased to have you open the third session of our conference. Your book (with Nancy and Etienne) is so perfect for our learning technologies program. Students, in their action research are often trying to do just what you describe in the book. Over time, we will be able to help CPsquare develop an action research dialogue around effects that were, and were not, successful as researchers try to support digital habitats. We look forward in working closely with you. Students are increasingly finding that CPsquare is a great community to join as they complete the program. We are open to ideas for how we can work together. Also, many of the presentations in session two also identified Digital Habitats as the resource that was most helpful. So thanks again for all of your help.

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