Technology For Communities

We’re wrapping up our plans and materials for our new workshop, developed and presented by Beth Kanter, Beverly Trayner, Bronwyn Stuckey, Etienne Wenger, John D. Smith, Nancy White, Nick Noakes, Shawn Callahan, Shirley Williams, and Susanne Nyrop.It includes a lot of modeling of learning interactions, stratagems, and tactics using a dozen different social technologies.

We’re designing the workshop to support:

• Getting to know each other, each other’s communities
• Creating “a workshop as laboratory”
• Exploring real communities, from an insider’s perspective to see community orientations & technology integration
• Considering the role and activity of the technology stewards in authentic situations
• Exploring the uses of social technologies to stay in touch as well as for sustained inquiry
• Experiencing the design of learning agendas and then configuring technology to pursue those agendas
• Articulate strategies to introduce new social technologies to a community

• Communities of practice theory glimpse
• Community technology stewardship
• Tools and their Integration
• Scanning the Technology Landscape
• Orientations: community experience and configuration of tools
• A More Distributed Future
• A Learning Agenda

Connected futures workshop starts April 28: http://www.cpsquare.org/edu/CP2W2/

I ran across this slide in a larger deck used by a colleague to deal with a set of technology decisions for the communities of practice in her company:

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Apart from the way that Etienne’s classification scheme has been modified slightly to be relevant to the issues on the table, the fact that they’ve gone to the trouble of updating the diagram is a good reminder of how difficult it is to think systematically about all the tools that are out there and how they might work in practice.