bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

(or some variation on that theme) to encourage our community to think intentionally about their learning and growth. This is the power of learning with and through a community. As one of the other #lrnchat moderators, Jeannette Campos, says, "This can make learning less accidental. Because if we aren't learning, what's the point?"

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bozarthzone

MAY 23, 2011

Popular talk about "communities of practice" (CoPs) focuses a great deal on 'community' but rarely on 'practice'. Another thing that happens by living out in the big wide world: You may find new things that interest you. Hagel, Brown & Davison's Power of Pull describes this as "increasing your surface areas".

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bozarthzone

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Churches had pianos and organs, and communities had local gatherings of musicians both impromptu and planned, amateur and professional. Find a community. Not all that many years ago, before Mr. Edison invented his wax cylinder, a music was something you had to go somewhere to hear unless you played an instrument yourself. Have fun!

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bozarthzone

APRIL 20, 2009

My grad school research on communities of practice included an interesting 2000 article on communities, why people freely participate in them, and why they are willing to share. 171) the community. 171) the community. It is what one does”: Why people participate and help others in electronic communities of practice.

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bozarthzone

JULY 3, 2017

My interest in social learning and working out loud grew from my own wonderful experience as a participant in a vibrant community of practice. We mentored one another, shared what we learned, and even took turns demonstrating new ideas and skills in order to get feedback about how to make them better.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 15, 2012

Here’s a true story about physical rehab turned learning turned hobby turned community of practice turned two successful businesses, all via informal, social means. And all within six months." See this month's "Nuts & Bolts" column: [link]

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bozarthzone

MARCH 2, 2012

Jane Hart and I got together to talk about social learning, social media, change management, and measuring engagement in online communities. Here's the recording : Her audio's not great so she let me do most of the talking. I didn't do anything to cause that-- I promise.

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bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Another example: I used to belong to a vibrant,dynamic community of workplace trainers who gathered formally once a quarter, and informally at other times, with the stated goal of improving their practice. Consultants: love-hate relationships with communities of practice, The Learning Organization 14 (1), 21-33. Pastoors, K.

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Harassment Training Diversity Training Communities of Practice Community 77

bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

No surprise for any of you who've ever participated in an online community, online course discussion board, looked at Wikipedia. "In In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 10, 2009

She was one of the kindest, gentlest souls I have ever known, and the loss to her family and to the learning community is immeasurable. I seek to create learning communities with my students, settings in which we can question, reflect, laugh, challenge and grow in our roles as educators. Colleen Aalsburg Wiessner, Ph.D.,

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bozarthzone

JULY 7, 2011

We’ve worked hard to identify ways of keeping the best of the last 10 years while looking for new areas of focus and ideas for reaching a broader community of readers. Here is part of my welcome message: "I’m thrilled to be coming on board as Editor in Chief.

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bozarthzone

OCTOBER 15, 2015

But he's done good work with her, and proven himself; he became a full community member the day the ultra-achieving border collie started hanging out with him. We need to give people access to mentors and communities with good workers to emulate. Motivation This experience has shown me what pure intrinsic motivation looks like.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Certainly the bigger goal is to help training become less an event and more a process, and to support ways for workers to form communities and interact with one another -- not just with the trainer. I keep seeing lots of "tips for using social media tools in training" but not many concrete examples.

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bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

More than the average Twitter chat, #lrnchat's fun and spirit of community spans time and space. , which we do every year from the Demofest floor. Thursday October 1, 8:30 pm ET, 5:30 pm PT.) # lrnchat is now in its seventh year.

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bozarthzone

JULY 12, 2011

Do most undergraduates need to reach out to big online communities day and night? People say, "Well, college students don't use Twitter" as if there is some fatal flaw of Twitter that only college students see. Why would a college student use Twitter? I didn't really need that when I was in college.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 6, 2017

Among the takeaways here: the local community college has resources available to artists and hobbyists, including wood lathes and glass blowing and pottery kilns. We also heard from a friend who does gorgeous woodworking, another who discussed her interest in modern culture and political activism, and another who manages a local brewpub.

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bozarthzone

DECEMBER 2, 2020

They tend to make more deliberate choices when voting and participate in more community organizations. They exhibit more social cohesion: They are less prejudiced and are more likely to donate money and time. In a bit of irony, research shows that higher education levels correlate with technology adoption.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

My January 24 post, "Collapse of a Community of Practice", included an aside about what training practitioners are really doing v. what the media -- print, business blogs, "forums" and "webinars" would have us believe (another aside: there is nothing positive about the word "webinar").

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Those are still on, by the way, as is the online community.) In addition to giving me a lot of exposure and letting me try new things, the events are where I met in person people like Susan Boyd, Thiagi, Bob Mosher, Patti Shank, The Hortons, and my dear friend and valued colleague Jennifer Hofmann.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 1, 2016

I thought I knew a lot about my field—I’d been there a decade, after all, and was a voracious reader of trade journals and business books (back then it was EQ and the tail end of the TQM movement) and a member of a very active community of practice (CoP) for trainers. You can read the rest here.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 16, 2009

My dissertation research focused broadly on communities of practice (CoPs), and narrowly on a single community comprised of workplace trainers who gathered voluntarily to “stamp out bad training”. Dave Ferguson has revived the Working/Learning Blog Carnival and has asked for thoughts on "work at learning: learning at work".

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