Upcoming events in CPsquare:
CPsquare book club: We'll be reading selected chapters from Communities
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l> of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators, edited by
Chris Kimble and Paul Hildreth. See the
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> table of contents for both volumes. Several of the authors are members or
have been involved in CPsquare over the years. All of the authors will be
invited to participate in the discussions. Some synchronous events
(teleconferences) will be held, but most of the discussion will be
asynchronous. If you want to participate in these discussions you should
buy the book immediately. Selection of which chapters to read together will
begin late July. Actual chapter discussions begin a week later. It's free
to CPsquare members and $50 for non-members. Registration is at:
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(shouldn't you really just join?)
We're beginning a year-long series of monthly visits about multi-membership
and bridging across communities with Davee
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straddles two communities of practice: the Wikipedia
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community. Our first session with Davee will be on Wednesday,
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edtime.html%3Fmonth%3D7%26day%3D9%26year%3D2008%26hour%3D13%26min%3D0%26sec %
3D0%26p1%3D202> July 9, 2008 at 20:00
Karen Guldberg and Jenny Mackness have done a raft of interviews with
participants and leaders of the Winter 2008 Foundations Workshop and have
written a paper about it, getting at issues such as emotion, connectivity,
understanding norms, learning tensions/dualities, technology, and identity.
We're scheduling a session in September where previous participants and
CPsquare members will be invited to talk about these findings and their
implications and application.
The next Foundations Workshop starts on September 15:
http://cpsquare.org/edu/foundations
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Our first offering of CPsquare's "Connected Futures" workshop, about new
technologies for communities was very exhilarating, although exhausting for
both participants and leaders. We used Twitter, Skype, blogs, wikis,
Facebook, social
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bookmarking, and Web Crossing. It was challenging to keep track of each
other but we managed to. We all got a lot out of the experience and we're
intending to offer it again in later this year, after the Foundations
Workshop. http://www.cpsquare.org/edu/CP2W2/
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Upcoming conferences of interest:
http://www.epic2008.com/
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mid-October
http://emerge2008.net/
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http://conferences.aoir.org/cfp.html
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Copenhagen in mid-October
Recommended books:
* Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li, "Groundswell: Winning in a World
Transformed by Social Technologies" (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Business
School Press, 2008) http://isbn.nu/1422125009
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http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/
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* Grant David McCracken, Transformations: Identity Construction in
Contemporary Culture. Indiana Univ Press, 2008,
http://isbn.nu/9780253219572
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* Shawn Callahan's "The Ultimate Guide to Anecdote Circles" --
Beautiful and useful and FREE!
http://www.anecdote.com.au/papers/Ultimate%20Guide%20to%20ACs.pdf
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* A report about CPsquare's Long Live the Platform conference last
January reports on several levels of innovation:
http://www.cpsquare.org/News/archives/LLP_Final_Report_Apr08.pdf
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My adventures in technology stewardship always have a history, bumps, and
even some nice surprises along the way as well. I've set up a blog
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a tools
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Ftiki-index.php> wiki for the book I've been working on with Etienne Wenger
and Nancy White for the last 3 years (Technology Stewardship for
Communities). Recently I moved my own website & blog to the same ISP,
thinking of it as a rehearsal for CPsquare's more complex move to the same
set-up in the near future. It was kind of agonizing (my little report on my
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gration-complete%2F> success turned out to be premature, since the agony
continued for a few days more). But today I discovered that some geeky
magic (in Wordpress, I presume) makes all the old URLs (such as this one:
http://www.learningalliances.net/index.php/2006-12-15/definition-of-t...
gy-steward
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2F2006-12-15%2Fdefinition-of-technology-steward> ) continue working (because
they get translated to the current scheme:
http://learningalliances.net/2006/12/definition-of-technology-steward/
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finition-of-technology-steward%2F> ). When you've been down in the trenches
dealing with nits, little things like that seem miraculous!
Stay in touch!
John
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* Portland, Oregon, USA http://www.learningAlliances.net
* "We are what we eat, and we think what we practice." -- Geoffrey Bowker
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