re/ conference call: Building a community-of-practice

[Richard Moore]

During the call, people reported that the DF-on-DF weekend generated a beneficial sense of community, a community-of-practice. The face-to-face element was important in this, and also the opportunity to see different styles of doing DF, as facilitation rotated among the participants. This gave participants a sense of being embedded in a dynamic, evolving community of practice. During the call, the question arose as to what could be done, new websites or whatever, to build on and share this sense of community.

DeAnna has already created a 'ning' network, Choice Creating Community of Practice. This seems like an appropriate environment for building a sense of community. It's got forums, a chat facility, pages for each member with a 'wall' to write on, email notification of updates, etc. If one of the forum discussions gets 'hot', it would be relatively easy for the participants to agree on a time to transition over to the real-time chat window. And it is easy to copy and paste from the chat, back into the forum, as a record of key points to share.

If we want to develop our working community, perhaps what is needed is the collective intention to use the ning environment as a primary means of our group communication. We'd need to devote some initial energy to get the momentum going, and establish the environment as an 'active, inhabited space'. A place where we post our reports on events, where we upload our videos, etc.

[rosal...@igc.org]

Thank you for your clarity, Richard. This makes sense to me...

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[Ted Heinz]

So... I would like to discuss the advantages/advantages of thinking about DF more as an educational process rather than a political process..... I am not sure how to get to the -ning and where to put my observations.

Can you help me?
Ted

[Ted Heinz]

I found our ning site by using the link that came through on an email.  I posted some thoughts under Forum.

But how will we know that something is there unless we go to the ning to check?

At any rate, I hope some of you will share your thoughts about the advantages/disadvantages of framing DF/Choice Creating as an educational process.
 
Ted

[Rosa Zubizarreta]

Hi Ted,

once you "sign up" for a conversation on the Ning, you get an e-mail notifying you whenever there is a new post on that conversation.  (However, you don't get notifications of new conversations that have started, until you sign up for them...  at least that's my understanding of how it works.)

Thanks for starting the conversation re "DF as an educational practice"! I look forward to joining in... that sparks a lot for me.

[Richard Moore]

How about this? Whenever someone starts a new discussion, they post their initial contribution to the DF list as well, along with the name of the discussion. That way the DF list gets occasional reminders that the ning exists, and people can decide if they're interested in that particular discussion. We could even include the URL of the new discussion. Here's the URL for the education discussion:

http://choice-create.ning.com/forum/topics/thinking-of-df-as-an

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