This area of learning and practice has become the focal point in my work lately. Nancy White’s Blog – Full Circle Online Interaction Blog has wonderful resources and links to the world of online blog communities. She writes 5 separate posts (still trying to find all the links in one spot) on the different types of online blog communities. These distinctions will help me immensly as I learn how to develop different types of commuities of practice for my work.

As importantly, understanding the different types of blog communities is helping me see the evolution of my personal blog and where it fits into these classifications. It’s no surprise that there are overlaps, however knowing some of these distinctions helps me see what I’m doing and better yet where I want to focus in my own online learning.

There is a terrific podcast of her talking about different blog communities on the Edtech Talk site. A very interesting and helpful overview of her thinking on this subject.

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A fabulous resource and links related to teaching digital writing. I discovered in looking through Brian Lambs blog – Abject Learning. I haven’t had time to explore it in total, however it looked so promising I promptly put it on the CR&LR blog. Here is the intro from KAIROS.

We think that if you are reading this, you are not someone who needs to hear the answer to the overriding question posed: Why Teach Digital Writing? Rather, you are someone who needs to construct an answer to the question, for many different audiences, over and over again. It’s what you do. And it’s what we do, too. What we have collected here are some of our best constructions, including some of the ways we’ve done our work in the past for various audiences (students, colleagues, administrators) and in various types of professional settings (classes, meetings, presentations). This webtext “talks” in all the ways we are asked to talk about teaching digital writing: in the hallways to colleagues, in policy documents to administrators, in classroom exercises to graduate and undergraduate students, and to colleagues at conferences, in journal articles, and other scholarly genres.

We hope you’ll enjoy reading these snippets, documents, and other attempts at answering the question Why Teach Digital Writing? But we hope, even more, that you’ll take them and use them. We give you our express permission to do so.

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