In week one and two, we will get to know each other, together discuss the outline and organization of the course (including the badge structure), get familiar with the technology, and begin getting an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the field.

Week 1 (April 25-May 1)

• Two meetings on Big Blue Button (choose one): Friday at 9AM EST or Saturday at 5PM EST. Network members are also welcome. We will only have one weekly meeting in the future, but want to make sure everyone get a chance to meet during week 1. LINK (watch this video about how BBB works)
• Week 1 video
• Readings:
  • Constructivism on EduTechWiki (feel free to explore sublinks)
  • Communities of Practice on infed - the encyclopedia of informal learning

Joe suggested a reading called From communities of practice to mycorrhizae

We had our first meeting in Big Blue Button. We started with voice (9 minute MP3 recording), but because some didn't have headphones, we went over to text chat (transcript).

Week 2 (May 2-May 8)

• one meeting on Big Blue Button (time to be determined)
• Readings:
  • CSCL on EduTechWiki
  • Situated learning on EduTechWiki
  • Community of practice on EduTechWiki
  • CSCL: An Historical Perspective. by Gerry Stahl, Timothy Koschmann and Daniel Suthers based on a chapter in: R. K. Sawyer (Ed.). (2006). Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  • Technology affordances for intersubjective learning: a thematic agenda for CSCL. by Dan Suthers. In Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning: learning 2005: the next 10 years! (CSCL '05). International Society of the Learning Sciences 662-671.