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Teacher’s Lounge: Collaborative Communication for Online and Blended Learning Educators

• Jonathan Oglesby, Rob Darrow, Kristin Kipp, Mike Shumake• Bekci Kelly, James Brauer, Joy Nehr

• VSS: October 2012, #vss12

Introductions

Our Purpose

• To increase our knowledge about how to blog in a non-threatening supportive environment

• To build a community of online educators who like to blog

• To provide the online or blended teacher/administrator/parent/student voice to the ongoing state and national discussion about online and blended learning (stories, experiences, etc.)

Overview: What we have done

• Series of activities to become a blogger– Wiki: inacol.wikispaces.com

• Weekly online meetings, Wednesdays at 5 ET via Blackboard Collaborate

• Comment on each other’s blog entries– Blog: inacol.wordpress.com

Wiki: inacol.wikispaces.com

Blog: inacol.wordpress.com

Individual Experiences/Transformations

• From non-blogger to blogger

Logistics of Blogging and Engaging Others

Focus: Voices of Online and Blended Learning

Why is this Critical?

• Communities of Practice

• Professional (and Personal) Learning Network (PLN)

• Professional Development

How to be visible?

Please join us!

• Email Rob: rdarrow@inacol.org

“Whip Around” (Final

thoughts/comments by everyone)

Hockey Circle Panorama Planet. http://www.flickr.com/photos/29143375@N05/5294224165/. CC attribution.

Contact Information

Key Links:– Wiki: http://inacol.wikispaces.com/– Blog: http://http://inacol.wordpress.com/

•Rob Darrow, (rdarrow@inacol.org)

•Jonathan Oglesby, (joglesby@inacol.org )