How can communities of practice balance consumption and creation? Focus on mathematics education. Presentation at Connecting Online 2011 http://www.wiziq.com/events/co11.aspx
11. Site: Scratch programming community Social objects: Scratch applets and comments Actions: Create and share applets, remix other people’s applets, collect applet galleries Kids: yes
12. Site: Geogebra Wiki International Social objects: Geogebra applets, descriptions and discussions Actions: Program, share, modify applets Kids: yes
13. Site: Many Eyes Social objects: Data visualizations Actions: Create, share, comment, tag visualizations Kids: ?
14. Site: GraphJam Social objects: Funky graphs and diagrams Actions: Create, share, rate, tag graphs Kids: yes
15. Site: Elitist Jerks: World of Warcarft guild forum Social objects: Stories, computations, addons, spreadsheets for strategies of a multi-player game Actions: Program, design, discuss Kids: yes
16. Site: YouTube Social objects: Short videos, relational networks among videos, collections (channels), comments Actions: Make videos, aggregate, comment Kids: yes
17. Site: WCYDWT - what can you do with this Social objects: Blog posts on math-rich objects and lesson ideas around them Actions: Blog Kids: no, but can be
18. Site: Wolfram Demonstrations Project Social objects: Mathematica-generated widgets Actions: Create and share widgets Kids: maybe
19. Site: xkcd webcomic community Social objects: Comics, discussions Actions: discuss math-related news and ideas Kids: yes, though the comic has very grown-up themes
20. Site: TVtropes wiki Social objects: Examples of (mostly non-math) tropes in movies, literature, videogames and so on, organized in a wiki Actions: collect and create tropes and examples, discuss, build themes Kids: use the site, though it has mature themes
21. Site: VoiceThread about fractions Social objects: Pictures, text and voice comments Actions: define fractions together Kids: yes
22. Site: Art of Problem Solving forum Social objects: Problems, solutions, discussions Actions: post, discuss, solve, compete Kids: yes
23. Site: Flickr image sharing community Social objects: Prints with "the Droste Effect" transformation; software; discussions Actions: create and share picture, program, comment Kids: no