This document discusses priorities for developing a community of writers in a nature, environmental, and travel writing course. It will use BuddyPress to create a sustainable community that leverages existing capacities and familiar functionality while providing opportunities for personal advancement and serendipity. The course will make expectations clear while creating a dynamic one-stop shop for writers to advance their skills in a technologically relevant way.

1. wra341: nature,
environmental & travel
writing
{ Developing a community of writers

2. before we start: priorities
 make course expectations inescapable
 create a community of practice
 one stop shop
 dynamic
 technologically relevant
 versatile

3. buddypress, but why?
 leveraging existing capacities
 sustainable
 personal advancement
 familiar functionality
 Widgetable
 serendipity

4. what i learned
 working outside the box has limitations
 form and function are inextricable
 reappropriation is powerful
 this is all likely to change