Since 2007 a blended course (face-to-face and online) at the University of Connecticut offers beginning language educators the opportunity to explore, apply and evaluate online social networks for language, culture and civilization courses within a framework that capitalizes on collaborative, supportive engagement with peers within, across and beyond institutional boundaries. This presentation highlight the creative-commons licensed course components and open educational resources and explores how others can adapt them for use in their own teaching and learning communities.
Empowering Beginning Language Teachers Through Global Communities of Practice
1. Empowering Beginning Language Teachers
Through Global Communities of Practice
Barbara Lindsey, Melina Masterson, Claudio Pinna, Carsten Witt
University of Connecticut
ACTFL 2011 Denver, CO
2. I am interested in this session
because I am:
a) a faculty member teaching pre-service teachers
b) a pre-service teacher (in training to become a teacher
c) an in-service teacher (currently teaching)
d) other
4. Guiding Framework
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"Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for
something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly."
Etienne Wenger
http://www.ewenger.com/theory/
45. Our Question For You
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What one idea presented here could you use
to help build and/or strengthen your
communities of practice?