1. The document discusses tools and technologies for forming online communities, including social networking sites, photo sharing sites, and video sharing sites that allow people to connect globally. 2. It describes the Webheads community, an online language learning community with over 300 members from 50 countries that has sustained itself for over 10 years through regular online meetings and communication. 3. Key factors that have sustained the Webheads community include a common interest in language teaching/learning, international friendship, the vision of key members, and technologies that enable regular communication and knowledge sharing across distances.

1. Reaching a Bigger Pond: tools and technologies for forming community Community Engagement Showcase Cairns, Nov 6 th , 2007

2. Community in the 21 st Century http://flickr.com/photos/7447470@N06/1345266896/

3. INTERNET = COMMUNITY The task is to carve out your own bit of it for your community.

11. Developing Online Community The Webheads Experience

12. Where do Webheads fit? Face to face Community IT Community IT Individuals + WEBHEADS = + IT Community

13. The Palace

16. Where are the Webheads? in approximately 50 countries

18. How/why has this community survived?

28. http://btresource.flexiblelearning.net.au/index.html

29. http://mediaonthemove.flexiblelearning.net.au/

35. Asynch Synch Oral Written Dialogic Minimalistic Reflective; combination of dialogic and monologic Most structured form of communication COMMUNICATION AXIS

41. What would my community look like?

44. Google Earth

45. Survey Tools Eg Zoomerang Survey Monkey More at http:// users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/mfo/zoom/results.htm

47. Second Life