This document discusses communities of practice in formal and informal education. It mentions that hashtags are used to mark discussion topics on social media in both real-time and over time. It also lists some tools and online communities used by teachers, such as Twitter chats with specific hashtags, blogs, open badges, MOOCs, and digital leaders. It encourages exploring teacher communities using portable smart devices and social media, with hashtags, to get involved.

1. Communities of practice
in formal and informal
education
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4. Personal Networked Devices

7. Resources
Networks

9. #TMTakeover

10. Subject Association TeachMeets

14. # Hashtags

15. What are #ashtags used for?
#
Act as markers for discussion topics
Synchronously - in real time - here now #teachcom
Asynchronously - tags markers over time
They provide a breadcrumb trail for tracking stuff

16. Tools used by Teacher
Communities

17. Tools used by Teacher
Communities

18. #UKedChat
Every Thursday 8 - 9 pm

19. #SLTChat
Every Sunday 8 - 8.30 pm

22. Blogs

31. @teknoteacher
Alan O’Donohoe

32. Young Rewired State

34. Open Badges

40. Teacher led MOOCS

41. Digital Leaders

43. Makers and Hackers

44. http://edfutures.net/index.php?title=New_Models_of_CPD

45. Explore Teacher Communities
Smart networked portable device
Get onto Twitter
Find other people
Read their blogs/ lurk
Go to TeachMeets / Meetups / F 2 F events
Use Hashtags # smart
communication tools
Get involved

47. Communities of practice
in formal and informal
education
http://www.L4L.co.uk