At a session with Professor Stephen Heppell on the last day talking about Communities.
The first community was in the early 90's and was children centred part of the things to look at email returns and identify what age group wrote what emails and of course they got it all wrong.
notschool started with the first 100 worst kids in Britain and is still running at a 98% engagement rate (Excellent) . This is an excellent project that is still going on.
It is all asynchronous for good reasons. Go read about why?
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/socialinclusion/youngpeople/notschoolpractice.html Ultraversity http://cohort4.ultraversity.net/ Another interesting project please go and have a look, Degrees were built around the users and most never meet. Studied and worked full time for 3 years. Go read about this as well.
Talking heads was the 3rd project a community of head teachers online 21,000
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/aboutus/pressreleases/pr-121107.cfm
Communities of practice have to run on strict rules eg if set up for notschool, head teachers etc it has to be strictly by for them by them don’t let outsiders come in.
Content is not King
http://rubble.heppell.net/talking_heads/aboutth/index.htm
Excellent session thanks Stephen
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So what happened to NotSchool NZ? It came with a fanfare & disappeared very quietly just as quickly.
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/innovation+education+through+notschoolnet+pilot
My mum was a NotSchool 'teacher' (they don't use that word i forgot what they call them) for the year they were operating in NZ.
The concept is great & seems to continue to be successful in the UK but not here....
There were anumber of issues here Rach that I can explain in private if you wish?
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