Community of Practice Trajectories

Our  class readings for this week are most appropriate for our community assignment.  I am currently enjoying the paper written by Dr. Dennen, "Intersecting Communities of Practice: Merging Roles Across the Academic and Blogging Worlds."  I am seeing a common denominator between the community of practice trajectories and being a lurker or full participant.  I really like that word, "lurker" ... it sounds as if I am doing something really sneaky! :)

It is interesting that the more that I learn and my length and degree of engagement, along with my level of commitment determines whether I am entrenched in the community of practice or whether I am on a peripheral trajectory.  I believe at this point, I am on the peripheral trajectory.  I want to be more committed, however, and am trying to figure out a way to become more entrenched.  Hopefully soon I will be on the inbound trajectory where I can become increasingly active within the community.

Reminder, the following will be presented this evening at 8:30 PM EST...

#Lrnchat July 18: The Power of Negative Experiences

by janebozarth

The late 20th century saw an increase in the perceived value of positive thinking, positive experiences, and positive feedback.  But some recent research indicates that we learn more from negative experiences and feedback than from the positive. We’ll explore this in #lrnchat on Thursday, July 18. Join us on Twitter at 8:30 pm Eastern, 5:30pm  Pacific (that’s Friday July 19, 11:30 am, in Oz).