What impact is participating in a Virtual Professional Learning and Development programme having for students? Check out this video

This video provides some teacher's reflections and insights as to how participating within the Virtual Professional Learning and Development programme programme has helped their students and impacted their practice.


VPLD Hui 2012 - Reflections from CORE Education Digital Media on Vimeo.

We would like to acknowledge and thank all of the participants who shared their reflections in the video. The camera and editing work for this video was done by Michael Lintott.
With thanks also to the Ministry of Education and Te Toi Tupu for their ongoing support.

Communities of Practice and Networks in organisations

Diana Ayling recommended this presentation from Etienne & Beverly Wenger.
The points they make are specifically referring to learning in organisations rather than distributed communities, so something I am pondering is how might the points they make be impacted (if at all) by the distributed nature of some online Communities of Practice.
I feel that Slides 12, 13, 19 and 22 really pull out clearly the key activities and the possible outcomes within a community (plus a vocabulary and structure in which to frame them). They could provide a working model, rather than a descriptive model, which might track an online Community of Practice over time....

Etienne & Beverly Wenger - Communities of Practice and Networks  

Where to next? The Shape of future Virtual Professional Development - a conversation

Image by hazelowendmc via Flickr

Please jump in and take a part in the conversation about the future of Virtual Professional Development (VPD). There are several slides, each with a question and a related picture - you can choose to answer one, several, or all of the questions, either with text, video or audio, and we'd really appreciate your contribution to the discussion. Although the VPD project is being trialled in NZ at the moment (see this video for an overview) it would be relevant in pretty much any country with an education system.