Blogging and Community of Practice
Channel: Dr. Nellie Deutsch
Date: 07/09/2013

This is a recording of live online class on 
Working Smarter Instead of Harder: Blogs as Tools to Curate Knowledge by Dr. Christel Broady on WizIQ: http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/1379741-empowering-teachers-with-technology

PowerPoint Presentation: http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/644542-Working-Smarter-Instead-of-Harder-Blogs-as-Tools-to-Curate-Knowledge

The live session is part of a course called Teaching with Technology: http://www.wiziq.com/course/29834-teaching-with-technology

Professional Communities exist to share and create knowledge.  This works well on the top where professional journals and conferences select what defines the latest and best.  However, many professionals do not participate in this knowledge creation process.  They are excluded because of financial, geographic, linguistic, or other logistical reasons.  Additionally, many professionals are not trained to talk the professional talk in the proper academic language. Still, they create knowledge every day. 

This presentation explores how their knowledge creation can be shared "from the bottom up" with other professionals just like them in a way accessible to all.  BLOGS are discussed as a way to share and curate knowledge and best practice to push the professional in the trenches to a higher level and avoid duplication of processes, thereby making professionals more effective.

Dr. Christel Broady is an associate professor of graduate education and program director of the ESL teacher endorsement at Georgetown College where she has been teaching online since 1991. She developed and taught many ESL education courses, including ESL assessment and course in technology and digital learning. Dr. Broady's professional leadership includes regional, state, national, and global positions, among them TESOL International chair of the EEIS, President of the Kentucky TESOL, NCATE/TESOL program reviewer nationally and for Kentucky.