Awareness is a critical element in aiding learners with orienting themselves to the overall practice network, and a visual representation of how the individual learner fits in to the whole provides a better overview as to what is expected of the learners.

The central agent in this system is the individual learner. They have the responsibility to engage in active seeking. They can interact via commenting on posts with their instructor (mentor), peers (people they know from previous courses, for example), or fellow cohort members. They can weave others' ideas into their own posts.

Aside from direct dialogue, however, the learners can draw from static content left as artefacts by others within the network. These could take the form of collective Tag Clouds (folksonomies), or one can search the files and groups using tags to tap into others' content.

This is a rough outline of a typical student blogger ecosystem.

The onus is on the student to move beyond what is provided by the instructor. As a student blogger, one is expected to seek out other resources and discover other content. For example, the student needs to model the process by which the instructor filters content, and also use RSS feeds, or shared bookmarks, for example.

Another expectation for student bloggers is to draw on the resources of their cohort, guest bloggers and peers. Once this occurs, it becomes easier to open up a more dynamic dialogue between multiple individuals, and share one's own experiences and resources. Blogging for the larger audience, drawing on others' ideas, expressing gratitude, engaging in open, authentic learning while blogging, depends upon a perspective of reciprocal sharing of ideas.