Blog Name: Possibilities Abound BlogBlog Author: Lani ?Edu-Blog Category: Personal (Personal/Professional)Role(s): Elder, Mentor, Town CrierPost Title: Cultivating classroom culture --- growing a community of learningPost URL: http://possibilitiesabound.blogspot.com/2009/05/cultivating-classroom-culture-growing.htmlKey Concepts and Ideas: PLP, Powerful Learning Practice, PD, Summary: Lani, the blog’s author, explores the impact of PLP theory for educators and learners, and records her own personal learning journey. She emphasizes a community-oriented approach to teaching.Blog Name: Second Nature - Learning as ConversationBlog Author: Lani ? EduBlog Role: performerBlog URL: http://learningasconversation.blogspot.com/Key Concepts and Ideas: learning as conversations, guiding questions, online resources, questions for discussionsSummary: This edublog is designed to generate discussions among educators about web 2.0 technologies. It offers links to a variety of resources loosely tied to facilitating online dialogue and discourse. There is also a blogroll that links to other extended conversations among educators on various topics. This blog has a few excellent resources, but appears to been dormant since January 2009. Post Title: Learning Post Date: March 1, 2009)Post URL: http://possibilitiesabound.blogspot.com/2009/03/learning.htmlQuote: “My journey, my evolving practice and changing beliefs about learning-- from behaviorism with task based learning, to cognitivism with clear objectives and problem solving, to constructivism with social learning and knowledge construction by each learner, to conectivism with complex, open, autonomous, distributed learning -- was long, was arduous, was essential. I’d like to think that evolution reflects my ever increasing understanding of the new science of learning and the recognition of the new opportunities for learning afforded by today’s emerging technologies. Yet, today there is more urgency, a greater need to make a great leap to connected networked learning -- to provide appropriate learning experiences for our children in today's world.”Blog Name: Blended Learning in Higher EducationBlog Author: Randy GarrisonEduBlog Type: Networked (Academic)EduBlog Role(s): Recorder Blog URL: http://blendedlearninginhighereducation.blogspot.com/Key Concepts and Ideas: blended learning, CoI (Community of Inquiry), metacognition Summary: highlights of keynotes, conferences, publications and research; poses question for educators: “whether distance education will be transformed or will it eventually reach an evolutionary dead-end?” He will also begin doing research that will involve “exploring the relationships between meta-cognition and each of the presences (social, cognitive and teaching) in the CoI framework.” Blog Name: Growing Changing Learning CreatingBlog Author: Tom HaskinsEduBlog Type: Networked, AutonomousEduBlog Role: Recorder, Town CrierPost Title: CCK09 Possible Process TaxonomyPost URL: http://growchangelearn.blogspot.com/2009/10/cck09-possible-process-taxonomy.htmlKey Concepts and Ideas: variety of educational topics, from connectivism and other learning theories, web 2.0 technologies, and reflections on his own online teaching/learning practices and experiences.Summary: Tom has a number of research interests in common with mine: PLEs, connectivism, web 2.0 technologies, network theories such as TIMN.Post Title: Selling the Benefits of BloggingPost URL: http://growchangelearn.blogspot.com/2007/07/selling-benefits-of-blogging.htmlPost Date: July 2007Key Concepts and Ideas: PD, purposes, benefits, obstacles to using blogsSummary: Tom provides a brief discussion of some of the purposes for blogging. He also outlines a number of key benefits of using blogs. In addition, he attempts to take the perspective of reluctant teachers unsure of using blogs, and describes obstacles to adoption by teachers of using blogs for professional development. Blog Name: Visions from Two TheoriesBlog Author: David RonfeldtEduBlog Type: Autonomous, NetworkedEduBlog Role: RecorderBlog URL: http://twotheories.blogspot.com/Scope: STA and TIMN theory, global impact of cyber society Post Title: TIMN and the emergence of “collaborative community” — a concept apropos +NPost URL: http://twotheories.blogspot.com/2009/06/timn-and-emergence-of-collaborative.htmlPost Date: June 2009Key Concepts and Ideas: TIMN theory, collaborative networksSummary: Ronfeldt compares and contrasts TIMN in terms of how it fits in with Adler's and Heckscher's trifold framework which includes hierarchy, market, and community. They also explore three types of community: gemeinschaft, gesellschaft, and collaborative community. Blog Name: E-Portfolios for Learning Blog Author: Helen BarrettEduBlog Type: Autonomous, NetworkedEduBlog Role: Mentor, PerformerBlog URL: http://electronicportfolios.org/blog/index.htmlPost Title: Helen Barret’s E-Portfolio FrameworkPost URL: http://electronicportfolios.org/blog/uploaded_images/WordPressmodel2-733108.jpgKey Concepts and Ideas: e-portfolios, lifelong learning, assessment strategies, personal learning networks, SDL, lifelong learningSummary: This edublog focuses on theory and practice of using electronic portfoliosfor teaching. Her audience is primarily K12 and elementary school educators. She reviews e-portfolio technologies, web-sites, and online resources.