Bridging Community to Visit Blog
Members of the NLII (National Learning Infrastructure Initiative) Bridging Community will be paying a visit to the COPPER Blog on Wednesday, January 19, for a brief presentation on the use of blogs as a collaborative tool as a part of their series of online professional development events. NLII is a division of Educause, a nonprofit association focusing on the effective integration of technology and education. The Bridging Community is a virtual community of practice bringing together instructional designers, faculty, information technology experts, and learning science researchers to act as institutional change agent teams whose purpose is "to ensure the most appropriate and effective use of technology to promote learning."
Having participated as a member of this community over the past year, I can strongly recommend the value of involvement in any of the Educause initiatives, conferences, publications, and virtual communities to educators interested in the role of technology in learning. They are truly on the cutting edge of an important transformation in our educational process, and provide the opportunity to be exposed to new ideas and creative people engaged in this transformation.