707- BYOL: Creating an Online Community of Practice Using LinkedIn

1. 707- BYOL: Creating an Online Community of Practice Using LinkedIn Maureen Murphy, PhD Dr . Maureen . Murphy @ Gmail .com WITS Tool Kits .com (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

2. Objectives (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

3. Agenda (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

4. Remember the school lunch table…one of our first self directed communities (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

5. Faculty Lounge (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

6. Today’s Faculty Lounge! (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

7. Today’s Student Clubs! (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

8. What is an OCoP? What are you passionate about that you would enjoy sharing with others and learning more? (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

9. What is not an OCoP? (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

10. (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits Excerpted from the article "Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier" in the Harvard Business Review, January-February 2000.

11. What is Mean Green Lantern? (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

12. What is GRUNTS? GRaduating UNT Students (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

13. Why do it? what are the benefits? How would you rate your passion in terms of head, hands and heart? (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

14. Why - Mean Green Lantern (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

15. Why – GR-UNT-S (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

16. Who – Passionate Practitioners 1% Heavy Contributors Users who contribute often 9% Intermittent Contributors Users who observe and occasionally contribute 90% Lurkers Users who observe but don’t contribute (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

17. Who – Mean Green Lantern Heavy Contributors - Users who contribute often (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

18. Who – Mean Green Lantern Intermittent Contributors - Users who observe and occasionally contribute (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

19. Mean Green Lantern (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

20. How? Plan and Prepare What is your passion? Draft a description of your community Who do you want to share it with? Ask others to join HS teachers adding gaming into learning 2 2 4 (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

21. How? Guidelines Wenger & Associates suggest: • Design for evolution • Open a discussion between differing perspectives • Invite different levels of participation • Develop both public and private community spaces • Focus on value • Combine familiarity and excitement • Create a rhythm for the community (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

22. How? Create an OCOP Create a profile on Linkedin.com View these instructions: http://learn.linkedin.com/profiles/overview/ 1. Click Interests at the top of your homepage. (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

23. How? Create an OCOP 2. Click the Groups link from the drop down of Interests (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

24. How? Create an OCOP 3. Click on Create a Group button. (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

25. How? Create an OCOP 4. Complete on screen form. (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

26. How? Create an OCOP Open or Closed? The main difference is who can see the discussions. Members-only group discussions can only be seen by other group members. Open group discussions can be seen by anyone on the web and can be shared on other social networking platforms (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

27. How? Closed, Members Only • In members-only (closed) groups: • There's a padlock icon next to the group name. • You must be a LinkedIn member to join. • Discussions won't show up in search engine results. • Discussions are visible to group members only. • The group manager has the option to switch to an open group. This change can only be made once and cannot be undone. Members are notified if the group is switched to an open group. (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

28. How? Open OCOPs • There isn't a padlock icon next to the group name. • You must be a LinkedIn member to join. • Discussions created before switching to an open group are archived and visible to group members only. • Discussions created after switching to an open group are searchable and visible to anyone on the web. • Discussions can be shared using social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. • Group managers have the option to allow LinkedIn members who aren't group members to contribute (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

29. Your OCOP – build your community! (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

30. Q? & A! Thank you! Request a connection to me: http://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmurphyphd Maureen Murphy, PhD Dr. Maureen . Murphy@ Gmail .com (c)2013 Maureen Murphy WITS Tool Kits

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