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Topic: First Collaborative Revision of Argumentative Essays /3/May/2013: e that we can cover revising three essays by the three groups. So before you start it, please read the instruction below and follow the steps one by one. Instructions: -Read the first argumentative essay by Beautiful Minds = Nada Saeed, Sara Alg, Prim Rose and Imen Brief Candle on the topic of “Facebook groups have become good communities of practice (CoP) that enhance learners' learning. This essay is below and you can also download the document file attached here. -After reading the essay and getting the clear picture of the topic, ideas and information provided by the writers, please just "put your comment "ready", and then, follow the questions that will be posted by me in the group one by one: First Essay Topic: Facebook groups have become good communities of practice that enhance learners' learning. Done by: Beautiful Minds: Nada Saeed, ImenBrief Candle, Prim Rose and Sara Alg Under the supervision of Dr: Murad Saeed Communities of practice (CoP) are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. Facebook now attracts and gathers millions of users every day. It is used in several fields such as learning...Many groups have been formed for the sake of knowledge, and they reflect clearly the community of practice. Communities of Practice provide a new type in education field; this fact can have both advantages and disadvantages. Learning in Facebook groups is useful for learners in creative and interactive way. Firstly, community of practice is a lovely new way in communication effective learning, actually it is fun, and it makes the learners work and enjoy. As it is a chance for meeting new friends from different countries with different cultures. Secondly, it is a wide gate for exchange knowledge, learners can exchange information in many fields farther than the main subject of the learning group, such as religions, customs, history of nations ….etc Next, community of practice considered a new society holds good moral meanings where a greater spirit of cooperation appears in Facebook group, due to the fact that Facebook members are mostly from people who loves social team spirit. Then, community of practice Provides a good opportunity for competition among learners, as each one want to be the best that's why he will do a great efforts to reach this aim and that will achieve a great results at the end of learning for the whole group. Besides, community of practice can create the spirit of responsibility. We find the learners try to do their work honestly and seriously as each one of them is responsible to the other. In addition to all of that, community of practice can considered as a fair way in evaluation, where the teachers in these groups don’t evaluate what the learners have done that’s why they focus on ameliorating their levels rather than getting marks as well as praise. Finally, these groups shortened the time and distance for access to information. Wherever you are in this world you may get lessons and share in discussions on Facebook group, also there is no need to waste your time in grooming that's enough to login by tidy thoughts and strong will. Despite the many advantages of learning through Facebook groups, this does not mean that they do not carry some drawbacks. Cheat learners in Facebook groups can't be controlled; as cheating is widely spreads in this open environment. even lazy learners don’t bother themselves; they just copy and paste the answers, and some forget even to erase the user’s name from which he stole the answer. In addition to that , there is no equal in the educational capacity of the countries of the learners, that cause a difficulty in distribution efficiency of the teacher to everyone equally, that’s why we suggest to divide the learners into semi-groups (beginners and advanced). Also, learning in Facebook groups may lose its seriousness; as a result of losing control of funny and unwatched acts, it wastes great amount of teachers' efforts. Too , Lack of oversight in these groups constitute a significant risk; as If the organizers of the group do not have the competence required, this will cause a disaster as the spread of information through these communities faster and more distributed. Facebook group may lose some of the exciting. As the interactions of reality classes among learners; like the spontaneous exclamation expressions and looks… etc On the other hand, it can make the learner not care about his real studies and just want to learn in those groups which bring him a lot of things not found in the classrooms. As an example of: fun, lack of affectation, friendly relationship between teacher and learners… etc Farther more, Facebook groups can't help in treating the shyness in timid personalities. As it wastes a lot of realistic opportunities to deal with classmates and friends. Also it can't help in facing the others eyes and their criticisms. Finally, Bad effects of computers on learners health. as a result of spending a long time near to computers it meets bad effects on the eyes of learners. even their minds which can get tired and not able to focus on what they are reading. To conclude, we say that learning through Facebook is a sword of two edges, as we show previously that Community Of Practice carries a lot of negatives and couldn't adopted in all fields of education, however this new way adds a lot of fun and practice and provided quick and effective access to information and educational development of social skills. And On the whole, we believe that the specialists will provide the props needed, because it is the time of the information revolution and Facebook groups is one of new learning tools.…; Added by Only For English Learning at 8:36am on May 3, 2013

Topic: Blogging Lessons Learned: Around the World With Curran: versity of Saint Joseph Co-Presenter Name(s): my 2nd grade son, Curran Area of the World from Which You Will Present: United States Language in Which You Will Present: English Target Audience(s): Elementary teachers and parents Short Session Description (one line): How blogging outside of the classroom transformed learning for a 1st grader. Full Session Description (as long as you would like): In November 2013, I presented, The Tweet Heard Around the World at the Thirteenth Annual International Education Week event at the University of Saint Joseph. The project was intended to demonstrate how far a message could travel once a user hits send. I tweeted and blogged asking my PLN to help demonstrate the power of Twitter by retweeting this tweet around the world: "I’m presenting, The Tweet Heard Around the World and will be sharing the benefits of embedding social media into higher education with a particular focus on teacher education. It is my hope that my presentation will support the need for iCitizenship in teacher education to further support global collaboration with classrooms, students and teachers across the country and around the world via Twitter. Please leave a comment below sharing where you are located and any comments". In 24 hours, the tweet had been read in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Australia, Singapore, England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Sweden, Belgium, Holland, South Africa, Istanbul, Albania, Finland, Denmark, Italy, France, Dubai, Russia, Indonesia, Germany, New Zealand, Vietnam, Korea, China, Japan, Romania and Guinea. The blog post received 2, 274 views and 264 comments, as well as responses and retweets on Twitter. The results exceeded any preconceived expectation. An unexpected result was when the author’s seven-year-old son became actively engaged in recording the responses. Figure 1 represents the first grader finding the locations on a world map. With his help, the 50 states and 30 countries were recorded and tallied: Canada had the most comments, 22; California, 19; Australia, 14; Texas, 13; and South Africa, 7 comments. The following day, my son asked if he could start his own blog. When asked why he wanted to blog, he responded, “I want to keep learning about the world.” The opportunity to learn about geography, global connections/networks, and the world around us is possible via social media. What started as an attempt to demonstrate the power of Twitter in teacher education quickly became personal as my son became inspired to blog. His first post, “Where in the World Are You?” received comments from Canada (3), England, Vermont, Maine, Missouri, Indonesia, Texas (2), Nebraska, New York (2), Connecticut (5), Seattle (2), Lebanon, California (2), Washington D.C., Arizona, Indiana, Nevada, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois (2), Australia (2), France, Massachusetts (2), Alabama, Oklahoma, Ohio, Colorado, South Carolina, Wyoming, Wisconsin, India, and Thailand. As a result of this first blog post, Angela Maiers reached out and asked if he would write a guest post on her site. In the post, Around the World With Curran, the first grader blogger shared: "This weekend I helped my mom blog. She got comments from around the world and I found them on a map. I like to learn about new places and I like to travel...My blog will be a place for me to write and I like to get comments from different places. I keep a list and tally all the locations. Getting comments is like having a lot of penpals". This teachable moment for teacher candidates was intended to highlight that the words, images and videos we create, share and forward/repost/retweet online are 1) permanent representations of ourselves and 2) have an indefinite global reach once sent. However, the outcome suggests that introducing social media as a learning tool at a young age influences how we connect, collaborate, and learn with a global audience. Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: aroundtheworldwithcurran.blogspot.com and http://slipp.in/mbfxc/137937-my-rainforest-animal-project?eb=mbfxc URL to a Slides or a Video Showcasing Your Presentation Skills: http://www.angelamaiers.com/2013/11/around-the-world-with-curran.html…; Added by Marialice B.F.X. Curran at 9:32am on July 8, 2014

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