tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post113031720444649703..comments2024-03-27T07:30:49.184+01:00Comments on The learning & technology blog: Technology- where is the action in virtual communities of practice?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-1130322569561502242005-10-26T12:29:00.000+02:002005-10-26T12:29:00.000+02:00Personally, I don’t find communities where both le...Personally, I don’t find communities where both learning and doing are located in the virtual world particularly interesting – if the learning doesn’t result in some “doing” in the real world I wonder how useful it is going to be to study such a community.<BR/><BR/>In addition, I think a more useful example of a Usenet group involving informal online learning and a shared culture allied with real world practice at a variety of levels (student, hobbyist, professional, international star) might be the jazz guitar group RMMGJ http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&group=rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz <BR/>which has been active for about 8 years.Bill Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-1130318451070185172005-10-26T11:20:00.000+02:002005-10-26T11:20:00.000+02:00Great to see you here in the virtual world Joitske...Great to see you here in the virtual world Joitske! I think EW would say that people belong to a community not to a newsgroup ...bev traynerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01056426686877821323noreply@blogger.com