(This is a text summary of the He Said She Said podcast from January 10, 2005. This is a weekly podcast that deals with a wide range of topic on Education and Educational Technology. The show’s host is Rob Reynolds and he is joined by Susan Smith Nash. The He Said She Said podcast is available every Tuesday evening on Xplana Radio.)
The topic of this podcast is the importantrce of communities in distance learning. In particular, Susan and Rob address informal and formal communities and then segue into Communities of Practice and Communities of Interest. Both agree that Communities of interest are the key to real peer-to-peer involvement and learning, but they also ralize that current tools and learning models don’t always make this easy. The podcast ends with a discussion of how we can incorporate social networking concepts like tagging into old tools like Discussion Boards to make Communities of Interest a reality in an otherwise virtual experience.
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