http://jhg20003.uniblogs.org/2007/04/23/communities/ Just another Uniblogs.org weblog Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:12:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 http://jhg20003.uniblogs.org/2007/04/23/communities/#comment-9 Jared Rogers Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:09:07 +0000 http://jhg20003.uniblogs.org/2007/04/23/communities/#comment-9 What you said made me think. Not only are these things to new to be put into text or books, but often are never put into writing. They are just passed on from one person to another. For example I took a class on digital illustration. In this class we used the program Adobe Illustrator. In one of the lessons from our book we were creating objects and changing settings so that the text would wrap around the objects. The lesson asked you to type in a certain number into a field in one of the choice boxes. A fellow class mate of mine could not type into the text field on her computer. She would select the field to change but when she did nothing would happen. The book gave no indication of what to do. Well I had ran into this problem before and knew the answer, all you had to do was trash the program prefs. The only reason I knew this was because I had someone to tell me what to do, someone else that had experienced the same problem. The way they learned it was the same way I did. Someone else told them what to do. What I'm getting at is not every thing is printed into books not just because it is too new but maybe the author of the book never faced this problem or thought it wasn't important enough to address or maybe the people who know the info aren't the type of people who sit down and write a book. Anyways this is just one of many reasons communities of practice are awesome learning environments. What you said made me think. Not only are these things to new to be put into text or books, but often are never put into writing. They are just passed on from one person to another. For example I took a class on digital illustration. In this class we used the program Adobe Illustrator. In one of the lessons from our book we were creating objects and changing settings so that the text would wrap around the objects. The lesson asked you to type in a certain number into a field in one of the choice boxes. A fellow class mate of mine could not type into the text field on her computer. She would select the field to change but when she did nothing would happen. The book gave no indication of what to do. Well I had ran into this problem before and knew the answer, all you had to do was trash the program prefs. The only reason I knew this was because I had someone to tell me what to do, someone else that had experienced the same problem. The way they learned it was the same way I did. Someone else told them what to do. What I’m getting at is not every thing is printed into books not just because it is too new but maybe the author of the book never faced this problem or thought it wasn’t important enough to address or maybe the people who know the info aren’t the type of people who sit down and write a book. Anyways this is just one of many reasons communities of practice are awesome learning environments.

]]> http://jhg20003.uniblogs.org/2007/04/23/communities/#comment-8 echo Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:03:35 +0000 http://jhg20003.uniblogs.org/2007/04/23/communities/#comment-8 it is interesting that you say that most information that us transfered is too new to be in text books or properly documented into text. I actually never thought about it that way, but it does make alot of sense, which is mostly likely why we would learn more in Communities of Practice. it is interesting that you say that most information that us transfered is too new to be in text books or properly documented into text. I actually never thought about it that way, but it does make alot of sense, which is mostly likely why we would learn more in Communities of Practice.

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