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Webheads in Action:
Vance's 15 min colloquium presentation

presented as a part of the Colloquium: "Case study of a community of practice"
Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at the TESOL Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
http://www.tesol.org/conv/t2003/pp/program/iss/call_1.html

Vance Stevens

Introducing WiA: who we are and how we came together, a little of the history of webheads, and how the group came to do an introspective study of itself as an example of a community of practice; brief overview of theoretical underpinnings of CoPs and their relationship to pedagogy and language instruction

Introducing Webheads

Who we are

• In the broader perspective: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10
• More personally, some photos:

• Webheads in Action: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads.htm
• Writing for Webheads: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/webheads.htm

How we came together

A little of the history of Webheads

how the group came to do an introspective study of itself as an example of a community of practice

brief overview of theoretical underpinnings of CoPs and their relationship to pedagogy and language instruction

• CoP theory overview (pc cache)
• Evolution of CoP theory (pc cache)
• Distributed CoPs and other virtual communities (pc cache)
• Teresa's glossary (pc cache)