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Tag Archives: Community of Practice

Feedburning Learning

By CircleReader | February 12th, 2009
Feeds & email updates are all about drawing readers into a community from the margins--which is to say, they are all about learning.
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Letter to a Young Voter

By CircleReader | November 2nd, 2008
It's late in the election cycle, and I do not know if you have yet registered to vote, but I exhort you as my fellow citizen, my political friend, to go and vote. And after that, to participate in other ways, by reading, commenting, contributing, serving, listening, speaking, advocating. Politics grows from the practice of everyday life in the presence of strangers and friends. It doesn't matter whether you have everything figured out yet -- just participate. Be devoted -- make a sacrifice of devotion -- to the city and nation in which you have found yourself. They are your family, and they need you.
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Blog Day 2008–Reading, Learning, Hoping, Blogging, Being

By CircleReader | August 31st, 2008
Blog Day is a linkfest initiated by Nir Ofir in 2005, in the belief that bloggers should have one day which will be dedicated to discover new blogs and expose them to the world. We all have a small number of people and sources of information with which we interact of a regular basis, and that social and informational context is part of what shapes who we are in the world. Blog Day is a chance to expand those social and informational horizons by forging new links into new networks, bridging the divides between people and communities and enlarging our own experience. The basic rules for Blog Day ask bloggers to post about five blogs that they would like to share with the world. I've decided to do a little more...
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Camp Is Where the Heart Is

By CircleReader | August 7th, 2008
Summer camp is not really about recreation, but about learning the practices of the group--not affluenza, but apprenticeship. For me, Covenant Point was where I learned to love creation and its Lord, and to see his character and presence in the counselors & campers there. So I asked our boys, "At each of these camps, what did you learn? What did you practice?"
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Sacrifices and Community

By Nicole | February 24th, 2008
Do we even know how much we've lost, how poisoned we are, how far away we've been driven from the land? By connecting the science of toxic materials with our human knowledge of childbirth in Having Faith, Steingraber gives us new knowledge; what would it mean for us to inhabit it?
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