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-The NWP Digital Is website, digitalis.nwp.org, is a project of the National Writing Project (NWP). It has been designed to be a knowledge-base that is created and curated by its community of members in ongoing ways. At Digital Is, the community gathers resources, collections, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world.
+The NWP Digital Is website, digitalis.nwp.org, is a project of the National Writing Project (NWP). It has been designed to be a knowledge-base that is created and curated by its community of members in ongoing ways.
+We're exploring how to foster this community of knowledge makers using online tools. We see these communities functioning to grow an emerging field of practice in education (ie. digital literacy and learning), and in this session, we'll gather experiences from fellow educators and knowledge makers, as well as community managers, developers, and designers, to further shape the existing organizing tools and overall forum.
 Digital Is was designed and created based on two fundamental practices of our network:
 # a belief in peer-based learning within a community of practice ("Teachers Teaching Teachers"), and;
 # a focus on inquiry within the community as a way to make meaning and knowledge together.
-The website therefore is created to support publishing and sharing along with ways to discuss and curate, thereby supporting the community to collect and gather resources while also making new connections among and between them. In these ways, Digital Is is meant to support knowledge making and community within an emerging field of practice (ie. digital literacy and learning).
 We are going into a full updating and redesign process in 2013 to further development both the community and its sharing and connecting abilities. Come to this design challenge and help us imagine Digital Is into the future.