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===What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?===
===What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?===
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.  
''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.
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 connected 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:
We are going into a full updating and redesign process in 2013. Come to this design challenge and help us imagine Digital Is into the future!
# 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.
 
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.


===How do you see that working?===
===How do you see that working?===
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