We're connected to the Internet.....
Now What?
Deborah Muscella, Ph.D.
Robert Kopicko. M.Ed.
FETC Conference
Orlando, FLA
18-20 March 1999

What do you use the Internet for?

Teachers report that the greatest challenges they face in their work are:
isolation,
and a lack of time.

Communities of Practice are one way to ameliorate the isolation that teachers experience.

Communities of Practice may not solve problems of time-or the lack thereof-but they do allow teachers to connect with colleagues at times that are convenient to them.

How does one offer a cup of tea electronically?

How can we present a bouquet of flowers in cyberspace?

Where is the beef?

What's the point?

Is this worth my time?

Questions, we have questions. Asking just the right question.....
at just the right time.

An online conversation among a group of high school science teachers on LabNet

Where are the cups of tea?

Are there bouquets of flowers?

Is there any "beef?"

What are the good and productive questions?