SPEVI Community of Practice: Creating a domain to collaborate, share practice, ideas, and resources for SPEVI members during the COVID-19 pandemic

SPEVI Community of Practice: Creating a domain to collaborate, share practice, ideas, and resources for SPEVI members during the COVID-19 pandemic

Creating a domain to collaborate, share practice, ideas, and resources for SPEVI members during the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper (provided by one of the interviewees from this study) outlines the genesis of the South Pacific Educators of Vision Impairment (SPEVI)’s Community of Practice, from Mike McLinden’s call at the SPEVI conference in 2020 and the additional impetus created by the move to remote learning in Australia and New Zealand in response to the COVID pandemic. The author provides a referenced overview of the history and purpose of Communities of Practice before providing the agenda (including topics and guest speakers) and findings from each CoP meeting. The author links to SPEVI’s ‘learning from home’ resources. Meetings 1-3 explored remote/online practice, meeting 4 used McLinden’s Learning to Access/Access to Learning model to provoke a reflective activity. The author points to how the CoP connects with SPEVI’s aims, explores ways of measuring the CoP’s effectiveness and outlines next steps (noting the intention for the CoP to continue). The paper ends with a bibliography.

Fanshawe, Melissa

https://eprints.usq.edu.au/41128/

Journal of the South Pacific Educators in Vision Impairment

05 Feb 2021

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https://eprints.usq.edu.au/41128/