OntoShare: a knowledge management environment for virtual communities of practice
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Knowledge capture
Anonymity options and professional participation in an online community of practice
CSCL '05 Proceedings of th 2005 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning: learning 2005: the next 10 years!
Opening the door of the computer science classroom: the disciplinary commons
Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Repositories of teaching material and communities of use: nifty assignments and the greenroom
Proceedings of the Sixth international workshop on Computing education research
Getting algorithm visualizations into the classroom
Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Digital library 2.0 for educational resources
TPDL'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Theory and practice of digital libraries: research and advanced technology for digital libraries
First steps towards a social learning analytics for online communities of practice for educators
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge
Bringing computer science back into schools: lessons from the UK
Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
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Computer science educators, especially those in schools, often work in small departments which allow little support or sharing. This problem can be alleviated via virtual online communities that allow educators to support each other and share knowledge and teaching materials. Virtual communities experience varying levels of success or failure, and it is often not easy to determine the causes for these differences. Factors include social and technical aspects, and it is typically not trivial to attribute community behaviour clearly to one or the other. In this paper we describe the "ColourRoom" software, a web-based platform to support virtual communities of educators. This software has been deployed to three distinct communities -- educators using BlueJ, educators using Greenfoot, and UK computer science school teachers (regardless of software) -- which affords a rare opportunity to analyse the usage of the same software in different communities, providing insights into both the communities and the design of software to support them.