Sylvia Currie

We've had an ongoing discussion since the beginning of this community project about what to call it. We were looking for one word, easy to remember, carries some meaning, etc.  Scope was suggested and then we began to play with what it could stand for.

SFU's community of practioners of elearning
SFU's community of practicing educators
SFU's community of practice for educators
Scholarly centre of ...

You get the idea.

Anyway, despite the fact that we couldn't find an ideal long name, the short name, Scope, has remained. It has some clever bits to it -- Liz pointed out that we could emphasize the CoP part, which has become the standard way to abbreviate Communities of Practice. Also in designing the spaces, we started to play with the words, like telescope and periscope (Thanks for noticing, Steph!)

This brings us to part 2. You may have noticed if you've logged in more than once that we are cycling through some logo examples on the main page. Jason Toal is busy behind the scenes. We'll organize a way for you to view, vote, and provide feedback on these logos so stay tuned!

Obviously we need to be sure about the name SCoPE before investing too much time in designing a logo based on that name. But both of these are basic items we need to decide to prepare for launch. So first things first:

Welcome everyone! If you found your way to our community pilot discussion then that means we're making progress on setting up this site :-)  This is our first scheduled discussion at SCoPE. Up until now we've had some behind-the-scenes activity, and as you can see the community site development work is very much in progress. Hopefully it always will be!

We invite you to spend the next 10 days helping us to plan the next steps for SCoPE. Are we happy with the name SCoPE? Do you have ideas for seminar topics, events, polls, etc? Also, through your participation we hope to gather some suggestions for the layout of the community environment, and to test out some of the tools here to prepare for our launch.

So let's get started! You're arriving here with various backgrounds and interests, and some of you may barely know what this community project is all about. Probably the best first step to discuss SCoPE next steps is to introduce yourselves, and fire away with your questions. No question is too small or too obvious.

Thanks for joining us! Together we'll do great things in SCoPE!

Sylvia Currie
Community Coordinator

Welcome everyone! If you found your way to our community pilot discussion then that means we're making progress on setting up this site :-)  This is our first scheduled discussion at SCoPE. Up until now we've had some behind-the-scenes activity, and as you can see the community site development work is very much in progress. Hopefully it always will be!

We invite you to spend the next 10 days helping us to plan the next steps for SCoPE. Are we happy with the name SCoPE? Do you have ideas for seminar topics, events, polls, etc? Also, through your participation we hope to gather some suggestions for the layout of the community environment, and to test out some of the tools here to prepare for our launch.

So let's get started! You're arriving here with various backgrounds and interests, and some of you may barely know what this community project is all about. Probably the best first step to discuss SCoPE next steps is to introduce yourselves, and fire away with your questions. No question is too small or too obvious.

Thanks for joining us! Together we'll do great things in SCoPE!

Sylvia Currie
Community Coordinator

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