{"id":84,"date":"2021-10-24T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2021-12-09T23:54:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T06:54:41","slug":"build-the-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/build-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Build the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being a part of a community of practice is integral to the success of VR integration in education. Communities of practice are important to be able to connect people who share the same interests, enable dialogue, stimulate learning and self-reflection, share existing knowledge, create collaboration and generate new knowledge. By being a part of a community of practice, we can reflect, inquire and transform knowledge into action in our local schools.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As educators who all have a shared interest in Virtual Reality, we are a growing community. We invite our community to share experiences, resources and knowledge. Please provide us <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/provide-us-feedback\/\">feedback on our website<\/a> in addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/share-new-resources\/\">sharing your own knowledge and resources<\/a> you may have about VR integration in education. There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/category\/discussions\/\">discussion page for educators<\/a> to share their formative reflections where we encourage you to share your experiences with VR integration with other educators and engage in discussion. Additionally, educators are invited to comment on applications we have suggested in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/vr-programs\/\">VR Programs<\/a> by commenting on programs they have sampled or have questions about. We look forward to hearing from you!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/files\/2021\/12\/6583-3-2048x1078-1-1024x445.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1170\" width=\"492\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/files\/2021\/12\/6583-3-2048x1078-1-1024x445.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/files\/2021\/12\/6583-3-2048x1078-1-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/files\/2021\/12\/6583-3-2048x1078-1-768x334.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/files\/2021\/12\/6583-3-2048x1078-1-1536x668.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/files\/2021\/12\/6583-3-2048x1078-1-620x270.jpg 620w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/files\/2021\/12\/6583-3-2048x1078-1.jpg 1628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a part of a community of practice is integral to the success of VR integration in education. Communities of practice are important to be able to connect people who share the same interests, enable dialogue, stimulate learning and self-reflection, share existing knowledge, create collaboration and generate new knowledge. By being a part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35882,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vreducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}