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Journal Club: Finding Your People in the Digital Age: Virtual Communities of Practice to Promote Education Scholarship #FOANed #nurseeducator #vCoP #communityofpractice

Journal Club Article: Yarris, L.M., Chan, T.M., Gottlieb, M., and A.M. Juve (2019). Finding Your People in the Digital Age: Virtual Communities of Practice to Promote Education Scholarship. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-5. Background: Busy educators experience many barriers in meeting their own professional and education goals. Engaging in a virtual community of…

In my last placement, the class had a large VCOP poster on the wall. The ‘Big Write & VCOP’ initiative can be used by teachers to assist in student writing as it focuses on vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation. VCOP is a great tool for students to develop their writing abilities, and I have seen first hand its effective use in the classroom. 

The poster (this is not the original one from the classroom but is extremely similar) can be placed in the classroom as a visual reference to prompt thinking, and also to help students improve and refine their work. I really like this initiative, as I believe it helps students add more excitement to their pieces and helps their writing to flow more effectively.