Progress+Update

=Progress update = The work on this community, led by the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, officially began on **November 1, 2011**. Prior to that time, the Friday Institute has hosted a Ning for previous work on 1:1 computing, and has conducted research on online communities of practice.

Project Milestones
As of February 1, 2012, the following milestones have been achieved:


 * **Activity** || **Timeline** || **Responsible** || **Details** ||
 * Foundational Framework for epic-ed || Oct 2011 || Friday Institute || Theories to support development and ongoing work ||
 * National Cohort Program with Mooresville || Oct 2011 || CoSN || Partnership with Mooresville, NC to develop a national cohort to engage in digital conversion initiatives and learn from Mooresville’s work. National program committee formed. ||
 * Project Mission Statement || Nov 2011 || Friday Institute || Guide for the Development ||
 * Establishment of Practitioner Planning Group || Nov 2011 || Friday Institute & CoSN || Representation from around the U.S. with equal members across the four audiences: Teachers, CTOs, Administrators, and ITFs ||
 * Community name || Nov 2011 || Friday Institute & CoSN || With feedback from Practitioner Group ||
 * Community logo || Nov 2011 || Friday Institute || With feedback from

NCSU College of Design ||
 * National Cohort Program || Nov 2011 || CoSN || Draft agenda for even to include Chris Dede on scaling innovations and virtual site visit to American School in Singapore with Kimball ||
 * Audience Case Studies || Dec 2011 || Friday Institute || Reviewed by key members of Practitioner Group ||
 * Moodboard input to Forum One via meetings and online documentation || Dec 2011 || Friday Institute & CoSN || Examples functionality and community description provided to Forum One ||
 * User migration strategy for Friday Institute’s 1:1 Collaborative Ning || Jan 2012 || Friday Institute || Document for technical work and marketing strategy for Ning community members ||
 * National Cohort Program || Dec 2011 || Friday Institute & CoSN || Collaborative meetings to develop integration between epic-ed and f2f event ||
 * [|Video contribution and epic-ed appearance at Digital Learning Day] || Feb 2012 || Friday Institute || Video featured twice during national broadcast and chat facilitation from Friday Institute. Video available at http://www.youtube.com/user/EPICEdCommunity?blend=1&ob=0 ||
 * User migration strategy for Access4Ed || Feb 2012 || CoSN || In progress to align with F.I. marketing strategy ||
 * Marketing Road Map || Jan 2012 || Friday Institute & CoSN || General framework for project work ||
 * Social media marketing strategy and community building via [|Twitter] and Google Groups || Jan 2012 || Friday Institute || Use of Twitter and groundwork for Google Groups to market and begin to cultivate the community ||
 * Ongoing solicitation and building of epic-ed Calendar of Events || Jan 2012 || Friday Institute & CoSN || Robust calendar with synchronous & asynchronous events for the pilot year ||
 * Establishment of Expert Planning Group || Feb 2012 || Friday Institute & CoSN || Small group of national experts to offer feedback on community features, marketing road map, and higher-level design issues ||
 * Ongoing development of community engagement strategy || Jan 2012 || Friday Institute & CoSN || Following ideas from gamification theory and research ||
 * Development of national book club concept for New Culture of Learning || Feb 2012 || Friday Institute & CoSN || Develop plans to build on webinar with John Seely Brown on the New Culture of Learning, leading to keynote at CoSN conference ||

More specific to the current work, the following benchmarks have been accomplished since November 1:
 * Conference call to explore partnering plan for OcoPs with Hilary Lamonte, **November 8, 2011.**
 * Strategic Planning Meeting - Hilary Lamonte and Keith Kruger will be at The Friday Institute all day on **November 29, 2011** to solidify plans for aligning their mutually focused OCoP work moving forward.
 * Development of a Draft Project Mission Statement -Please note that this is NOT the mission statement of the community that will ultimately result from this collaborative work (see Mission (Draft).
 * Establishment of an Practitioner Planning Group, represented by individuals from the four stakeholder groups and across various demographics (see Practitioner Board ).
 * First Practitioner Planning Group meeting scheduled on **November 30, 2011.**
 * Community Branding - Initial work and feedback from Practitioner Planning Group on a community name, and prototype work on a community logo.
 * Establishment of Theoretical Framework and visual prototype to support ongoing community development (see Foundational Framework).
 * Initial exploration of User Experience Guidelines.

=Future Directions = The following items reflect short-term benchmarks:
 * National Cohort Program – Research and successful practice models from the field indicate the value of a cohort-based approach in achieving shared knowledge and dynamic collaboration in OCoPs. This OCoP will support 5-6 cohorts from around the U.S. participating in a program beginning in Fall 2012. Recruitment will begin in early Spring 2012.
 * Calendar of Events – We will soon begin to develop this calendar of events for the community, beginning with initial information web conferences and similar opportunities for the education community at large to be introduced to the online community.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Identification of community design elements – Based on research and review of existing communities, we have begun and will accelerate our efforts to identify these key features and functions based on the four audiences and needs of online communities.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resource Inventory – Based on the current Ning, we’ll begin to take stock of the most relevant resources for the new community.