In Search of Design Principles for Tools and Practices to Support Communicationwithin a LearningCommunity StephanieHoude,RachelBellamy,and LaureenLeahy Introduction This paper describes research into how to improve learning within communities through the introduction of new communication tools and practices. The focus of this work has been the design and development of an on-line community newspaper. It was designed to act as the news component of an intranet a server based repository of information kept within a community[2]. - Motivation and Approach The Newspaper project began in September 1996 when the Learning Communities Group was formed at Apple Computer, Inc. At that time, it was proposed that the group needed a different way to keep current on accomplishments of the projects in the lab, and to communicate (when possible) to the outside world about what our lab had produced. The goal of solving these communication problems was to help us become a community of researchers who could really learn from each other in an on-going basis. From the outset of the project, we did not assume that a technological solution alone could meet our communication needs. The solution might be physical - related to changes in our physical work environment, technical
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