Week 6, Task 3 - Cofp online!

When asked to think about 'community's' online, I thought of just the general forum. But then I remembered reading how I should be talking about a community that has a joint enterprise, i.e. an overall goal in mind, so I did a little researching, and have found a website galled 'Learn Gospel music' at http://www.learngospelmusic.com/

At this website, members are able to be apart of community of practice as they are learning and helping others to learn about how to produce gospel music! Although there might be a heirachal structure, it will not be as strong as what you would find in an organisational unit. There might be people who perhaps know more about how to play gospel music so can therfore reccommend more advice to other people, but in return these people might be able to offer a lot of advice back about something else which is still relevant, so inevitbly they are all learning off each other.

People who use this website can go on and learn what they want, help others learn what they can, then they can go offline, they dont have to do it all then go and tell someone else - like a boss. (Like they would have too in an organisational structure)

If you go through to the forums on the website, their is forums options such as 'organ room' where you can 'learn' how to play riffs, runs and chords on the Hammond B3 organ. I think this alone could demonstrate that this particular website could constitute as a CofP as it demonstrates that people are learning through this website, without they're really being someone to report too etc.

The website could be applied to Wegners model in that its joint enterprise is to learn how to play gospel music, it's function is that people go on this website to help others and learn themselves - without willing participants to do this, the website 'might' only be able to teach people the basics. And finally it definately follows the shared repertoire as they all use the same forum to switch and swap ideas, and they all use the same vocabularly to do with the music - which we might not understand as we are not apart of the CofP, they will also have a certain style to writing the music notes online too so fellow CofP members can understand it.