summary of the CALL history and Communities of practice

Communities of Practice
Communities of practice are communities that are formed by people who share something to discuss, needs more information about it and etc. communities of practice are seen as a way to get development by many different groups of people. In other words people join communities of practice to achieve process about what they do.
Communities of practice have three main characteristics, the domain, the community and the practice. Domain means, shared value of the things. Inside of the communities something can be worth to discuss and outside of the community nobody see the same thing as valuable. The term community comes from interaction. In order it to be a community of practice there should be a interaction between the members. The practice means that members having benefit from the formation.
Although communities of practice can have different names they generally answers these needs: problem solving, requests for information, seeking experience, reusing assets, coordination and synergy, discussing developments, documenting projects, mapping knowledge ad identifying gaps and visits. communities of practice are applied in business, government, education, social sector, associations and international developments.
HISTORY OF CALL
CALL is the abbreviation of computer assisted language learning. Call began in 1960s and with wide spread use of microcomputers developed more in 1980s. First versions of the programs were developed by the teacher-technicians and were used for free, by this time computer market had such a speed that all over the world lots of computer companies were found and started to create new versions of the computers and programs contributing CALL.
In 1990s the new increased and quick access to INTERNET and use of CD s carry CALL in another dimension; now CALL was everywhere inside and outside the classroom.