Create a mobile-style web app… (…like the one you're looking at now). This puts theory to practice. I see it as pre-requisite to a larger online group activity in which each participant is responsible for a folder of "pages" that are assembled to make one coherent project.

The activity below mapped with CompendiumLD, the closest thing I've seen to the ideal learning design tool. Alone or in collaboration you can plan a unit, link its rationale, collect the resources, and sequence activities. You can provide rubrics and assessments. You can follow the activity and access its resources, although the web interface still leaves some things to be desired. Open full page

…Web applications are at once complex multi- and meta-modal artifacts, and simple human stories, with all the potential for individual, social, and cultural disruption and/or cohesion—or trivial, mundane repetition—we find in any of the Arts and Sciences.

We apply the Web to the solution of problems and the creation of meaning, to communicate ideas and values, and so Web apps will become a literary canon; the study of certain literacies will enhance both their scientific relevance and their design. Their sociological significance will present from within, due to the inherently transformational quality of pedagogy, and will continue to manifest in surprising ways, often suddenly. …Situated pedagogies "…allow interventions in the multiple facets of exclusion according to the specific forms that discrimination adopts for each group and in each educational context…" (Rodriguez-Romero, 2008).

Cognitive apprenticeship believes technology can improve upon the traditional apprenticeship model …informal learning is one heuristic strategy humans typically employ. …we naturally both learn and teach. If we all agree that “learning how to learn,” “critical thinking skills” and “collaboration” are desirable 21st century competencies, …Understanding how Internet systems work at the system level and how applications are coded are desirable 21st century literacies. Experts are readily available, but informed amateurs will accomplish more when they can speak each others languages.

The Internet is rife with learning objects — data, case studies, tutorials, and tools galore — so all those responsible for the design of thick learning situations should reflect on how to bring them together (Conole et al., 2008:footnotes 1-2). A newer paradigm for elearning is emerging that is not teacher-in-a-box or talking-PowerPoint, and not do-it-yourself, but “real, honest-to-goodness learningrdquo; (Silvers, 2012b). It's learner to learner, learning situation to all. “The potential of these technologies to significantly enhance learning, community and society will be unlikely to be realised without effective policy supporting new holistic approaches…” (Smyth, 2009).

Communities of practice improve through the strength of the individuals who compose them, and their commitment to constructing community knowledge… “…we need a language that is both critical and hopeful, …of critique and possibility.” (Giroux, 2012). We need language, with accompanying media literacies, to describe information, transport and transform it, all the while keeping its relevance visible.

I used Visual Learning Environment to make this map of my entire project, including the concepts and research behind it, but I used CompendiumLD to map the activity I embedded.

VUE has a more modern and intuitive interface, but when it came time to export to a lovely HTML5-with-(very old)-jQuery Web file I learned it doesn't handle HTML within its "node notes" well, and even double-quotes had to be removed. It's easily cleaned up if you know HTML, but still a time killer. CompendiumLD exports older-style HTML4, but it just works. You can store and share instructions, attachments, copy/paste text templates, link to anywhere. I found CompendiumLD to be an idea/concept mapping tool with immense potential for instructional design and delivery.

You can grab or swipe the edge of the map.