Great idea! Another place to "house" this might be ISKME.org? And you know, is there a Facebook group....? -J
Jessica Margolin voice: +1 510 709 8267 fax: +1 866 438 4209 Solvation: http://kitode.typepad.com On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Mark Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Welcome Suzan, and welcome back to posting Andrea and Matt! Sometimes I > feel like our assumptions about what constitutes 'participation' can put up > barriers (sometimes i've unnecessarily dropped off a project all together > simply because i felt bad that i couldn't give '100%'!). In my experience, > contributing when you can (even when years separate instances) and yes, even > lurking are valuable modes of contribution. As Howard and others have > discussed, collective action is all about ad hoc, voluntary contribution - > which means, what you can, when you can, how you can. So to all of you out > there reading but feeling unable to post or contribute in other ways at this > point - happy to have you! :-D > > There is a lot of great suggestions being made here, and a lot of > opportunities and resources it seems as well. > > Here's an idea I'd like to float - what if we started by creating an online > cooperation studies resource centre which at first could be comprised of > course material already developed - e.g. Howard & Andrea's and Suzan's (if > possible) - and then built upon. These courses could be open to anyone or > any institution to draw upon, so we wouldn't necessarily have to know where > they fit best from the outset - we could just develop materials and provide > support for those who want to teach it, ideally in exchange for being able > to then share and rework the outcome. > > Of course the obvious choice would be to host them at > CooperationCommons.com, however i think a lot of synergy might be available > in somehow connecting with http://en.wikiversity.org (the energy and > enthusiasm of the WP community being obvious). I've had discussions with > some of those folks revolving around an article > drafted<http://collaboration.wikia.com/wiki/Wikiversity>on a site i started > http://metacollab.net and I'd think there'd be a lot of resonances with > CoCo and our interests/objectives. > > thoughts?.. > mark > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Howard Rheingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> Matthew, >> >> This might be helpful, as well: >> http://socialmediaclassroom.com/vircom08/freelinking/Collective%2520action >> >> >> Howard Rheingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://twitter.com/hrheingold >> http://www.rheingold.com http://www.smartmobs.com >> http://vlog.rheingold.com >> what it is ---> is --->up to us >> >> >> >> On Aug 24, 2008, at 7:00 AM, Matthew Cooperrider wrote: >> >> > >> > Robert wrote: >> >> D'ya suppose aiming at specialty graduate work might actually be a >> >> better target field for planting these seeds than trying to whip up >> >> an >> >> undergrad curriculum? >> > >> > Definitely much easier. I don't have any argument as to why, but it >> > seems so. >> > >> > And since there has been some re-introduction on this thread... >> > >> > I arrived here maybe a couple years back, and have had a number of >> > short bursts of high involvement, including one burst earlier this >> > summer. I noticed a lot of activity recently, and I realized that I >> > had left the dinner table yet again without first excusing myself. >> > Sorry :( >> > >> > I probably won't be back until October (post-OneWebDay), but will do >> > my best to stay up-to-date on CoCo progress. I'm currently a grad >> > student at NYU, and know a few academics in New York City that might >> > be interested in curriculum such as this. >> > >> > Suzan, I'll be the teaching assistant in a freshman Computer Science >> > course called "Computers and Society" this fall. I have the >> > opportunity to give one or more of the lectures, and I was planning to >> > talk about Cooperation Studies. I'd love to take a look at your >> > work. Sounds like a perfect fit! I of course welcome advice and >> > ideas from anyone else on this as well. >> > >> > MC >> > > >> >> >> >> > > > -- > ----- > Mark Elliott, PhD > Director, CollabForge pty ltd > collaboration ~ mass collaboration ~ social software > http://collabforge.com ~ http://mark-elliott.net/ ~ http://metacollab.net/ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CooperationCommons?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
