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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
