Comments on: What about this Community stuff? http://blogs.nercomp.org/blogs/nac2008/2008/03/04/what-about-this-community-stuff/ Tracking the Northeast Regional Computing Progam Annual Conference Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:40:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Alan Levine http://blogs.nercomp.org/blogs/nac2008/2008/03/04/what-about-this-community-stuff/#comment-98 Alan Levine Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:19:15 +0000 http://blogs.nercomp.org/blogs/nac2008/2008/03/04/what-about-this-community-stuff/#comment-98 Great question- types of ones we are trying to gather now on the Horizon Project Research Agenda wiki - please consider adding http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Research_Agenda Great question- types of ones we are trying to gather now on the Horizon Project Research Agenda wiki - please consider adding
http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Research_Agenda

]]> By: David Wisniewski http://blogs.nercomp.org/blogs/nac2008/2008/03/04/what-about-this-community-stuff/#comment-61 David Wisniewski Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:19:30 +0000 http://blogs.nercomp.org/blogs/nac2008/2008/03/04/what-about-this-community-stuff/#comment-61 There is indeed power in the collective or community, and these trends in media and social interaction will have a transformative effect on education as we know it. The opportunity lies in the way we harness the collaboration to engage our students in the lessons, the result of which will be projects that are far richer than previously required individual papers or exams. The challenge will be how we guide this to a meaningful and effective change. Remember - community without proper guidance (leadership) isn't community - it tends towards chaos. There is indeed power in the collective or community, and these trends in media and social interaction will have a transformative effect on education as we know it. The opportunity lies in the way we harness the collaboration to engage our students in the lessons, the result of which will be projects that are far richer than previously required individual papers or exams. The challenge will be how we guide this to a meaningful and effective change. Remember - community without proper guidance (leadership) isn’t community - it tends towards chaos.

]]> By: Peter Hess http://blogs.nercomp.org/blogs/nac2008/2008/03/04/what-about-this-community-stuff/#comment-38 Peter Hess Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:09:50 +0000 http://blogs.nercomp.org/blogs/nac2008/2008/03/04/what-about-this-community-stuff/#comment-38 I read recently, in a blog post on a blog post (ack), that Clay Shirkey said "we have to move to a publish-then-filter world". He was talking about the media, but the same phenomenon is at work in academia. The relative advantages and disadvantages of filter-then-publish vs. publish-then-filter while mostly not too subtle, are still, I think, worth further reflection on the part of people who are preparing academics and citizens to process information. Referenced blogs: http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/02/28/clay-shirkys-book-talk/ (David Weinberger's Joho the blog) http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/a-publish-then-filter-world/ (Will Richardson's Weblogg-ed) I read recently, in a blog post on a blog post (ack), that Clay Shirkey said “we have to move to a publish-then-filter world”. He was talking about the media, but the same phenomenon is at work in academia. The relative advantages and disadvantages of filter-then-publish vs. publish-then-filter while mostly not too subtle, are still, I think, worth further reflection on the part of people who are preparing academics and citizens to process information.

Referenced blogs:
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/02/28/clay-shirkys-book-talk/
(David Weinberger’s Joho the blog)
http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/a-publish-then-filter-world/
(Will Richardson’s Weblogg-ed)

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