Online Digital Habitats

(or it is all still pizza?)

Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008Nancy White

Full Circle Associates

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http://technologyforcommunities.com/

Tech + Social:Tech + Social:Technology has

fundamentally changed how we can be together

Fly with the flock?

Roam the network?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/1824234195/

Network?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nubui/2373999868/

Group?

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http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004550.html

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Where are the boundaries between networks and communities and does it matter?

"The positive development of a society in the absence of creative, independently thinking, critical individuals is as inconceivable as the development of an individual in the absence of the stimulus of the community."

Albert Einstein

“Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.”

Manuel Castells

Learning Communities

Knowledge Networks

Communities of Practice

Online Communities

Independent Learners

Many: Networks

We: Communities

Me: the IndividualPersonal identity,

interest & trajectory

Bounded membership; group identity, shared interest

Boundaryless; fuzzy,

intersecting interests

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Emerging

roles and

practice

s…

enable people to…

• discover & appropriate useful technology

• be in and use communities & networks (people)

• express their identity

• find and create content

• usefully participate

community leaders

technology stewards

network weavers

Which of these roles do you find yourself playing?

communitycommunity leader

technology stewardsteward

networknetwork weaver

I just participate!participate!

So…what are the practices?

Polarities

TOGETHERNESS SEPARATENESS

http://www.flickr.com/photos/angerboy/201582453/

community timecommunity space

shifting engagement….

http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldcafe/227358678/

INTERACTING PUBLISHING

http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldcafe/227358678/

INTERACTING PUBLISHING

Vocabularies, tools, concepts, methods, stories, papers, pictures, reports…

Conversing, experimenting, practicing, learning, planning…

INDIVIDUAL GROUP

Designed for groups, experienced as individuals

Does not imply homogeneity

Multimembership

Attention

Togetherness Separateness

Interacting Publishing

Individual Group

addressing inherentcommunity tensions

Group

IndividualInteracting

Publishing

asynchronous synchronous

discussion boards

teleconference

chat

instant messaging

member directory

wikiblog

telephony/VoIP

individualprofile page

e-mail

e-mail lists

scratch pad

RSS

“new” indicators

subscription

podcast

contentrepository

presenceindicator

buddy list

security

Q&A systems

RSS aggregator

newsletter

calendar

videoconference

application sharing

whiteboard

site index

participation statistics

search

subgroups

personalization

communitypublic page

versioncontrol

documentmanagement

UseNet

contentrating

scheduling

polling

commenting

networking tools

tagging

bookmarking

sharedfiltering

geomapping

interestfilter

2007 Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John Smith

Orientations

Community activities

oriented to …

… meetings

… context… community cultivation

… access to expertise

… projects… open-ended conversation

… content publishing

… individual participation

… relationships

© 2006 Wenger, White, and Smith

Orientations

… meetings

… access to expertise

… context… community cultivation

… projects… open-ended conversation

… content publishing

… individual participation

… relationships

© 2006 Wenger, White, and Smith

Community activities

oriented to …

Course

… meetings

… access to expertise

… context… community cultivation

… projects… open-ended conversation

… content publishing

… individual participation

… relationships

© 2006 Wenger, White, and Smith

Community activities

oriented to …

Support Community

… meetings

… access to expertise

… context… community cultivation

… projects… open-ended conversation

… content publishing

… individual participation

… relationships

© 2006 Wenger, White, and Smith

Community activities

oriented to …

Edubloggers’ network

Community activities

oriented to …

… meetings

… context… community cultivation

… access to expertise

… projects… open-ended conversation

… content publishing

… individual participation

… relationships

© 2007 Wenger, White, and Smith

No image skills

Existing relationships

Basis for evaluation - motivated

Diverse skills/motivation

New to web meetings

So what?

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Tag: technologystewardship

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Epilogue

Slides: will be posted on slideshare.net (choconancy)

Other stuff:

http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/Stewarding+Technology+for+Learning

ContactNancy Whitenancyw at fullcirc dot com

http://www.fullcirc.com