http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/analogue-projects-and-digital-technology/ Pontydysgu.org Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:30:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/analogue-projects-and-digital-technology/#comment-875 Paul Harrington Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:46:46 +0000 http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/analogue-projects-and-digital-technology/#comment-875 Hi there Graham and Michael, Getting communication to work between partners is always going to be difficult to 'manufacture' , I have also tried this an it tends to die a slow lingering death! What appears to be more useful is an organic growth between like minded parties which grows naturally - perhaps originally through something like Twitter or blogs, this then develops into group links, which has happened in some of the Ning networks and group wiki projects that I have been involved in. The teahcers/adminstrators within these communities then have invested their time and tend to be more proactive in pushing projects on to their conclusion.... Paul Hi there Graham and Michael,
Getting communication to work between partners is always going to be difficult to ‘manufacture’ , I have also tried this an it tends to die a slow lingering death!
What appears to be more useful is an organic growth between like minded parties which grows naturally - perhaps originally through something like Twitter or blogs, this then develops into group links, which has happened in some of the Ning networks and group wiki projects that I have been involved in. The teahcers/adminstrators within these communities then have invested their time and tend to be more proactive in pushing projects on to their conclusion…. Paul

]]> http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/analogue-projects-and-digital-technology/#comment-859 Michael Hotrum Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:45:19 +0000 http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/analogue-projects-and-digital-technology/#comment-859 Your words are like a mirror before me and your sighs are mine as well. The trials of promoting opportunities for connections that others find difficult, intimidating or just don't find - at all. I'm into month 9 for a community I built for a group of teachers across Alberta - I was hoping to anlayze their interaction but - guess what? there's nothing happening! They said they wanted a space, I gave them one, and they are nowhere in sight. I held five sparsely attended face to face sesions, hoping to create a champion class - ha! Is it the software? Are they communicating elsewhere? What other barriers (adminsitrative, competitive, firewall, access, etc)? Or maybe they do, yet don't want to communicate. That is, they don't want the responsibility of membership, the freedom of sharing their assets (perhaps suffering a lack of confidence in their own ability and not wanting to "put" themselves and their work out there for others). Ultimately I believe our audience is just not ready for continuous communication. They enjoy sporadic, undocumented, impermanent exchanges, or time-based, structured project activity. But the idea of impromptu, casual social networking - at least in the populace(s) I have experienced - is an onerous bit of self-reflection that they would rather not be involved in. Your words are like a mirror before me and your sighs are mine as well. The trials of promoting opportunities for connections that others find difficult, intimidating or just don’t find - at all. I’m into month 9 for a community I built for a group of teachers across Alberta - I was hoping to anlayze their interaction but - guess what? there’s nothing happening! They said they wanted a space, I gave them one, and they are nowhere in sight. I held five sparsely attended face to face sesions, hoping to create a champion class - ha! Is it the software? Are they communicating elsewhere? What other barriers (adminsitrative, competitive, firewall, access, etc)? Or maybe they do, yet don’t want to communicate. That is, they don’t want the responsibility of membership, the freedom of sharing their assets (perhaps suffering a lack of confidence in their own ability and not wanting to “put” themselves and their work out there for others). Ultimately I believe our audience is just not ready for continuous communication. They enjoy sporadic, undocumented, impermanent exchanges, or time-based, structured project activity. But the idea of impromptu, casual social networking - at least in the populace(s) I have experienced - is an onerous bit of self-reflection that they would rather not be involved in.

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