Another interesting listen last night. The enthusiasim of the speakers certainly motivates and gets the thinking cap on to see how I can get an online community started with my students.
I was taken back a little by her chat about the digital divide about those who know how to collaborate on line and those who don't. Perhaps they don't because they don't want to or don't have the need to. These virtual communities seem to be geared towards the academic streams, so I guess I need to think outside the square for practical training subjects. The advantage is obvious for these collaborations and it could be like having online penpals for networking about new innovations or trends. You can learn from anyone, anytime.
Online collaboration associated with practical subjects will only give knowledge information to the students. How they use this information on the work site could be video streamed onto the discussion boards for all to see.
I do have one concern though with all this online computer work:when do people get out in the real world and live? Second life and other online worlds put people into a virtual world that I assume can take over their lives. This may dissassociate themselves from their close F2F friends.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
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