Surfing the Second Wave of Online

Collaboration

4 Big Trends

• Fractured attention

• Rapidly changing tool landscape

• Fractured preferences

• Boundaries redefined

SMS

Wikis

Blogs

RSS

Event-Blogging

Mobile Phones

The “Old” Stuff

Tagging

SocialNetworking

Moblogs

What about Blogs… Jupiter Research reported in

June 2006 that 34% of all large companies have deployed blogs and 35% will deploy them by the end of 2006, totaling 70% of large companies.

Blog networks as “distributed apprenticeship (Efimova)

• Windows to practices• Learning from multiple

perspectives

Fractured Preferences

• Early adopters are driving the bus…

• Generation gap• Style gap

• Sector gap

• Communications gap

Communications Gap

Age:• 40+: Phone, Email,

Fileservers• 30-40: IM(MSN/AOL), Plain

old telephone, and Email

• 20-30: IM(Skype/MSN), Cell, VoIP Land Line with multiple phone numbers

• <20: SMS, IM/Skype/MSN

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rt425/195400588/

A 2005 report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project called "Teens and Technology" found that teenagers preferred new technology, like instant messaging or text messaging, for talking to friends and use e-mail to communicate with "old people." … students interviewed … say they still depend on e-mail to communicate with their professors. But many of the students say they would rather send text messages to friends, to reach them wherever they are, than send e-mail messages that might not be seen until hours later.

All hail, the lurkers…

Pew Internet Survey

1. Purpose

"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose."

Montaigne

2. Change the Story in our Heads (about our relationship with technology)

3. Start where we are

Social Translucence• “Vital tension

between privacy and visibility.” Erickson

• The “door with the glass window”

• Visibility• Awareness • Accountability

4. Look Over the Shoulder

AFGO

“Whoever is not ready to pay the price of knowledgeknowledge will not get knowledge. There is a toll. You have to be willing to pay that price, which is to put at riskrisk everything you think you know about yourself. That’s why it’s so scary -- because the price of knowledge is the sum of all your fears. When we encounter that fear, everything shakeseverything shakes.”

Fred Kofman

5. Acknowledge the

Elephant

Power

• Influenced by offline power relationships

• Effect of bandwidth/access

• Effect of frequency of access

• Effect of communicationskills

“Everything about the transaction, including the price, must be mutually discovered.” Sayo Ajiboye told to Doc Searls told to Christopher Carfi

6. Learn Some Lingo!

1. Purpose2. Change the story3. Start where we are4. Look over a shoulder5. Make the elephant discussable6. Learn some lingo

Further Resources• http://australianoctober.blogspot.com• http://www.fullcirc.com, http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog/onfacblog.htm• www.fullcirc.com/community/communitymanual.htm• KM for Development http://www.km4dev.org• http://www.technologyforcommunities.com• http://communitiesconnect.wikispaces.com• http://www.ewenger.com• http://www.learningalliances.net• http://learningnetworkedworld.blogspot.com/• http://www.km4dev.org• http://www.mediablends.net/• http://pratodialogue.wordpress.com/• http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=best_practices&article=34-1• http://interconnected.org/home/2004/04/28/on_social_software and

http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/09/30/the_seven_two_pieces_social_software_must_have.php

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/onlinefacilitation• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/comprac

The Nancy White tour is organised and sponsored by the E-learning Networks Project of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework.

Come and visit our site! Find out about the project’s various PD activities, including:

•20 e-learning networks• 3 online events• An online learning community –Networks Community Forum• 4 editions of the Knowledge Tree• And the national speaking tour ……

Networks site: http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/networks

Showcasing E-learning in Practice20 – 22 November 2006

Highlights:Focus of the event is on showcasing:

•Latest developments in Australian e-learning, including new ideas and approaches

•Practical implementation of e-learning for different client groups

•Engaging newly interested people (the ‘second wave’) in using e-learning in easy and exciting ways

Dr Elizabeth Hartnell -Young Wednesday 22 November @ 9:00 - 10:00 am AEST

Keynote speakers: Avril HenryTuesday 21 November @1:00 – 2:00 pm AEST

Register @: http://networksevents.flexiblelearning.net.au

Knowledge Tree: an E-journal of Learning Innovation

The Knowledge Tree enables the sharing of research and innovation in global e-learning practice.

Published by the national training system’s e-learning strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework), The Knowledge Tree aims to provoke, foster and capture in-depth knowledge and debate on e-learning issues.

Edition 12 due for release on 14 November:Focused on improved practice in the professional development of teachers. Lead article - ‘Blogs Impacting Student Dispositions’ is by Sean and Paula Lancaster, teacher education academics at Grand Valley State University, Michigan. Sean won the 2006 Pew Teaching with Technology award.

Live Conversation: 28 November

http://knowledgetree.flexiblelearning.net.au

A blog of Nancy’s speaking tour, trip and adventure to Australia: http://australianoctober.blogspot.com/index.html

Nancy White Founder, Full Circle Associates (http://www.fullcirc.com)nancyw@fullcirc.com