What does it mean to be a person on the web? What is it like to think of the web as a place? As a group of people in a place what are our responsibilities to each other?
I just finished up #HumanMOOC and it was a really good dance. I got to wax philosophic about what it means to be human and how we can transfer that human element to online learning. I’m finding more and more folks are talking about how important human relationships are to online learning and it is one of those big questions that I think takes multiple perspectives to figure out.
I’m thankful for #HumanMOOC’s dual layer design that allowed us to “go rogue” as Amy Ostrum called it and do a bunch of participant hangouts along with the scheduled conversations. One of these came about through twitter when I was having a conversation with some folks about digital citizenship and Sundi Richard suggested that we get together and talk about it a little bit.
Prior to the start of that hangout we were playing with the idea of a hashtag for discussing digital citizenship and came up with #DigCiz. I’m interested in continuing the conversation because I’d like to start teaching a first year seminar on digital citizenship in the fall. Some others have expressed interest in the conversation as well so Sundi and I got together the other day and planned a series of chats.
We decided to do alternating synchronous live video chats and twitter chats and to start off really broad and then narrow the topic. If you would like to join us feel free to check out this schedule and let us know if you want to join. Of course use the hashtag any other time or create whatever fun stuffs you would like out of this.
Week 1: What is digital citizenship?
Sync Video Chat
Wednesday, Jan 20th – 11am CST/12pm EST
Week 2: Why is digital citizenship important?
Twitter Chat
Wednesday, Jan 27th Friday, Jan 29th – 11am CST/12pm EST
Week 3: What resources around digital citizenship have we found helpful? Are there public resources that are needed and can we create them?
Sync Video Chat
Wednesday, February 10th – 11am CST/12pm EST
Week 4: Participants choose this topic – Wellness – How do we maintain a healthy citizenry?
Twitter Chat
Wednesday, February 17th – 11am CST/12pm EST
Tuesday, February 16th – 1pm CST/2pm EST.
Week 5: Do we want to continue this conversation? What questions are still unanswered? What kind of timing should we continue with?
Sync Video Chat
Wednesday, February 24th –11am CST/12pm 1pm CST/2pm EST
Thank for this. Late as usual.
The realness of the net is a fascinating subject. Where I worked the consensus seemed to be that the web was incomplete, or too much in progress while on-the-ground activities IN the PLACE of the college were the actualities to be played out in “real-life” were staged for the non-dreamers. (Wish I knew a better term to describe this science of reductive possibilities).
What a person can do with their mind is always a danger zone avoided by those who consider themselves caressed and cuddled in a sweet web of permissions.
At the end of the Wizard of OZ Dorothy asks the general of the Flying Monkeys to fly her back to Kansas and because he’s been a witches spell so long he declines because Flying Monkeys, as bad-assed as they are, have never been there and dare not go.