CCK09: 4 November: vandr: digital visitors and residents?

As you will see in the OLD postings, an Elluminate session will be held oon Wednesday 4th November at 20h00 - 21h30 GMT.

Please join us in Elluminate in a conversation about:

How we can best describe networked learning in late 2009.

This will be based on Dave White's presentation on Visitors and Residents, which Gus posted in the discussion on the paper on BLogs and Forums as Communication tools in the CCK08 MOOC.

More to follow ...

	Re: 4 November: vandr: digital visitors and residents? by Gus Goncalves - Sunday, 1 November 2009, 01:41 PM
	Here is a good presentation using the "PREZI" presentation system discussing the different tools for web based communication and how they are going to evolve in the coming years. Show parent \| Reply

Thanks Gus for the cloud .

You will see a suggestion there for someone to live blog the conference.

Any offers?

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Arising out of research on CCK08, we posted two papers in the General Discussions:

· Blogs and Forums as Communication and Learning Tools in a MOOC

· The ideals and Reality of Participating in a MOOC

Arising out of discussions on those papers is another question specifically from Dave White's paper, i.e. do you see yourself as:

A visitor or a resident in the online environment?

This will be discussed on Wednesday 4th November at 20:00 GMT in Elluminate.

The Link for the conference is: Elluminate Conference.

We will be holding a conversation about Dave White's (vandr) Visitors and Residents model.

If you have time, have a look at Dave's presentation before hand, we wont be repeating it all in the conference. And feel free to start the discussion ahead of time too.

We are all trying to understand the new networked learning media, as users, but also as academics, teachers, trainers, and researchers. We need frameworks to describe what's going on, and that's what this conference is all about: none of us has the final answers, and I guess most of us find networked learning is so interesting precisely because there are no final answers.

We have asked Dave to take us through an overview of some of the key points of his model. Then we will get some feedback on how you see yourself, in terms of his model. After that we will ask Dave to take us into more of the detail. Interruptions are welcome and we also invite you to make use of the whiteboard.

Networking

We have set up a twitter site (vandrcck09) where you can add additional comments, outside the chat channel in Elluminate. We are trying to make space for more substantial responses to the conversation in Elluminate, and it looks like the only way to do so is to write a longer comment in a forum post, or blog, and then post a tweet in 'vandrcc09', which includes a link to your blog or the forum. We'll see if it works.

Models and Resources

Please feel free to use the vandrcck09 twitter site, from now on, to post ideas and links to aspects of the vandr model, or any other models and research, that you find useful to describe what goes on in networked learning.

I am posting this invitation on behalf of Jenny Mackness, Dave White, Sui Fai John Mak and Gus Goncalves and myself.

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Watched Dave Whites presentation... Got this out of it....

A visitor uses the internet as a tool to satisfy a particular goal (e.g. accessing information) while a resident uses the internet to maintain a social identity or presence in a 'digital' space.

Seems both categories use the internet as tool to satisfy a motivation. Some motivations might include: socializing, accessing information, shopping.

Do I understand this correctly?

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Ken,

From an ANT-ish point of view, its interesting that visitors 'dont leave traces', whereas residents leave spectres at least - i.e. virtual personas, that fade in and fade out, depending on their participation in the communal space, but they never quite disappear. (There's also a model of micro-celebrities and virtual personas as brands in there somewhere, that feels a bit odd, no?)

From an ecological perspective, visitors think they don't alter the social /learning ecology, they just visit and leave (it as it 'is'). Residents "skop 'n nessie vir hulself" (Afrikaans - literally: "kick a nest for themselves") - they establish an ecological micro-niche for themselves, which necessarily disrupts the existing micro-ecology, or at least creates additional ones. (Virtual ecologies are infinitely expandable, so the ecological metaphor only streches so far - sorry, no pun intended).

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