Jul 05 2010
Our goal in writing Digital Habitats was to recognize and move forward the literacies that are involved in stewarding technology for communities. We are happy when people put our ideas to work and appreciate it when people use our diagrams for that purpose. If you write us requesting permission to use the diagrams in a [...]
Mar 08 2010
The surprise that you want to have when your book is published is to move a conversation forward and to pick up on the conversation with new people. At least that’s what I think now, after Digital Habitats has been out for a while. One of my big hopes is to see people actually put [...]
Nov 30 2009
It is so lovely having a fabulous network – including people I just barely know, but who then hook in with a moment of insight, a remix or ready to augment a forming idea or practice. Gabriele Sani from World Vision in Italy has recently done this with the Community Orientations Spidergram from our Digital [...]
Apr 02 2009
Cross posted from Nancy’s Blog A couple of people have asked me for more materials related to the Community Orientations Spidergram activity. I have embedded them into some slides now up … Digital Habitats Community Orientation Spidergram Activity. Here is a hint I should have shared earlier. The “context” orientation is a bit odd on [...]
Feb 02 2009
As we wend our way down the path to final publication of the book, friends have asked us to share some of the bits and pieces that we have been using in our work and workshops. One of those is the Reader’s Guide and Action Notebook. This is now chapter 10 in the book and [...]
Apr 18 2008
We’re wrapping up our plans and materials for our new workshop, developed and presented by Beth Kanter, Beverly Trayner, Bronwyn Stuckey, Etienne Wenger, John D. Smith, Nancy White, Nick Noakes, Shawn Callahan, Shirley Williams, and Susanne Nyrop.It includes a lot of modeling of learning interactions, stratagems, and tactics using a dozen different social technologies. We’re [...]
Dec 23 2005
Over the course of this project, I have been bookmarking sites via http://www.furl.net and http://del.icio.us – social bookmarking tools. I’ve did not develop too much tagging discipline until I was a ways into the project and have not cleaned up all my tags. Time is a cruel mistress. The tags I’ve been using include: techreport [...]
