I Met My Husband on TV Collaboration

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I Met My Husband on TVCollaboration Shared
Space

• Jan Poley
• American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)

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No More Teams

• Thanks to the writings of Michael Schrage on
  Collaboration - originally published as Shared
  Minds the ideas evolved into his book No More
  Teams.
• Schrage is frequently interviewed on this topic
  and a google search will take those interested to
  his work.

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People Want Digital Collaboration

• Masie training and education survey peopl
  e are excited about the words digital
  collaboration and digital communities
  communities of interest, learning,
  practice and support

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Virtual Classroom

• Educators and trainers like this idea and want it
  easy and transparent BUT
  Not one person indicated that they learned to do
  their job in a classroom

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Growing Up in Collaboration

• Collaboration is a relationship with a dynamic
  fundamentally different from communication
• Collaboration happens with people and with
  patterns and symbols people create
• Collaboration has a mystic/affect
• Collaboration requires mutual trust

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Shared Creation

• Design Circumstances
• Serendipity
• Need You can dislike each other
  and still collaborate - its not about feeling
  good - quality collaborations require quality
  tools

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Watson Crick-double helix

• Nothing new that is really interesting comes
  without collaboration.

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Architecture is Collaboration

• Days of Frank Lloyd Wright are over
• transportation consultant, acoustic consultant,
  interior designer
• Collaboration is not a videoconference - is not
  about bandwidth

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The Kitchen

• Shared Space
• No Recipes
• Important Ingredients Shared
  Goals Competence Mutual respect,
  tolerance,trust Multiple forms of representation

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Shared Space Play

• Blackboards,whiteboards,keyboards
• Playhouse, treehouse,dollhouse
• Prototypes,models,maps,references, touchstones
  Serious play - opportunities to
  be solved

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Creating Learning Environments

• Shared Space
• Formal - Informal
• Availability of sight, sound, structural, verbal,
  mathematical, etc.
• Media Attributes
• Experiential Learning Model

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Collaborative Worktools

• Flipcharts, papernapkins
• Technology doesnt substitute - it complements
• Processes - brainstorming, organizing, evaluating
  etc.
• About augmentation and relationships - not as
  much about information and automation

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Building Collaborative Architecture

• Co-presence
• Structures that endure, useful, inspire
• Create curiosity, excitement, intensity, suspense
• Allows multiple views - representations-changes
  to parameters, rhythm-flow-tempo-flexible -
  spontaneous

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Research Agenda (CREW)

• Learning environments-shared space
• Being there versus seeing there
• Trust without touch
• Distance, dependencies, delay
• From laboratory to collaboratory
• Voice - Video and Meaning

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Collaborative Organizations

• ADEC example - Shared Goals
• Shared Space
• Continuous but not continual communication
• Housework
• Collaborative Worktools
• Passion - rituals

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Important Factors

• Reciprocity
• Put in - Get Out
• Open Systems
• Shared Space
• Quality Tools
• Standards
• Scalability Sustainability

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Educational Effectiveness

• Journalism Class
• NSF Grant
• Better environments - lights - sound -
  visualization
• Better tools - indexing, sorting, searching,
  playing, capturing, summarizing, representing
  dynamically

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Living Collaboration

• Working with researchers
• Working with faculty
• Working with colleagues

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Collaboration Is About

• Relationships
• Environments
• Engagements
• Living