Hi all,
It is Thursday again and time for your second task.
Following up on task #1, we would like you to do the following:
1) Ask 3 people a question about one thing, 2 people a question about two things and one person a question about 3 things they wrote in their intros. Send the answers to this list.

2) Choose at least one of the following links relating to virtual communities and look over the material there. Try and answer the following questions:
a) What is the one main similarity and the one main difference between a virtual community and a non-virtual community.
b) How would you define a virtual community? Could the communal interaction in this course be considered in some way - "a virtual community"?
c) What is one main advantage of a virtual community over a non-virtual one? (If there is one) What is the one main advantage of a non-virtual community over a virtual one?

LINKS:

Make Space for Informal Learning - By Dori Digenti A new challenge for e-learning is to create collaborative learning spaces in which informal learning can thrive. http://www.learningcircuits.org/aug2000/digenti.html

Fostering the Collaborative Creation of Knowledge - A White Paper - John C. Thomas http://www.research.ibm.com/knowsoc/project_paper.html

Knowing in Community: 10 Critical Success Factors in Building Communities of Practice (pdf document requiring Acrobat Reader to view) http://www.communispace.com/documents/KnowingInCommunity.pdf

Virtual Communities Today http://www.participate.com/research/art-virtualcommunities.html

"Communities: Virutal vs. Real," with Oren Etzioni. Science, Vol. 277, (July 18, 1997), p. 295. http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/E30.html

Why Web Communities? - by Brian Alt http://communitystart.com/articles/wwc.shtml

David

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