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Guidelines for Group Collaboration
This is a post I put together based on a reading a few weeks back. Thought I’d cross-post here. I’m in the middle of taking a course on Virtual Learning Environments (syllabus here), and reading a few chapters from Adaptive Software Development by Highsmith. It approaches the team-building and collaboration process from the perspective of [… Read More]
Reflections on (tele)Presence and Networked Collaboration
response to readings on presence, play, and collaboration
What is Presence?
What is presence? More than just what you get on your birthday (insert drum roll here) it is your being. It is where you are, and who you are when you get there. The problem with presence comes with the Internet. Is it possible, with the help of a server, [… Read More]
Presence, collaboration and play:
Presence, collaboration and play: I found the readings this week, interesting, especially since I never really knew there was so much thought that went into what it actually meant by describing presence, especially in an online environment. From our readings we become aware that presence simply isn’t the physical appearance in the present time- it [… Read More]