tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21628316.post6878535022024272021..comments2023-10-18T05:54:58.700-04:00Comments on Network Weaving: What is Self-Organization?Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18317757979125496981noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21628316.post-59536023775254396752009-11-09T11:02:02.349-05:002009-11-09T11:02:02.349-05:00Your insight on self-organized learning brings up ...Your insight on self-organized learning brings up some great questions on how to use social media for learning. Teachers are using Nings, Wikis, Blogs, and Google tools to bring everything together at no cost because schools are financially strapped. In doing this, some schools have set up virtual schools where students are responsible for their own learning. They can be but all of these tools can be distracting. <br><br> I like what you mentioned about providing a support system to kind of nudge teachers and students along. What I'm seeing is that there are great teachers posting and sharing, but they seem to be the same teachers posting and linking to each other. How do you encourage more teachers to jump in? <br><br><br />You need to provide a coaching support system. I started My eCoach almost 10 years ago - way before all of the social media tools were available. We have around 10,000 members and found that one of the problems with social media is that it takes so much work to keep up with everyone and what they are doing. We integrate social media and found you need a support system. If a coaching system is set up correctly, the teacher and students get nudged in the right direction, they get support when they need it, and there is someone to support them as they build their digital footprint.Barbara Brayhttp://barbarabray.my-ecoach.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21628316.post-50851897526821192062009-01-13T22:45:00.000-05:002009-01-13T22:45:00.000-05:00The best political campaigns are self-organizing, ...The best political campaigns are self-organizing, often outside of party structures, but good political party organizations can create the conditions for self-organizing campaigns. Perhaps the temporary nature of campaigns helps.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04177423281225798001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21628316.post-13763811920634142112009-01-12T14:24:00.000-05:002009-01-12T14:24:00.000-05:00It's a deep question you bring up, and a good one....It's a deep question you bring up, and a good one. It brings to mind the point that Clay Shirky makes about centralized organizations: they're expensive, so we have the ones we can afford. Everything else is left to self-organization. I think one of the major shifts we're seeing with the widespread adoption of web-based communications is that we can do more with self-organization than we ever could before. A flea market used to take a lot of effort to set up and could only serve a small area, but now all we need is eBay, craigslist, and Amazon. We used to need newspapers printed on big expensive presses to publish journalism, but now all anyone needs is a blog. But along with the cheapness of self-organization there tends to be a greater level of chaos and disorganization on the way to achieving whatever goal is at stake. That's particularly evident in the evolution of blogs into amateur, semi-professional, and professional-but-uncredentialed media outlets. The question that therefore arises in my mind whenever attempting to accomplish something through self-organization is: what artfully inexpensive methods can we use to keep it cheap but police the anarchy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com