Jeanelle Driver's List: 2.5 Researching Credible Connections

• • Connecting users over a great distance

  • INTERNET COLLABORATION WILL be a driving force of societal changes as itbrings collaborating groups into play thus bearing the workload of the world. Thesecollaborative group interactions differ in fundamental ways to the ‘Real World’ andgrasping this will assist understanding mega trends in society. Technology has modifiedconcepts of time and space which has shaped human interaction creating something profoundly“new”, a cyber identity.
• • Streamlining working online

  • Based on results of their research they feltthat the quality of teamwork would improve with managerial input into the development ofmutual support, cohesion, open information sharing and task coordination.

• • Challenging to look for answers

  • I may find an answer onmy own, but more often, I look to my colleagues for help. In research, we eachdeal with specific documents with which our colleagues often have only passingfamiliarity, so we are often of only limited use to one another. In teaching, however,we share a broad body of historical knowledge and a common goal—
• • The importance of Collaboration

  • When I walk across campus from the archives towardthe students waiting in my classroom, I start thinking about how to construct historyout loud, in collaboration with others. Standing in front of the room, I facefifteen young, amateur scholars who look to me for answers.

• • Importance of information technology and collaboration

  • I may find an answer onmy own, but more often, I look to my colleagues for help. In research, we eachdeal with specific documents with which our colleagues often have only passingfamiliarity, so we are often of only limited use to one another. In teaching, however,we share a broad body of historical knowledge and a common goal—

• • A hand's on field gets a modern hand with the help of internet collaboration.

  • The recruitmentof a distance collaborator for the fieldwork was necessitated when the research assistantaccompanying the principal research left the field early as a result of unanticipated circumstances

• • Etiquette is in place to minimize miscommunication

  • I may find an answer onmy own, but more often, I look to my colleagues for help. In research, we eachdeal with specific documents with which our colleagues often have only passingfamiliarity, so we are often of only limited use to one another. In teaching, however,we share a broad body of historical knowledge and a common goal—
• • Miscommunication

  • Instead of listening to what the otherperson is saying, we’re sometimesalready thinking about what we’re goingto say in reply so we don’t fullycomprehend what the person is saying.This is a barrier that can occur in anyform of communication.

• • The importance of communication.

  • Countless stories are told around high school and college campuses about the inappropriate email messages that somestudents send.
• • Online etiquette fosters professionalism

  • Oftenthese email messages or text messages are filled with abbreviations andoverly casual writing. This study, conducted by Keri Stephens, Marian Houser,and Renee Cowan, examined these email behaviors and focused on thegeneral differences between instructors and students.The

• • It's easy for miscommunication to turn into an oops.

  • "Join the conversation!"at twitter.com/dennys. One problem:That account actually belongsto one Dennys Hsieh,a Taiwanese citizen with noaffiliation to the Denny'sorganization. Talk aboutegg on your face.

• • Why etiquette is needed

  • One personsclever joke is another persons offensive insult.
• • Difference across the spectrum. No overlap

  • Different types of technology require difterentforms of etiquette [4]. Textmessaging via amobile phone is difterent from instant messagingand worlds apart from the asynchronousexperience of email. A short abrupt commentthat is acceptable in instant messaging may notbe in email where some people expect to beaddressed by name.
• • The benefits of etiquette

  • where kindness, help, and empathy is anticipated,(lood approaches for fostering etiquetteonline are therefore needed.
• • Text cannot be read as speech can be interpreted.

  • Jltf Internet settlers form cyber communities,the importance of etiquette grows. Indeed,the lack of it is weakening sociability and evendestroying online communities. Etiquetteonline is not just nice to have, it is necessary

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• • Navigating the waters. Common sense and civility. Benefits of etiquette

  • But there is a significant difference between thoughtful public critique and thoughtless public shaming.
• • Benefit of civility

  • I do not want to become the civility police. Twitter is fun, and funny, and irreverent, and playful, and I want it to stay that way. But I resist the use of shame as a tool of either humor or criticism. Shame is corrosive to community. It shuts down discussion rather than opening it up. And that's my bottom line. ¦
• I do not want to become the civility police. Twitter is fun, and funny, and irreverent, and playful, and I want it to stay that way. But I resist the use of shame as a tool of either humor or criticism. Shame is corrosive to community. It shuts down discussion rather than opening it up. And that's my bottom line. ¦

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