You will find stuff here David:
http://www.ists.unimelb.edu.au/ts/Reports.htm
my old job ...
Andy
At 03:24 PM 24/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>A friend of mine in Chile is doing research on spatiality and
>education, in specific in how to arrange spaces to foster collaborative
>learning. If any of you knows of key references in the area that would
>be very appreciatted. If they are online, even better.
>
>Enjoy!
>
>
>Quoting Mike Cole <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>:
>
> > Well, Iraj, you have reinforced the "6 degrees of separation" idea,
> > and very strongly. Sitting next to me is my son who is a graduate
> > student
> > in Geography with whom I learn about spatiality, organizational
> > learning,
> > and problems of distributed work organizations. And I have for a
> > long
> > time been up to my ears in the problem of evaluating voluntary
> > afterschool
> > activities.
> >
> > I know this latter problem is one Eugene must struggle with too. I
> > like your
> > ideas about how to do evaluation as collaboration, and work to do the
> > same.
> > But I find that in the organization I know best, Boys and Girls
> > Clubs,
> > the staff struggle simply to hold things together every day, almost
> > no
> > one is paid a living wage, turn over is rapid and endemic.
> >
> > In our activity system in the local club, we have found that even
> > counting
> > the number of kids who participate is a challenge is there is not
> > someone
> > other than the "person in charge" (we call him/her a site
> > coordinator) to
> > be sure that the counting gets done. Why? Because kids come and go
> > and the
> > site coordinator is sort of like a ring master who might be
> > concentrating
> > on helping a couple of kids solve some sort of computer glitch while
> > helping
> > another kid find a game while....... and it is really not possible
> > to
> > know what is going on behind your back.
> >
> > I don't recall if you posted a url for your org, but will check back
> > and try
> > to take a look. We can be found at www.uclinks.org or
> > http://lchc.ucsd.edu.
> >
> > Have a nice holiday and by all means keep space in mind! After all,
> > how
> > can one talk about distributed cognition properly without thinking
> > about
> > space as well as time?
> > mike
> >
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