If Diane is interested, I'm happy to let her take the lead on this one;
otherwise, after I recover from an important presentation on Tuesday and a
flight back from Sydney to Bangkok, I'm happy to be the (yuletide) shepherd;-)
Phil
Is that an offer to shepard the Peirce discussion, Diane?
As you know, no prior experience in the topic is required,, just a
crooked stick and
a good humor.
mike
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 01:13:16 -0500, Bramble House <info@bramblehouse.net> wrote:
> What is interesting, about this idea of 'shepherding discussions,'
> is what can happen when dissension effects a discussion.
>
> Huh.
> Cool. And I'm impressed with the way y'all are dealing with it.
>
> Thanks.
> Cheers.
> Meh.
> diane
>
>
>
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Cole" <lchcmike@gmail.com>
> To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Cc: <philchappell@mac.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 12:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Shepherding discussions
>
> > One good delay deserves another, Phil.
> > We have closed the polls on the article form MCA for discussion . I
> > will be the one on
> > Peirce. It is supposed to be made available by Erlbaum next week. Might
> you lead
> > this discussion in order to start us of on distribued stewardship? I
> > think that the volunteer shepards will appear only by example.
> >
> > There are a lot of other articles and issues that people want to read.
> > Helene W has
> > gotten us to Yrjo's "Values, Rubbish and Work Place" paper as one
> > example,. Perhaps someone else (Helene) will lead that discussion?
> >
> > Meantime, we enter finals week and I am completing a multiu-week
> > discussion with
> > colleagues and students in Santiago about culture and development. We
> > finish next
> > Thursday.
> >
> > So much to learn, so few volunteers to help! :-)
> > mike
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:20:53 +0700, phil_chappell@access.inet.co.th
> > <phil_chappell@access.inet.co.th> wrote:
> > > Mike and Bill,
> > >
> > > I've just got back to email mode after drifting around for a couple of
> weeks,
> > > computer-free (thanks in part to a bad Apple). Mike, I think your
> suggestion of
> > > having thread-shepherds is great, given, as you say, the success on the
> CHAT
> > > course all those months back. The shepherd could ensure disussions stay
> on
> > > track and shepherd straying topics to new threads, hopefully without
> leaving
> > > any belly-up (I've never seen a sheep belly-up). The interventions like
> > > Michael's into Bill's thread are naturally important but might be better
> in
> > > another, parallel pen.
> > >
> > > For many, I think, discussions zoom along at such a rapid pace and take
> > > unexpected left or right turns that to join in is almost like jumping
> onto the
> > > race track while all the cars are looming in on you. For instance, I've
> just
> > > spent a half-hour or so looking at old discussions of "history" in CHAT,
> and
> > > found it quite difficult to find any substantial discourse on this hoary
> old
> > > issue.
> > >
> > > My two-bob's worth.
> > >
> > > Phil Chappell
> > >
> > > ______________________________________________________
> > > Mike wrote a couple of weeks ago:
> > >
> > > Thanks Bill-- Apropos of phil's analysis I did not read far enough
> > > down the note.
> > >
> > > What changes in xmca culture might mitigate the obvious problems
> > > without being likely to cause new problems. For example, I, too,
> > > thought the issue of cultural historical analysis
> > > important for my reasons, probably different that Phil's or Michael's,
> > > but personally pressing, but could think of no way to overlap my
> > > interests and other competing one's to do any follow up.
> > >
> > > Is there any change at all that creating something like a volunteer
> > > committee to shepard along different discussions acknoweldged as
> > > important might work? Anyone who really cares to see a particular
> > > thread pursued could work on that thread which might or might not
> > > propsper, but at least would not die a sudden death for no sponsor
> > > willing to put in, say, a week or so, seeing if it gathered attention,
> > > and different people could
> > > simultaneously participate and lurk as their proclivities led them to.
> > >
> > > Having the reminder of Eva's work appear and reappear, even as we miss
> > > her online presence, is one gift of the discourse.
> > > mike
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