From the CIP Learning Inquiry, in participants' own words...
- I am learning about, and experiencing the primitive state of collaborative technology. I am reinforced in my perception that visual interactions, perhaps moving to virtual encounters -- envision a touch-enabled virtual hug -- are essential to highly effective collaborative activities. o Nearly all my work is on-line, with hardly any face-to-face communication. I depend upon on-line communication for my survival. I have a hierarchy of on-line relationships which can be described roughly as:
- common interest groups
- information topic interest groups
- working relationships - not mutually dependent
- working relationships - mutually dependent
The greatest amount of energy is at the level of mutual dependence and this is where I spend most of my time, where I derive the greatest fulfillment and where I experience the most learning. At the moment, CIP is still at the level of a "common interest group." I like lurking and being here. It is a very warm group. - I came to learn about Trust, but within the context of a collaborative experience. I think I expected, though it was never explicitly stated, that the ultimate harvest for many or all of us would be a model of collaboration. This model, I envisioned, would be advanced beyond what I can read about today. I doubt this will happen; such appears not to be the intent. - I miss concrete collaboration. I wonder if there is a hesitancy in the CIP to really bring up hands-on projects and ask for help, or ask for work, perhaps it being seen as too self-serving? I feel like we've been a bit too abstract and theoretical in many of the conversations -- I'd like to see things get more grounded in our real lives, real needs, reach out to each other for support as human beings.