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Sunday 13 January 2013

#oldsmooc #diglit Day 4: we start to congregate...



Like the start of a new universe, there has been a swirl of individual ideas floating around for the last couple of days since Dreambazaar started and now the process of accretion begins, the pull of gravity attracting like-minded individuals to form project teams (or study circles? still not sure) in the form of cloudscapes and clouds. This is exciting and scary all at once, but at least I no longer feel so lonely and inadequate. I have followers! I have favourites! People are talking to me! I am contributing! YAAAY!

On the other hand, I am sorry, but I really still don't get Cloudworks. The process of following or favouriting a cloud doesn't add info to my own profile;  I do get email alerts about replies to my posts, but not about other developments. Instead I have to keep checking into clouds I have favourited for news. I can't even work out how to contact or message other participants, other than by responding to a discussion on a cloud. (All of this must sound like gobbledegook to anyone not currently using Cloudworks, which is another issue in itself - it is a closed world layered with esoteric practices and language). The only open discussion space is on Google Forums and the course guide is on Google Sites. To try and generate a buzz around the project I am leaning towards, I have had to add (identical) discussion posts to three separate project clouds and then resorted to Twitter. Sorry guys but this is overly complicated, involves duplication of effort and is not particularly user friendly.

I am hoping me and my team can escape in the near future to somewhere that is better capable of supporting human life forms .

5 comments:

  1. Jane,

    looking forward to the Virtual Leader to recommend some collaboration tools.

    Art

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  2. Jane,

    looking forward to the Virtual Leader to recommend some collaboration tools.

    Art

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  3. Well - I am happy to try and persevere with CW for now, but I have a soft spot for the wiki, truth be known.

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  4. HI, Jane!!
    I write you because I feel as you too! Lost and I really do not know very much how to let a message that I would like to joint your group about digital literacy. I wrote a message in the threat of ARTiFactor today morning. It took me some days to get to do something finally. I was overwhelmed with to much information and things going on at the same time. I have rather a slow pace and I need some time to digest that I can do things in this crowded environment of fast paced people.
    So if you could help me with what path I have to take to be in your group and see how I can contribute I will very much appreciated.
    I am Caroline Kuhn and the link to my cloud is http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/6736.

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  5. Hi Caroline - welcome aboard! join us here:

    http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/7326

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