Unit 5 Everybody Here Is A Cloud: Communities across Time and Space

Understanding Goals

• What are the characteristics of virtual or online communities?
• What are the ways learning and teaching are facilitated in these communities?
• What are the ways that technology supports and challenges virtual communities?

Readings

• Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
• "Wolf, Batgirl, and Starlight: Finding a Real Community in a Virtual World" in Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart
• Chapter 6 in Cultivating Communities of Practice