Module III (collaborate)an introduction for students in LIBR559M

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | dean.giustini@ubc.ca | LIBR559M Winter 2013

101 musicians from 33 countries chosen to collaborate in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra http://www.youtube.com/user/symphony

• Explore and debate collaboration

• What social media tools facilitate collaboration? – i.e., Google 2.0, Sharepoint, others?

• Social networking to trigger cloud collaboration – Examples such as Drupal, Zoho

• Trends in e-collaboration & tools

…100 conversations lead to 20 collaborations, lead to 5 grants, lead to 1 invention or award …

Module III Goals

To collaborate is to “co – labour”

‘…in the long history of humankind those who learned how to collaborate and improvise effectively have prevailed…’ Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

…the process of shared creation: two or more individuals with complementary skills interacting to create a shared understanding that none had previously possessed …on their own. Collaboration creates a shared meaning about a process, product or event…

Toward a theory of collaboration for teachers & librarians. AASL, 2009

What is collaboration?

Collaboration with members of a community brings social and economic benefits” — Wikipedia

“…collaboration 2.0 includes all of the outcomes, benefits and values of collaboration 1.0 but may take place in a virtual world… or cyberspace via the computer. ….it requires an evolutionary leap in relationship building with others in a global, networked, cross-border …cross-department, cross-functional environment…“

~ Coleman & Levine, 2008

What is collaboration 2.0?

• To reduce isolation, to share excitement• To access people, intelligence and “social support”• To get to know people, create networks “the invisible college” • To learn new skills, break into a new field, solve a problems• To be more efficient, many hands/minds make lighter work• To make progress or tackle “big” problems• To learn and enhance productivity

Why collaborate…?

Source: Beaver D. Reflections on scientific collaboration: past, present and future. Scientometrics. 2001

“When employees sit chained to desks, quietly going about business, an office is not functioning as it should…because innovation…is fundamentally social. Ideas arise as much out of casual conversation as they do out of formal meetings …”

Malcolm Gladwell, Designs for working

Why collaborate…?

…Social collaboration is a blending of community – Flash-mob cataloguing

• Without people, collaboration is rendered meaningless

• Meaning is made through groups

• Meaning may be interpreted by individual(s)

• New meaning is constructed through sharing

• Meaning is made persistent in artifacts and objects

Collaboration & meaning-making

Drupal – http://drupal.com

Creating e-spaces for collaboration

Zoho projects – http://www.zoho.com/projects/

• Create complex networked multimedia documents without specialized training

• Read Sophie books in a browser without downloading applications

• Comments & discussion inside books • Embed web browsers in book pages

• Import, embed and export PDF files

• Open Sophie inside other Sophie books

• Frame-based timelines present easy way to create animations

• Sophie allows uploading, managing, and downloading books on a server

Sophie 2.0 allows simultaneous reading & collaborative creation of books

“…free software tools such as GoogleDocs and Zoho introduce students to the notion of collaborative authoring and how ideas can evolve through iterative editing. ...

Noodletools helps young students create note cards, bibliographies and a place to store research. 2Learn.ca uses a similar approach with its online netlog sheets, concept maps and notepaper sheets. At mySchoolog students organize their school life online, create

schedules, organize projects and ...upload various forms of media."

Naslund, 2008

Jumpstart collaboration early…

Newer collaborative practices

• Virtual environments, free from physical constraints of real life• Teleportation creates opportunities for interaction • Allows for greater creativity and exploration • Twitter is a potential collaboration tool to support back channels (difficult or

impossible to replicate in real life) • Students collaborate in exchange of lecture notes in a synchronous text

environment

• Altmetrics• Collaborative librarianship• Distributed cognition• Collaborative innovation network • Smart mobs• Social bibliography e.g., Mendeley• Social cataloguing• Wisdom of the crowd

Trends in collaboration

http://altmetric.com

What is collective intelligence?

Pierre LévyAuthor of Collective Intelligence (1994), Becoming Virtual (1995), Cyberculture (1997), The Semantic Sphere (2011)

Lévy says CI is “a form of universally distributed intelligence, constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time, and resulting in the effective mobilization of skills” … it should offer “mutual recognition and enrichment of individuals” toward building powerful knowledge communities, leading to more clearly democratized societies...”

Write up guidelines for a successful collaboration between archivists and librarians – could be a SHORT STORY, A PARAGRAPH OF IDEAL COLLABORATION

Include: who, what, where, when why? How?

http://collaboration.wikia.com/wiki/Collaboration

Archivists & librarians

• Encourage collaboration to generate projects

• Use social media to encourage F2F interaction

• Embed archivists & librarians online supported by appropriate tools

• Participate – Collaborate – Create

In conclusion…

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | dean.giustini@ubc.ca | LIBR559M Winter 2013