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Wonderful interview with Don Tapscott done by McKinsey Quarterly in September 2012 on why social media needs to be used in organizations rather than email, published January 2013. Shows that leaders do not understand shift to collaboration/incubator transparency/forums to interact from email updating of team projects.

Beverly Wenger-Trayner's post from 8/2016 on learning together by asking the right questions is excellent

From Inc. by Christina Desmarais, August 14, 2013. Good advice about dealing with family members, friends, other phone calls while using a home office. Also, names some tools to help keep up with collaborative projects and work teams: Hipchat for group chatting, Trello or Asana for project management, Expensify for tracking expenses and submitting expense reports, and Sqwiggle which keeps your webcam on so co-workers can see you work.

blog post by Chris Collison on when austerity forces collaboration instead of competition to achieve performance, 7.2.2013

Superb video (9 minutes) on creativity including collaboration and process of learning and innovating. Believe this video should be part of our Studio line-up in some way to prompt discussion, to back up our methods, etc.

interesting list of tools, none of which I have heard of, although their functions make sense to me

Really great tips for working virtually by Haley Hoffman, May 4, 2015

interesting look at group projects by Brian Mathews, July 14, 2015 on bringing together history students in research/product projects

Very nice blog post by clmooc on how to use Twitter, Google+ community, and Google Hangouts with Mashable guide/video links on how to do each. Great for DIY online learners.

Great talk by Stephen Downes about personal learning in a networked world: what it is, what it is not, the difference between collaboration and cooperation, and how trends by younger students are driving change. He poses that there is no one model that is successful - it is up to the learner to devise their own purpose and methods.

Digital Literacy, NYC Department of Education "Digital literacy is more than knowing how to send a text or watch a music video. It means having the knowledge and ability to use a range of technology tools for varied purposes. A digitally literate person can use technology strategically to find and evaluate information, connect and collaborate with others, produce and share original content, and use the Internet and technology tools to achieve many academic, professional, and personal goals. "

"Digital literacy is more than knowing how to send a text or watch a music video. It means having the knowledge and ability to use a range of technology tools for varied purposes. A digitally literate person can use technology strategically to find and evaluate information, connect and collaborate with others, produce and share original content, and use the Internet and technology tools to achieve many academic, professional, and personal goals."

Blog on leadership by Neil Smith, Fast Company on eliminating barriers that keep departments/groups from sharing the same priorities, knowledge, information for the good of the whole organization.

How introversion affects teachers' ability to continue in the excessive "social collaborative" environment

matrix explaining the differences between networking, coordinating, cooperating, and collaborating, inspired in part by Rheingold's course on Literacy of Cooperation

article on coordination, cooperation, and collaboration by Misty D. Goosen, Fall 2009, Kansas Inservice Training, Early Childhood Development

beginning series on network entrepreneurs who thrive, by Jane Wei-Skillern, David Ehrlichman, & David Sawyer, September 16, 2016.  How should WLS embrace these four principles operationally in the networks we participate in?   

Reflection blog post by Nancy White on 1.9.13 on her Project Community course that she co-taught at the Hague. Offers many insights including this jewel below on what the learning design must bring together: "The other aspect of the design was to bring three elements together: sense making discussions about the subject matter (synchronously in class and asynchronously on the class website), insights from weekly "guests" shared via 5-10 minute videos (to bring a variety of voices), and action learning through small group experiences and team projects. I know there are strong feelings about team projects, but building collaboration skills was part of the course learning objectives, so this was a "must do." And we spent time talking about the how - -and reflecting on what was and wasn't working as a vector for learning these skills."

This author describes the conditions necessary for leaders who want to make a difference with collaborative groups who have a common mission to generate beneficial change.

Great infographic on top five job skills desired by employers in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. Captured on Visual.ly. Ability to analyze and synthesize new skills Ability and willingness to learn Critical thinking & problem solving Interpersonal communication Collaboration

Unbelievable assessments of how internet and web are changing our behaviors for sharing, collaborating, and making us connect with each other