The CoP focused on trust among participants. The group charted its specific path, based on the needs and desires of the CoP, but we outlined possible themes and plans for the sessions below.
During this session, we hope to talk about community building and ethical concerns that arise in digital spaces.
We'll start out by talking about a time in the last year when we've experienced community online and the components that made that possible.
Scenarios:
~10 minutes per small group session
Read through the scenario
Break into pairs assigned particular perspectives (student, administrators, etc.) and think through how we would navigate these scenarios.
What are the benefits?
What are the risks?
What are the areas of relationship-building that would be important? (thinking about both community partners and people within your org)
What formal documents, understandings, etc. would you develop for this scenario?(e.g. student learning contracts, etc.)
What would be the essential components you would need to navigate this scenario from your perspective?
During this session, we hope to discuss your project collaborators, stakeholders, and technologies.
We ask that each of us come to this gathering having done a bit of preparation, mapping out the collaborators on your project (this can be fairly hypothetical if you don't yet have concrete answers!).
You can map out your network of collaborators in whatever way you want: an Excel spreadsheet, using a piece of paper and drawing connections, or using another method of your choosing.
This exercise is modeled off of the The Socio-Technical Sustainability Roadmap, a project that Aisling will explain further during the session. The basic gist is that naming the current collaborators on a project, and identifying their roles and responsibilities, is one major step to increasing the sustainability of your project.
After this session, we will be in a good position to think about building community and ethical concerns that accompany our use of digital technologies.
During this session, we hope to discuss projects (either your own, or a project you admire or find intriguing).
We ask that each of us come to this gathering having done a bit of preparation, thinking through the following aspects of a project (again, this can be your own or a case study you find):
What are the project's goals?
Who was involved in making the project?
What service do you think this project is providing?
What technologies were used in this project, as far as you can tell? (WordPress website? A StoryMap? A timeline? A social network visualization?)
How successful do you think the project was in achieving its aims?
Why or why not?
Looking for a project to explore? There are a lot of projects on this website: Humanities for All
After this session, we will be in a good position to ask some critical questions and map support for our projects. If you don't have a project currently in the works, that's fine! The process of sharing these case studies will help us to think more clearly about a hypothetical project of our own.
Land Acknowledgment
Native Land Project project and Marlene Myles' Dakota Land maps
Introductions
Name, department/division/organization, preferred pronouns
Prompt: Name one story about how you knew a collaboration was successful (note: this collaboration does not have to incorporate digital technologies!)
Halfway point: Grounding Moment and Break
Ground rules for discussion and having good Zoom gatherings- what tips and suggestions have we gathered over the past several months of Zoom meetings?
What do you want to get out of this experience?
What are we excited about? What are we concerned about?
What is digital civic engagement?
Goals of a digital civic engagement project
How would we like to communicate between meetings?
For next time we will engage with case studies that illustrate potential models of digital civic engagement. Think about your own project and/or a working example, and take a look at the Watts Project