Cinnabar and Alabaster

passages:
(jami carlacio: "what's so democratic about cmc?: the rhetoric of techno-literacy in the new millennium") 31 "computer technology may change the level of literacy among our population, but it will not change the ratio of literate to nonliterate people…we must first understand the conditions that have made possible existing socioeconomic inequalities before we can adequately remedy them….computers alone cannot address the social and economic issues that result from global multinational capitalism."
(james inman: "electracy for the ages: collaboration with the past and future") 50 "people do not have to interact in the same era for their work to be bidirectional. i can learn a great deal from people i've never known, just as they can benefit from my attention to and interactions with their ideas or prospective ideas. in this way, collaboration is transactional, as well as interactional, and thus able to span generations"; "the act of collaboration, then, comes from thinking about more than individual ideas without context; to collaborate with the past and future, individuals must develop detailed context-based understandings of any idea they consider, and they must further influence and be influenced by those ideas."
(radhika gajjala and annapurna mamidipudi: "collaborating across contexts: rethinking the local and the global, theory and practice") 76 the global context & a little realism: "how do we resolve the contradictory sentiments of seeing the internet as a panacea to the problems of the south [i.e. india]; of thinking that on the contrary, it may even be bad for us; and of asserting that this doesn't mean we don't want it?"
(nancy knowles and wendy hennequin: "new technology, newer teachers: computer resources and collaboration in literature and composition") 96 other/general benefits of collaboration: "inability to work with others is the primary reason talented workers lose jobs....second, because poor interpersonal skills can ruin otherwise successful communication, inability to colaborate can have more impact than the loss of a single job; during a treaty negotiation or a shuttle launch, for instance, the inability to collaboratie can cost lives....third, collaboration values diversity because it values diverse skils and experience, if not actual social, economic, or cultural backgrounds, and it does so in an environment of equality; members of a team may have different skills but equal responsibility for group success"
109. "neither the technology nor the collaboration need be feared. neither one is...anything new....because collaboration represents a primary means of professional work, we believe helping students to succeed means providing opportunities for them to practice. what may be unexpected is the idea that we may now collaborate with our students in the classrooms"
(mary fakler and joan perisse: "voices merged in collaborated conversation: the peer critiquing computer project") 111 "collaboration has become a buzzword in academic cirlces; other terms being used interchangeably with collaboration are coauthored writing, cooperation, and peer work"
119. the magic secret to their peer response work--students are responding to peers from another class--to strangers. consistently all semester, & developing relationships by doing so, but only w/people they don't "have to deal with...in class"
(timothy allen jackson: "imagining future(s): toward a critical pedagogy for emerging technologies") 285 "as academics, we are in the consciousness business. this is the end game of our efforts, if we are serious about the impact of ideas onto the body public as opposed to purely instrumentalist motivations driven by market forces that ultimately produce supply-side pedagogies. this is what it means to profess."
(anne ruggles gere: afterward) 379 "even though technology has helped me participate in many types of collaboration throughout my academic life, it has also presented obstacles. programs that will accept only one name on a given line, protocols that work only within the range of a given server, and research tools designed without coauthors in mind all disappoint as much as they support"
381. "community is another term that is used frequently in this collection, and it, too, merits questioning," as there's a lot of variability in what authors use it to do/refer to.
383. inman's definition of collaboration as "temporally constructed" & much more useful long-term than in semester-break bounded segments; time's also always a factor, especially in how technology intersects with collaborative ventures. "how do time constraints shape the kind sof electronic collaborations we construct? how might we use time differently in these constructions? what does time mean in the context of collaboration? what might it mean?" <--questions to proceed with.