Qu’est-ce que collaborer ?

J’ai la tête ici, mais le coeur là ! Puisque je suis en réalité dans mon salon à Québec, je tente de publier ce billet sur mon nouvel ordinateur. C’est un peu plus long qu’à l’habitude puisque j’ai perdu la capacité d’utiliser les touches-raccourcis pour insérer les hyperliens présentes sur MT dans une utilisation sous « Windows, Internet Explorer »; c’est pas pratique ! Je me dis qu’un bon samaritain aura sûrement un truc.
Avant d’aller au baseball, je m’offre ce texte rencontré sur ce site à partir d’un commentaire d’un carnetier. Ces cinq caractéristiques m’ont frappé:
« Shared inquiry. Reflecting its origins in scientific communities, the term collaboratory suggests that participants share not just common goals (say, a party) but a common set of problems or issues–ones that interest them and that they are working together to study more deeply and perhaps to solve.
Intentionality. Although people regularly work together under many circumstances, a collaboratory (as perhaps, collaboration) tends to be recognized by its participants as a joint venture; there is a shared consciousness of the site’s status as a mutual project. This awareness can cause it to become a generative space in which each participant appears to gain as much or more than they give. Thus, there is a « tipping point » (Gladwell, 2000), which leads to the critical mass awareness needed before a collective site is perceived by its members as a collaboratory.
Active participation and contribution. A collaboratory exists to the extent that its members use and, more important, add to its resources. Members also continually negotiate with one another over their projects. Often, a collaboratory will contain member profiles to enable further communication and to identify common interests.
Access to shared resources. A collaboratory provides the unique information (data, links, research findings) and tools needed by its participants.
Technologies. Collaboratories involve technologies, whether they are scientific instruments shared by far-flung communities, the unique symbol systems used among participants, or the information technologies needed to communicate. A collaboratory is usually Web based.
Boundary-crossings. Collaboratories bridge gaps and distances of (a) geography, by providing international access through the Internet; (b) time, by supplying both synchronous and asynchronous communication technologies; (c) institutions, by allowing groups access to tools and materials of common interest; and (d) disciplines, by enabling the participants to decide what resources are most relevant to a topic, without regard to traditional understandings of what constitutes a particular discipline. »
Les vacances sont pour bientôt; déjà les élèves et les enseignants ont quitté. Il fallait voir la douzaine d’enseignants partir du Pavillon St-Louis munis de leur tout nouveau iBook, cyberportfolio oblige ! Quantité de collaboration WEB à venir…