Written by I’ve been working on a book review of DIY U by Anna Kamenetz to be published in the open access, peer-reviewed journal in education edited by Dr. Alec Couros (aka @courosa). At the same time, some folks initiated a “discussion” of the book through a Twitter chat.
So, it occurred to me that I could/should think about this review differently. I asked Alec “permission” to approach the review as a curator (rather than solely as the author). That is, what if I were to invite others to contribute text, ideas, thoughts, artifacts, etc. and my role was to curate all that? I’d take the responsibility of starting the article/review and ultimately make all the decisions about what gets included and how it all gets arranged (hence, the “curation” term).
Alec was agreeable, so…let’s do it!
HERE IS A LINK TO A GOOGLE DOC I’VE STARTED
Please note that I am “curating” this review. If you’d like to contribute, please scroll to the bottom of the document and add your name to the table and indicate the color of the text you’ll be using. All contributors will be listed as such in the final published article/review.
Also, I should credit some of my thinking on this to George Veletsianos who introduced me to the notion of participatory scholarship. I’m eager to see how this idea of curating an article works out and how we might think about it as a form of participatory scholarship.
Please come and participate with me!
Would it also be valuable to curate existing reviews/discussions of the book that are posted at various places into this? For instance, D’Arcy Norman has a post (http://www.darcynorman.net/2010/05/19/diy-u-chapter-1-history/) as does Michael Rees (http://mrees.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/a-future-scenario-for-higher-education-diy-u/) and Stephen Downes (http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?author=Anya%20Kamenetz). Or, would this be content aggregation rather than curation?
Yes, George, I think there’s value in that. A museum curator would reach out for coveted artifacts, right? I think I’ll go comment on those posts and see if they’re willing to contribute or to be included. Thanks for the idea.
Afternoon,
I wonder if we might restart this conversation to focus on participatory scholarship and the curating of an article on DIYU?
Respectfully,
(another) Tom
NOTE: I deleted a series of comments here. They were entirely irrelevant to the post and they were nobody’s finest moments (including me).
So, yes, Tom, let’s restart a conversation about participatory scholarship…
That’s fine, Jon, but there’s the still the issue of your visiting my website and announcing on Twitter that it made you #sicktomystomach” which was entirely inappropriate. I await your apology.
When I initially commented I clicked the -Notify me when new feedback are added- checkbox and now every time a remark is added I get 4 emails with the identical comment. Is there any manner you can take away me from that service? Thanks!