The Landing: Facilitating Network Building Within AU Landing

This is a preliminary overview of how the tools and features of AU landing can be used to facilitate network-building among participants. This way, everyone can use a consistent roadmap for introducing the features and tools. This "roadmap" is incomplete, as it relies heavily on the concurrent development of both identity building and knowledge building processes as well. However, I thought it would be good to start with network-building, as these processes are, in my opinion, supported 2:1 within AU landing as evidenced by the selection of the tools and features.

PROCESS	AU Landing Tools and Features	DESCRIPTION
PROCESS	AU Landing Tools and Features	DESCRIPTION
Awareness	Activity Tab, Search Textbox, Help pages, Tutorial Groups;	Scanning, reading, and reviewing of online resources, identifying gaps in skills & knowledge
Articulation	Search Tags on members’ pages for resources and experts, blogs, pages, photos, the wire, Account Settings, Bookmarks; Joining Groups, Discussions	Explorations both within and beyond the instructor’s blog, the group blog and peers’ blogs; description of initial activities
Aggregate	Notifications, RSS Feed subscriptions, using the Bookmarklet feature, searching members’ Tag Clouds, adding Followers/Following, scanning Groups, configuring Account Tools, monitoring Statistics	Bring together content, links, profiles and identify usage patterns
Re-Use	Updates of posts, pages, bookmarks, creation of collections, editing photo albums, refreshing posts migrated from Me2U to AU Landing	Re-examination, culling, filtering, re-organizing; revising blog content: posts, feeds, comments; may involve return to drafts or weaving emails or work from assignments into new blog posts
Re-Mix	Customize dashboard with widgets and plugins; Set up Twitter, use RSS feed aggregator (not in AU Landing); Selection and archiving of previously completed assignments and Moodle forum posts, Create e-portfolio pages	Draw ideas from multiple sources, then summarize, analyze, and report on ideas
Feed-Forward	Send out wire posts notifying community of new group, resources; re-tweet links;	Sharing, exchanging, story-telling to audiences
Process Capture	Uploading files and photos for review; commenting on posts, Blogging, wire posts, bookmarks, tweets	Systematic recording of thought processes and ideas using multiple media
Product Creation	Pages, upload podcasts, pen-casts, and slide presentations; link to page-casts (PageFlakes) or Posterous resources	Preparation, planning, and performing of learning events; reflection in practice
Review	Blogging, wire posts, page creation	Post-performance summary, critique, summary reflections

Facilitating Network Building Within AU Landing

Glenn Groulx

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