Comments on: 5 tips for building a collaborative community http://www.thevicenarian.com/2008/04/17/5-tips-for-building-a-collaborative-community/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:06:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Glenn http://www.thevicenarian.com/2008/04/17/5-tips-for-building-a-collaborative-community/#comment-158 Glenn Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:34:59 +0000 http://www.thevicenarian.com/2008/04/17/5-tips-for-building-a-collaborative-community/#comment-158 This post reminded me of a new school program I recently learned about. A few teachers of mine just returned from visiting New Technology High School in Napa, CA (http://www.newtechhigh.org/Website2007/about-NTHS.html), where they toured the facilities and spoke with the students involved in a radical project-based learning curriculum. Rules are minimal, technology is ubiquitous, and collaboration dominated the classrooms; team work strategies and communicative abilities are the primary skill sets students graduate with, far more prepared to enter the 'real world' than most high school youth. Your 5-step guide to collaboration is an excellent resource for any graduate who was not fortunate to attend such a school as New Tech (and with a graduating class of 100 students, that would be almost all of us!). I really hope that this picks up some momentum... it appears to be mash-up of some of the best ideas shared by entrepreneurs like Seth Godin and books like 'Wikinomics'. I like it, keep up the good work. This post reminded me of a new school program I recently learned about. A few teachers of mine just returned from visiting New Technology High School in Napa, CA (http://www.newtechhigh.org/Website2007/about-NTHS.html), where they toured the facilities and spoke with the students involved in a radical project-based learning curriculum.

Rules are minimal, technology is ubiquitous, and collaboration dominated the classrooms; team work strategies and communicative abilities are the primary skill sets students graduate with, far more prepared to enter the ‘real world’ than most high school youth.

Your 5-step guide to collaboration is an excellent resource for any graduate who was not fortunate to attend such a school as New Tech (and with a graduating class of 100 students, that would be almost all of us!). I really hope that this picks up some momentum… it appears to be mash-up of some of the best ideas shared by entrepreneurs like Seth Godin and books like ‘Wikinomics’. I like it, keep up the good work.

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