Consciousness: Games and Apps

These ideas come from the P2PU drawing board, and give us a starting point to consider our group dialogue:

Creating a Social Contract
 
A social contract is a collaborative agreement concerning social norms & rules for participation in a course. It's critical to present a framework for creation of a social contract at the beginning of your course. Pose potential guidelines as questions and ask participants to give input and arrive at agreements around their answers to these questions to create a 'social contract' for the remainder of the course.
 
Below are types of guidelines in a social contract and some example questions (italics & bold mine)
 
Agreed guidelines for social interaction in meetings & forums  (netiquette, taking turns speaking, rules of leading conversation/fourm  discussions)

How can we support each other as peers in a learning community?

What I do if I feel deeply offended by something the tutor or another participant has said in the course?

How important is it for the members of this group to get to know about each others lives and interests beyond the course?

Agreed guidelines for critiquing each other's work

  What are we looking for in eachother's work?

  What is the format for critiquing?

Agreed guidelines for collaborative work

  Can other people edit my work without agreement?

  How should  we reuse each others words and ideas within and beyond the course?

Agreed guidelines for the range of topics which we can reasonably discuss

  Are there topics out-of-bounds?

Who is responsible for keeping the conversations on track?

Main suggestions by (Miriam):
1. "Suspend disbelief"
2. "Create a positive ambience"
3. "The Whole is more than the sum of its parts" = synergy