Comments on: If I Build It, Will They Come? http://www.xyleme.com/blogs/2008/03/11/if-i-build-it-will-they-come/ The Next Generation of Learning Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:17:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Dawn http://www.xyleme.com/blogs/2008/03/11/if-i-build-it-will-they-come/#comment-599 Dawn Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:09:46 +0000 http://www.xyleme.com/blogs/2008/03/11/if-i-build-it-will-they-come/#comment-599 Spot on. Very few people tend to enjoy writing to the point where they'll do very much of it, or for very long. Most are content to lurk, maybe one in fifty or a hundred will boldly step out and write in a bare environment, another small handful might follow that one. Though this dynamic changes, too, when the environment is more private. A small email list might elicit feedback from everyone on it at different times, because the 'audience' is known to all the participants. It's less intimidating than the open Internet, when you don't know who's reading. Spot on. Very few people tend to enjoy writing to the point where they’ll do very much of it, or for very long. Most are content to lurk, maybe one in fifty or a hundred will boldly step out and write in a bare environment, another small handful might follow that one.

Though this dynamic changes, too, when the environment is more private. A small email list might elicit feedback from everyone on it at different times, because the ‘audience’ is known to all the participants. It’s less intimidating than the open Internet, when you don’t know who’s reading.

]]> By: Eamon Costello http://www.xyleme.com/blogs/2008/03/11/if-i-build-it-will-they-come/#comment-596 Eamon Costello Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:07:28 +0000 http://www.xyleme.com/blogs/2008/03/11/if-i-build-it-will-they-come/#comment-596 interesting thoughts. I think mass is critical too. we\'ll never get the number of users needed for classical web 2.0 user-generated stuff in even very large classrooms. web 2.0 kind of breaks down at small scales. interesting thoughts. I think mass is critical too. we\’ll never get the number of users needed for classical web 2.0 user-generated stuff in even very large classrooms. web 2.0 kind of breaks down at small scales.

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