Gerhard Fischer and Hal Eden: “Design, Learning, and Collaboration” — Spring Semester 2007
Assignment 11: Beyond “Couch Potatoes”
source: Fischer, G. (2002) Beyond 'Couch Potatoes': From Consumers to Designers and Active Contributors, in FirstMonday (Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet), at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_12/fischer/
Role distribution: analyzers and summarizers for assignment 11
1. Dave Musson
2. Brian Sax
The “analyzers and summarizers” can do their work individually or jointly
due: Wednesday, March 7, 2007
1. producers: please submit by 10:00am to the class website – please be on time, so the “analyzers and summarizers” can do their work!
2. analyzers/summarizers: please submit by 2:00pm to the class website
Briefly discuss the following issues (in the context provided by the article):
Enumerate in which situations
1. you acted as a designer/active contributor
2. you acted as a (passive) consumer
3. situations in which you believe you should have acted differently
analyze:
1. what motivated you do choose to be in one of the groups?
2. prevented you being in a group?
3. which rewards did you get (or not get) for your contributions?
4. which technological and social factors influenced your decision?
hw11-BrianBrown
hw11-Speir-Zeles.doc
hw11-mangalath.doc
hw11-AndyHoffner
hw11-yingdan.pdf
hw11-PengShao.doc
hw11-JarretLavallee.doc
hw11-JohnBacus
hw11-sax-summary.doc
hw11-davis.pdf