Share This Course, maybe?
I don't know if I have time or money to do any MLA courses, myself, this winter.
Been put up for an Open University course on 'Beyond Google' (library relevant), and hope to write 50,000 words again in November for NaNoWriMo. So I felt a little hesitant about my time and money...
But anyway - I just noticed that Mark Pesce's course (starts Nov 21st) has a very open structure (pay what you can afford, or think it's worth) and that he invites collaboration in exploring methods of cooperation and collaboration.
Sounds great to me! Want to help write a book called "Share This Book"?
Hyperpeople, one of his online pieces.
The MLA course (among others)? Check out their listings:
Share This Course
Everything is changing, most of all the institutions which have acted both as providers and gatekeepers to culture, knowledge and power. The tables have been turned; now power sits squarely in our own hands. All of this is so sudden and so new that we have no sense of how to put this new-found power to work. Yet all of it hinges on a single point: we have learned how to share with one another, and every day we share ever-more-effective ways of sharing with one another. This, by itself, is enough to change the course of history.
Join with me as I document the changes and challenges of this new era in the pages of my next book, Share This Book! I intend to open up the creative process, to make sharing not just the core idea of the book, but the way the book comes into being. Share This Course! offers an opportunity to participate in re-thinking the way creativity works: no longer a singular author locked in a garret, but a community of like-minded individuals engaged in a common task, working toward a common goal. All of this is new, so Share This Course! will be as much about process as product: How do we share ideas? How do we format them coherently? How do we move from conception to execution?
If this sounds interesting – or at least intriguing – please do come join with me as we open the door on a new kind of collaboration, one which will become the cornerstone of 21st century culture. Share This Book! needs a sharing community to come into being, and Share This Course! is the place where this community will meet. Come play with us, and create a new way of creation.
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What a wonderful double-bind.
In the straight British bookshops they had these heavily guarded, as a challenge.
In the Head bookshops it would get put down on the lower shelves, at the back of the shop, and you felt pretty silly going up to the till with it...to pay. (Could you take the ironic look?)
As an occasional book-thief I had only one principle - to never steal from small, independent bookstores...
You couldn't win.
Just steal it from a friend's bookshelf - the coward's way! :-)
I'll also be writing a cold 50'000 for nano-write nov. So the criss-crossing of classes and - some kind of novel - will be challenging, time-wise. But the sound of - share this course - already seems to fit well with what we do. Yes.
Shire this Horse
Share, Discuss.
Bare this bust'
I see that Bobby is. I've joined now and hope to contribute soon. Need to get used to the WordPress layout too. Not sure what to contribute at the moment but hope to be help the project(s?) along somehow.
I hadn't kept up to speed with this, but Mark Pesce seems to have elected to run his course outside the MLA forums (quite a good plan, at least with the general forum, and its notorious quirks).
As far as I can see you don't have to register with MLA (?) but could, in theory, just go and join the blog, sharethiscourse.org, where conversations seem to continue in Comments.
I also note, from my fleeting visits, that they have set up a Wiki.
This seems like the sort of thing that (when it gets fully released) would suit Google Waves perfectly!
Sounds great. I think I'll join.
I remember trying to find Abbie Hoffman's 'steal this book' and failing to do so, feeling disappointed not being able to steal it.
"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste." - Marcel Duchamp