Purpose of this page

This is like a ‘tactic state’ for the book: It covers contents that don’t have a place in the main outline.

Chapters

Peeragogy Workbook?

Note: the PDF and print editions contain a “Peeragogy Workbook” that didn’t make it into the HTML edition for some reason: https:/docs.google.comdocumentd1Z95kjugeRWxHR526sSHlbVeiEubj-VyCdotozXXnHEc/edit?usp=sharing In the reading group we’ve talked about how to make a more Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style introductory chapter, and the existing Peeragogy Workbook could potentially be the basis for that.

• ☞ Welcome to the Peeragogy Workbook!

Motivation:

You might wonder why we’re doing this project – what we hope to get out of it as volunteers, and how we think what we’re doing can make a positive difference in the world. Have a look at this chapter if you, too, are thinking about getting involved in peeragogy, or wondering how peeragogy can help you accelerate your learning and production enterprises.

• Motivation

2. Chapter Summaries

Maybe get rid of these, or make them very short, like 1 sentence each? (See text in Arial Narrow within the current document for current summaries, per section.) Could the summaries instead become group activities, in the spirit of Social Presencing Theater?[s] We used this strategy in the “Action and Change in Peer Learning” paper+workshop.

• Summaries

Recommended Reading

• Recommended reading

Mini-Handbooks

10. Play and learning

• Play

11. K-12 Peeragogy

This chapter and the next one are about learning in a school or university context — should we maybe move a bunch of that stuff to a separate section, or rework these as “Case Studies” for the case study section?

• K12

Roles

(These should be brought into alignment with, or otherwise correlated with, the chapter outline.)

MANAGEMENT

That includes chasing people who have promised chapters.

CONTENT

Another major task that we had slated is to produce more activities and mini-handbooks. A related task is an increasing “patternization” of the content. Some of the old chapters can be shortened and turned into new design patterns or short narrative sidebars.

DIRECTION

The comments generated in the Augment reading group which will conclude on Tuesday give lots of hints about possible changes and improvements. Particular attention should be given to the introductory chapters.

TECHNICAL

Then there is the technical editing, and getting everything to look nice. We had discussed possibly involving a professional designer, but it doesn’t look like we have the funds to pay anyone.

OPERATIONS

Another relevant role is running and facilitating meetings. It is pretty remarkable that we have been having meetings in this project almost weekly since 2012! Assuming we keep up that pace on the way to publication we are talking about approximately 24 production meetings in the first half of next year.

MARKETING

Another task that we have kind of fallen down on in the past is marketing the book. I think that in recognition of the tremendous amount of effort that everyone has been putting into this, we should step up our game in this regard for the fourth edition.

Planned and completed new Contributions since Version 3

Group

Choose your own peeragogical fortune

Rejected from CLS 2018. This was our collective reflection on the Distributed Roadmap after a few years. Even though it wasn’t accepted to CLS, it’s still useful as an internal project document, and we could make use of it as we revise the pattern catalogue.

https:/docs.google.comdocumentd1m5TLgch2S9-hNClrYoKEBjhuhYV4u8Zm-nG75e3bAIk/edit

A fictional peeragogical anticipatory learning exploration

Anticipation conference dialogue: Script for Oslo. This is part of our outreach strategy, and we have one more run-through planned for 6th of October to hone our approach. The earlier draft of the document available here in the submitted version, along with a few more notes.

• Draft https:/drive.google.comfiled1zdtPmH7FnvVtn_NcFVnaOoKOoxR8p6my/view
• Final https:/docs.google.comdocumentd1xBMSVMJtQvpTXXveSI0Y7NeFM_RPM-B_rzgqiLjVSGM/edit#
• Formatted script: https:/docs.google.comdocumentd1T1pm7X939h0ajOVRSohIErGY2PqHAMUpZ8FVVF5xlQA/edit#
• Follow-up reflections from Charlie: Link TBA

Action and Change in Peer Learning

[working title was: Peeragogy’s Greatest Flops (2012-2018).] https:/docs.google.comdocumentd1EW_spwnA-hJSf6yiRGKhpe6JwfHCNENu0mj1SPc8dtA/edit#

Lisa Snow McDonald

• Peeragogy: An Introduction (draft)
• Understanding Peeragogy to Maximize Resources and Efficiencies
• Peeragogy in Unusual Places: Jury Duty

Paola Ricaurte

• The virtual community: 26 years later[al]
• Berkman-Klein Center experience 2018-19

Charlotte Pierce

• Community-based movements in NEPAL (ManuMitra, Gadhimai, Dalla)
• Connect up with Cybernetics
• Content from Version 3 - pull in, revitalize
• Rowing Podcast

Verena Roberts

• K-12 Reboot/Update

Joe Corneli

• Peril and potentials in collaboration — https:/peeragogy.pubpub.orgpuboin4yst8draft?access=co0w5tik
• Peeragogy course — https:/docs.google.comdocumentd1VeR_67LGwhY898o70UKbwMSlvQrlwJDAVyxq6bwQDcA/edit and other summaries that haven’t been added to this list yet

Charles Danoff

• Peeragogy 2018 Holidaze Meeting Notes — https:/en.wikiversity.orgwikiUser:Charles_Jeffrey_DanoffPeeragogy_2018_Holidaze_Meeting_Notes
• Spring 2019 Meeting Notes — https:/en.wikiversity.orgwikiUser:Charles_Jeffrey_DanoffPeeragogy_Spring_2019_Meeting_Notes

Ray Puzio

• Book group for 2 years
• Evolution of the social graph of cybernetics

Howard Rheingold

• Said we could use some of his patreon stuff

Charles Blass

• Developing chapter on DAOs

Feature Requests for Version 4 - rough input for our “Peeragogy Playbook”

ALL NEW CONTRIBUTIONS should be considered! See below for a list of the new contributions. Let’s decide where they should they go in the outline?

Useful exercises and mini-handbooks

This is one of the main motivations for working on a Version 4 handbook in the first place. We all agreed that it could become much more concretely useful. Looking at the individual chapters that have already been written, what would need to be changed to convert them into mini-Handbooks[i]? What are our practical review criteria for earning a mini-handbook stamp of approval? What things are practical for us, i.e., what do we need to learn right now for our work on version 4 of the handbook? [“Champagne criterion”.]

Article on Crowdmath

Slava Gerovitch, Anna Mirny

or possibly some of the contributors to the Crowdmath project would like to write a retrospective? Slightly different but a related topic: Maybe also we should get back to Maria Druchovia, who was talking about “Peer Making” in her project.

Article on P2PU

Nico Koenig and Grif Peterson

We heard from these guys recently, he’d like to do a weekday meeting to discuss. UPDATE: We did several of these, also together with Grif Peterson. They are definitely interested to contribute something for v4.

Article on Manoj’s stuff in Nepal, other activities in Nepal

Manoj

and Sagarika? (Do they work together?) Possibly Miriam Corneli would be interested, maybe working together with Sagun.[l] with in the English language teaching world. Perhaps we could form a “panel” to discuss various issues in Nepal ranging from English to dogs to climate and so on.

Updated author biographies

v3 authors

I think it would be nice to update the author biographies to explain how we’re using peeragogy in our work, what’s changed since the project began, etc.

Profile: activities at the Berkman-Klein center, how did this impact ongoing research on techno-feminism?

Paola

Special request, if she has time to write up a perspective on the experience!

Interviews with people using peer learning within traditional teaching

Harvard HILT attendees?

https:/hilt.harvard.edunews-and-eventsannual-conference2019-conference-program* and https:**hilt.harvard.edunews-and-eventsannual-conference*2019-conference-breakout-sessions/ – likely source of contacts. Charlotte has been to the event and done some in-person wrangling. Follow-up with Experimental College planned.

How to organise a reading group / meetup

Ray Puzio and Roland Legrand

Expressed interest in writing up tips from about book groups and meetups; Roland could write about about the online book group. We should definitely include some links to whatever traces are left from Roland et al. working on The Virtual Community 2019. We might want to help work on the behind the scenes stuff. Let’s invite Roland along to one of these meetings and see how we could be helpful?

How to sell 1000 copies of the book

Charlotte or contact within IPNE?

(Of course anyone can get a copy for free in HTML or PDF format. We should add an inexpensive EPUB version!) Each of us could probably sell 10 copies if we tried hard…? Promote it to teachers who would promote it to students Figure out where libraries look to get books to buy Get a book review in some journal(s), T.H.E. would be pretty awesome. Bring it to local bookstores and ask them to stock it. Once we have mastered the above, figure out how to do that 1000 times, and get on NYT best sellers list.

How to set up a podcast with 100 regular listeners? (Podcasts are exploding!)

Charlotte or contact within podcasting network?

Charlotte has explained some of this in the September 8th meeting. We could learn this by setting up our own podcast, using Charlotte’s rowing and publishing podcasts? We already have some raw materials. We could do a little podcast pilot, and send it around to people and see what they would find valuable. Could we dredge through the Google+ things and spam it out to them. Maybe it could be a format, like with a special guest.

Or, have a podcast about a given theme, for example, people with different experiences will go. “Ray and Roland talking about Reading Groups”. Then we could try and recruit special guests. And if we made a podcast for each individual chapter, we could double that with editing. (E.g., Charlotte and Robert working on patterns.)

“Oh, and for each chapter there is a corresponding podcast. This would be something that you could use to help you get started with the conversations. This could give people a head start.”

We also talked about hooking an initial 13-episode run to our course outline.

A chapter about business aspects, or other funding / management aspects, and, broadly speaking, incentives.

Charles Blass

Crowdfunding could also be covered here. Or, pick some other financial target: How to organize a conference with 100 attendees? Or similar, and then pursue it. There’s a start here by Charles Blass. Decentralized production tasks sound pretty interesting! Here http:/*www.pearltrees.com*t*fundraising*crowdfunding/id3054164 is the collection mentioned on the reading group call 20191105.

(Charles’s research of several years in surveying and organizing the crowdfunding space beginning in 2011 - collection curated actively for 3-4 years - the structure and categories will be useful for us (the sections on regulations are out of date though - as is the futile attempt even at the time to track all CF platforms in all categories). A decent stab was made. More notes and ideas shared in the Peeragogy channel on Keybase.)

Retrospective on the FLOK and societal transformation projects

Michel Bauwens

Or others from P2P Foundation / Ecuador?

Some effort to compare what we are doing in Peeragogy with other projects and methods.

Claire van Rhyn?

In particular, the “U Theory” used in presencing is common to both Social Labs and Social Presencing Theatre. Joe has proposed that methods from religious studies could be used to zoom in on the things that are unique to peeragogy. That seems worthwhile. Previous conversations with Martina Schroedl in Minneapolis gave us the term “defining difference”.

Now that we’ve learned a little more about online groups like MetaCAugs, OGM, and CICOLab, it should become a bit easier to think about what’s distinctive about peeragogy.

Editorial strategy

• Let’s use the Org Roam Server picture to think about which bits of text need sidebars or mini-Handbooks.
• Let’s think about where mini-Handbooks could be sourced from.
• Let’s revisit the Reading Group version of the book