Saxaren: strengthening informal collaboration among geographically distributed teachers

For people working in situations with few colleagues around, information technology could be used for increased communication with colleagues at other places. One such group is teachers in rural areas. In our work with teachers in an archipelago school distributed over six islands we have focused on encouraging communication using a digital notice board, providing for handwritten, quickly written notes, connecting all islands. Based on the teachers’ collaborative situation, and on the design, implementation and use of the prototype, we illustrate, by a number of recorded notes, how the teachers have been using the prototype, relating the findings to group building, easy access, and playful behaviour. Author Keywords Communities, digital notice board, teachers, cooperative design, collaboration, communication. ACM Classification Keywords K.4.3 [Organizational Impacts]: computer-supported collaborative work

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: OZCHI
• Authors: Kristina Groth, Sinna Lindquist, Cristian Bogdan, Tobias Lidskog, Yngve Sundblad, Ovidiu Sandor
• Keywords: ACM Classification Keywords, Author Keywords Communities, Computer Human Interaction, Digital Notice Board, OZCHI 2006