Writing Inviations

Resources for practitioners 11 Correspondence protocol

Most people are now familiar with online communication. However, it’s worth exploring and reinforcing good styles and approaches, especially for e-tivities, where the action centres so much on exchange and contribution.

Good online communication cannot be directed. Simply posting codes of practice or protocols on websites doesn’t really achieve much, since guidelines need to be grounded and applied to be meaningful.

You can use these lists as sparks in e-tivities, and ask participants to apply them, work on them and, especially, build on them or invent their own. You might also like to encourage discussion on whether, if you make rules, they can easily be applied and what ...

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