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Initial finding for SNC in Thailand

After spending some time to better understand the two-year-old Thai SNC, GotoKnow, I decided to become one of the members in this community. This site is a project funding from The Knowledge Management Institute (KMI). The team leader, Dr. Jantawan Noiwan, is a professor at Prince of Songkla University Thailand graduating from the department of Information Systems, University of Maryland. This site is built from scratch as Dr.Noiwan said that she couldn’t find any software that match the requirements.

This site is very unique as it integrates blog and bookmark feature together and heavily focus on knowledge management issue. The site clearly states its objective as a community of learning for public and encourages members to blog tacit knowledge. KMI also has two more sites (with the same structure). Researchers in Thailand is focusing on researchers and scholars with The Thailand Research Fund, meaning that once they get the grant, they have to blog their ongoing research. The newest site is Learners in Thailand. The main reason for this site is because many members start using the site for explicit knowledge (e.g., teachers ask student to submit homework, or create page for their class material).

My focus is at GotoKnow is it focuses on tacit knowledge, I hope to link it with my research interest--content analysis, identity and selves, and CMC. My initial search, as inspired by Jade (EME 2040 and Facebook), found most of the members include their private information--address, and cell phone. Sorry I didn’t have exact number for this search, but really, most of them put address and cell phone. Is this going to be less problematic since they are adults?

Initially, I will not blog in this site, I’ll try to follow a strategy that Christopher Sessums has shared with us in class last semester; that is, have a theme for your blog, try connecting with members with the same interests and get to know them. I then will spend months from now commenting people in GotoKnow, I’ll try to make my comment provoking and ask for higher level of thinking, and then start blogging probably next semester.

posted by พ่อบ้านเล่างานวิจัย @ 12:08 AM