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Measuring Virtual Math Community Aliveness: The Math Forum Study

Explore the vitality of The Math Forum, an enduring virtual community, through seven principles. Learn how to assess and enhance your online community using design, dialogue, participation, value, familiarity, excitement, and rhythm.

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Measuring Virtual Math Community Aliveness: The Math Forum Study

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  1. The Math Forum: Measuring the Aliveness of a Community Michael Herrick PhD Student University of Hawaii Manoa mherrick@hawaii.edu

  2. What I Studied • General • Community • CoP • Online Community • Virtual Community • Specific • Virtual Math Community

  3. What I Did • The Math Forum (www.mathforum.org) • Enduring Virtual Community • Seven Principals of Aliveness • The Math Forum (www.mathforum.org) • Enduring Virtual Community • Seven Principals of Aliveness  Measure • The Math Forum (www.mathforum.org) • Enduring Virtual Community • Seven Principals of Aliveness  Measure

  4. Your Virtual Community

  5. 7 Principles of Aliveness • Design for evolution • Open a dialogue between inside and outside perspectives • Invite different levels of participation • Develop both public and private community spaces • Focus on value • Combine familiarity and excitement • Create a rhythm for the community

  6. 1 - Design for evolution • Geometry Forum  Math Forum (1996) • NSF Grants • Discussions, Problem of the Week (PoW), Ask Dr. Math • Professional development, wider audience • Resources, mentoring, Math Forum Digital Library • Workshops, Pre-service teachers • National Science Digital Library (NDSL)

  7. 2 - Open a dialogue between inside and outside perspectives • National Science Digital Library • Math education groups (NCTM, NCSM) • Math groups (MAA) • Higher education institutions • K – 12 education • Commercial firms

  8. 3 - Invite different levels of participation • Core Members • Staff • Math Doctors and Teacher2Teacher Assoc. • Active members • PoW Participants • Profuse discussers • Peripheral • One-time

  9. 4 - Develop both public and private community spaces • Public • Resources • Discussions & archives • Private • Advice  public discussion • PoW • Workshops • Personal communications

  10. 5 - Focus on value • Resources & information • Students • Teachers • Parents, researchers, citizens • Communications • Experts: Ask Dr. Math, T2T Assoc, Staff • Peers: discussions, archives • One-on-one

  11. Ask Dr. Math

  12. Ask Dr. Math (cont)

  13. Teacher2Teacher

  14. 5 - Focus on value • Resources & information • Students • Teachers • Parents, researchers, citizens • Communications • Experts: Ask Dr. Math, T2T Assoc, Staff • Peers: discussions, archives • One-on-one

  15. 6 - Combine familiarity and excitement • Familiarity • Site • Continuing discussions • Excitement • Site for novice • New resources • New workshops • New tools

  16. 7 - Create a rhythm for the community • Outside • Rhythm of school • PoW • Inside • Statistics • PoW • Feel it!

  17. Measure Your Community

  18. Conclusion: Necessary But Not Sufficient • Design for evolution • Open a dialogue between inside and outside perspectives • Invite different levels of participation • Develop both public and private community spaces • Focus on value • Combine familiarity and excitement • Create a rhythm for the community

  19. Staying Alive

  20. Mahalo

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