Example: Rules in the virtual room - discussing the netiquette

Target Group: Students of the Study Degree Social Work, 3. Semester
Class: Cooperating and Communicating in the virtual Room- EDV3

Objective: Cooperating in the discussion forum - posting, reading other contributions, structuring - Working on rules for the virtual room

Task: Read the netiquette - discuss it with your neighbour - formulate a short common answer
with respect to the following questions:

• Braucht es Ihrer Meinung nach Umgangsregeln im virtuellen Raum? Wenn ja, wozu? Wenn nein, warum nicht? Is there a need for rules in a virtual room? If yes, what for? If not, why not?
  
• Ist die Netiquette in Ihren Augen als Vorschlag für den gegenseitigen Umgang im virtuellen Raum geeignet? Is this netiquette in your opinion a good proposal for communication in a virtual room?
  
• Was würden Sie zur Netiquette hinzufügen / streichen? What would you add/delete to the netiquette?

Read the postings of the other students and give feedback in the discussion forum, at least for 2 times.

Material: The Netiquette, Chapter 2 of the script: "Construction of the Internet (Mantovani G., (2001). The Psychological Construction of the Internet: From Information Foraging to Social Gathering to Cultural Mediation. CyberPsychology & Behaviour, 4), Psychological View on the Internet ( N. Döring (2003) „Sozialpsychologie des Internet", Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen)

Framework: This learning activiy runs during Exercise 2.
Time frame: About 30-40 minutes

Assessment: At least 2 postings are necessary to get 1 point. (During the semester a maximum of 25 points can be achieved - 25 points are in straight correlation to the ECTS points (1 ECTS for this class).
5 stage modell of Gilly Salmon: 1. and 2. stage: Access and motivation, online sozialisation

How the example worked

This learning activity worked very well. The students discussed the netiquette intensively and as a resunt a reviewed netiquette was developed - which will be discussed next year :-)