Phone Interview with Sue Schardt, Executive Director, AIR

What gives shape to whatever is created in that realm is determined in large part by if you have a platform. The classroom is the platform. The manner in which they engage: there’s a wide range of possibilities. Is there a common platform? Build idea around whatever all of them are already engaged on. Simple survey. What’s the dominant. Do they do text massaging most, Facebook… ? Or do I create something. MQ2 projects were that model.

The key to activating any kind of network is some kind of call to action or assignment. The things that come to my mind is:

One is Miranda July did this really interesting social networking called Learning to Love You More. That was this participatory assignments and invited people to respond to these assignments that were… they were writing assignments, audio.

The other project that came out of AIR was http://www.jackstraw.org/radiolingual/ (ESL). (jackstraw came from Joan Rabinowitz/KRAB and is a gathering place for writers.)

AirMentoring: 4 hours (for members): focused project in mind. Emily Eagle, a principal on the Radio Lingual project