Instructor: Clay Shirky
Final Proposal: Part Five  

The Use of ITP Lockers In Replicating A Network: Final Results

Design a network, or describe an existing one, which involves some human input or use.
Identify the parameters along which your network can vary and report the results.

A: Attempt to foster dialogue between students by placing post-it notes with messages in various lockers as well as observing the movement within the network of the post-it-notes:
With the help and advice from Anne Hong and Pollie Barden, we attempted in setting up the last version of my network example using post-it-notes in studying the movement of these notes throughout the network and attempting to foster dialogue and conversation between students.

Reason: I believe that with the appropriate stimuli and the close physical proximity of lockers to each, creating conversations between students can be implemented to some degree. The success in maintaining this dialogue depends on the initial reason on why the student would want to respond, which we attempted to answer by placing either complimentary messages on the post-it-notes and questions or gifts. This in its own was acted as an incentive for the receiving student to respond, as well as the curiosity factor because the student was only informed of the sending locker number and not the identity of the student. Within each post-it-note, the receiving student was informed of a certain message or question, and with an invite to respond to this as well as the locker number from where it was sent. Now in all actuality, we basically randomly assigned from lockers numbers to the receiving student so that this would attempt to create some form of dialogue.

Initial Posts-It Note Pictures: I am observing that several of the post-it-notes have been moving so far and there are some dialogues that are being created by the version of my network, how long they will be maintained can only be observed over a certain period of time.



Initial Posts-It Note Pictures Response: Here are a few pictures of some the responses that students have wrote and I am attempting to keep track of them as they move back between the two points within the network. I have noticed that at least 60% of the initial post-it notes which were randomly placed on the lockers have not been moved and this can be caused by any of the following reasons, lack of use of the lockers, not clearly describing the actions the students should take after they receive the first post-it note, or the fact that its finals week and everyone might be to busy to participate. I will continue to keep track of the post-it notes network and update any progress on this section of my site.