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# Outline first session Reading The Virtual Community

- Welcome: short intro explaining we participated in Howard Rheingold's course about Augmented Collective Intelligence and that we wanted to extend that experience by reading relevant books. 
- Introduction participants
- Practical: affordances of the SMC, other tools. Hashtag for blog posts and social media. Also, asking the participants post the urls of blog posts on the [forum thread](https://smcforum.holocene.cc/t/where-we-read-the-virtual-community/107/3). 
- Explaining [the roles](http://augment1.holocene.cc/our-reading-virtual-community), use the whiteboard to put the teams together. 
- Short summary of the introduction, chapters 1 and 2. 
- How did YOU experience 1993 and the Net of that time. 
- The art scene of those times. 
- After each of those three parts, ask some questions to Howard. Open up the floor for reactions, questions. 
- Closing the session, inviting people to react on the forum, on blogs and to help out with the "active co-learning tasks". 
- (how to set up a newsletter)