Using online sources to network, knowledge-outreach, publicize content, collaborate and innovate Collecting, managing, and interpreting multimedia and online data and/or content Appreciating the complex ethics surrounding online practices Engaging successfully in an “Innovation Challenge,” an exercise in simultaneous multi-user, real-time distance collaboration, on deadline Developing a diversity of writing styles and modes of communication to best reach, address, and accommodate multiple audiences across multiple online platforms Demonstrating technical and media skills: Web video, WordPress, blogging, Google Docs, Livechat, Twitter, Facebook Groups, Wikipedia editing Participating successfully in peer leadership (without an authority figure as the leader to police, guide, or protect the collaborators), peer assessment, peer self-evaluation; making contributions to a group on a coherent and innovative project Cultivating strategies for managing the line between personal and professional life in visible, online communities Understanding how to transform complicated ideas and gut reactions about technology into flexible technology policy Learning how to champion the importance of the open Web and ‘Net Neutrality Collaborating across disciplines, working with people from different backgrounds and fields, including across liberal arts and engineering Understanding the complexity of copyright and intellectual property and the relationship between “open source” and “profitability” or “sustainability” Excelling in collaborative online publishing skills and expertise, from conception to execution to implementation to dissemination Incorporating technology efficiently and wisely into a specific classroom or work environment Leading peers in discussing the implications and ethics of intellectual collaborative discourse and engagement online and beyond Using the superior expertise of a peer to extend my own knowledge