I’ve been trying to conceptualize what a creative, collaborative environment might look like. We need a way for people to work together within the boundaries of some virtual space and to collaborate on creating the artifacts and relationships that constitute “collaboration.”
Another voice in the “write to discover what I think” school of learning, Weblogg-Ed has a great post this week about blogging vs posting.
It’s a big difference for me, because I’m learning when I blog whereas I’m just collecting when I post … Blogging requires effort in ways that make it a valuable use of my time. I need to read and think and write, all the while testing my assumptions and editing what comes in and what goes out.
I left a full post over on Ubiquity about an interesting site called Blogshares. It’s a stock market simulation game that’s trading in real blogs. The interesting thing is the industry index that the players are constructing as part of the game play. Seeing it work reminded me of David Wiley’s issues with scalability and self-organization.
And it’s a darn interesting way to get people involved in building something that might be useful.
NL
In my recent podcast binge I ran across a series of recorded sessions from various conferences from around the country on a podcast known as IT-Conversations (http://www.itconversations.com) that included sessions from the Pop!Tech Conference in Camden, Maine, from Oct 21-23. Professor Richard Florida’s talk on the Creative Class (http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail232.html) — got me thinking about how we look at creativity and the energy that creativity requires and generates from the perspective of strategic planning.
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It’s catching.
I have to say, I’ve just listened to Will Richardson’s latest podcast (recorded while driving in a sleet storm?), and ya gotta love this technology. The potential for this stuff hasn’t even begun to be realized yet. Most of the podcasts are “radio shows” with commentary and, perhaps, music. Some of them are pretty awful, but then, some of them are pretty interesting. Now I do read Weblogg-Ed (along with about 45 other feeds and I’m struggling with the crosspost/overload issue), but it was very nice to be able to crank up the audio piece while I was washing the floor. There are LOTS of times in the day when I’m doing “something else” and would appreciate the input from a thoughtful piece like Will’s latest. That’s great for entertainment (maybe INFOtainment) but what about EDUCATION.
I keep thinking, “What would Bill Nye and Garrison Keeler cook up to teach social studies?”
Thanks, Will.
My friend and mentor up in Wyoming knows that I occasionally get off on a tanget. This week’s tangent is “podcasting” and the iPodder movement.
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How can we do this?
The discussion about the use of the list has outstripped the level of traffic that originally started the talk of re-purposing. Without getting into the who-said-what-when game, the division president has suggested that the list might be better served as a channel for promoting discussion rather than hosting it.
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