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Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration

Dale Arseneaultin kautta löytyi tämä helmi.

Howard Rheingold on kirjailija, kuvataiteilija ja teoreetikko, joka on tunnustettu tietoverkkoja hyväksikäyttävien, avointen yhteisöjen muodostajana.

Tässä esityksessä hän puhuu paitsi yhteistyöstä, yhteisöllisyydestä ja osallistumisesta, myös siitä, miten tuo yhteistyö on kehittynyt tuhansien vuosien saatossa niistä ajoista kun ihmiskunta metsästi mastodontteja.

Tämä 20 minuuttinen antaa myös erittäin mielenkiintoisen näkökulman yhteistyöhön taloudellisen ajattelun kautta: ihmiskunnan taloushistoria 20 minuutissa.

Kannattaa kuunnella.

links for 2008-01-01

• eLearn: Feature Article
  E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea—the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven—to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's the core to numerous busi
  (tags: web2.0 learning)
• PLEs - 2006 - JITT
  This page and other PLE pages in this wiki (reach them from Personal Learning Environments) have been constructed and are maintained by Mark van Harmelen. Feedback and suggestions for additions are most welcome. Contact Mark as mark -a-t- cs . man . ac .
  (tags: PLE learning)

links for 2007-12-30

• DVC Learning Style Survey for College
  This DVC online guide is designed to help you become a more successful student. It includes a Learning Style Survey that will help you identify your learning style. It also includes learning strategies that will help you study in a productive manner..
  (tags: learning PKM)
• Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
  Two central issues in the undergraduate curriculum are the disjoined relationship between general education and the majors, and the coherence of a technology integration model. The framework of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) has been developed by...
  (tags: learning PKM)
• Knowledge-at-work: Personal learning
  My thoughts around learning have been profoundly altered by reading Wenger, Brown & Duguid and von Krogh and focus on collective workplace practices.
  (tags: knowledge learning PKM)
• The Four Learning Styles in the DVC Survey
  Learning styles and related learning strategies explained.
  (tags: learning PKM)
• Personal Knowledge Management With delicious
  I switched to delicious several months ago as my personal bookmarking tool. It’s a great Web 2.0 service that solves several previously intractable problems. I grew tired of having my bookmarks scattered across multiple browsers on multiple...
  (tags: PKM KM del.icio.us collaboration learning)
• Scientific American: The Expert Mind
  But how do the experts in these various subjects acquire their extraordinary skills? How much can be credited to innate talent and how much to intensive training? Psychologists have sought answers in studies of chess masters.
  (tags: knowledge learning)
• Nonaka SECI
  According to Professor Ikujiro Nonaka, knowledge creation is a spiraling process of interactions between explicit and tacit knowledge. The interactions between the explicit and tacit knowledge lead to the creation of new knowledge.
  (tags: tacit KM learning)
• Trends in the Living Networks: The characteristics of high-performance personal networks
  Research has consistently shown that high-performers – in terms of both career success and contribution to their organizations – have personal networks that are different from others. Observing people’s personal networks is one of the best ways to..
  (tags: networking pkm KM learning)
• Knowledge Jolt with Jack: Revisiting my PKM
  Tools remain fairly much the same: Outlook, Firefox, desktop search, PersonalBrain, ActiveWords, news aggregator, etc. Read below the fold, if you are curious about the details.
  (tags: pkm KM learning)
• My Personal Learning Environment
  Lately I've been fascinated by the concept of personal learning environments. As an instructional designer and trainer, I've spent a lot of time trying to develop learning experiences for other people. But through my own personal experiences with Web 2.0.
  (tags: learning pkm KM)
• Reorganizing My Personal Learning Environment
  One of the benefits of writing about my personal learning environment was that it forced me to rethink a few of the things I've been doing. If I hadn't reflected on it, though, I wouldn't have discovered the problems.
  (tags: pkm KM learning)
• growing changing learning creating: PLE's in context
  "Personal learning environments" has taken on the contagious quality of getting tagged with a meme like "why I blog?" In reading all the posts about PLE's in my RSS reader of late, I've gained some insights into a larger picture.
  (tags: PLE PKM learning)
• Reaching Nirvana in my Personal Learning Environment | Edugator Blog
  The flurry of recent posts over the last couple of days regarding Personal Learning Environments or personal learning environments - to be honest, I am sometimes a little lost with all the buzzwords - has made me think about how I learn and whether I am..
  (tags: learning PKM PLE)
• Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment : eLearning Technology
  A stepping stone to Enterprise 2.0 adoption is getting folks to manage their personal knowledge and adopt practices like blogging for personal knowledge management (PKM) and personal learning.
  (tags: PLE learning PKM)
• The Cultural Web - Aligning your organization's culture with strategy
  Whether you can define it or not, you know that culture exists. It's that ethereal something that hangs in the air and influences how work gets done, critically affects project success or failure, says who fits in and who doesn't, and..
  (tags: culture management)
• Blogging Inside or Outside the Corporate Firewall : eLearning Technology
  It was interesting to read this because when I was writing about a PLE really also supporting my work - I didn't think of it in the context of ownership of the work product. It is an interesting issue.
  (tags: learning PLE PKM)
• SpeechTechMag.com: Personal toolkit: A framework for personal knowledge management tools
  The point of this column is to explore personal tools that can automate, accelerate or augment human processes of individual knowledge work without being dependent on the technical or financial resources of a corporate IT department.
  (tags: PKM learning)
• Teamwork gets results
  Welcome to collaborative working. Forget cosy team huddles – you don't need to be able to see your colleagues to work with them. "The intranet is a powerful tool in our business," Macfarlane says.
  (tags: collaboration learning)

Typeface

Sillä on merkitystä, mitä sanotaan. Myös miten sen sanoo...

Personal Learning Environments

Alan J. Cann Leicesterin yliopistosta on uhrannut ajatuksia oppimisympäristöille. Oppiminen sinänsä nähdään osin sosiaalisena tapahtumana, mutta kuinka paljon todellista oppimista voidaan ohjata yksilön ulkopuolelta? Web 2.0 ilmiönä tarjoaa lukuisia mahdollisuuksia yksilölliseen tiedon keräämiseen, myllyttämiseen ja varastointiin, ja tähän aspektiin Alan pureutuu hyvässä esityksessään vertaillessaan käsitteitä Learning Management System (LMS) ja Personal Learning Environment (VLE).

Huom: tässä on ääniraita.

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Designing & Enabling Communities

Christina Wodtke käy läpi muutamia käsitteitä ja melko tehokkaasti. Kannattaa selata läpi ajatuksella.

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Onko mieli maassa?

Onko mieli maassa, tuntuuko siltä että mistään ei tule mitään ja että maailma murjoo? Tässä esimerkki siitä, miten voi käydä, kun uskoo unelmiinsa vaikka raajoja puuttuu...

Cognitive load theory

Nyt se on todistettu:

If you have ever wondered why your eyes start glazing over as you read those dot points on the screen, as the same words are being spoken, take heart in knowing there is a scientific explanation.

It is more difficult to process information if it is coming at you in the written and spoken form at the same time.

The Australian researchers who made the findings may have pronounced the death of the PowerPoint presentation.

Aiheesta kirjoittaa Sydney Morning Herald viitaten New South Walesin yliopiston tekemiin tutkimuksiin, joitten perusteella John Weller on luonut ns. cognitive load -teorian (josta lisää tässä).

"It is effective to speak to a diagram, because it presents information in a different form. But it is not effective to speak the same words that are written, because it is putting too much load on the mind and decreases your ability to understand what is being presented."

Kansainvälisen viestintätoimiston, Hill & Knowltonin, Brendan Hodgson tiivistää asian seuravasti:

[T]he combination of written text and spoken word is more hindrance than help in getting people to retain the messages you're trying to deliver. [...] So no more relying on "bullets" to serve as back-up for poor pitch preparation. Science has finally proven that it can be harmful to the health of your client - or prospective client - relationships.

Powerpointtia itseään ei kuitenkaan pidä mollata. Se on vain työkalu muiden joukossa, kyse on enemmänkin siitä kuinka sitä käytetään. Hyviä esimerkkejä sellaisesta käytöstä, joka keventää kognitiivista rasitetta löytyy Cliff Atkinsonilta ja Garr Reynoldsilta.

Garr Reynolds vertailee kahta erilaista tapaa tehdä presentaatiota, esittää visuaalisen tavan luoda slideshow ja tässä toisen sekä esittelee Steve Jobsin tavan.

Tiedon jakamisen työkaluja

Dave Pollard jakaa tietoa: tiedon jakamisen työkaluja:

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Strategia kontekstissa

Michael Watkins on laatinut hyvän esityksen siitä, mitä strategia oikeastaan on. Hän lähtee siitä, että asia on helpointa esittää kontekstissaan, seuraavasti:

Michael Watkins selittää asiaa seuraavasti:

In a nutshell, as illustrated below, mission is about what will be achieved; the value network is about with whom value will be created and captured; strategy is about how resources should be allocated to accomplish the mission in the context of the value network; and vision and incentives is about why people in the organization should feel motivated to perform at a high level. Together, the mission, the network, the strategy, and the vision define the strategic direction for a business. They provide the what, who, how, and why necessary to powerfully align action in complex organizations.

Hän lähtee siitä että edellä mainittujen neljän elementin on oltava sopusoinnussa ja tasapainossa keskenään, siten että esim. strategiaa ei voi luoda ja suunnitella ilman mission tai arvoverkon huomioonottamista.

Alkuperäinen teksti: Michael Watkins

Tiedon jakamisen periaatteet

Shawn Callahan (Anecdote) on laatinut luettelon tiedon jakamisen periaatteista:

• We will share what we know with our colleagues.
• We will take time to help our colleagues learn
• We will encourage open and rigorous dialogue, discuss and exploring assumptions, and speak our mind respectfully.
• We shall see if what we are about to embark on has been done before rather than create things from scratch.
• We will borrow ideas shamelessly (with attribution) and not suffer the ‘not invented here’ syndrome.
• We will take time to learn from our successes and failures.
• We will promote cooperation, trust and active participation in project teams, task forces and networks.
• We shall actively look outside our discipline in search of ideas, concepts and approaches that can be adapted and applied to meet our goals.
• We will recognise others for their intellectual effort and willingly share the kudos.

Ei hullumpi luettelo, eikä mitään rakettitiedettä, mutta miksi tiedon jakaminen on aina niin tuskaista?

Control vs. influence

Michael Hyatt vetää kohtuullisen kokoista kustantamoa, Thomas Nelson Publishers. Hän kirjoittaa hyvin mm. johtamisesta, ja artikkelissaan "Control vs. Influence" hän johdattelee lukijaa johtamaan omalla esimerkillä, sillä kontrollointi on itse asiassa mahdotonta.

Aspiring leaders would do well to stop focusing on control and figure out how to expand their influence. Here are four ways you can become a person of influence, no matter where you are in the organization [...]

ja paras näistä neljästä:

Appreciate the effort. At the end of the day, everyone is a volunteer. Yes, even the people who report to you. They have more options than you think. If you don’t appreciate them, someone else will. People want to give their best effort to those who notice. Time and time again, I have witnessed the power of a simple “thank you.” If this is true for those who report to you, it is even more true of those who don’t.

Kannattaa lukea koko juttu.

Leadership in 60 seconds

Tässä se on pähkinänkuoressa...

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1.000 years in a flash

An animation of a growing forest marking the passage of time.

Actually this is a brilliant concept of using forest actively to reshape various land areas. Just some of the possible sites a TiWalkMe-forest can be grown: Abandoned railways, brownfields, strip mines, canals, and decommissioned military bases.

 TiWalkMe

Hat tip: Treehugger

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