Note talking vs Note making

Gwen Gawith talks about note making not ‘note taking’. Some discussion of notes at Blogtalk Downunder. Most experienced and hardened bloggers (based on my informal research) have a notes system. Sort of thoughts in the incubator I guess, and these are electronic (in a system like tinderbox or more random) or on scraps of paper.

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Picassa, Audacity, Tinderbox and cMap

cMap: Mind Mapping Free for non-profit use (plus Learning management system called Leo) From the site: “The CmapTools program empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps. It allows users to, among many other features, construct their Cmaps in their personal computer, share them on servers (CmapServers) anywhere

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FLLinNZ Presentations

From Paul Left: “Professional development using a contextualised narrative approach”

How’s this for a simple model . . . Almost makes this seem easy, instead of a brain damaging activity.

Developing plans (with management) PD with staff (online and F2F) Assistance and support in resolving technical issues Mentoring and coaching

Wired with Wireless connectivity

Sometimes I’m a bit slow with new technology. I’ve now had a cell phone for a year, a laptop for five weeks and wireless for two weeks, which means two wired events..

Blogtalk Downunder was the first. Checking out a website being referred to, or in the case of Blogtalk, Googling all the many things

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Final Workshop: FLLinNZ

My FLLinNZ year is is nearly over. This week is the end of year workshop and presentations from each of the 15 FLLinNZers. Some highlights . . .

Merrolee. Dunedin Poly. Communities of Inquiry – not a private journery, Learning ‘with’ not ‘from’. I was interested in her connectedness with the Occupational Therapists who are

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FLLinNZ Leadership Quotes

(From Stephen’s FLLinNZ presentation) Leadership:

Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other” (Stephen Harlow)

A leader is anyone who wants to help (Meg Wheatley)

The key to leadership is effective communication of Stories (Peter Senge) (Helen Barretts digital story telling links)

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Story Telling

Stephen Harlow: Stories

“The key to leadership is effective communication of Stories” (Peter Senge) “Story telling is probably a brain obsession” (Antonio Demazzio) (We all do it) “Everything I can remember from school was wrapped around a story” (Stephen H) Story: “Crisis, climax, relief” ( – the male orgasm curve – Douglas Rushkoff) Steve Denning:

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