Since early March I’ve been attending a basic improvisation class, led by Dave Morris, here in Victoria. It just wrapped up. I’ve spent a lot of my life relying on my left brain. Spending 2 hours a week with 15 others, largely in right brain mode, was something I figured I could handle! Plus, intuitively I […]
Collaboration insights gained through improv training with Dave Morris
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Grandmothers and Collaborative Learning
August 22, 2011 by · 2 Comments
[Note: I originally wrote this post, and had it posted a couple of months back, as a guest blogger on Lorie Vela’s excellent Collaboration Ideas blog. Thanks Lorie. With children shortly returning to school, and parents, and others, occupied by thoughts of “good learning”, I thought it might be timely to post it again, here.] […]
Self-organized teams of 4: The new model for learning?
September 26, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
I was floored by this recent TED talk by Sugata Mitra: Child-driven Education, all about the potential and power of self-organized learning. Its message has huge implications for learning, no matter the age. I got wind of this talk via Johnnie moore. Here’s the video Experimenting with education In 1999, Mitra and his colleagues […]
Shipped: Collaborative Maxims – Principles for working together in an organization
February 23, 2010 by · 5 Comments
A few weeks back, I passed my 1-year anniversary as a blogger. Knowing how important it is (so Seth Godin says in Linchpin) to ship, to execute, I thought I’d do some (humble) shipping of my own. Yesterday, I published an e-book Collaborative Maxims: Principles for working together in an organization (You can purchase the […]
Two books on workplace creativity and collaboration to help jumpstart your organization
February 16, 2010 by · 8 Comments
I recently finished a couple of excellent books about workplace collaboration, authored by people immersed in creativity and the arts. Amen! I found these two books complement each other nicely. The Collaborative Habit The first book is The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together. It’s written by Twyla Tharp, a leading and innovative American […]
