Comments on: Digital Habitats Community Orientation Spidergram Activity

By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:47:39 +0000

Thanks, Michael, and you are borrowing from a long lineage! I was first introduced to spidergrams from a friend and colleague who brought it from her Native American heritage and “the four directions.” And yes, the Wheel of Life. The key for me was the idea of a) visualization between elements and b) the concept of where things are and where they are headed, vs some “right or wrong” goal. Does that make sense?

Edit: forgot the last bit. The spidergram has been well received. Again, I think the visual stuff is POWERFUL, as you know with mind mapping.

By: iMindMap

iMindMap — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:21:01 +0000

Hi Nancy,

I love the Spidergram approach you have taken because it very quickly gives a visual indication of how things are. The shape of the wheel that is created can help people focus on areas much quicker than if this sort of method wasn’t used.

I am intrigued as to how the idea was first received and what the impact was once people embraced the concept.

Hope you don’t mind if I “borrow” the idea for a project of my own.

Regards

Michael

PS – Have you seen the “Wheel of Life” concept which has a similar process for reviewing where you are in different aspects of your life?

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:25:09 +0000

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Communities and coffee with Nancy White on 5 October — Mathemagenic — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:15:49 +0000

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By: Marnix Catteeuw

Marnix Catteeuw — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:09:20 +0000

this is the short URL, sorry

http://tinyurl.com/cjtjhp

marnix

By: Marnix Catteeuw

Marnix Catteeuw — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:07:27 +0000

Hi Nancy,

I used a similar tool to evaluate a CoP :

http://marnixcatteeuw.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B9C4E02838429A32!283.entry

cheers
marnix

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