Via GOOD comes today’s Monday Video called “Seed.” I picked this one for two reasons. First, it is a great visual explanation with creative use of stop animation and 3D paper-animation. Visual thinking in action.
Second, it is a reminder of a principle of online interaction: reciprocity. Our success with each other online depends not only upon our individual choices, but other bits and pieces, the “soil, rain, birds, humans, etc” that help the seed along might be the willingness of others to amplify (i.e. retweet) what we do or say, to connect us with others, the ability of software to facilitate the transactions. Each act influences another - but we have a lot of choice about how we reciprocate. While the passing of a seed through a human gut may not have a lot of intent, our willingness to share information, for example, does.
In other words, our online interactions are by necessity part of an ecosystem. While the individual may appear to have supremacy, this is a process that requires many players. How we choose to play is up to us. And that matters.
Talk about visual thinking - take a look at what Savannah College of Art and Design student Bang-yao Liu created. For a how to video, check here.
Seriously, as a facilitator, sticky notes are my FRIEND. Instant social network mapping tools, ways to augment any large visual or flip chart, and of course, the place to write that number or address to stick on a monitor, phone or steering wheel.
There are so many things that this video evoked for me. The traces of chalk brought to mind the traces that communities leave behind them and reification. It reminded me of conversations about digital identity - both its permenance and empheral nature. And of course, about the power of images. WOW!
Thanks to Lyra Halprin at the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at the University of Davis, I was able to see this amazing young artist at work. link.
This young man has an extraordinary ability to see. While we all don’t have his gift, we all can see. We can all notice. What are you noticing? What are you choosing to pay attention to?
If you are a facilitator, what are you trying to help people notice or attend to? What brings attention? Focus?
It took me a while to fully appreciate the work of Dave Snowden and his Cynefin framework, but now I find myself whipping out pencil and paper all the time to show it to others and use it in a variety of ways. So I was happy to see my pal Shawn Callahan’s nice little video giving a very clear explanation of the framework. Anecdote: A simple explanation of the Cynefin Framework
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