thinkery.me Diary 3 tableaux blancs sur le web pour dessiner en ligne Les tableaux blancs virtuels sur le web sont parfaits pour dessiner en ligne ou réaliser des séances de brainstorming collectives facilement. De nombreux outils existent sur le net. En voici une petite sélection personnelle de trois d’entre eux. Ils ont tous les trois la particularité d’être simples, gratuits et collaboratifs. AWW App. Sketchlot. Draw It Live. Voici pour ces trois outils de dessin collaboratifs simples et gratuits. Sur le même thème
An urban tale | close up … or the glass elevator This has been one of my favourite story-writing activities for a long, long time. My dad first introduced me to it – or the underlying technique – when I was running a creative writing option on a full-time language course in the UK. He led creative writing workshops for adults writing in their L1. I’d phone him up and ask to “borrow” ideas. This particular technique basically brings together a disparate group of people and somehow traps them and forces them to interact. This is fairly complex as a task. image by Wonderlane Here’s the basic lesson plan. 1 setting the scene Ask students to think of a large city that’s familiar to them. 2 visualisation Ask your students to place themselves in the picture you’ve described and take them through this short story: You have just left a room on one of the top floors of the building. Allow a few seconds of silence as everyone bumps to a halt with the lift. 3 character profiles Group students in 3s or 4s. 4 writing stage 1
GQueues - Manage tasks & to-do lists with your Google Account My tools 4 Principles of Information Architecture The way you organize content on your site does a number of things. It gives immediate clues to what your site is about, it helps people find the information they’re looking for, and it anticipates how people want to interact with that information. It can even help people process your information deeper and better. Beyond usability, information architecture has implications for search engines. Information architecture sits at the foundation of successful web design. Over the next few weeks I want to look at information architecture and how we can best organize our content so it’s more usable for visitors and so it helps instead of hinders your seo. 8 Principles of Information Architecture A few weeks ago I came across Eight Principles of Information Architecture (PDF) by Dan Brown in which he naturally enough shares 8 principles he follows when deciding how the content on a site should be organized. The Principle of Objects Many of you probably use WordPress. The Principle of Choices
Women's History Month (Library of Congress) TreeSheets A "hierarchical spreadsheet" that is a great replacement for spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, PIMs, text editors and small databases. Suitable for any kind of data organization, such as todo lists, calendars, project management, brainstorming, organizing ideas, planning, requirements gathering, presentation of information, etc. It's like a spreadsheet, immediately familiar, but much more suitable for complex data because it's hierarchical. It's like a mind mapper, but more organized and compact. It's like an outliner, but in more than one dimension. Have a quick look at what the application looks like on the screenshots page, see how easy it is to use in the tutorial, then give it a download (above). TreeSheets is exceptionally small & fast, so can sit in your system tray at all times: with several documents loaded representing the equivalent of almost 100 pages of text, it uses only 5MB of memory on Windows 7 (!) TreeSheets is free & open source.
Skloog Loomio - An Occupy-Inspired App That Helps Groups Make Actual Group Decisions If you've ever tried to make a tough decision with a group of people online, then you've most likely done one of two things. You may have had a discussion over email, in which case the conversation has gotten very messy and it becomes difficult to suss out exactly where everyone stands. Or, you could have tried a poll, which doesn't give the opportunity for re-working proposals based on feedback. Neither of these options really unleashes the creative power of individuals working collaboratively to solve a problem. And there are no existing online tools that really fit the bill. Loomio is an open-source app that allows people to propose their own solutions to questions raised by their community. If you participated in or paid any attention to the Occupy movement(s), you no doubt came across the hand signals used in the General Assemblies, those silly-looking but surprisingly effective gestures that quickly denoted how people are feeling about a topic of discussion.
280daily is quite possibly the future of consistent journaling and the easiest way to create a searchable archive of your life. It’s like a private Twitter where you have to sum up your daily activities in 280 characters or less. You can use it to write a journal, makes business notes or simply keep track of what you’ve been doing. Some features:
Set up an email notifications so you wouldn’t forget to write an entry each day
280daily is also optimized for mobile devices so you can easily write your entries while driving in bus, for example
Export your entries to PDF file to keep a local version of your notes
Graphical statistics. Keep track of your entries visually
Search. Quickly locate a day from your past by sergeykucherov Feb 27