Tips for Effective Facilitation « Ideas for Great Facilitation I am frequently asked what it takes to be an effective facilitator. It can look really easy if it’s done well. But, attempt it yourself and you may wonder why it looks so easy, but isn’t! Absolute clarity of what the work is that the group wants to accomplishPre-planning – creating a detailed process to facilitate the group through the meeting. That’s the basics behind effective facilitation. — Published by Cindy Diamond, Principal of Diamond Marketing Solutions & IGNiTE Like this: Like Loading...
Appreciative Inquiry - Problem Solving from MindTools Solving Problems by Looking at What's Going Right © iStockphoto/Yuri_Accurs Imagine that your organization's order book is full, and you're desperate to expand your business – but you just can't find the staff you need. What's worse, cash is tight, your recruitment budget is stretched to breaking point, and you strongly suspect that some of the approaches you're using just aren't working. One approach here is to focus on the things that aren't working, and think about how you can fix them. Another approach is to shift to a positive perspective, look at the things that are working, and build on them. This is the premise behind "Appreciative Inquiry", a method of problem solving that was pioneered by David Cooperrider of Case Western Reserve University in the mid 1980s. To understand the basis of Appreciative Inquiry it is useful to look at the meaning of the two words in context. Appreciation means to recognize and value the contributions or attributes of things and people around us. Tip 1:
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The 4-D Cycle How does the 4-D process work? An Appreciative Inquiry typically goes through the following four stages: Discover - Appreciating and valuing the best of What Is. Information and stories are gathered about what is working well. Dream - Envisioning What Might Be. How do we want things to be for the future? Design - Determining What Should Be. Deliver (or Destiny) - Innovating What Will Be. So what does this look like in practice? Appreciative Inquiry principles and practices are adapted and customized to each individual situation. The full process typically includes: Select a focus area or topic(s) of interest.
Change Management Blog: Change Model 1: The 4D Model (Appreciative Inquiry) Background: The 4-D Model is based on Appreciative Inquiry (AI) which is a larger framework for human or organizational change. Like AI itself, it is based on a shift in paradigms on human interaction. Alana Karran writes about the difference between problem and outcome orientation approaches:The other primary orientation is the Outcome Orientation, also known as the Collaborative-Creating Orientation. Creators of the Model:Suresh Srivastva, Ron Fry, and David Cooperrider, 1990 Phases of the Change Process: (taken from new-paradigm.co.uk)Discover—people talk to one another, often via structured interviews, to discover the times when the organisation is at its best. Dream—the dream phase is often run as a large group conference where people are encouraged to envision the organisation as if the peak moments discovered in the ‘discover’ phase were the norm rather than exceptional. Destiny—the final phase is to implement the changes. Does the Model Relate to Complexity Theory? Applicability:
JISC Press We’re very pleased to announce that JISC have agreed to fund JISCPress, a six-month, £32,500 project led by the University of Lincoln, in partnership with the Open University and based on WriteToReply. JISCPress will provide a scalable community platform for publishing and discussing project calls and final reports, in order to support the grant bidding and project dissemination processes. As you may know, WriteToReply is run in our spare time – lots of late nights and busy lunchtimes. Since launching the re-publication of the Digital Britain – Interim Report, we’ve been looking for ways to bring benefits from our work on WriteToReply, into the Higher Education community where we work. JISC fund much of the UK development and innovation in the use of ICT in teaching and research and in March, announced their Rapid Innovations funding call. Over on the JISCPress project blog, you’ll find links to a mailing list, wiki and code repository. Anyway, on with the project! Like this:
2010 the year ahead for IT in higher education « Wi-Fi at Cleveland Airport - A Smart Connected Community Strategy | Main | Google's $1b Gigabit Fiber to the Home Moon Shot » January 06, 2010 2010: The Year Ahead for IT in Higher Education What a difference a year makes. Most CIOs in higher education are turning their 2009 holiday stockings inside out looking for any extra crumbs that Kris Kringle might have left behind. For many technology leaders, the general fiscal crunch facing higher education – and the double digit percentage cuts to IT budgets it has compelled -- may have made playing the holiday Scrooge a piece of cake compared to the negative consequences to core IT services and offerings likely in the year ahead. To those living with the hopeful yet delusional strategy of an early return to the status quo ante, my suggestion is to get use to the so-called “new normal”. Finally, the new normal is reflected in the contrarian wisdom of the need to be more, not less, innovative, more creative, not more conventional. Lev,
What's your flavor? Compound Information Objects: The OAI-ORE Perspective This document is a work in progress of Open Archives Initiative - Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE). It was used as a discussion document in preparation of the May 2007 meeting of the ORE Technical Committee. Please send feedback to ore@openarchives.org. OAI-ORE is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The authors acknowledge the contributions of: OAI-ORE Technical Committee Les Carr, University of Southampton Tim DiLauro, Johns Hopkins University Leigh Dodds, Ingenta David Fulker, UCAR Tony Hammond, Nature Publishing Group Pete Johnston, Eduserv Foundation Richard Jones, Imperial College Peter Murray, OhioLINK Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University Ray Plante, NCSA and National Virtual Observatory Rob Sanderson, University of Liverpool Simeon Warner, Cornell University Jeff Young, OCLC OAI-ORE Liaison Group Figure 1 - A compound information object: identified aggregation of multiple components · URIs that identify
how to use yahoo pipes Integrating Netvibes, Pipes, AideRSS, Dapper for an intelligence dashboard digg_url = ‘ Earlier today, Sam shared his executive dashboard that keeps him on top of our market’s information flow. I thought I would share some of the more technical details about integrating Netvibes, Pipes, AideRSS, and Dapper to create his dashboard. A brief reintroduction to Yahoo! For those just joining this series, here’s the links to the previous posts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. A brief reintroduction to Yahoo! Welcome to the money making part of this series on Yahoo! A brief reintroduction to Yahoo! I started this series by providing a list of some different types of pipes. A brief reintroduction to Yahoo! In Part 1 of this series, I provided some examples of things you could do with Yahoo! A brief reintroduction to Yahoo! Recently, I was reintroduced to Yahoo!
REAP07: Student input to assessment design & strategy Are you involved in externally funded projects that require a web presence? Do you need a stand-alone website to link into www.strath.ac.uk? Do you need interactive tools such as discussion boards, online forms, content management, blogs, wikis, etc? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be interested in the Enhanced Web Development Service, set up to provide solutions for these needs. We will design and brand a new website for your project to your specification, with the tools and features you need. We will manage the hosting of the site on University servers providing ongoing maintenance throughout the lifetime of the project. All of this can be achieved within the University web framework, ensuring that your site will conform to the legal and administrative requirements for accessibility, data protection, branding etc.
How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe The only way to make sense of Israel's senseless war in Gaza is through understanding the historical context. Establishing the state of Israel in May 1948 involved a monumental injustice to the Palestinians. British officials bitterly resented American partisanship on behalf of the infant state. I write as someone who served loyally in the Israeli army in the mid-1960s and who has never questioned the legitimacy of the state of Israel within its pre-1967 borders. Four decades of Israeli control did incalculable damage to the economy of the Gaza Strip. Gaza is a classic case of colonial exploitation in the post-colonial era. In August 2005 a Likud government headed by Ariel Sharon staged a unilateral Israeli pullout from Gaza, withdrawing all 8,000 settlers and destroying the houses and farms they had left behind. The real purpose behind the move was to redraw unilaterally the borders of Greater Israel by incorporating the main settlement blocs on the West Bank to the state of Israel.
Creative Commons: What Every Self-Publisher Ought to Know — The Licensing of rights is at the center of the publishing business. Publishing contracts are rights licenses, nothing more or less. People who work in publishing, and who supply the publishing industry with its raw materials—the authors—become used to dealing with the expressions of creativity as valuable products with inherent rights. Opposed to the whole rights-as-property side of the equation is the public domain. Each of these opposing forces—strict licenses of intellectual property to enable monetezation, and the need for culture to have the fruits of its history available to build upon—has a role to play. A New Idea in Rights for the Twenty-First Century In 2002 Duke University founded its Center for the Study of the Public Domain. Both the incentives provided by intellectual property and the freedom provided by the public domain are crucial to the balance. Through the support of Duke’s Center, Creative Commons was formed soon thereafter. Explosive Growth Click to enlarge Resources
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