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ecology of knowledge | Ron Donaldson, knowledge ecologist, facilitating homo narrans towards an emergent Sustainocene future Earth Outreach Before You Begin In order to complete this tutorial, you will need some text, photo and video content to add to your tour. You can use your own text, photos and videos, or you can use the sample content provided by our friends at the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI). Tour_Builder_JGI_sample_content.zip (530k Zip file) Prerequisites To use Tour Builder and create your own tour, you will need a computer with internet access and ideally a web browser which supports the Google Earth Plugin. Click here for more information about the Google Earth Plugin and a list of platforms which currently support it. Let's Get Started! Access Tour Builder by pointing your browser at the URL below: In this section we’ll take a look at the home page and all of the things you can do with Tour Builder. Tour Builder Homepage The first page you will see is the Tour Builder homepage. Signing In Go ahead and sign in now! Collaborative editing Home button My Tours Shared Tours button Gallery button

Will Self: Are humans evolving beyond the need to tell stories? | Books A few years ago I gave a lecture in Oxford that was reprinted in the Guardian under the heading: “The novel is dead (this time it’s for real)”. In it I argued that the novel was losing its cultural centrality due to the digitisation of print: we are entering a new era, one with a radically different form of knowledge technology, and while those of us who have what Marshal McLuhan termed “Gutenberg minds” may find it hard to comprehend – such was our sense of the solidity of the literary world – without the necessity for the physical book itself, there’s no clear requirement for the art forms it gave rise to. I never actually argued that the novel was dead, nor that narrative itself was imperilled, yet whenever I discuss these matters with bookish folk they all exclaim: “But we need stories – people will always need stories.” As if that were an end to the matter. And there is something vicious about all that book learning, especially when it had to be done by rote.

Tutorial | Mapping Cinematographic Territories Adam’s Wall (director Michael MacKenzie, 2008) This tutorial is a step-by-step guide to help anyone map her own narrative through our AtlasCine application and share it with friends, family and colleagues (see examples here: A more detailed description of this application is also available in the following paper “How can we map stories? This application has been developed using a range of software (Open Source and Proprietary), including Google Drive. The first step is to duplicate the database template in order to develop your own database: The template is currently stored in our account and you will only be able to edit if you copy into your Google drive. 2. The size of this point will be defined by the column “time” (note: it is important to respect the format used for the time columns (HH:MM:SS). These placenames will be geolocalized based on the geographic coordinates entered in the sheet “data_location.” 1. =geocode(A2) 2. Like this:

Leadership, Connection and Power of Storytelling If the job of a leader is to take people to a better place, they first need to take people’s imagination to that better place. One of the biggest mistakes leaders make when communicating about the future is to show future in form of data, numbers and charts. They are good to capture the mind of people, but people will only endeavor to go there when their hearts are engaged. Storytelling has been one of the most powerful tools to drive imagination of people first before people decide to take actions towards the future. If you are a leader who is facilitating a large scale change or transformation effort, paint a compelling picture of the future before you show the data. In his classic HBR article titled “Telling Tales”, Steve Denning outlines seven aims of a good narrative. Here is a quick sketch note of seven aims of leadership storytelling: Additional Resources: Insights, Resources and Visual Notes on Leadership, Learning and Change!

Custom Google Maps Style Tool | Think Tank A tool for playing around with Google Maps colours and generating the styling code. The generated Google Maps code can be copied from the bottom of the page. Colours can be controlled with sliders below or by entering a hex value. Tags: api, custom, google maps, maps, styles Written by Myke Cook Mike is a web developer at Evoluted. Like this article? How Impact Businesses Use Storytelling to Build Movements An impact business or social enterprise is an entity that works to solve a social problem through humanitarian or economic intervention, and usually sustains itself by raising funds or by generating profit. It focuses on improving the status quo of specific disadvantaged sections of society by providing them sustainable livelihood opportunities, improving their access to basic facilities -- like education, health, energy -- or assisting with local crises. So what makes a dream like this work? More often than not, it's the burning desire of an organization's supporters to make a difference. Thus, social brands represent the human stories of fights, hopes, and triumphs. These stories form the pillars of the company's narrative. Types of Social Good Brands So What's The Story? That storytelling is the most effective way to convey a brand message is now a well-accepted concept: when told well, they move audiences in ways that facts and figures cannot. Catchy? charity: water DoSomething.org

Styling Google Maps Map Stylr is a new Google Maps API Styled Maps wizard that can help you create a unique style for your own Google Maps. Map Stylr includes the Styled Maps wizard and a showcase of styles created by users of the site. The Map Editor allows you to customize the presentation of the standard Google base maps, changing the visual display of such elements as roads, parks, and built-up areas. Instead of using the Map Editor tool you can use the Map Stylr 'showcase' to select from styles created by other map developers. If you find a style that you like in the showcase you can simply cut & paste the style JSON code into your own Google Maps creations. If you want a nice map style for your Google Map but don't want to go to the effort of creating your own unique style then you can find some great map styles on Snazzy Maps. Once you find a map style that you like you can click on its title and grab the style array. Designmodo has also created a nice Google Maps styled maps wizard.

Anthropology as Theoretical Storytelling [This essay is part of the Fall 2015 Savage Minds Writers’ Workshop series.] Anthropologists are storytellers. We tell stories: other’s stories, our own stories, stories about other’s stories. But when I think about anthropology and storytelling, I think also of something else, of anthropology as theoretical storytelling. What is anthropology as theoretical storytelling? As with many before me, in the field I found myself to be a recipient of stories. It was a dark and stormy night. It was a dark and stormy night. For real. When I sat down to write my dissertation and faced the question of where to start, my advisor Ann Laura Stoler gave me a piece of advice I now share with my graduate students: start with a story you know must be in there, one that can’t be left out. Anthropologists specialize in thick description. Storytelling’s theoretical powers are not neutral. In this current moment, our Zora-inspired “spy glasses of Anthropology” are focused on stories more than on information.

un outil de narration cartographique innovant ? Le récit de son espace vécu Il est possible de lier cette cartographie de l'espace vécu avec la notion d'habiter : prélèvement de données sur le terrain, vision de son propre espace de vie (avec une dimension subjective qui rejoint en partie la cartographie sensible). Le prélèvement de données sur le terrain peut se faire avec une application telle que Tactileo Map On peut utiliser également Oruxmaps Une piste de mise en oeuvre pédagogique : La rue Vui Bien, un hyper-lieu ? La mise en récit numérique du territoire : l'agence Urban Expé propose des pistes pour développer des expériences urbaines à créant des liens narratifs avec son territoire. Réaliser une carte sensible de son collège et représenter les zones jugées insécures. Venez découvrir le quartier Paris Rive Gauche. Chicago HomeStories Project : parti de Chicago, le projet encourage les citoyens du monde entier, par des marches civiques, à en savoir plus sur leur quartier. Le carnet ou le journal de voyageLe récit littéraire 2. 3. 4.

Let’s ditch the dangerous idea that life is a story ... ‘Each of us constructs and lives a “narrative”,’ wrote the British neurologist Oliver Sacks, ‘this narrative is us’. Likewise the American cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner: ‘Self is a perpetually rewritten story.’ And: ‘In the end, we become the autobiographical narratives by which we “tell about” our lives.’ Or a fellow American psychologist, Dan P McAdams: ‘We are all storytellers, and we are the stories we tell.’ And here’s the American moral philosopher J David Velleman: ‘We invent ourselves… but we really are the characters we invent.’ So say the narrativists. I think it’s false – false that everyone stories themselves, and false that it’s always a good thing. What exactly do they mean? Perhaps. Get Aeon straight to your inbox The tendency to attribute control to self is, as the American social psychologist Dan Wegner says, a personality trait, possessed by some and not others. I still doubt that this is true. various selves… make up our composite Self. The passage continues:

Circuit mondial de la noix de cajou Le porte-conteneurs, vecteur de la mondialisation.8- Que peut transporter un porte-conteneurs ?Découvrir l'un des plus gros porte-conteneurs du mondeQuelle est sa capacité en conteneurs ?9- Pourquoi peut-on dire que le conteneur est un élément principal de la mondialisation ? Quels sont ses avantages pour le transport ? Que permet-il de transporter ? Aidez-vous du texte du géographe A. Le porte-conteneurs, vecteur de la mondialisation.8- Que peut transporter un porte-conteneurs ? Storyboard That