On the IFVP LinkedIn discussion group there has been a hearty thread on online graphic recording. Some of us decided we wanted to play, so I hosted an short, hour long jam today using Elluminate. We played, drew and talked both about technology and process/practice.
Without spending any time reflecting and digesting, I thought it might be fun to simply share the link to the recording (ignore Fred Lakin and I rambling on at the end) and a few of the white board captures!
At a past NorthernVoice (2009), Rob Cottingham and I went “without a net” doing a live comedy/socialmedia/graphic recording mashup. It was crazy, exhilarating and “teh funny.” We did not plan it. I really had no idea what would happen. Well Rob and I are pairing up again at this year’s Social Media Camp in Victoria BC on June 3-4. And I have no idea what will happen, but I trust it will be ENERGETIC!
To give a sense of what the past brought, check out…
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The question this time is what do we do? Rob suggests we actually switch off the talking and drawing, which sounds fabulous, challenging and fun. What would you suggest we do?
Learn through seeing. Learn through doing. Obvious, but so easy to forget.
I’m still in serious work-avoidance mode for things that require the analytical part of my brain. Mostly I’m thinking about two graphic facilitation workshops I’ll be hosting in May (Pretoria, South Africa) and July (Rossland, BC) so I’m tapping into the fertile ideas of my network.
Via Facebook I learned it was Dave Gray’s birthday (hold all comments about birthdays in the social media era!), and of course I then visited his XPlane blog for visual goodness and found a post about a visual thinking practice session he held recently on building characters. Without words. Yeah! (Visuals at VTS Flickr Set) The group used an exercise from Ivan Brunetti shown in the YouTube video below.Simple. Elegant and I bet, effective (I am going to try it, but thought I’d get the blog post out first!)
I was particularly taken by the sequence Ivan suggested. Get the visual core, then build the context. I would not have thought about that order, but now that I’ve SEEN it, it makes total sense.
via YouTube – Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice, by Ivan Brunetti.
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On April 1st, amidst all that was going on in my family, I had the chance to step into a different “space” and participate in WeDialog’s first online world cafe on “community.” Since this was a “audio” online experience, I grabbed my pens to try and add a visual aspect for myself. Here are my images:
But hold on to your socks, because Amy Lenzo also recruited two of the BEST graphic facilitators to listen and scribe what they heard, Nancy Margulies and Susan Kelly.
. Here is some of the text from the WeDialog official harvest page:
“Conversations for the 21st Century” launched on Friday, April 1st, with more than 200 people participating in a three hour conversation on the topic of “Community for the 21st Century.” The series is a production ofweDialogue, the new partnership between Amy Lenzo and Ben Roberts, which was formed to offer online services for the World Café Community Foundation.
Participants came from around the world – the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, South Africa, India and Australia, responding to email invitations from the hosts, conversation starters, special guests Heartland Circle, the Powers of Place Initiative, Berkana Institute, and the Tamarack Institute, our sponsors the World Café Community Foundation, and a wide variety of friendly networks and a robust social media campaign using Facebook, Twitter and various other blogs and online communities. Over 550 people registered.
A 20 minute round-table of “conversation starters” (a term coined by Heartland in their Thought Leader Gatherings) – Peter Block, Maria Scordialos and Sarah Whiteley and Nancy White – set the context for the full World Café conversation that followed.
Together, the conversation starters offered a wide range of perspectives on what “community” means to them and the ways that they see it evolving as we create, in Peter Blocks’s words, “a future distinct from the past.”
There is a 22 minute audio file of the conversation starters’ words on the World Cafe community blog (for some reason the audio file wouldn’t embed here).
We were very fortunate to have experienced World Café graphic recorders Nancy Margulies and Susan Kelly with us – Nancy for the morning session and Susan Kelly throughout the whole day. Their gleanings from the conversation starters follow.
via Community for the 21st Century – The World Cafe Community.
I simply LOVE these harvests. Brilliant. And hosts Amy and Ben did a terrific job. I look forward to the next offering from WeDialog.
Jim Groom has launched an open learning experience (pick your jargony name as appropriate) on digital storytelling this week and I really want to play. The first suggested assignement is creating and posting a short intro video. Argh, I really don’t have time. I am really procrastinating, giving into the inertia of “well, if I don’t do it well enough, I won’t do it at all.”
To whinge a bit more, the fact is, the video is just a bit of the assignment. I’m supposed to fiddle and fidget with my blog infrastructure. Been there, done that and no, I don’t want my Twitter feed on the blog. Enough echoes, eh? I guess I’ll just have to find my appropriate level of resistance and rebellion, which is naturally triggered by Jim, um, ah, um, The Reverend and Performance Artist of the World (or something like that!) 🙂
Balderdash.
After seeing Brian Lamb’s, I felt fearless. For at least four clucking minutes.
This is the assignment:
By way of introduction tell us all a story about something that happened to you recently. It can be video, audio images, good old text, or any other tool you like. If you like restrictions, try and tell it quick (no more than 30 seconds in terms of audio or video—-extrapolate out from there for the other media).
via DS106 week 1: Introductions, webhosts, and a domain of your own « bavatuesdays.
There is a ton of material on the net about my digital life. So I picked something very local, very physical. So here is my intro video – giving a slice of my geo-life that most people don’t see. And of course, I failed the 30 second challenge. Lazy? Ya, you betcha.
