I really LOVE this drawing by Jeannel King – such a simple and elegant instruction that so many of us need to practice. You can see it on her Pinterest site (and more of her work) or on her blog. You can also subscribe to her excellent “good enough” drawing series. But I also felt compelled to draw the thing that actually seems to happen for people (including me) 🙂 Continue reading The Compliment
Dan Pontefract, author of Flat Earth: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization, was having a contest. It is over, so I won’t win a book, but I’m going to go buy his book anyway as I really like the way he is thinking about work and connections… and it gave me a chance to process some of what I was thinking about over the last weeks and last week in particular. The question he’s asking is “How do you define the word ‘work.’” I was in Toronto taking a refresher course in a planning method we use a … Continue reading What is the work?
“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.” Walt Whitman Dave Cormier, this week in part 4 of Rhizomatic Learning – The community is the curriculum, asks this question: Our connective technologies are, as many have said, a return to orality. It gives us the opportunity to connect our thoughts with others without them being finished, stale and objective. The medium of print, while practically useful for many reasons (particularly historically) encourages the opposite. Is books making us stupid? This took me by surprise and … Continue reading orality, drawing and literacy #rhizo14