Where a decision-lab meets learning space May 18, 2009
Posted by Angelo in Design, Education, Networking.Tags: decision-lab, Deirdre Hahn, Educause, George Basile, Kip Hodges, Yushim Kim
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What does an intelligent use of information technology look like?
We are proud to have been featured by Educause, for how we employ technology toward a creative learning environment. Educause is a non-profit association, with a highly resourceful web site that features research initiatives, networking and learning opportunities in similar creative learning spaces.
Check the video submission here, which is also now on YouTube.
As Dr. Deirdre Hahn explains:
“we offer something more here than what students can get in a traditional classroom.We have an interactive, experiential, very dynamic environment…it’s a safe space that shuts off external distractions.”
Building maps, finding connections March 1, 2009
Posted by Angelo in Arizona State University, Collaboration, Energy & Climate, Events, Networking, Visualization.1 comment so far
As any geographer will tell you, mapping is a rich territory, cross-cutting many other sciences not just for showing where things are, but revealing vital connections.
At the Decision Theater, we draw on interactive maps for many of our projects. Geo-spatial mapping sheds light on growth and expansion issues. We used a mapping tool just last week for the pandemic ‘flu exercise, to give participants a sense of what a disease spread would look like on a city-by-city basis.
But mapping can be put to a variety of uses. Arizona State University was just selected to conduct a different type of mapping, selected as one of seven universities to receive a Minerva award for a research project titled “Finding Allies for the War of Words: Mapping the Diffusion and Influence of Counter-Radical Muslim Discourse.” And the Mars space program at ASU has several ways of mapping the surface of the planet, as the image above shows. Check them out!
A few other good maps:
- FEMA maps areas in every state and US territories that are at risk of flooding
- USGS maps geographic boundaries and transportation networks
- NOAA maps flood risk
- BBC has a good interactive map of bird flu spread and human mortality
Social network for decison makers February 26, 2008
Posted by Angelo in Collaboration, Networking.Tags: Innocentive, Kluster, TED
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It’s YASN –Yet Another Social Network. It’s called Kluster (“collaborate and decide.”)
But this one caught my interest not only because it’s in the realm of decision making, but because it’s more about productivity and collaboration, and less about befriending people.
Besides sounding flaky (“What is our business model? don’t worry we are not like the others… we actually have one, we promise.”) they have thought the process through with “phases” (that are deliverables,) “sparks,” (solutions and ideas) and “amps” which refine the imperfect sparks. The network has its own currency, measured (or rather awarded) in “watts.”
Will Kluster be a lot different from, say, Innocentive, the “open innovation” community? Today is a defining moment, since Kluster is officially launching the company at the TED conference.
