Field Building: Digital Media and Learning

Thursday, 27 September 2007, 13:02 | Category : Field Building, Social Change
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This summer I discussed field building with Ben Stokes. He works in the Digital Media and Learning program at the MacArthur Foundation. In this post, I will insert both what he shared with me and my additions and interpretations. He talked about how field building often incorporates existing threads, weaving them together. For example, games, [...]

Play, Persuasion, and Field Building

Monday, 24 September 2007, 19:22 | Category : Field Building, Leadership
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Recently, I was searching the internet for this unusual thing called Field Building. And I found some gems. Included in that is a section I pasted below from the Digial Arts Studio, which I found useful in that list of concrete things sort of way.
But today I am wondering, great, all this sounds rather cold [...]

A guide to visitors (on tv)

Monday, 24 September 2007, 7:51 | Category : Art and Creativity
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well now, that seems a little confusing.
I went to college with this brilliant, funny, playful woman, Jeannie Yandel. We were the two “Jean’s” in a Feminist Theater class. Smirk.

Now she works in NPR out in Seattle (KUOW). And she, with some other friends, created a story-telling stage show, A Guide to Visitors. Curated real stories [...]

Gratitude and Net Neutrality

Saturday, 22 September 2007, 12:50 | Category : Philanthropy, Social Change, Technology
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How appropriate for One Web Day! Gratitude for the internet we have and concern for the freedom we enjoy.
Lucy posted a terrific post on why net neutrality matters, with help from one of my favorite mags (which is so good at visuals) GOOD. Copied below. Keep an eye on Savetheinternet for ways to help!
And yes, [...]

One Web Day!

Friday, 21 September 2007, 8:23 | Category : Social Change, Technology
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I love a good celebration, especially for things we so easily take for granted because they surround our life so completely.

What will you do to celebrate?
I plan to email and blog my gratitude for the internet. And then spend the following day fasting from the internet to remind me how lucky I am to have [...]