Book Autopsies

I love this - it'a absolutely brilliant! Words and pictures don't get together enough.

Not just blogging that can changes the way we think

This Design Notes post by Michael Surtees really got me thinking again about how it's not only blogs but all forms of online post that change the way we approach writing...and as a result I'd also argue thinking.

http://designnotes.info/?p=1209

A Great Article on the value of learning technologies for writing

and I'm sure there are many many more examples and arguments. I want to find them all. i really feel that visuals and multimedia are forgetten about when it comes to writing. I want to change that in my own tiny way.

http://pdonline.ascd.org/pd_online/technology/el200410_yancey.html

Ideal 4: Tools for unlearning

I wish i hadn't learnt a lot of the things I learnt from school. Like the fact that when you're a kid you don't know much. School taught me so many bad habits that I now feel that I have to start unlearning. Having the tools available to manage my own unlearning? That would be great!

Mentoring

so I was saying - wouldn't it be great if we could all have a personal mentor.....

there's also a lot to be said for being a mentor.

Here's a possible solution: Horsesmouth.co.uk where you can find a mentor, be a mentor, publish and display wisdom......

Text Mapping

Sandra H introduced me to this textmapping technique and I think it's brilliant! I realise it's want I tend to do in my head but it takes about 5 readings to achieve......this would be an amazing way to speed up the process - I also wonder if there's a digital tool out there that might do something similiar..

It reminds me of embodied learning too _ i forget the guys name but it's about embodied understanding and looking at things from different perspectives - wonder if it would be possible to do this with, for instance, this blog and thoughts in general because sometimes I think the web can force you to approach the way you do things froma single angle. E.g. try to summarise an idea in three words, try to sumarise from someone else's perspective (might be even an inanimate object..), summarise as a drawing. I could really get into this.

Great looking powerpoint. Not always entirely sure what it's saying but it LOOKS like we agree.

Now I need to find a tool that allows me to add the text to the right or left of under the powerpoint so I can start uploading but also make my presentations "readable".