Comments on: Ideas for Encouraging Collaboration and Creativity Part I: how to collaborate virtually http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/2009/12/ideas-for-encouraging-collaboration-and-creativity-part-ii-how-to-collaborate-virtually/ creativity, ideas and innovation Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:35:39 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Ideas for Encouraging Collaboration and Creativity Part II: how to brainstorm properly | Eat.Sleep.Teach. http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/2009/12/ideas-for-encouraging-collaboration-and-creativity-part-ii-how-to-collaborate-virtually/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Ideas for Encouraging Collaboration and Creativity Part II: how to brainstorm properly | Eat.Sleep.Teach. Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:56:03 +0000 http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/?p=258#comment-38 [...] We also mentioned a few ideas about brainstorming and collaborating online in this post: How to collaborate virtually. Here follows a set of ideas which we use to work and plan together on projects, books or workshops [...] [...] We also mentioned a few ideas about brainstorming and collaborating online in this post: How to collaborate virtually. Here follows a set of ideas which we use to work and plan together on projects, books or workshops [...]

]]> By: Thomas Tallis School http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/2009/12/ideas-for-encouraging-collaboration-and-creativity-part-ii-how-to-collaborate-virtually/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Thomas Tallis School Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:41:59 +0000 http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/?p=258#comment-27 We are using Tumblr (<a href="http://www.tumblr.com" rel="nofollow">www.tumblr.com</a>) to keep departmental blogs in our Visual, Media and Performing Arts faculties. We intend to use them as hubs for creative professional development, publishing examples of experiments with a variety of Web 2.0 tools. Students also seem to enjoy Tumblr. It's easy to set up, customisable and enables simple publishing by email. Several courses/classes now have their own Tumblr blog, including our experimental enquiry based learning course, Tallis Lab (<a href="http://www.tallislab.com" rel="nofollow">www.tallislab.com</a>). We are also using Google Docs successfully to aid collaboration. We publish departmental and faculty documents, share lesson plans, create lesson resources and collaborate with colleagues outside school. We have a Blogger blog for our staff/student creative learning action research group (<a href="http://creativetallis.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://creativetallis.blogspot.com</a>) where we share our experience of using a range of online resources. We really like using Wallwisher but Spaaze and Stixy are also interesting alternatives for virtual noticeboards. I think Twitcam has real potential. We recently used it to broadcast live from a sculpture project at a central London gallery. The artist we worked with has just contacted us to say that she was inspired to set up her own blog as a consequence of seeing the students working so naturally with new media. We are using Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com) to keep departmental blogs in our Visual, Media and Performing Arts faculties. We intend to use them as hubs for creative professional development, publishing examples of experiments with a variety of Web 2.0 tools. Students also seem to enjoy Tumblr. It's easy to set up, customisable and enables simple publishing by email. Several courses/classes now have their own Tumblr blog, including our experimental enquiry based learning course, Tallis Lab (http://www.tallislab.com). We are also using Google Docs successfully to aid collaboration. We publish departmental and faculty documents, share lesson plans, create lesson resources and collaborate with colleagues outside school. We have a Blogger blog for our staff/student creative learning action research group (http://creativetallis.blogspot.com) where we share our experience of using a range of online resources. We really like using Wallwisher but Spaaze and Stixy are also interesting alternatives for virtual noticeboards. I think Twitcam has real potential. We recently used it to broadcast live from a sculpture project at a central London gallery. The artist we worked with has just contacted us to say that she was inspired to set up her own blog as a consequence of seeing the students working so naturally with new media.

]]> By: Johannes http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/2009/12/ideas-for-encouraging-collaboration-and-creativity-part-ii-how-to-collaborate-virtually/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Johannes Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:24:49 +0000 http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/?p=258#comment-16 Thank you further suggestions and links Tony. Keep us informed how you get on with penzu : ) . I agree to an extent about your arguments for using blogs but if you persist then I feel that they can make a difference particularly if you schedule time to update it e.g. During Department or Team Meetings. <br><br>For info on TEEP training please see <a href="http://www.teep.org.uk" rel="nofollow">www.teep.org.uk</a> and for another post on this site: <a href="http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/tag/teep" rel="nofollow">www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/tag/teep</a> .<br><br>Typo, I meant to say PGCE ; ) Thank you further suggestions and links Tony. Keep us informed how you get on with penzu : ) . I agree to an extent about your arguments for using blogs but if you persist then I feel that they can make a difference particularly if you schedule time to update it e.g. During Department or Team Meetings.

For info on TEEP training please see http://www.teep.org.uk and for another post on this site: http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/tag/teep .

Typo, I meant to say PGCE ; )

]]> By: tony watt http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/2009/12/ideas-for-encouraging-collaboration-and-creativity-part-ii-how-to-collaborate-virtually/comment-page-1/#comment-15 tony watt Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:15:58 +0000 http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/?p=258#comment-15 Thanks for the speedy reply. I have been thinking about getting teachers to keep a reflective journal by blog but feel that they would not put in the time to make it worthwhile. I have recently found <a href="http://penzu.com/" rel="nofollow">http://penzu.com/</a> for keeping an online journal of CPD via Nik Peachey <a href="http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2009/10/creating-online-journal-for-cpd.html" rel="nofollow">http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2009/10/creating...</a> and am planning to try it out in the New Year. <br><br>I really like the idea of <a href="http://wallwisher.com" rel="nofollow">wallwisher.com</a> for post-training sharing of ideas and ti is much easier than keeping a blog going or asking people to keep logging in to a VLE. <br><br>Have you used <a href="http://cmap.ihmc.us/" rel="nofollow">http://cmap.ihmc.us/</a> for concept mapping? I think it is much more powerful than other mapping tools (e.g. can add hyperlinks, link to other mind maps, embed documents, etc) but requires a download...<br><br>Btw, what is TEEP and PGC training? Postgrad Certificate...? Thanks for the speedy reply. I have been thinking about getting teachers to keep a reflective journal by blog but feel that they would not put in the time to make it worthwhile. I have recently found http://penzu.com/ for keeping an online journal of CPD via Nik Peachey http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2009/10/creating... and am planning to try it out in the New Year.

I really like the idea of wallwisher.com for post-training sharing of ideas and ti is much easier than keeping a blog going or asking people to keep logging in to a VLE.

Have you used http://cmap.ihmc.us/ for concept mapping? I think it is much more powerful than other mapping tools (e.g. can add hyperlinks, link to other mind maps, embed documents, etc) but requires a download…

Btw, what is TEEP and PGC training? Postgrad Certificate…?

]]> By: How to brainstorm properly: mapping ideas successfully | Take the Plunge http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/2009/12/ideas-for-encouraging-collaboration-and-creativity-part-ii-how-to-collaborate-virtually/comment-page-1/#comment-17 How to brainstorm properly: mapping ideas successfully | Take the Plunge Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:14:21 +0000 http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/?p=258#comment-17 [...] We also mentioned a few ideas about brainstorming and collaborating online in this post: How to collaborate virtually. Here follows a set of ideas which we use to work and plan together on projects, books or workshops [...] [...] We also mentioned a few ideas about brainstorming and collaborating online in this post: How to collaborate virtually. Here follows a set of ideas which we use to work and plan together on projects, books or workshops [...]

]]> By: Johannes http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/2009/12/ideas-for-encouraging-collaboration-and-creativity-part-ii-how-to-collaborate-virtually/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Johannes Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:09:14 +0000 http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/?p=258#comment-14 Hi Tony,<br><br>Thank you for reading. We have used all of the suggestions mentioned in the post and they have worked on the continuum of well - excellent. I found working on a mutual blog somewhat time consuming in the beginning to get it up and running and perhaps not as easy as I had thought as people, in this case teachers, couldn't find the time to add their feedback at the start but this changed with time. An example of a successful collaboration using a combination of Drupal and a standard Blog can be found here: <a href="http://www.staffroomproject.com/?q=deliver-learning.html" rel="nofollow">www.staffroomproject.com/?q=deliver-learning.html</a> . Work completed on this website was later published please see: <a href="http://bit.ly/864CGI" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/864CGI</a> . We use collaborative Mind-Mapping, for example Mind-Meister (and to an extent <a href="http://Wallwisher.com" rel="nofollow">Wallwisher.com</a>) in TEEP and PGC training and find this tool superb to continue the discussion after having delivered training.<br> <br><br>Johannes Hi Tony,

Thank you for reading. We have used all of the suggestions mentioned in the post and they have worked on the continuum of well – excellent. I found working on a mutual blog somewhat time consuming in the beginning to get it up and running and perhaps not as easy as I had thought as people, in this case teachers, couldn't find the time to add their feedback at the start but this changed with time. An example of a successful collaboration using a combination of Drupal and a standard Blog can be found here: http://www.staffroomproject.com/?q=deliver-learning.html . Work completed on this website was later published please see: http://bit.ly/864CGI . We use collaborative Mind-Mapping, for example Mind-Meister (and to an extent Wallwisher.com) in TEEP and PGC training and find this tool superb to continue the discussion after having delivered training.

Johannes

]]> By: tony watt http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/2009/12/ideas-for-encouraging-collaboration-and-creativity-part-ii-how-to-collaborate-virtually/comment-page-1/#comment-13 tony watt Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:01:06 +0000 http://www.staffroomproject.com/taketheplunge/?p=258#comment-13 Do you have any feedback on using these? Any successful (or disastrous) projects? I have seen most of these too but not really put them to any meaningful use. <br><br>Tony Do you have any feedback on using these? Any successful (or disastrous) projects? I have seen most of these too but not really put them to any meaningful use.

Tony

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