This was the BETA conversation that started this whole Collaborative Human project. This is the rawest form of the idea and still provides most of the inspiration that drives the curricula currently being developed. Enjoy.
A series of talks I gave sponsored by the Yahoo! Developer Network, in London and Berlin, reviewing the history of UX design patterns and delving into the social design patterns project, isolating 5 principles, 96 patterns, and 5 anti-patterns
Free eBook - Beyond Fun: Serious Games and MediaAyman Sarhan
This book focuses on strategies for applying games, simulations and interactive experiences in learning contexts. The contributors orchestrated this collection together, reading and writing as a whole so that concepts resonate across articles. Throughout, the promises and problems of implementing games and media in learning experiences are explored.
A series of talks I gave sponsored by the Yahoo! Developer Network, in London and Berlin, reviewing the history of UX design patterns and delving into the social design patterns project, isolating 5 principles, 96 patterns, and 5 anti-patterns
Free eBook - Beyond Fun: Serious Games and MediaAyman Sarhan
This book focuses on strategies for applying games, simulations and interactive experiences in learning contexts. The contributors orchestrated this collection together, reading and writing as a whole so that concepts resonate across articles. Throughout, the promises and problems of implementing games and media in learning experiences are explored.
Designing Guest Experiences to Take Advantage of Social Media (NOV 2010)Dave Cobb
David Cobb, Sr. Creative Director from Thinkwell Group, led a discussion at IAAPA Expo 2010 about the burgeoning use of social media tools in themed-entertainment environments. Guest panelists included Susan Bonds (42 Entertainment), Greg Maletic (Wishing Stars app), Jeff Voris (Disney Parks & Resorts Online) & Gabe Zichermannn (Gamification Co.).
Designing Structure Part II: Information ArchtectureChristina Wodtke
Part two on Designing Structure for my General Assembly class on User Experience is about Information Architecture. We cover why classification is important, types of classification and trends in IA.
OMG The Backfire Effect: How do we win when facts don't work?Brian Fitzgerald
An ignite presentation given at the E-Campaigning Forum in Oxford 2017 on a psychological quirk that every activist should know about. Includes a short reading list at the end on behavioural economics and persuasion science. We on the progressive left often express shock at how climate deniers can ignore science: we shouldn't ignore the science of persuasion when it tells us we're campaigning incorrectly.
This is a talk given to my class on User Experience by Jen Ruffner, a Product Manager on the art of optimization.
It is critical for modern designers, product managers and start-up folks ot understand how to think about designing and executing tests.
In this PowerPoint presentation the idea that project managers should embrace beta progam participation for their organization with products that are essential for the viablity of the organization is proposed. Rationale, methods and case studies are provided.
Designing Guest Experiences to Take Advantage of Social Media (NOV 2010)Dave Cobb
David Cobb, Sr. Creative Director from Thinkwell Group, led a discussion at IAAPA Expo 2010 about the burgeoning use of social media tools in themed-entertainment environments. Guest panelists included Susan Bonds (42 Entertainment), Greg Maletic (Wishing Stars app), Jeff Voris (Disney Parks & Resorts Online) & Gabe Zichermannn (Gamification Co.).
Designing Structure Part II: Information ArchtectureChristina Wodtke
Part two on Designing Structure for my General Assembly class on User Experience is about Information Architecture. We cover why classification is important, types of classification and trends in IA.
OMG The Backfire Effect: How do we win when facts don't work?Brian Fitzgerald
An ignite presentation given at the E-Campaigning Forum in Oxford 2017 on a psychological quirk that every activist should know about. Includes a short reading list at the end on behavioural economics and persuasion science. We on the progressive left often express shock at how climate deniers can ignore science: we shouldn't ignore the science of persuasion when it tells us we're campaigning incorrectly.
This is a talk given to my class on User Experience by Jen Ruffner, a Product Manager on the art of optimization.
It is critical for modern designers, product managers and start-up folks ot understand how to think about designing and executing tests.
In this PowerPoint presentation the idea that project managers should embrace beta progam participation for their organization with products that are essential for the viablity of the organization is proposed. Rationale, methods and case studies are provided.
Community Hacking Talk: Cracking The Code to Vibrant CommunitiesLaís de Oliveira
This talk is a preview of the book being published as blog at www.hackingcommunities.com
Topic: Community building.
Communities have the power to move crowds.
Building communities matters if you are in business, looking to grow a loyal customers base, build better teams or become an industry leader.
It also matters if you are a real estate developer trying to move people into your new township, an astrophysicist looking to validate a theory or a single mother looking for homeschooling advice. If you’re doing anything that adds value to the world, you need people around it. You need a community.
What if you could own the process of design, engineering, and creation of your community?
Why Hacking Communities?
It means to "crack the community code," bringing in practical steps based on experience and incorporating new, live and changing practices from the online to the offline world.
Communities are the first and most important level of human organization. We are wired to belong because that's how we survived and excelled as a species. Language, as a result of constant interaction between people, allowed us to harness the energy of ideas into action Communities powered the first form of entrepreneurship and every revolutionary moment in history started from a belief turned into reality by many individuals who spread that abstract idea.
Every person intuitively knows how to build communities but, in the last 20 years, we have rearranged ourselves thanks to technology.
Mobility and connectivity have changed the way we interact, consume and go to places.
What's next?
We need better communities suited to our new world.
Questions: What differentiates it from marketing? How is it different from any random gathering, from a small group to crowd? How are events different from your SEO strategy? What line separates your regular clients from a community?
The purpose of this book/blog is to answer these questions. This project is the result of a series of conversations with people who have been building real communities around the world.
We hope you enjoy and join the conversation. :)
Pamela Rutledge: The Wired Child - Impact of Social TechnologiesPamela Rutledge
Lecture given at the American Museum of Natural History as part of their series on "The Wired Child: The Impact of Technology on the Brain."
The focus was on the positive psychology of social technologies and how that influences the sense of individual and collective agency and self-efficacy.
Collaboration…what does it really mean? Good collaboration happens when people are working well together, and where creativity and innovation is fostered. Here, I share key principles for collaborative relationships and leading a collaborative organization, along with insights into the makeup of innovative teams.
This is an assignment I had for a communications course, the topic I chose was virtual communities and the online world. It was a really interesting topic to research and present a report on.
What is the most effective way to create a motivating shared vision, and put legs to it? This webinar is for people who want to build productive and unified teams, without having to pull rank, nag, gang up against, or bribe anyone.
Judith will offer an overview of concepts along with several specific tools you can immediately use to promote dialogue and engagement among groups of stakeholders, such as staff, clients and volunteers.
This webinar will empower you to empower the groups you work with.
Workshop: Community Hacking (Johor, January 2018)Laís de Oliveira
How to bring people together around a product, place or idea.
Learn concepts from customer development, lean branding, and content design to build a raving community of users and build a strong team.
Communities have the power to move people. What if you could identify and gather all the people who genuinely care about what you’re doing?
It is relevant if you are in business, looking to grow a loyal customers base, build better teams or become an industry leader.
It also matters if you are an astrophysicist looking for validation to your equations or a real estate developer trying to move people into your new township, it doesn’t matter. It doesn't matter if you’re a lonely activist, a poet craving for readers or a single mother looking for homeschooling advice.
If you’re doing anything that adds value to the world, you need people around it. You need a community.
What if you could own the process of design, engineering, and creation of your community?
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
10. Competition has
afforded us great
freedom. Why would
we change that?
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11. “I want an America for
all Americans, not just
for me.”
CHANGE
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12. “I am comfortable
with my level of
consumption.”
Why
CHANGE ?
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13. “What has to be judged is
[a new mass movement’s]
corporate organization
for quick and total
absorption of the
frustrated.”
Eric Hoffer
“The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”
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14. "Faith in [their] holy cause
is to a considerable
extent a substitute for
lost faith in
[themselves].”
Eric Hoffer
“The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”
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17. No living organism has
ever built a non-zero
sum based civilization
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18. ENVIRONMENT
precedent, reputation, political climate
MEMBERSHIP
respect & trust, diversity, self-interest, compromise
PROCESS & STRUCTURE
stake, layers,flexibility, roles, adaptability, pace
COMMUNICATION
open & frequent, formal & informal
PURPOSE
goals, vision, unique purpose
RESOURCES
funding & leadership
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19. Were you born with it or
is it that you just don’t
know any different?
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20. “We hold these truths to
be self evident, that all
men are created equal…
…with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty
and the pursuit of Happiness.”
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28. Strong leaders
Clear judgment system
Common goal
Common purpose
Diverse community
Open and frequent communication
Formal and informal community
Make you part of the process
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29. ENVIRONMENT
precedent, reputation, political climate
MEMBERSHIP
respect & trust, diversity, self-interest, compromise
PROCESS & STRUCTURE
stake, layers,flexibility, roles, adaptability, pace
COMMUNICATION
open & frequent, formal & informal
PURPOSE
goals, vision, unique purpose
RESOURCES
funding & leadership
collaborativegene@gmail.com
30. Technology vs. Community
Fellowship between 6 Billion
people is an inconceivable
and uncharted challenge.
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32. “Empathy” is embedded in
the oldest part of the brain,
back where we share traits
with some of the most
generous primates.
Dr. Frans De Waal
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society"
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55. Kurzweil Predictions
2018 10 Terabits (1013 bits) of computer memory roughly the equivalent of the memory space in
a single human brain--will cost $1000. 2020 Personal computers will have the same processing
power as human brains. 2020 By the later part of this decade, virtual reality will be so high-quality
that it will be indistinguishable from reality. 2030 Mind uploading becomes possible.
Nanomachines could be directly inserted into the brain and could interact with brain cells to
totally control incoming and outgoing signals. As a result, truly full-immersion virtual reality could
be generated without the need for any external equipment. Afferent nerve pathways could be
blocked, totally canceling out the "real" world and leaving the user with only the desired virtual
experience.Using brain nanobots, recorded or real-time brain transmissions of a person's daily life
known as "experience beamers" will be available for other people to remotely experience. This is
very similar to how the characters in Being John Malkovich were able to enter the mind of
Malkovich and see the world through his eyes.Recreational uses aside, nanomachines in peoples'
brains will allow them to greatly expand their cognitive, memory and sensory capabilities, to
directly interface with computers, and to "telepathically" communicate with other, similarly
augmented humans via wireless networks. 2040 There will be social splitting into different levels
of use of reality argumentation, from those who want to live in a life of imagined harems, or those
who dedicate their thoughts to philosophical extension. Human society will drift apart in its focus,
but with ever increasing capabilities to make imagined things occur.
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56. Kurzweil Predictions
2045: The Singularity $1000 buys a computer a billion times more powerful than the human brain.
This means that average and even low-end computers are hugely smarter than even highly
intelligent, un-enhanced humans.The Singularity occurs as artificial intelligences surpass human
beings as the smartest and most capable life forms on the Earth. Technological development is
taken over by the machines, who can think, act and communicate so quickly that normal humans
cannot even comprehend what is going on; thus the machines, acting in concert with those humans
who have evolved into post-biological cyborgs, achieve effective world domination. The machines
enter into a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, with each new generation of A.I.s
appearing faster and faster. From this point onwards, technological advancement is explosive,
under the control of the machines, and thus cannot be accurately predicted.The Singularity is an
extremely disruptive, world-altering event that forever changes the course of human history. The
extermination of humanity by violent machines is unlikely (though not impossible) because sharp
distinctions between man and machine will no longer exist thanks to the existence of cybernetically
enhanced humans and uploaded humans.
Post-2045: "Waking up" From this moment onwards, computers can only be made more powerful if
they are made larger in size.Because of this, A.I.s convert more and more of the Earth's matter into
engineered, computational substrate capable of supporting more A.I.s. until the whole Earth is one,
gigantic computer (but some areas will remain set aside as nature preserves).At this point, the only
possible way to increase the intelligence of the machines any farther is to begin converting all of the
matter in the universe into similar massive computers. A.I.s radiate out into space in all directions
from the Earth, breaking down whole planets, moons and meteoroids and reassembling them into
giant computers. This, in effect, "wakes up" the universe as all the inanimate "dumb" matter (rocks,
dust, gases, etc.) is converted into structured matter capable of supporting life (albeit synthetic
life).Kurzweil predicts that machines will have the ability to make planet-sized computers by 2099,
which underscores how enormously technology will advance after the Singularity.The process of
"waking up" the universe will be complete as early as 2199.
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