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One Lesson in Creating Change that I Should Have Learned a Long Time Ago

One Lesson in Creating Change that I Should Have Learned a Long Time Ago

This is a graphic that I created several years ago to visualize my 20+ year effort to change the world for kids living in high poverty areas of Chicago and other cities.

I’m now 71 and looking for younger leaders to take on this work, and wrote a couple of “do over” articles on the Tutor/Mentor blog, sharing this goal.

I’ve not had nearly the impact that I  had hoped to have, for many reasons,…

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Joining in on #digciz discussion

Joining in on #digciz discussion

On May 31 I posted an article on the Tutor/Mentor blog about a Digital Citizenship conversation that would be taking place throughout June, using the hashtag #digciz.  In the weeks since then my #clmooc friend, Terry Elliott has written a series of articles questioning the hospitality of the #digciz group, and others like it.

This graphic is from an articleTerry titled “The Inhospitable nature…

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Mapping Connections using SNA tools

Mapping Connections using SNA tools

Over the past week many of the participants of the Collaborative Curiosity MOOC have been writing blog articles reflecting on the TAGSExplorer feature, which tracks participation around the #curiouscolab hashtag.  I created my own visualization, showing @tutormentorteam among many participants who were active on Twitter.

I’ve been interested in network analysis for the past 10 years because of my…

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Supporting Communities of Purpose

Supporting Communities of Purpose

The image above was created by an intern from Hong Kong in the summer of 2007, based on the information in this pdf presentation. In 2011 an intern from South Korea updated the first animation, and added a voice-track. See it here.

I’ve used the “figure eight” concept often since the 1990s to show the role of intermediaries in helping people with the ability to help (time, talent, dollars, ideas,…

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Ideas for Network-Building

Today’s #curiouscolab chat is focusing on building collaborative partnerships. To me this is “network building”.

It’s something I’ve focused on for almost two decades, but have not been nearly as successful in the actual application.

On the Tutor/Mentor blog I count 171 articles since 2005 that are tagged “network building”.  Here’s one from last August.

Here’s another from 2009, where I quote Va…

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