Archive for June 10th, 2009

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Jun
09

Sleep again!

By ahtimtim Leave a Comment
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“Let me sleep on it: Creative problem solving enhanced by REM sleep

June 8th, 2009

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Research led by a leading expert on the positive benefits of napping at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests that Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep enhances creative problem-solving. The findings may have important implications for how sleep, specifically REM sleep, fosters the formation of associative networks in the brain…”

Read more at http://www.physorg.com/news163700544.html

10
Jun
09

Comments on the BLOG

By JONO 2 Comments
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At the conclusion of IDEA 9106 for the semester, it might be worth seeking comments from all class participants on the role of the BLOG and opportunities for further development.

This is my personal SWOT analysis for what it is worth …

 

Strengths

  • provides a forum for collaboration
  • utilises the skill sets and experiences of the class group
  • provides a new experience for most of the class who have never actively participated in a BLOG before
  • allows the opportunity for ongoing interaction and feedback with Paul and the class group on many varied design topics outside of the limited class time
  • everyone has the ability view each others submissions and benefit from other opinions and points of view on the designerly acts
  • feedback comments on postings were well considered and beneficial to improving future submissions

 

Weaknesses

  • the appearance and functionality of the site was controlled by relatively few administrators. I appreciate you doing it New Pete don’t get me wrong, but I think an opportunity was missed to incorporate individually developed BLOGs into the course – see below
  • little opportunity for individuality or personal design considerations to reinforce the intent of postings
  • organisation of the BLOG was typically long lineal streams of text based information which feels at times somewhat 2 dimensional and self-referencing
  • navigation through the information not always intuitive
  • split of information between the Google Groups site and Word Press site

 

Opportunities

  • I am a firm believer that information received is made much more pertinent and is better retained if it can be put into practice at the time of receiving it. The BLOG process could have been an opportunity to put all thirteen Designerly Acts into immediate practice, with the act of creating a BLOG recorded and analysed in terms of the Designerly Acts. What better way to consider ‘researching’, ‘exploring’, ‘modelling’, ‘discovering’, ‘presenting’ etc than actually enacting them and consciously evaluating how you personally approached this task against the theory from class.
  • to enable this, one central web portal point would be required, which could be the current Google Groups site, from which multiple individual BLOG sites could be formed and cross-linked. This would then allow each class participant to research available options and tools, model their proposal in which ever format they think relevant, explore the potentials of the medium, discuss their findings in class and eventually present and celebrate their final BLOG creation.

 

Threats

  • I don’t perceive any threats in the use of the BLOG. It has proven to be a powerful communication tool which I believe has enhanced everyone’s learning from the Design Thinking course in a way that traditional printed hard copies delivered down the level 4 “death chute” could not have achieved

 

What are everyone else’s comments on the BLOG???

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