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RECORDINGS:
Full Elluminate Recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2009-10-15.1238.M.ACE02B5F35...
Portable Audio: http://audio.edtechlive.com/conversations /howardsbrainstorms1.mp3
Chat: http://audio.edtechlive.com/conversations /howardsbrainstorms1.rtf

Join us as Howard Rheingold starts "Howard's Brainstorm," the first in a monthly series of interactive discussions in Elluminate on technology, culture, and education. This session's topic is "Thinking Tools: PersonalBrain, Devonthink, Social Bookmarking, Outlining, Visualization, and More."

Learn more about the eclectic Howard Rheingold at http://www.rheingold.com/howard/. And join us for a fun discussion!

Date: Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day)
Duration: 1 hour
Event Page: http://www.conversations.net/forum/topics/howard-rheingold-presents
Webinar Location: In Elluminate at http://tinyurl.com/convnet.

The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event.

Date: Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Time:
5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/convnet. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event.

Howard Rheingold is the author of:
Tools for Thought http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/ The Virtual Community http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/ Smart Mobs http://www.smartmobs.com Was: editor of Whole Earth Review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Review editor of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog http://www.well.com/user/hlr/mwecintro.html founding executive editor of Hotwired http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotWired founder of Electric Minds http://www.rheingold.com/electricminds/html/ Non-resident Fellow, Annenberg Center for Communication, USC, 2007 http://www.annenberg.edu/info/rheingold.php Visiting Professor, De Montfort University, UK
Has taught:
Participatory Media and Collective Action (UC Berkeley, SIMS, Fall
2005, 2006, 2007 ) http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/participatory_media_and_collective_act...
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/programs/courses/296a-pmca
Virtual Community/Social Media (Stanford, Fall 2007, 2008; UC Berkeley,
Spring 2008, 2009) http://socialmediaclassroom.com/vircom09
Toward a Literacy of Cooperation (Stanford, Winter, 2005)
Digital Journalism (Stanford University Winter, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 )
http://socialmediaclassroom.com/digitaljournalism09

Current projects:
Social Media Classroom http://socialmediaclassroom.com
The Cooperation Project http://www.cooperationcommons.org
Participatory Media Literacy https://www.socialtext.net/medialiteracy/
HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation grantee http://tinyurl.com/yqjsmr

Recent Videos:
21st century literacies 40 min video http://blip.tv/file/2373937
JD Lasica's 6 min video interview with me, same subject: http://bit.ly/eFqeI

(photographer credit: Robin Good)

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So...anybody have any follow-up to the last session?

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Howard,
Wondering if the next session could use the Brain by gathering info via the social media classroom? Seems like a great opportunity for group of like-minded folks working collaboratively. It would bring an interesting mix of technology levels and levels of expertise to the forum.

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Tell me how you think the Brain and social media classroom and Elluminate might work together?

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Hi Howard, Not sure if you will check back here. I will post to the colab.

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I'm excited about this idea. I believe that one of the significant uses of synchronous meeting tools like Elluminate is not just for presentation and conversation, but for collective problem-solving and action plans. Seems like the use of an idea-mapping or collecting tool would be a very cool experiment.

This can happen to a limited degree on the whiteboard--either by a good moderator taking notes, or even opening the whiteboard to everyone to edit. But for a group of any size or substance, that quickly becomes ineffective.

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I would be very interested to see how you use netvibes as a dashboard. I know Buffy J. Hamilton uses it very successfully. The idea of a prezi within a prezi is fascinating. I created a simple prezi and used it during my sixth grade students' orientation to the library media center: http://prezi.com/wsuoaovhqikx/

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I will do a dashboards, radars, and filters session eventually

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Howard,

To help me understand the session I was in the other night I watched the replay it helped me gain a very basic understanding of "The Brain". One of the folks wrote in the chat room "John Thawley: Let's spend another hour on "higherarchy of abstraction"... The last paragraph of "very simply" using pipes and twitter, Deliscious, etc. just blowed my mind... (I'm old.)" summed it up well. I look forward to the session on dashboards, filters etc.

The hour was a great deal to assimilate. Many of us are newbies to what you are sharing would you give me some reading to help educate myself about these concepts? I watched your first session regarding literacy, this one and look forward to the next.

In looking at Jerry's brain (I think the lines in the brain and flow charting between parent thought and child etc will take a bit for me) What make a thought a parent or a child? I wonder if this is how our brain works with thought and process from an anatomy point of view? I realize how helpful it would be for me to learn discipline to organize and harness my thoughts. I have always struggled with written word so many of these social media is very challenging to me to date.

Interesting thought to create an interactive session to make a group brain.

Thank you for sharing.

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