Strawberries and sensemaking
>> I love to cook and find myself experimenting with different cuisines whenever time permits. I recently 'invented' a lovely dessert which takes about 3 minutes to put together from exactly 4 ingredients. I first melt some semi-sweet chocolate chips in a bowl in the microwave. Then I cut up a few strawberries and lay them on top of the melted chocolate. Next, I add some mini marshmallows and gently mix up the ingredients. Finally, on top, I add a flourish of whipped cream. And the result is great!
The ingredients have different degrees of sweetness - chocolate is the sweetest, the marshmallows are somewhat sweet, the whipped cream faintly sweet, and the strawberries are sour. Also, the textures are very complimentary - the strawberries are rough and crunchy while the marshmallows are smooth and spongy. The chocolate is sticky and the whipped cream fluffy. It all mixes beautifully together.
>> I came across the website for the Flat Classroom project, an innovative project conducted between a school in the US and another in Bangladesh. I am thinking of proposing something similar for teaching a workshop this summer. The workshop is aimed at encouraging girls in high school to take up technology-oriented careers. I would like to collaborate with a school back home in India . The girls participating in the workshop here in the US will partner with girls in India and collaborate using wikis and blogs to talk about their experiences with technology. They will also discuss their motivations for considering a technology/science/math education, role models, and future career goals.
Not only will the workshop participants gain the experience of working with web-based collaborative technologies but they will also meet students from a totally different culture and learn about their perspectives on technology. The problem is that I don't know how far the school I am thinking of collaborating with in India has access to the Internet, webcams, computers and mics. I'm keeping my fingers crossed right now and hoping that this will work.
>> Creating Passionate Users, a blog I read sometimes, had a very interesting post about sensemaking. Reading the post made me realise that a lot of research is simply sensemaking. Right now I am working on a paper for a journal and most of the time I am sensemaking - collection information, understanding and organizing the information, and summarizing the information - rather than actually writing the paper.
Tomorrow will be another day.
The ingredients have different degrees of sweetness - chocolate is the sweetest, the marshmallows are somewhat sweet, the whipped cream faintly sweet, and the strawberries are sour. Also, the textures are very complimentary - the strawberries are rough and crunchy while the marshmallows are smooth and spongy. The chocolate is sticky and the whipped cream fluffy. It all mixes beautifully together.
>> I came across the website for the Flat Classroom project, an innovative project conducted between a school in the US and another in Bangladesh. I am thinking of proposing something similar for teaching a workshop this summer. The workshop is aimed at encouraging girls in high school to take up technology-oriented careers. I would like to collaborate with a school back home in India . The girls participating in the workshop here in the US will partner with girls in India and collaborate using wikis and blogs to talk about their experiences with technology. They will also discuss their motivations for considering a technology/science/math education, role models, and future career goals.
Not only will the workshop participants gain the experience of working with web-based collaborative technologies but they will also meet students from a totally different culture and learn about their perspectives on technology. The problem is that I don't know how far the school I am thinking of collaborating with in India has access to the Internet, webcams, computers and mics. I'm keeping my fingers crossed right now and hoping that this will work.
>> Creating Passionate Users, a blog I read sometimes, had a very interesting post about sensemaking. Reading the post made me realise that a lot of research is simply sensemaking. Right now I am working on a paper for a journal and most of the time I am sensemaking - collection information, understanding and organizing the information, and summarizing the information - rather than actually writing the paper.
Tomorrow will be another day.
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