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We’re back this week with the final five top ten lists! Today’s list contains tools and Web resources to help people start leapfrogging now.
Note: It’s hard to create an innovative tools top ten list while omitting services from Google – but, for the purpose of this list, Google is left off because everybody wants to be like Google. Why be like Google when you can leapfrog the industry?
- GNU/Linux: It’s open. It’s free. It works. And, it’s very well supported.
- Tom at Sky Blue Waters believes no leapfrogger can get by without a proper RSS feed to quickly digest and disseminate information.
- WordPress: Get your message out and solicit reponses with the best blogging tool out there.
- Wikimedia or other open knowledge-based software to quickly publish your stuff and open it for public additions, corrections, or (if necessary) deletions. Wikimedia is the platform that powers Wikipedia and Wikiversity.
- Second Life, World of Warcraft, Croquet and other virtual environments for building new social contexts, experiences and for trying out things you can’t get away with in the real world.
- Skype: You’ll want to talk a lot to others around the world. Why not do it for free or almost free?
- Old skool media (also available on the Web): New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, etc., etc., etc…
- Social bookmarking (e.g., del.icio.us): Find new ideas and resources, share them with others, and learn more along the way.
- Creative Commons licensing: Mark your creative work with the freedoms you want it to carry.
- Finally, if the resources you need aren’t out there, create your own. Need help? Consider building a team online.
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Tags: blog, Creative Commons, games, LeapFrog, Linux, Second Life, Skype, social networking, wiki, Wikipedia
Written by John Moravec on Monday, June 11, 2007 at 8:33
Our joint UMN-FLACSO knowledge seminar will begin tonight! (There are still a few seats available for Minnesota students — it’s not too late to register!)
A growing glossary of key terms and ideas (in English and Spanish) is available at the course wiki. More news and ideas by all participants will be posted on the course blog.
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Tags: blog, course, FLACSO, ICT, Innovation, knowledge, leadership, Mexico, University of Minnesota, wiki
Written by John Moravec on Monday, May 21, 2007 at 12:25
Cristobal Cobo notes that people at the Argentinian Ministry of Education, Science and Technology are taking interest in our joint knowledge seminar, offered by the University of Minnesota and FLACSO Mexico.
The course blog and wiki are taking shape already… For more information, click on one of the links, below:
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Written by John Moravec on Friday, May 11, 2007 at 22:49
I’ve been busy preparing an innovative course with Dr. Arthur Harkins and corresponding colleagues at FLACSO México that deals with moving “from information to innovative knowledge.” The course is offered in the Innovation Studies and Liberal Studies programs at the University of Minnesota; and will be offered concurrently by FLACSO México. The course will meet twice per week for eight weeks this summer, and will involve real-time seminar activities (via Acrobat Connect, Skype, etc.) with our counterparts in Mexico City once per week. Asynchronous learning outside of the classroom will take place via a course blog and wiki.
This seminar focuses on the development and application of knowledge and innovation capital within competitive national and global contexts. The pedagogy is simulation based, utilizing a dynamic knowledge model managed by you, the student, to develop knowledge creatively and apply it innovatively within contexts ranging from the personal to the global. The seminar is intended to bring forward a wide range of literature, perspectives, and practical simulations on innovative knowledge development and its application to personal and organizational innovations.
Knowledge of Spanish is useful for the course, but not necessary. IS/LS students can register through UMN One Stop.
For more information, contact me at moravec@umn.edu or Art Harkins at harki001@umn.edu.
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Written by John Moravec on Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 13:13
Arthur Harkins and I yesterday released “version 5.0” of our Building a “Leapfrog” University series. The document provides recommendations gathered from the University of Minnesota community on steps the University may take to transform into one of the top universities in the world. The recommendations generated by this activity run parallel to and complement the University’s own strategic repositioning process.
Future development of this memo series and its leapfrog concepts will now be conducted entirely online at the University’s community Wiki in “open source” tradition: https://wiki.umn.edu/twiki/bin/view/Leapfrog/WebHome
We invite your comments, corrections and additions to what we have written as well as direct input to the Leapfrog Wiki. We especially request your thoughts on the application of innovative and dynamic design principles to the University’s future
For your reference, previous release versions are available online at http://www.educationfutures.com/leapfrog
Contact:
- Arthur Harkins, University of MN, harki001@umn.edu, 612/743-7528
- John Moravec, University of MN, moravec@umn.edu, 612/325-5992
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