tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43263069846901886132024-03-13T00:32:31.736-07:00Foozle designinquiesmindjean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-88864781712638526992015-06-14T15:31:00.003-07:002015-06-14T15:31:39.091-07:00Go ahead be an artist, I dare you<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We all get ideas from time to time triggered by some event, let’s say an external event in this case. I enjoy watching YouTube talks by knowledgeable people, scientists and their like so I´m watching the video and something someone says peaks my interest, so much so that I feel I have to write it down in order not to forget. More specifically, that phrase or concept triggers a strong reaction [not a physical reaction but a noticeably altered state that clearly punctuates my awareness] I can feel it´s important to continue thinking about and it becomes almost instantaneously an image... let’s say an idea that can be illustrated. If I were an artist, I would spend the next available moment to making that idea shareable...</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I say shareable but the intent is not necessarily to share it with other people... that comes later as the idea starts taking shape on paper... I mean shareable for a future me, a future me that will process the idea, in Spanish "darle vuelta"; turn it upside down loosely translated, to digest it [to allow it to nourish my imagination], to explore possible consequences of the idea's potential implications... what other thoughts does it lead to, and maybe even what do those connected thoughts connect to and so forth to my pleasure I suppose. Rationally and pragmatically, the ideas that generate the most interesting connections are the ones I'd feel most urgently needed to be expressed maybe...</span></span></div>
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Data visualization of city services using google maps.jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile-33.4691199 -70.641997-33.4691199 -70.641997 -33.4691199 -70.641997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-70034026460608986872014-02-04T21:27:00.000-08:002014-02-11T21:29:09.106-08:00Santiago Chile según google maps: Automedicación<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Part of a series of screen captures using google maps to visualize the distribution of service infrastructure in the city.</div>
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Part of a series of screen captures visualizing the distribution of urban infrastructure using google maps.<br />
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Experimenting with google maps to visualize the distribution of different aspects of urban infrastructure in Santiago Chile. ¿What does the distribution of bank branches say about a city?</div>
<br />jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile-33.4691199 -70.641997-35.1605294 -73.223784000000009 -31.777710400000004 -68.06021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-10512621324450392752013-07-18T08:03:00.002-07:002013-07-18T08:54:02.340-07:00¿Qué estarán sintiendo las personas que votaron por Pablo Longueira?¿Qué estarán sintiendo las personas que votaron por Pablo Longueira?<br />
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Aparte de pena y preocupación por el candidato y su familia, ¿no seras que más que algunos quizás se estén preguntando de qué les sirvió participar de un proceso electoral democrático si que ahora su partido o la alianza puede, sin necesidad de escuchar sus voces, elegir, a la pinta de unos poco, un nuevo candidato al azar?<br />
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¿Cuál de los políticos que aparecieron ayer en la televisión demostró siquiera la más mínima preocupación por el shock, la confusión e incertidumbre de los más de 400.000 personas que votaron por Pablo Longueira?<br />
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¿Acaso el bienestar de una persona poderosa e influyente vale más que el estado emocional de cuatrocientos de miles de personas? Lo visto ayer da a entender que SÍ.<br />
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Ojala que Pablo Longueira se recupere milagrosamente para no echar a perder una larga trayectoria en la política al servicio de un partido que sin saber que hacer frente la oposición ni la población concientizada/movilizada, descarta la voluntad de su propia padrón electoral para salir ganadooooor a cualquier costo.<br />
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<br />jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com1Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile-33.4691199 -70.641997-35.1605294 -73.223784000000009 -31.777710400000004 -68.06021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-32563437720100544732013-06-29T23:43:00.000-07:002013-06-29T23:44:28.878-07:00(Un)Encoding communications<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="350" src="//e.issuu.com/embed.html#1187118/3815158" width="650"></iframe><br />
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A couple of days ago I came across <a href="http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2013/06/20/sang-mun-defiant-typeface-nsa-privacy/" target="_blank">this article</a> describing the concept behind Sang Mun's typeface ZXX. Fascinated by this designer's work, I downloaded the font at <a href="http://z-x-x.org/" target="_blank">z-x-x.org</a> and experimented with it a while.<br />
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Above is the result of the experimentation session. Some of the phrases are sarcastic, corny or just plain assumptions, but the way that the variants of the typeface are used make certain words in thoses phrases harder to read, in some cases almost illegible without paying close attention.<br />
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As I was working on this sample, I caught myself wanting decoding verbal communication to be as easy. Anyone with the font could quickly make sense of any words that at first seem beyond comprehention. The enfasis that each of the variants; sans, sans bold, camo, noise, false and xed, place on each individual word changes the way the whole phrase is interpreted.<br />
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Similarly, when engaged in conversation, there are several signal cues that indicate the authenticity, sincerity, heartfeltness and honesty (or lack thereof) of a speaker´s words; intonation, volume, posture, hand gestures and gaze to name just a few, which depending on the solidity and longevity of the relationship between the people makes a big difference when interpreting the message.<br />
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In any case, the only defense we have against being taken advantage of or manipulated by mere lip service, politic speak, or economic jargon, is to pay more attention not only to what is being said and how it is being said, but the context in which it is being said. Why we make communication this complicated is part of the problem we´re all facing as we transition towards a new way of coordinating the way we humans organize ourselves on the planet. Simply put, we´d all be better off with a little more transparency and honesty.jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile-33.4691199 -70.641997-35.1605294 -73.223784000000009 -31.777710400000004 -68.06021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-39427987482243002822013-06-19T04:01:00.001-07:002013-06-19T04:04:03.051-07:00Recomendations for reducing your vulnerability when dealing with corporations<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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In <a href="http://aftermath-surviving-psychopathy.org/index.php/2011/02/24/this-charming-psychopath-how-to-spot-social-predators-before-they-attack/" target="_blank">an article on the subject of spotting this type of social predator</a>, Robert D. Hare, briefly outlines a cluster of various related symptoms of psychopathy and provides a list of suggestions and coping strategies for reducing your vulnerability when dealing with this type of person. Below is a transcription of his list, slightly modified (edits highlighted in italics and contained within brackets) and adapted for dealing with the corporate person.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. “Try not to be influenced by `props.´ It is not easy to get beyond the... [well designed logo], the captivating... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[packaging design]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the fast talk of the typical... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[brand message]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, all of which blind us to... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[the corporation´s]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> real intentions. The... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[focus groups, market research and customer segmentation]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, is more of a prelude to self-gratification and the exercise of power rather than simple interest or empathic caring.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. “Don´t wear blinders. Enter new relationships with your eyes wide open. Like the rest of us, most... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[corporations]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> initially hide their dark side by putting their `best foot forward´. Cracks may soon begin to appear in the mask they wear </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[if revealed by investigative reporting or first hand information]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, but once trapped in their web, it will be difficult to escape financially and emotionally unscathed.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. “Keep you guard up in high-risk situations. Some situations are tailor-made for... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[corporations: labyrinthian store layouts, credit card purchases, one-click checkout]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> etc. In each case, the potential victim is lonely, looking for a good time, excitement, or companionship, and there will usually be... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[some brand promise]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> willing to oblige, for a hidden price. Know yourself. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[Corporations]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are skilled at detecting and ruthlessly exploiting your weak spots. Your best defense is to understand what these spots are, and to be extremely wary of anyone who zeroes in on them.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. “Don't blame yourself. Whatever the reasons for being involved with a... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[corporation]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, it is important that you not accept blame for.. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[its]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> attitudes and behavior. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[Corporations]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> play by the same rules-their rules-with everyone.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. “Be aware of who the victim is. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[Corporations]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> often give the impression that it is they who are suffering and that the... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[consumers or politicians]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are to blame for their misery. Don't waste your sympathy on them.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. “Recognize that you are not alone. Most... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[corporations]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> have lots of victims. It is certain that a... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[corporation]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> who is causing you grief is also causing grief to others. Be careful about power struggles. Keep in mind that... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[corporations]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> have a strong need for psychological and physical control over others. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't stand up for your rights, but it will probably be difficult to do so without risking some serious emotional or physical trauma.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. “Set firm ground rules. Although power struggles with a... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[corporation]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are risky you may be able to set up some clear rules-both for yourself and for the... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[corporation]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-to make your life easier and begin the difficult transition from victim to a person looking out for yourself.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9. “Don't expect dramatic changes. To a large extent, the personality of... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[the corporation]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is `carved in stone.´ There is little likelihood that anything you do will produce fundamental, sustained changes in how they see themselves or others.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10. “Cut your losses. Most victims of... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[corporations]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> end up feeling confused and hopeless, and convinced that they are largely to blame for the problem. The more you give in the more you will be taken advantage of by the... </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[corporation´s]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> insatiable appetite for power and control.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Originally I intended to write up an alternative diagnosis for the corporation, likening the institution to a dying patient suffering from some blood disease, money being the life blood of these organizations and its distribution typically </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">being </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">the source of much criticism, but after some research regarding a cure for psychopathy, I stumbled across Hare´s article and decided it was worth elaborating on the filmmaker´s presentation of the subject instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Me preocupa bastante la forma en que se plantea la pregunta, lo que da a entender que los seres humanos no tienen las mismas necesidades, la necesidad de un hogar digno que les proteja del clima, la necesidad de alimentarse/nutrirse saludablemente, la necesidad que tiene cada persona (independiente su edad) para explorar sus intereses mediante la educación, la necesidad de acceder a servicios de salud cuando más lo necesita y todo eso sin endeudarse hasta quedar en la bancarrota mediante trabajo bien valorado, apreciado y remunerado que permita a cada uno desarrollarse plenamente ¿no es eso lo que todos necesitamos?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">La pregunta que presentan en la portada da a entender que NO es así, que hay algunos que necesitan más que otros, y quizás, algunos que merecen más y por consecuencia algunos que merecen menos y necesitan menos, un planteamiento bien dañina y potencialmente peligroso para el futuro del país.</span></div>
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">¿Quien decide lo que realmente necesita cada persona?<br class="kix-line-break" /><br class="kix-line-break" />¿Crees que una persona tiene derecho a decidir por otra? por ti? por mi? por todos? <br class="kix-line-break" /><br class="kix-line-break" />¿Parece razonable esperar que una sola persona, un partido, el gobierno de turno o siquiera el conjunto de todos los partidos y militantes puedan representar fidedignamente las necesidades, los deseos, anhelos y aspiraciones de 17 millones? </span></b>jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com2Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile-33.4691199 -70.641997-35.1605294 -73.223784000000009 -31.777710400000004 -68.06021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-91651310593960211782013-05-17T10:42:00.000-07:002013-05-17T10:42:07.746-07:00Undue silence in the workplace<b id="docs-internal-guid-6c824898-b382-0d8e-4d64-bd44d4cf1f8e" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A couple of weeks ago I was listening to a podcast of a “secret” <a href="http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt?nocache" target="_blank">meeting between Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt</a> in which Assange explained in some detail, the difficulties and successes he's faced while working on the Wikileaks project.</span></span></b><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-6c824898-b382-0d8e-4d64-bd44d4cf1f8e" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine the situation of the police officer, who questions the futility of continuously arresting marijuana users rather than spending that time intervening in situations involving more serious criminal activity. ¿Should he/she mention this concern to his/her superior officer risking his/her future career prospects? Maybe, although arresting weed smokers is far easier and less life threatening, so the officer decides not to speak up instead.</span></span></b><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-6c824898-b382-0d8e-4d64-bd44d4cf1f8e" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lastly, imagine the case of the graphic designer when “asked” to work on an ad campaign he/she feels is a bad idea, too manipulative, depicts models that not only do not represent the demographics of the community but intentionally disregard specific groups within the population. ¿Does he/she risk his/her livelihood or the chance to work on future choice projects? Maybe, although the ad business, being a seemingly tight knit community makes being labeled “not a team player” a riskier proposition, so the graphic designer decides not to speak up instead.</span></span></b><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-6c824898-b382-0d8e-4d64-bd44d4cf1f8e" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is clearly not a comprehensive list, by any stretch of even the narrowest of imaginations, and yet these situations certainly don't seem anything too out of the ordinary. Every day we let things that concern us slide, either because we have too much else to do or because we figure it doesn't matter enough to speak up and risk adding to the already high strung ambiance of our workplaces.</span></span></b><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-6c824898-b382-0d8e-4d64-bd44d4cf1f8e" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The point I've been trying to get at is that when our principal source of income is in the hands of a single person or entity (company/corporation), its reasonable to expect that we would all tend to speak out less in order to avoid any unwanted repercussions. This unintended side effect of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment" target="_blank">at-will employment</a>, which few people seem to talk about, but which i imagine to be far more prevalent than most would admit, seems like it would have oxidizing effects on our sense of community which when left unattended could create ever larger breaches in our social compact. Come to think of it, it´s kind of what we see going on all around us in so many different countries across the globe nowadays.</span></span></b><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-6c824898-b382-0d8e-4d64-bd44d4cf1f8e" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">¿when was the last time you didn´t speak out at work about something that bothered you? and ¿what were your concerns related to? please do comment below.</span></b></span></b>jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile-33.4691199 -70.641997-35.1605294 -73.223784000000009 -31.777710400000004 -68.06021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-37098530985196692912013-05-14T20:44:00.000-07:002013-05-14T20:44:07.887-07:00Una fuente inesperada de alegria casi incontenible<b id="docs-internal-guid-37a66cd5-9eeb-c84c-5b31-bdd7eaf35e90" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="line-height: 1.15;">El viernes pasado asistí a una charla que trataba de las razones por la que crecientemente existe mayor increencia religiosa hoy entre las personas. Me sorprendió, dado que durante las semanas previas había disfrutado tanto de ver en Youtube varias charlas y entrevistas con Richard Dawkins, posiblemente uno de los ateos más populares actualmente, la claridad, tranquilidad y coherencia con que Rodrigo Polanco abordó el tema.</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">
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</span>Confieso que esperaba un discurso narrativo bastante más alejado de la realidad, según cómo lo percibo por lo menos. A cambio, me encontré con una presentación bien preparada, transmitida con elocuencia y carisma, participativa en ciertos momentos cuyo contenido de descripciones aparentemente razonables me hizo sentir en algunas instantes miedo de que la supuesta solidez de los fundamentos en los que se basaron sus argumentos fueran capaces de convencerme hasta a mí de algo sobre lo que dudas no me hacen falta.
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Enfrentado con esa situación, recuerdo vívidamente un momento particular en que tuve que morderme el labio para no reirme, no porque lo que estaba escuchando y anotando me parecía chistoso o ridículo, pero por una casi inexplicable alegría que se gatilló en mi. Alegría digo porque siendo un tema, nuestra relación con lo divino del universo por decirlo de alguna manera, que me interesa profundamente, fue tan bienvenida la sorpresa de encontrarme con información que me pareció útil para seguir desarrollando mis propias nociones/ideas/perspectiva y cosmovisión que casi me dejé reaccionar espontáneamente.
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Dado el contexto en que estaba, reirme hubiese parecido tremendamente inapropiado claramente, pero creo que en ese momento intuí que estaba frente a una verdadera oportunidad para aprender/crecer, sin considerar o prever en ese instante el trabajo que tendría/estoy haciendo para desenredar, hilo por hilo, cada frase y dato que logré anotar/registrar del contenido que se me fue comunicando durante la presentación.
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Viendolo/pensándolo ahora, esa sensación que me motivó a morderme el labio fue una clara señal quizás, de cuánto amo aprender del tema y lo importante/necesario que es suspender, a veces, la certeza que mantengo respecto a temas que me importan, que me interesan, los que me preocupan y me llaman la atención, y quizás especialmente cuando me encuentro frente a una postura aparentemente contraria a la que pienso/siento sostener.
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Siendo una persona que se ha dedicado a estudiar/aprender/practicar durante la última década, habilidades y técnicas que tienen que ver en su núcleo/esencia precisamente con comprender no sólo cómo el contenido y la forma de un producto/servicio/solución afecta a las personas para quienes fue desarrollado el proyecto, sino también como ambos aspectos interactúan para influir en su estimación de valor y la percepción del beneficio que les entrega, descubrí inesperadamente otro ámbito de la vida en la puede intervenir el pensamiento de diseño, o design thinking.
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A modo de conclusión, le cuento estimad@ lector@, que cuando me puse a redactar este post, mi intención fue abordar otro tema, el de la crisis de la representatividad hoy, tema que opté dejar pendiente por ahora para compartir lo que acabas de leer. A pesar de que el resultado del proceso de escribir/pensar no tiene clara relación con el tema que lo originó, aprovecho de preguntarte lo siguiente:
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¿cuando fue la última vez que sentiste similar reacción (alegría casi incontenible) frente a un contenido cuyo veracidad sospechabas?</span></b>jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile-33.4691199 -70.641997-35.160576400000004 -73.223784000000009 -31.7776634 -68.06021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-75864047558194977742013-05-09T22:07:00.000-07:002013-05-09T22:07:18.372-07:00the Inception of insidious marketing campaigns<b id="docs-internal-guid-731cb491-8b72-be00-aee1-0fd0afe4bf41" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a class some 15+ years ago at Dhahran Academy, my classmates and I sat huddled in a semicircle watching as the P.E. teacher knelt on the floor to show us a magic trick of sorts. He began waving his hands about briefly, in a seemingly random fashion, after which he stopped and placing one hand on the arm that was supporting his weight while he intently gazing at the patch of floor above which he had drawn an imaginary number, asked the class to guess what number it was.
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After a couple of rounds, I remember the teacher explicitly instructing those students who had figured it out, and guessed the number correctly, NOT to give away their secret. I also remember, quite vividly in fact, being the first student NOT to follow his instructions</span></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-731cb491-8b72-be00-aee1-0fd0afe4bf41" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*</span></b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, awkwardly ending the game and spoiling the discovery process for my fellow classmates. NOT one of my proudest moments.</span></b><br />
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Fast forward to about two weeks ago when I was confronted by a similar feeling, which I now believe provoked my disobedience</span></b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*</span></b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> all those years ago, after having watched a video on youtube entitled, coincidentally some might say, “Real Beauty Sketches” by branD.</span></b><br />
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If you haven't seen or heard about it yet, and even though I don't recommend you watch it, be aware that what follows will probably spoil the experience for you. Actually, I'm hoping it foils the intended experience for you or at least forces/invites you, if you've already seen it, to think about it differently.</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This video showcases, in my opinion at least, some of the most sophisticated marketing campaign production techniques in the business, and to be clear, that is NOT a compliment. From the various comments I've read, this video seems to be weaving its magic with frightening efficiency, something that ordinarily wouldn't have bothered me so except for the fact that one of my dearest friends on facebook posted it to her timeline. Her comment read something like “I know this has to do with a brand, but its totally real. We're more beautiful than we think we are, or worse yet, to what they've led us to believe” a sentiment far too similar to my own and other people´s first reactions that I couldn't continue to ignore it.
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Actually, having rationally, although briefly, studied the video, I might have gone on ignoring the message, confident in the knowledge that I had outwitted the creation team´s efforts and more or less easily avoided any lasting impact my initial viewing might have had on me in the future, maybe. I could list, point by point some of the observations I've made relating to what the video doesn't show that might help you in decoding and decoupling the emergent brand/emotion connection formed or forming in your mental circuitry while watching the video, but that would cause me to re-live feelings I personally don't want to dredge up.*
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-731cb491-8b72-be00-aee1-0fd0afe4bf41" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAxMzY3NjcxNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTI5OTM0Mw@@._V1_SX214_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="movie poster Inception" border="0" height="320" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAxMzY3NjcxNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTI5OTM0Mw@@._V1_SX214_.jpg" title="Inception movie poster" width="216" /></a></span></b></div>
<b id="docs-internal-guid-731cb491-8b72-be00-aee1-0fd0afe4bf41" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nstead, I'll ask you to think about branD´s commercial in the context of a movie, Inception, starring </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000138/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">eonardo DiCaprio</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330687/" target="_blank">Joseph Gordon-Levitt</a></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680983/" target="_blank">Ellen Page</a></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362766/" target="_blank">Tom Hardy</a></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913822/">Ken Watanabe</a></span><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> If you have</span><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">n't seen it, here´s another spoiler alert, but for those who have, as you'll recall, the team lead by DiCaprio is hired to plant the seed of an idea into the businessman´s head (played by Watanabe), so that when it came time for him to make a crucial decision, to sell his company, DiCaprio´s employer could be assured a predictable outcome. </span></span></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-731cb491-8b72-be00-aee1-0fd0afe4bf41" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></b><br />
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I hope that thinking about the commercial in the context of the movie was a helpful enough hint to grasp the insidious nature of these kinds of uber sophisticated marketing schemes. If not, I'll leave you with a couple of questions to consider, dear reader, in the hope that they help shed more light on the gravity of these psy-op tactics.
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¿how does it make you feel NOW knowing that the same emotions you experienced while/after watching the commercial could potentially be linked to every future instance of that same feeling for the rest of your life?
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¿what impact might a seemingly tiny memory/experience have on your own self image now and how could that influence your behavior both in the present and 15 years from now?</span></b></b>jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com1Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile-33.4691199 -70.641997-35.160576400000004 -73.223784000000009 -31.7776634 -68.06021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-32210946980749121112013-05-05T15:00:00.000-07:002013-05-09T15:53:58.899-07:00A Principle of Uncertainty; managing a relationship with time<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While trying to write and think about how to frame a proposal I've come up with relating to value added tax on books (19% here in Chile), I've come face to face with one of my greatest fears... something, that although not precisely disturbing and in spite of my ability to recognize it, I'm still not quite skilled enough at managing... I´d perhaps describe it as the tension that I perceive when planning for and coming up with alternatives to get from where I am, at this moment in time, or more precisely, where I just previously left off, to where I imagine i'd like to be or where I feel I need to be a few years into the future. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[now that i'm looking over my initial handwritten draft, the confusio<i>n seems more comprehensible, but i'll continue]</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I imagine that the relative ease with which i'm currently able to recognize this emotional conflict/opportunity probably has to do with the fact that recently I've been spending the larger portion of my time engaging in activities which I enjoy and simultaneously believe to be both necessary for my professional development and personal growth. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[a light pat on the back and a brief search and description of the cause of those emergent thoughts/emotions]</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Somehow being engaged in those activities has enabled me to reaffirm/confirm/modify my personal views about my place on this planet, the relationships I currently have with the few people I interact with and by extension it seems, about how I ought to behave in order that my brief presence here have the least possible negative impact on all the living organisms and life sustaining systems i either come into contact with directly or whom/which i, through the decisions i make consciously or otherwise, indirectly affect in ways i can/can´t imagine/possibly imagine respectively and respectfully. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[remembering that i´m not alone, that i am in fact part of something far bigger than myself]</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When faced with such a seemingly simple task [writing about a topic i know relatively little about so far, a task which I myself put forth, it seems odd, given that I believe myself to be, in general, someone capable of making unique observations and divining insights which at their best happily surprise others, that it would be/is so difficult to concentrate/focus on the present in order that i might bring to bear the talents i've nurtured and skills i've practiced during the last decade, if not more, of my life in a single session of creative expression. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>[some more confusion with some self doubt thrown in for good measure and ending with a brief evaluation of my self worth]</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The only conclusion, if you'd call it that, is that I still have a lot of work to do on this self assigned project and work to do in cultivating a sense of patience and clarity of thought/action before i'll feel more comfortable about handling the uncertainty that seems to naturally accompany any creative endeavor, including this pilgrimage called being human.</span><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <i>[at this point i was coming to the end of the page and since i like to keep one idea on one page i had to wrap it up quick. i remind myself to be more patient, give myself more time and that i needed to get back to work/living]</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In conclusion:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was a little hesitant at first about publishing this post, being that it doesn't really make much sense. Clearly I did decide to make it public, partly because there are a lot of times when getting the job done involves recognizing/managing/overcoming a lot of these seemingly trivial internal dramas and partly because it seems we generally don't consider these kinds of exercises as part of our work processes and as a result make little or no room for them even though we all know they occur quite frequently.<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br />
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xjean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile-33.4691199 -70.641997-35.160576400000004 -73.223784000000009 -31.7776634 -68.06021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-28816202836834108142013-05-04T02:38:00.000-07:002013-08-08T12:05:33.708-07:00Moving towards a boss-less and ad free workscape<span id="docs-internal-guid-1ff00e30-6ee3-0bd3-d107-68284142107d" style="line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crowd funding and micro donation services* are rapidly paving the foundations of a new socio-economic landscape. As internet access becomes more widespread, if I remember correctly not even half the </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InternetPenetrationWorldMap.svg" target="_blank">world´s population is connected</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at present, and taking into account the rise in automation for many production activities (see </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://twitter.com/FedericoPistono" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FedericoPistono</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for more on that subject) coupled with the advent of human scale manufacturing technologies that are becoming increasingly accessible, we are rapidly approaching the point at which companies will no longer be our main source of employment.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">The days of working for any single individual are numbered, and that number will only dwindle in the years to come, barring any “public policy” changes or interference from corporations about copyright infringement for example. Although many of us won't be able to continue to rely on companies to provide us with jobs, crowdfunding and micro donation services will make, or rather, are making it possible to maintain a lifestyle that permits each of us as Creative Beings to continue developing our unique talents, explore our personal interests even further than ever before and nurture our need/desire to contribute in some way to the ongoing welfare and progress of our community/culture and society at large.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">I also think/feel/intuit that this shift will have extremely positive impacts on our collective/global footprint as well, eliminating many of the current inefficiencies in our economic systems especially as they relate to transportation for example. It is possible, at present, to download a file, created by someone living in another country, that contains all the necessary information for you, as the “consumer” to use to have the product printed locally at a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Fablab</a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or </span><a href="http://makerspace.com/makerspace-directory" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Makerspace</a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> rather than having to ship the actual object halfway around the world just because the combination of personal preference and creative/production capability do not coincide geographically.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">As an added bonus, I imagine that advertising will no longer be the main vehicle (if it ever was) for staying up to date with the most current product releases from suppliers and producers we've come to depend on for quality products. Although it may be some way off in the future still, I expect that increased refinement of search algorithms, better and smarter tagging of content and more importantly, our continued use of social networking for sharing information we deem relevant from sources we can actually place our trust in more readily, will continue to contribute to the shrinking return on investment that brands had come to expect from ad campaigning.</span><b id="docs-internal-guid-1ff00e30-6ee3-0bd3-d107-68284142107d" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b><br />
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Below are a couple of links to lists of services that can help you get started.</span></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-1ff00e30-6ee3-0bd3-d107-68284142107d" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b><br />
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For larger projects here´s </span><a href="http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/crowdfunding-sites/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a list of 10 crowdfunding sites</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For financing individual content like photos, blog posts, single music tracks, videos etc. here is </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a list of <strike>5</strike> 7 micro donation solutions</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for your site:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- </span><a href="https://subbable.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Subbable</a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <a href="http://www.patreon.com/" target="_blank">Patreon</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">- <a href="https://flattr.com/" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Flattr</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <a href="https://www.centup.org/" target="_blank">Centup.org</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <a href="https://mucash.com/" target="_blank">Mucash</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <a href="http://tiptheweb.org/publishers/" target="_blank">Tiptheweb</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <a href="http://www.noca.com/" target="_blank">Noca</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/dwolla-payment-button/">Dwolla-payment-button</a></span><br />
- <a href="https://www.gittip.com/about/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gittip</span></a><br />
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</span>jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile-33.4691199 -70.641997-35.160576400000004 -73.223784000000009 -31.7776634 -68.06021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-12621442252093620862013-05-01T22:54:00.001-07:002013-05-01T22:57:19.538-07:00Doce cosas que aprendí de Chile, el país en que vivo<b><i>No sabía que</i></b> para sentirme digno y útil como ser humano tendría que conseguirme un trabajo<br />
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<b><i>No sabía que</i></b> el desempleo es la raíz de la desigualdad en el país<br />
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<b><i>No sabía que</i></b> los emprendedores en Chile se crean entre políticos del gobierno de turno<br />
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<b><i>No sabía que</i></b> el acceso a empleos y la remuneración de mujeres eran verdaderos obstáculos para extender los meses del posnatal<br />
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<b><i>No sabía que</i></b> en un país con pleno empleo no tendría que salir a buscar trabajo sino que recibiría ofertas mejores de empleo<br />
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<b><i>No sabía que</i></b> tan solo escuchar los anuncios mejoraría mi calidad de vida y la de mi familia también<br />
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<b><i>No sabía que</i></b> re-destinando un punto de la tasa de cotización del Seguro de Desempleo (en un país con pleno empleo) beneficiaría durante toda su vida laboral a los trabajadores<br />
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<b><i>No sabía que</i></b> existía siquiera, distinción alguna entre obrero y empleado y que por tal clasificación los trabajadores no tuvieron acceso igualitario a beneficios médicos ni beneficios frente a riesgos laborales<br />
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<b><i>No sabía que</i></b> los alumnos de educación superior, por preferencia, querían trabajar mientras estudiaban, y que ambas actividades se pueden compatibilizar creando contratos especiales<br />
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<b><i>No sabía que</i></b> por consecuencia de políticas publicas serias y honestas enfocadas especialmente a l@s chilen@s más vulnerables y la clase media, que todos pudiéramos tener una vida más plena y más feliz<br />
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<b><i>No sabía que</i></b> con poner en mayúscula la "U" y la "N" de la frase "unidad nacional" se podía referir tanto a un conglomerado político formado en 1936 y, a la vez, a un feriado que después de tres años, sin dar señales de lograr su propósito, se suprimió<br />
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<b><i>No sabía que</i></b> prestando deliberada atención durante tan sólo seis minutos (más una hora de análisis mas menos) que pudiera descubrir tantos indicadores de mi propio ignorancia respecto un país en que he vivido durante diez años.<br />
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Gracias Presidente Piñera por ofrecerme esta instancia de aprendizaje.<br />
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<br />jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile-33.4691199 -70.641997-35.160576400000004 -73.223784000000009 -31.7776634 -68.06021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-49362413487856944952013-04-26T20:32:00.000-07:002013-04-26T20:32:00.117-07:00Effects of coherent convictions/actions on a human brain<b id="internal-source-marker_0.27864887239411473" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although seemingly a non event, it quickly dawned on me that along with the substitution of the type of milk in my coffee, and with little or no dedicated conscious thought on my part, I had unwittingly also changed the order in which I added each ingredient, a phenomenon that piqued my interest and led me to wonder how that modification in behavior might have emerged?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Admittedly, in my haste to jot down those fleeting impressions, and after having attended to the summonings of the cats I cohabitate with, I did forget to add sugar to the mix. Being that I was already in my bedroom by the time I realized this, about to sit down to write the first draft of this blog entry, I decided to just go with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I guess my point is, if there is any new knowledge to be gleaned from this seemingly insignificant experience, is that it led me to wonder about whether some change had been made in my brain. Some change which although triggered by having followed up on a decision I had previously made, might somehow have inexplicably (to me) led to subsequent changes which are more coherent* with a related conviction I maintain, even though I don't always live up to, regarding the destructive effects large “farms” have on our environment, the well being of the cows and bulls and the dehumanizing conditions the people who work at these mega installations subject themselves to in order that 1; more people may have access to pasteurized cow milk and 2; they may maintain, for themselves and their family some modicum of comfort and by extension contribute positively to the communities they live in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That* I think/thought was/is a marvelous idea (worth further examination), which I am/had to write about and share on the internet, regardless of whether or not the topic might seem laughable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">¿What changes have you made recently that have had a similar positive reinforcing effect on your personal convictions?</span></div>
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and time permitting, share with me and whomever happens to come upon this page a comment or link to your own site in the section below.</span></b>jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-61904822099358957072013-04-19T15:09:00.000-07:002013-04-19T15:35:02.863-07:00Bridging the gap<b id="internal-source-marker_0.8868860632646829" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Day 1:</span></b><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8868860632646829" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, imagine the impact all those stimuli response mechanisms violently exploding into seemingly calculated action </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">have on a being that has no sense of time, for whom, the seconds and minutes that pass between the final push of its mother and being completely naked and exposed to the elements might have on its psyche, in a lapse of time which might seem like hours and day by comparison, given that the infant brain, although not consciously prepared for the experience, is nonetheless ready to receive and encode those billions of electrical signals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The infant still totally exposed, incapable of considered movement, flails about suspended somehow high above the ground, until for no apparent reason at all, the last physical link to its mother is cut when the umbilical is disconnected. Imagine the effect the instant sense of abandonment, loneliness, individuality, distinctiveness might have on the infant as it experiences its first emotions as an air breathing human mammal, emotions which it can´t make sense of, but can't restrain leaving it no other recourse but to cry out in tears of joy and pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Given all that, is it any wonder that we find great comfort in the notion that we, humans are the center of the universe, that we were for an instant not mere witnesses to the beginning of life, but living our personal big bang birth and that our disconnection from the source of that experience both haunts and motivates us to continue to strive for life under the notion that we were created by another/supreme being.</span></div>
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</b>jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-33257010660843474972013-03-31T22:06:00.001-07:002013-03-31T22:08:48.650-07:00Fundamentos del Slow Design1. Revelar<br />
El diseño lento busca revelar experiencias de la cotidianeidad que muchas veces pasamos por alto o que son olvidados, incluyendo los procesos y materiales detrás de la razón de ser de un artefacto y su creación.<br />
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<i>Reveal: Slow design reveals experiences in everyday life that are often missed or forgotten, including the materials and processes that can be easily overlooked in an artefact’s existence or creation.</i><br />
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2. Expandir<br />
El diseño lento considera las reales y potenciales expresiones de los artefactos y ambientes más alla de su funcionalidad percibida, atributos físicos y ciclos de vida.<br />
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<i>Expand: Slow design considers the real and potential ‘expressions’ of artefacts and environments beyond their perceived functionalities, physical attributes and lifespans.</i><br />
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3. Reflexionar<br />
Los artefactos/ambientes/experiencias producto del diseño lento promueven la contemplación y el *consumo reflexivo (*término creado por Slow Lab).<br />
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<i>Reflect: Slow design artefacts/environments/experiences induce contemplation and what SlowLab has coined ‘reflective consumption’.</i><br />
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4. Adaptable<br />
Los procesos del diseño lento son de fuente abierta y colaborativo, basado en el compartir, co-operar y la transparencia de la información a modo que los diseños pueden ser adaptandos continuamente a futuro.<br />
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<i>Engage: Slow design processes are ‘open source’ and collaborative, relying on sharing, co-operation and transparency of information so that designs may continue to evolve into the future.</i><br />
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5. Participativo<br />
El diseño lento anima a las personas a hacerse participe del proceso de diseño, fomentando la cohabitabilidad e intercambio para promover la responsabilidad social y potenciar las comunidades.<br />
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<i>Participate: Slow design encourages users to become active participants in the design process, embracing ideas of conviviality and exchange to foster social accountability and enhance communities.</i><br />
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6. Evolucionar<br />
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El diseño lento reconoce que experiencias más ricas pueden surgir de la dinámica maduración de artefactos, ambientes y sistemas con el paso de tiempo. Mirando más alla de las necesidades y circunstancias del presente, los diseños lentos son agentes de cambio de comportamiento.<br />
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<i>Evolve: Slow design recognizes that richer experiences can emerge from the dynamic maturation of artefacts, environments and systems over time. Looking beyond the needs and circumstances of the present day, slow designs are (behavioural) change agents.</i><br />
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[Lo que a continuación esta escrito es una traducción de un extracto del libro "Design Activism: beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world" escrito por Alastair Fuad-Luke publicado en 2009 (p157-158)]jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-30756189994842276902012-06-21T14:13:00.001-07:002012-06-21T14:13:45.287-07:00Comentario respecto artículo "Innovar y emprender: intuición o racionalidad"<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Primero, el título implícitamente asume que la intuición y la racionalidad son polos opuestos que de por sí es una forma de pensar sencillita que distrae de la probabilidad de que exista siquiera una gama de infinitas alternativas posibles que van desde lo más intuitivo hasta lo más racional y eso sin siquiera tomar en cuenta que la híper racionalidad puede parecerse bastante a una intuición y que la híper intuición puede fundamentarse de tal forma que parezca perfectamente racional.</span></div>
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Pero aparte de eso, hay ciertas afirmaciones que propones que me preocupan demasiado.</div>
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Respecto a la frase <i>"Seguramente, para predecir el futuro en este mundo de hoy, es mucho más útil tener buena intuición, que un informe comercial de hace tres años."</i></div>
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Me parece irresponsable aludir que el estudio de hace 3 años atrás no sirve, o mejor dicho, asumir que una decisión tomada de manera intuitiva puede tener mayor probabilidad de éxito sin al menos una lectura previa del estudio. El estudio, suponiendo que fue realizado de manera adecuada por personas capacitadas, captura un mero fragmento de la realidad dentro del contexto en que se realizó, por lo tanto ya se trata de información básica a pesar de lo técnico que pueda parecer.</div>
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Además, a pocos les importa si la decisión tomada fue basada en la intuición o la racionalidad cuando nadie queda herido o lesionado por consecuencia, con el caso de estimar la población mayor entre dos estados, o el ganador de un partido de fútbol, pero cuando se trata de la dignidad de las personas, o daños medioambientales es típicamente ese mismo tipo falta de consideración/estudio previo que lo provocó. Me cuesta imaginar siquiera el caso en que una persona con menos información sea capaz de proponer una multitud de probables consecuencias que pueden resultar de su desinformada pero intuitiva decisión. Me parece de lo más lógico que es justamente al revés, en un mundo complejo, en que siempre hay más de dos alternativas entre las que elegir, en que las cosas están en permanente cambio, es de suma importancia que la intuición se base en la mayor cantidad de información que esa persona es capaz de asimilar, eso sin siquiera la necesidad de comprenderlo todo plenamente. Es ahí en ese caso donde la intuición juega su rol más fundamental, haciéndose parecer al instinto, cerrando la brecha entre la información de la que disponemos, las partes que comprendemos y las visiones del futuro que somos capaces de describir/proyectar.</div>
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Siguiendo, respecto a la frase <i>"La fórmula para entrenar y mejorar la intuición es ser capaz de tomar decisiones incluso con riesgo y afrontar las consecuencias."</i></div>
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Ante otra cosa, cuestiono que exista una fórmula para entrenar la intuición, y más allá de eso, dudo de que la intuición se pueda mejorar. Efectivamente se puede ejercer con mayor o menor frecuencia, pero lo que mejora no es la intuición misma, sino la probabilidad de que el resultado sea positivo o menos dañina consecuencia de una decisión basada en la intuición. Como es la experiencia que uno va acumulando al vivir parcialmente las consecuencias de previos intentos en aplicar la intuición de manera racional, da la impresión de que la intuición se puede mejorar independiente de la base sobre la cual funciona, la experiencia.</div>
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Luego, respecto "afrontar las consecuencias" que en la mayoría de los casos nadie la hace de manera completa, porque también es compartida entre todos en cierto modo, ¿Cómo podemos afrontar consecuencias que ni siquiera podemos imaginar? o en el caso más plausible, consecuencias que ni siquiera hemos estudiado?</div>
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Muchos de los desastres ecológicos, sociales, económicos tienen su origen justamente porque las personas involucradas en tomar las decisiones relevantes no tuvieron la información adecuada para prever las consecuencias en el "largo plazo", siendo actualmente el largo plazo tan corto como una década. Nadie responsable de la toma de decisiones tomó suficiente tiempo para considerar posibles consecuencias más allá de los informes, optando por hacer las cosas ahora, rápido, para obtener beneficios luego o mañana.</div>
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Creo que hay cada vez más personas que se rebelan contra la visión cortoplacista que ha predominado en el mundo de los negocios, entre las grandes empresas y los gobiernos e incluso reflejado en el impacto que genera nuestro comportamiento cotidiano en muchos casos que ha producido el gran revuelo de consciencia que está despertando alrededor del mundo actualmente.</div>
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Estoy de acuerdo que es necesario tomar decisiones y no quedarse paralizado frente al tremendo universo de información a que muchas personas pueden acceder, pero estoy convencido de que el acto de esperar, es decir, tomar el tiempo justo y necesario para digerir la información de la que disponemos y darle mil vueltas sistemáticamente explorando hasta donde cada uno es capaz y esforzarse en ese proceso creativo produce como por consecuencia la más refinada intuición posible.</div>
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Es por algo que cerca del 75% de los nuevos emprendimientos fracasan dentro de los primeros cinco años.</div>
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Es por algo que la personas "visionarias" en el mundo, que sí han sido beneficiado por la estrategia de la decisión rápida e intuitiva basada en la información imperfecta, se pueden contar con los dedos de la mano, un ínfimo porcentaje de la población total del planeta y por tanto una estrategia que no es ni recomendable, ni estratégicamente viable y mucho menos replicable para la mayoría de los emprenderos lectores de este artículo.</div>
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<a href="http://www.innovacion.gob.cl/columna/innovar-y-emprender-intuicion-o-racionalidad/">http://www.innovacion.gob.cl/columna/innovar-y-emprender-intuicion-o-racionalidad/</a></div>
<br />jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-71246457591497164862012-01-28T14:35:00.000-08:002012-01-28T14:35:30.286-08:00Comment on object culture<div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I wanted to post the below comment on Core77´s article:</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/chinese_manufacturing_part_1_getting_it_wrong_21619.asp?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+core77%2Fblog+%28Core77.com%27s+design+blog%29" target="_blank">Chinese Manufacturing, Part 1: Getting It Wrong</a> </div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">but wasn´t able to due to some nagging error so I decided to post it here instead.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"I imagine that back in the early 1900s, when these wheels were originally made, the manufacturers actually cared about the end user. American women, mostly, that worked with the singer machines and so, the manufacturer made sure that all the details were properly resolved, rounded edges, shiny and smooth paint coats, etc.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I have a hard time believing that a chinese manufacturer, or any other manufacturer in this case, would really be interested in the end user experience of someone still using an old singer sewing machine nowadays given the abundance of alternatives on the market.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">That may seem harsh, but whoever those people are, they don´t strike me as being much of a priority target market for any modern manufacturer, consumer goods provider or designer.</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The production volumes are too low, the turnover rate (obsolescence) too long and the margins barely viable which is why they´re made in china, because nobody else is even inclined to provide this service to a dwindling clientele. </div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It´s surprising that spare parts are actually still being made at all for a product that´s mainly out of circulation."</div>jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-20507805986814384622011-06-06T12:11:00.000-07:002011-06-06T12:11:45.728-07:00Respuesta a articulo "La derecha intentando tapar el sol con un dedo"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">volví encontrame con una entrevista que hicieron el año pasado con Inger Enkvist, quien hizo un estudio sobre "las claves del exito educacional finlandés" y lo que implica para mejorar la calidad de la educación en chile</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">hasta el momento (que voy recién en la mitad de la entrevista) hay 2 conclusiones que me parecen importante compartir:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">1. NO hay relación entre la cantidad de plata invertida y el rendimiento de los alumnos (resultados medidos en base a prueba PISA)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">2. la lectura, el lenguaje y la calidad de los profesores son los elementos claves que más contribuyen a un ambiente que facilita una educación de calidad..</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">al parecer entonces, retener buenos profesores es la clave para una educación de calidad, y es aquí que entre el tema del LUCRO..</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">los buenos profesores, me imagino, quieren ganarse la vida y acceder a un estilo de vida que les acomoda, por lo tanto van a ir donde estan las lucas, en este caso, a las univesidades que les entregan mejores condiciones de trabajo, lo que quizas es inevitable...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">aunque me parece bien lo que estan proponiendo, vale mencionar que en teoría el acceso universal a la educación, como derecho humana parece ser fundamental, pero conlleva necesariamente una aumento en la competitividad dentro del mercado laboral futuro..</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">bueno... ojala te sirva de algo... por ultimo otro punto de vista para comparar/criticar/reflexionar...</span>jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-11906035603844339982010-02-17T20:41:00.000-08:002010-02-17T22:29:13.941-08:00Interaction in the classroom: Assessment<div style="text-align: left;">So i was thinking about “standards” for self assessment after jotting down an anecdote that Daniel Pink mentioned in his interview with <a href="http://www.stevehargadon.com/2010/02/dan-pink-discussing-his-new-book-drive.html">Steve Hargadon in tonight´s Elluminate session</a>.. The point Mr. Pink made was that, sometimes students asses their own progress more critically than teachers do!</div><div><br /></div><div>After considering some personal doubts regarding the validity of my personal goals and how reasonable they are... i decided to try and chart all the types of evaluation that generally occur in the classroom...</div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Xw5RJg09MEiJrXCTSIaNT04iKJhyphenhyphen7-M7omdd6MjJk51hGlPRAWhZDQRStsBTva9CVSTeALrPt9QsG5v8rkwqQ7n18dxxCw2TivuD2vBdCtHmsbKOWcsnz-QugYze6i_QcuYtlTcgnH4/s320/fig-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439448806921508178" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 112px; height: 320px; " /></span><div>i started with these six:</div><div><br /></div><div>Teachers evaluate:</div><div>- student interaction with the content </div><div>- their own interaction with the content </div><div>- their own interaction with the students </div><div><br /></div><div>Students evaluate:</div><div>- their own interaction with the content </div><div>- their own interaction with the teacher </div><div>- the way the teacher interacts with the content </div><div><br /></div><div>[<i>see fig 1 left: T=teacher S=student C=content</i>]</div><div><br /></div><div>One of the interesting things about this over simplified diagram is that it demonstrates the symmetry of the relationship between student and teacher. Although many of these processes aren´t taken into consideration in most cases, by either student or teacher (and by extension their respective institution) i imagine that they do occur...</div><div><br /></div><div>The other thing that occurred to me is that, although its nice to imagine that both student and teacher share responsibility for tracking learning progress... it would probably only make sense in high school or at least in college/university contexts... but whereas in kindergarten the relationship is most likely to be productive in a hierarchical format, as the student continues his/her education, the opportunity presents itself for a shift in the traditional “power structure”, gradually conferring more responsibility for this aspect of education onto the students themselves... and in that way allowing for more authentic communication between learners.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9aUeIvZDgnzIcH-CbnZL7Jn1smNDdOuUTRPaHudZNuYCjOzW65N6QxZkCEM14pJj3AzDJT_MhoSro4na0YtTGxKT-vbEPFcdKRuviD3jQdX5dM-cVd-BU6gQQwjq8CjaVtOcXNE8BoA/s320/fig-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439449157924489714" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 181px; " /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">After looking at</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> fig 2*</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> (above) for a while, it dawned on me that there are really three “objects” that are the focus of constant scrutiny in the classroom... which led me to redraw the diagram in a this way... [</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">* in this diagram i just flattened all six interactions from fig 1 into one...</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">]</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi00OEXS_lH7KmPdPLKQ9gGzPKoSPTHI8WUZ-4eIy3AvcENaumnsoI8RkrHkTbGSniXAzz20vU8MMLksLkkEkpn820cWeJHB2x8s0PvsWYH9VI1rPriNETOD3KZZDFxpKzxSpD8okK8YRA/s320/fig-3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439450007342523170" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 199px; " /></span></div><div>If we imagine that each of the dotted lines in <i>fig 3</i> (above) are interactions (communaction of sorts) the relationship inside the classroom clearly becomes much more dynamic than the traditional model would imply... [<i>see fig 4 below</i>]</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRfxVZBIARy6-8IN96ynwOXKnCeRsfy32CV4VCGw1zkg52-kIo1kJxFnVIxse1RHPcitEVYXOD7txUVrxWUq8N5jVAje_uziuShTJPAQKNOQxma2zvUr1BGKZVDcE8yweoUcf8m3FuZmw/s320/fig-4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439450278809889298" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 261px; " /></span></div><div>In a very real sense, students have traditionally been disregarded as observers of their own progress/reality... a situation which distorts their role in the classroom, and cuts off many valuable opportunities for interaction among both participants. As far as i can tell, assessment has always been considered an integral part of learning... So my questions are <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;">¿at what point does learning to evaluate learning overshadow content learning? ¿are assessment and learning really the separate actions we typically think of them as?</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;"><a href="http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1311396300066992936aivlet">http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1311396300066992936aivlet</a></span></b></div>jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-6662334583578581132009-08-08T00:52:00.000-07:002009-08-08T04:31:15.802-07:00Reflexión sobre la calidad de información que se nos presenta a diarioHace una semana atrás leí <a href="http://www.elmostrador.cl/index.php?/noticias/articulo/marketing-universitario/">un articulo en El Mostrador</a> en línea que resalta algunas consecuencias que producen las actividades publicitarias que hacen anualmente las universidades en su búsqueda de un nuevo lote de jóvenes estelares y financiamiento estatal. Me llamó mucho la atención el hecho, que notó <a href="http://juanguillermotejeda.wordpress.com/">Juan Guillermo Tejeda</a>, de que estas actividades resultan muy desorientadoras para los jóvenes.<br /><br />Encuentro que la baja calidad informativa de la publicidad, es solamente un espejismo de lo que ocurre actualmente en las mismas salas de clases de muchas instituciones académicas que siguen operando bajo un modelo educativo tradicional.<br /><br />Este modelo, en el cual el profesor como evaluador autoritario transmite una serie de contenidos preestablecidos que los alumnos deben internalizar, no toma en cuenta la variedad de necesidades de información específica (intereses) que tiene cada alumno, situación análoga a lo que pasa con la publicidad, que en mi opinión obstaculiza bastante el aprendizaje personal, actividad generadora de nuestra identidad individual.<br /><br />El énfasis que nuestra sociedad ha puesto sobre la acumulación material, nos ha entrenado desde chico a postergar la exploración de lo que nos apasiona para hacer lo necesario para convertirnos en el arquetipo del profesional exitoso, validando así la falsedad que asemeja la estabilidad económica con la felicidad, hecho que desafortunadamente tomamos como consecuencia natural de nuestro diario vivir.<br /><br />En sus esfuerzos para entregar una base de conocimiento adecuado para que la mayor cantidad de personas pueda llevar a cabo sus proyectos de vida, las instituciones educativas han ido sacrificando la riqueza que conlleva el proceso de explorar nuestros propios intereses, para así producir profesionales capacitados en función del mercado.<br /><br />Dado esta situación, ¿Cómo no podemos entender la <a href="http://www.elmostrador.cl/index.php?/noticias/articulo/cuicos-flaites/">desilusión que frecuentemente sienten los alumnos</a> o al empleado que labora sin gusto en un puesto de trabajo que no le motiva, inspira, ni satisface? Es de este agotamiento emocional que se aprovecha el mecanismo publicitario actual, que nos impulsa a experimentar el mundo a través de los “frutos” que nos ofrece el mercado en vez de nuestra creatividad personal única.jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-34321747928027401802009-02-21T06:38:00.000-08:002009-02-21T07:07:47.282-08:00Some things students learn at schoolI imagine that at some point in everyone´s academic carreer we´ve been asked these types of questions:<div><br /></div><div>What is Biology? or What is economics?</div><div><br /></div><div>These questions, although they may seem reasonable when introducing new contento to students, I think they have<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> little perceived value in the eyes of students.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>It seems to me that students, by habit, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">already know that the teacher really isn´t looking for answers...</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Students know that the question has an answer, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">an answer that will be given to them by the teacher at some point...</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Students know, with almost complete certainty, that<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> any answer they offer up, won´t be exactly what the theacher is going to write on the board, or put on the screen...</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Students know, that<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> if they stay quiet long enough, the teacher is going to have to give them the answer </span>to move onto the next point, which is why many don´t even bother to try answering the question... ( a situation totally contradictory of how the real world works, where people won´t hang around to give you answers, before quickly finding someone else to solve their problems)</div><div><br /></div><div>In that instant, students switch into "sponge mode", ready to consume any type of information without really questioning any of it...</div><div><br /></div><div>In that instant, they are transformed from individual thinkers into some kind of automaton, which will make getting them to answer future question even that much more difficult after having established that there is a limit to which they can influence the course of their learning...</div><div><br /></div><div>Without knowing it perhaps, the teacher has hacked away at the student´s desire to learn, which many, or many, had in abundance at the begining of the class or semester...</div><div><br /></div><div>If first impresions really are important, then students look forward to a long and unmotivating semester, motivated only by the acquisition of the necessary grade to get over the class and forget what the hours, minutes and seconds they suffered through...</div><div><br /></div><div>Although posing these kinds of questions is 1 way of getting students to participate, asking questions that have little relevance to their daily lives is probably <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">not a recomendable strategy...</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe asking questions such as, What do you know about Biology, or Have they ever come into contact with any content relating to this topic? be it a movie, a book, an article or documentary could help in relating the subject to the students, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">demonstrating how the subject is directly related to their "big picture" of how the world works...</span></div><div><br /></div><div>In a world characterized by life styles that are increasingly more active, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">noone has the time or interest in responding to questions when they know that the person asking the them already has the answer they´re looking for.</span></div>jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-44022704846987586832009-02-20T19:05:00.000-08:002009-02-21T07:10:19.873-08:00Assesing learning in collaborative environmentsI recently, about half an hour ago, listened to an hour long pod cast ( <a href="http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/2009/02/05/individual-assessment-in-a-collaborative-world/">http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/2009/02/05/individual-assessment-in-a-collaborative-world/</a> ) about the challenges of assessing individual student progress in collaborative learning environments, hosted by the Center for Teaching Excellence.<div><br /></div><div>It seems like there is a great deal of speculation regarding what works and how it should be implemented. Among the most notable (according to me, a student) points were:</div><div><br /></div><div><ul><li>1. student/teacher colaboration on the definition of evaluation criteria</li><li>2. maintaining an open dialogue between teacher and students throughout the course</li><li>3. the importance of self evaluation by giving students time to reflect upon their own work</li><li>4. demonstrating by some means what top quality work can look like by showing work done by previous students in certain cases</li><li>5. incorporating peer feedback in the assesment of individual student´s work</li><li>6. the creation and maintenance of a portfolio which more clearly tracks progress, establishing concrete links to past works throughout a longer period of time<br /></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>As a design student, i´ve been fortunate in having some experience with a few of these evaluation methods... due to the nature of the discipline [of design] itself which provides room for creative thought, self critique, peer critique and feedback to name just a few... although I can´t be sure just how much of each of these are taken into account in the final grade by each teacher...</div><div><br /></div><div>However, as i was thinking about the challenge of assessing student´s progress, it ocurred to me that there might be other methods which could be considered as well... </div><div><br /></div><div>I. Evaluating the questions each student asks...</div><div><br /></div><div>This may sound rather strange at first, but hopefully I´ll be able to clear that up...</div><div><br /></div><div>Earlier this evening I skimmed over another post ( <a href="http://www.teach42.com/2009/02/12/its-not-an-assignment-its-a-creative-brief/">http://www.teach42.com/2009/02/12/its-not-an-assignment-its-a-creative-brief/</a> ) entitled "It´s not an assignment, it´s a creative brief" once again echoing the parrallel between the teaching/learning process and design methodology... </div><div><br /></div><div>Which led me to think about the some ideas i had played around with a few months ago... how <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">learning starts with just one question</span>... a question that interests me... one that i would be willing to explore, which would give me the freedom to experiment with new content and discover something which would most likely lead to more questions... </div><div><br /></div><div>here´s a simplified diagram of the process in broad strokes:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Question</span> #1 -> E<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">xperiment</span> -> D<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">iscover</span> -> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Q</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">uestion #2</span>, etc... </div><div><br /></div><div>basically generating a sustainable loop of personalized learning... </div><div><br /></div><div>I imagine having a list of questions, from the first to the last... demonstrating the sequence by which i arrived at the final result... in real world terms this means, that at the begining of the semester, i would start with question #1 and throughout the course of the semester would continue recording my questions in the order they came, till getting to number 100# for example (although its probable that the number could be considerably higher depending on the situation, which could also be part of the evaluation criteria...) </div><div><br /></div><div>So... by demonstrating that the last 20 questions are markedly more precise or complex than the first 20 questions, and by comparing this complexity to the results of the individual student´s work or colaborations, the teacher could theoretically make a more clear determination of that student´s progress</div><div><br /></div><div>the other thought that occurred to me was...</div><div><br /></div><div>II. Evaluating the relevance of a student´s ideas...<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>This one sounds less reasonable than the first, although there are some instances in which it could be applied at certain stages during the learning process...</div><div><br /></div><div>Part of the design process involves finding references and precedents in areas relating to the main topic of the project, which allow the designer to create a solid foundation upon which to construct his/her solution... </div><div><br /></div><div>When looking back on the project, it should be clear which elements from the final result were extrapolated from these initial references... and as the investigation phase of the project runs in parrallel to much of its development, these coincidences could be used as benchmarks in determining project progress...</div><div><br /></div><div>In other words, the later stages of any work should be related in some way to earlier stages by some landmark object, whether it be an image, a sample of text, video, podcast, etc... or even another idea originally created by someone else... the key being that these landmark influences be recorded in such a manner that they may be called upon later as evidence of foundation, proof that the student´s idea is related to some previously relevant content.</div><div><br /></div><div>Both these methods can be accomplished, i think, if a carefull log of progress is kept throughout the activity, be it in the form of a diary, video, notebook, audio recording etc... (or a combination of all the aforementioned) although it would requiere a shift from traditional note taking strategies which focus mainly on external information to more personalized analysis and reflection of that content, emphasizing a student´s interaction with the information rather than the focusing on the transference of content itself.</div>jean-baptistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009noreply@blogger.com4