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"Make a photo without composing by looking through the viewfinder: over your head, from the hip, on the ground, etc."
I let the cam rest on the table and randomly pressed the trigger quite many times.
-I had decided that if I'll make it - it will be white chocolate blueberry cake and a huge latte. Today the results were made public. I made it. I'm now officially #TIMO2010 M.Sc. Eng. in Knowledge Management student at Lappeenranta University of Technology. I've now for the first time got an official context for what I've in fact been involved with for last six years.
My major subject has been within conventional engineering and to change it into KM required a new entry exam. The last and crucial stage of it was a twenty minute interview during which you had to demonstrate more motivation than the rest of applicants. I've been quite worried. The reason is that I show my motivation daily in my social open competence networks. ...I asked in the interview - how much of the Master Program will be web studying. The reply was that ...you know we have blackboard for distributed group work. But web learning. No. Not really planned.
The Lappeenranta KM unit is the largest and first established in the Nordic Countries. The unit has been nominated as a national quality learning development provider during 2001-2006 and again from this year on. ...No plans for utilizing social networked learning. Confused? I'm not really badly confused. I recognized a more than a weak signal which promises fabulous challenges ahead.
The real reason - in addition to the above news - why I'm thanking my networks for a mind blowing week is that I've been collecting material for participating open edfutures.com/ course. The process culminates in discovering the following continuum:
Socio-cultural competence --- understanding conflicting and complex unlearning processes as a source of energy in between --- capacity building and coping
The next week is for completing the prez. Good to continue everything together with you all :)).
...what was your favorite memory? Illustrate it with a photograph."
Looking back... I immediately recall an in a way sharp, but simultaneously hazy January sun. We had just arrived to Oulu, Finland. All the buzz around the #innovaatiojuna #innovationtrain unconference reached its culmination. It's still becoming visible how incredibly many threads of relationships, network connections, ideas, un-everything it takes to create, re-create and implement new - not actually always totally new, but - different ways of emergent action.
For me personally THE thing 'round the Oulu workshops was learning that transformative approach within inclusion of a new member into a community, group or a team follows the wisdom of Moominmamma. I blogged about it in May. Summarizing the Moomin story I concluded:
"...Sharing and analyzing this process is my way of creating a possible trend. I believe in MOOCs. I want to learn to utilize them more. I want to learn to teach and run them. That requires making them less frightening. If someone still wants to come tinkling behind in the beginning, even that must be recognized, accepted and supported."
I'm not at all so sure of the 'coming tinkling behind' phenomenon any more. When creating new ways of innovating like MOOC:s and un-conferences, all tinkling is not only allowed but necessary. Taking side paths gradually leads into emerging patterns. The A-HA moment occurs when you realize that after all, you were not alone.
2010 has for quite long periods of time still meant wandering more or less alone. Needing to explain and re-explain what can and will be true one day when all the million obstacles have step by step been removed.
You see the path taking a curve...? You too, see the light approaching...?
...today. Make a photo from 1' (30 cm) off the ground and post it."
WHY TO PARTICIPATE A PHOTO A DAY PROCESS IF YOU ALREADY DON'T
Having a sick day today - and in order to keep the @dailyshoot project going I chose the most simple possible alternative: Measuring 30 cm from the floor beside the sofa... As the result was a much more interesting angle I ever thought - it made me list, why I keep recommending 'a photo a day' in some format for everyone:
1) In your next job interview: When you are asked (and you will be:)) "how do you exactly demonstrate having taken concrete action to change your ways of working"; how do you show you are serious when you mention about your ability not only to adapt to new things but also encourage others... - You'll refer to your daily photo(s) archive(s).
2) Your daily photo process has helped you to understand that innovative moves in your organization / work in general are done in so small steps, that everyone can take at least one step every day. The steps size of a photo are a most suitable way to learn the process of - not completing innovations at times (too seldom, too alone), but accepting innovative thinking as your daily driving force.
3) The duration of the time varies - as always when it comes to getting personal learning results leading into a different kind of impact in your organization / network... - but assuredly you'll begin to see concrete results. The first one is the ability to handle a process that requires - no matter how little at times, but - a daily action, every day.
4) I consider learning to adopt a daily routine the most fundamental benefit of participating a daily photo process. The reason is that - although it sounds so simple - it's so from another planet compared to how we have been taught to work and study: Make schedules, follow deadlines, prepare a presentation for the kick-off - and the next to the concluding workshop?!, prepare for meetings, seminars, aim at BIG targets like getting your texts published etc. This all prevents us from seeing everything around us from a different angle. It prevents us from making innovative changes real.
5) There are two instructions necessary to follow when beginning 'a daily photo' personal learning process: 1) Make a photo every day. Don't get stuck with thinking that other people take more advanced photos. They do. That's the way you learn. When you keep repeating you'll reach levels you never expected when you posted your 1st photo. 2) Choose a forum / forums where you share your photos. Make friends. This is how networked innovation is learned in practice.
Welcome to join: dailyshoot.com/ Flickr groups: www.flickr.com/groups/366photos/ www.flickr.com/groups/edtech-365-2010/ I use picasa for my 2010/365: picasaweb.google.com/ConnectIrmeli/2010365# - choose one of these alternatives or discover your own :)
...Monday! Find a metallic subject today and make an interesting photo."
I break a rule today and post two @dailyshoots as these two just belong together. I promise I won't make it a habit. The first "metal" is an abandoned lifter of the former bus station of the small Finnish town Riihimäki. The way the sun rays appeared in the pic is a total coincidence. I've followed #sbenyc and #140conf conferences from New York yesterday and today and familiarized with how to proceed with the first week of eight of #edfutures course. I thought that this pic is an excellent metaphor for the weeks ahead. Like the Spring sun and bikes promised a new tomorrow for the old building.
Only after moments, there was wet snow on the metal eaves!! When thinking of the above metaphor, it became like a reminder, that there WILL be difficulties. Don't be too optimistic. ....but the sun and new entrepreneurs ARE there somewhere. That's why I can't separate the two pics.
...your own filter! Shoot through something translucent or transparent. Make a photo with a unique look."
A scene through a glass plate - the Mikkeli Cathedral. I discovered the idea for today's @dailyshoot by design-spotting at my Mom's. The Mikkeli Cathedral is the church where my Mom had her first Lutheran communion. A link to a picture of the catheral @ wikipedia here
The idea of "my own filter" - or rather how to get rid of it - is very actual to me. That's what I've understood to be one core content of massive open online courses like #CCK, #edfuture, #CritLit... - Become aware of what causes your current filtering of the world --> begin to recognize how filters used by other people differ from yours --> find common spots, recreate understanding --> help your community and other communities to grow toward less limiting filtering - both on individual and collective level...
...pattern somewhere-maybe a brick sidewalk or ceiling tiles-and make a photo of an interesting slice of it."
I've reflected how we do @dailyshoot really for learning making innovative thinking a daily routine in some of my previous shoots. I got one more a-HA moment today.
I've got a lot to read & write and therefore decided to make a pic of the above fence, because it was the closest (within shortest walking distance) grid pattern I became to think of. I had paid attention to it a couple of days ago - when always registering items to be stored in my mind for the shots of some forthcoming day.
I was really pleased today when discovering the brick sidewalk as an extra effect :). The previous time I had quickly thought of zooming the fence into the opposite direction - with no bricks! Repeating innovation:
-Learn to store small extra details & things in your mind -> gradually learn to build patterns of them
-You can be sure that the day arrives when you'll be hilarious of combining them in an instant and surprising way; as a result of an unexpected idea-impulse rising within your network.