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Comment on Monday Video: Students Helping Students by virginia Yonkers

virginia Yonkers — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:34:57 +0000

We have a very conservative Institutional Review Board. The project as described on the blog may be construed as falling under research with human subjects. Any project in which there are interviews that would be available for any one outside of the other students or the instructor, at our school, is a possible research project and must be approved by the IRB.

Of course, this makes it very difficult at times to create projects like the one identified in the video because the approval process can take up to 3 months. And if it is deemed as “research” all the people interviewed would need to sign releases. As a result, most instructors will create a project that will not go outside of the classroom. This makes it difficult sometimes to create “authentic” tasks. A classmate of mine who was a researcher at a school of pharmacy noted that it was more difficult to do anything non-traditional than at her school, where drugs are tested on a regular basis!

Comment on Monday Video: Students Helping Students by Nancy White

Nancy White — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:13:31 +0000

Virginia, what a wonderful idea. I’m not sure what you mean about the barrier to doing it as a classroom project. Would you say more please?

Comment on Monday Video: Students Helping Students by virginia Yonkers

virginia Yonkers — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:06:50 +0000

At our school, we (students and faculty) have set up a scholarship fund for students who are from Haiti or have relatives in Haiti. Such a poor country means that those who had little to begin with, now must count on funds from the US to survive. As a result, their family studying in the US must make the decision to continue in school or to use that money for their family.

A fund was set up therefore, so students would not have to make that choice and could pay for their tuition AND send money/supplies to their family. This video project would really help to put a face to the project.

Unfortunately, our IRB is so strict, that I doubt we could do such a project through a classroom project.

Comment on Facilitation Card Decks by Patrick Lambe

Patrick Lambe — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:12:25 +0000

Hi Nancy

Thanks for mentioning our KM Method Cards! I’m delighted you have found them useful. We also have a set of “Organisation Culture Cards” which are great for getting conversations going around values, behaviours and change in organisations. They are somewhat related to Arthur’s Zoo Cards, but are not designed with profiling in mind, more about the broader organisational culture perspective. And they are designed as playing cards, so you can play solitaire or poker with them and claim you are working on culture analysis if you get caught! Seriously, there is a “culture poker” game on the http://www.methodcards.net tips site. I’ll send you a set to play with.

Best

Patrick

Comment on Tools for Finding Creative Commons Images by Joitske hulsebosch

Joitske hulsebosch — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:27:43 +0000

I use zemanta, works great! I automatically links to the source (though you may have to hover your mouse over the image to see the source…)

Comment on Reading Joyce’s Dubliners With Imaginary Friends by It Takes Reading A Favorite Book… « (the new) bgblogging

It Takes Reading A Favorite Book… « (the new) bgblogging — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:49:11 +0000

[...] Nancy White’s post about finding an Italian copy of the book, and then links to audio recordings of the collection got me to thinking about how important it is to me to read aloud and to listen to others reading. And how sound creates such a problem in translation, especially for a writer so sensitive to the soundscape. I just read the first story aloud to myself, and wish I could hear my fellow readers’ voices on the stories–not someone hired to read–but those trying to understand the text alongside me as part of this exploration. It would bring me closer to them as they respond and it would, I am sure, bring me ever closer to the stories and make them live again. [...]

Comment on Reading Joyce’s Dubliners With Imaginary Friends by virginia Yonkers

virginia Yonkers — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:46:05 +0000

Believe me, you’re going to need all the help you can get in understanding Joyce! I had to read it in college, and I could have used some motivators outside of class.

I have an idea about the book. Why not see what you can get out of the Italian after you have read it in English. This is how I taught myself Dutch and became fluent in French (reading in context on a topic I was familiar with). You could learn two birds with one stone! (I’m with you, I just have a problem with cutting up or even throwing out a book).

Comment on Tools for Finding Creative Commons Images by January 2010 Informal Learning Hotlist

January 2010 Informal Learning Hotlist — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:32:35 +0000

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Comment on Belated Reflections from “Journalism that Matters” PNW by Nancy White

Nancy White — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:56:28 +0000

Good to hear from you, Arjun. I think you would have really enjoyed JTM. Maybe you need to help organize one up in BC?

Comment on Facilitation Card Decks by uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:26:34 +0000

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