"Hi Juanita, what a perfect first conversation. Yes, I am reading your book now! It's one of two I'm requiring for my course. The other one is "Cultivating Communities of Practice" by Wenger, McDermott, Snyder. So I'm…"
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Dr. Neal Shambaugh replied to Amy Lenzo's discussion 'Introductions'
"My near term priority here is to introduce the World Cafe Community idea/process/principles to my graduate students in a course this fall called "Cognition in Social Contexts." Rather than starting off a course with the usual theory, I…"
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- Please indicate World Café experience in one or more of the following roles.
- I'm New to the World Cafe
- If you are new to the World Cafe, would you please share how you heard about this community?
- The World Cafe book by Juania Brown; I plan on implementing the process/principles in a graduate course Fall 2010. I'm using the world cafe process as a way for students to directly experience issues of importance to them and providing the backdrop for understanding communities of practice.
- In what field is the primary focus of your World Café work?
- Education
- What knowledge, skills or resources would you like to contribute to the World Café community to help it grow and flourish?
- * Instructional design: systematic design of educational events
* Future design: my term for preparing people, groups, communities to deal with the routine, complex, and impossible problems facing them.
* Design thinking: helping people to leverage the power of design
- What would you most like to receive from this community?
- Share experiences with those starting Cafe's and taking action on matters important to them
- Would you like to share a Web or Blog address?
- http://web.me.com/nshambaugh/MediaCenter/About_Me.html
- What haven't we asked that you'd like to share?
- Background:
15 years college professor
15 years video producer
12 years radio announcer
06 years consultant
I also write children stories and short novels
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- At 3:00am on June 17, 2010,
Benjamin Aaron Degenhart said… - Hello Dr. Neal, a warm welcome to this Online Community of Learning and Practice.
Sounds very good what you can contribute! I hope this space is inspiring you to share some of your knowledge.
And great that you are planning on using it in your course! Maybe this community space can help you preparing and i would love to read how you worked with it.
You are very welcome to write an introduction about yourself here. And you are cordially invited to our second World Cafe call on June 27th.
May this space serve you well...
Please let me know if i can help you here, best wishes,
Benjamin [Global Communications team member]
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