tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92081094869683324412024-03-20T19:23:54.300-07:00Edu Tech StoriesDiscussing all things relating to Education, Technology Adoption, Organisational Culture and Start Ups... And the Role that Sales plays in EdTechWilliam Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.comBlogger317125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-59306703101868764332020-03-13T06:56:00.000-07:002020-03-13T07:31:36.581-07:00Broken EdTech Treasure<div style="text-align: center;">
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The last decade working in EdTech in Scotland has brought with it a lot of ups and downs... This post includes some of the 'Broken Treasures' from the last few years.<br />
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EdTech in Scotland sure ain't easy and it needn't be! There are a number of High Impact/Low Cost solutions that would be easy to implement.<br />
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<a href="https://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/jessica-bruder/psychological-price-of-entrepreneurship.html">The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship</a> looks at the stresses and strains of trying to make new ideas work... and how it can be a tough road even for the successful entrepreneurs!!<br />
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Cory Pein's expose of life in Silicon Valley in 'Live Work Work Work Die' highlights how for every successful Unicorn company there are lots of people who, like Las Vagas, are attracted by the bright lights and promises of riches... but end up leaving empty handed.<br />
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He tells of one tech entrepreneur who was the next big thing in tech, got venture capital funding etc, but the idea didn't take off... when he met up with this guy later he was a waiter at a mid-sized restaurant and was the happiest he had been in years.<br />
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People I have collaborated with over the last few years have had a problem with the level of transparency that I have demonstrated. Part of the reason for this transparency is because of:<br />
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1) <b>Knowledge Transfer </b>- I am keen to share my experiences of life in startup land, edtech and trying to make the transition from out dated sales methods to in-demand community building.<br />
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2) <b>Story Telling</b> - Having helped the authors of books like Spy Quest & New Power in education I'm looking to help Rough Diamond and Be More Pirate in a way that kids as young as 5-6 will be interested in and get excited about.<br />
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One area that I have been more and more transparent in the last 18 months is with regard to our personal situation which highlights just how tough EdTech/start up land in Scotland can be. The blurring of sharing personal information professionally has not been easy.<br />
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November 2018 I used this blog to ask for help with a desperate crowd funder.<br />
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Last April the stress of it all caught up with me, which is when I read 'Roger Hicks Considers' article and his take on Broken Treasure II in Amateur Photographer<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"We all have 'treasures' which we cannot bear to throw away; which are of little or no objectionable use; and which may not even be reparable. Could you bear to throw away a 400 year old book? Or a china colt you bought when you were seven, even now his leg is broken? Or the silver watch your mother bought you for your 21st birthday? Even the 'sepia' lightning is nostalgic. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">It doesn't matter what your personal treasures may be; but I would be very sorry for you if you had none. An old teddy bear? A propelling pencil with your name engraved on it, which doesn't actually propel any more? </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">This will be my last ever Final Analysis. I am dying: cancer of the liver and pancreas. I may even be dead by the time you read this. Or I may not; the doctors are understandably cagey. For me, now, life itself is a broken treasure."</span> Roger Hicks April 2019 <br />
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I'm proud of what I've achieved in the education space over the last 20 years, but things can't continue as they are, so I thought it would be timely to pull together just a few of the 'Broken Treasures' I've collected in EdTech on the high seas of startup land in #GoDo #ScotlandCan Glasgow.<br />
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Here are 13 'Broken Treasures' from my time in EdTech in the last few years.<br />
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As Ev William's Blogger and Twitter have been instrumental in giving me a voice and with these projects... I've split these memories between the two.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1044794445"><br /></a>Here's the Twitter Thread: <a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238451760714395648">https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238451760714395648</a><br />
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<b>June 2009 - Flying High</b><br />
A job that I entered at £16,000 a year in 2001 I managed to turn into £60,000 through being both versatile and excelled at every role I held.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238451760714395648">https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238451760714395648</a><br />
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<b>November 2012 - Startup on a Refurbished Shoestring</b><br />
When this company hit financial difficulty, despite being established in Glasgow and the majority of staff being based in Scotland, everything was relocated to the London Office.<br />
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The relocation package offered was £25,000. From £60,000 in Glasgow to £25,000 for London life? Erm... I said No Thanks!! At the time. If I knew then what I know now I wonder what I'd have done.<br />
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However, while I was extremely proud of what I'd done from 2003-2009 - including taking an idea from concept to working with 50% of UK Further Education Colleges with 100% repeat business within three years - not much of this work appears to have lasted.<br />
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I want my working life to both make a difference and to last... I decided to start up on my own.<br />
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With a limited budget I got a refurbished laptop in late 2012 for £149<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238452984729739264">https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238452984729739264</a><br />
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<b>October 2013 - Content Marketing</b><br />
Outside of email I had no personal digital presence until 2011 but was advised by the then head of UK Education for Microsoft<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">'If you want to be in EdTech today, you need to have an online presence'</span></div>
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In 2011 & 2012 I wrote a number of reports for FE, which were well received.<br />
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In 2013 I wrote my EdTech Report 'Developing Relationships and Delivering Value' which OCR expressed an interest in.<br />
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This report led to an interview with OCR for a senior post, but no luck.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238453629469765633">https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238453629469765633</a><br />
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<b>July 2014 - Leaving FE</b><br />
As all of my connections were in UK Further Education, it made sense for my business plan to focus on this area.<br />
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Unfortunately I didn't see that the effects of 2008 'Austerity' (while giving the banks billions) had froze innovation in the sector.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1044794429"><br /></a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238454188876730369">https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238454188876730369</a><br />
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In July 2014 I achieved more in six weeks with US connected educators than I did in two years in FE when I helped EdShelf Founder, Mike Lee, to successfully crowdfund $30,000 to save his company.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1044794431"><br /></a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238455356470239232">https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238455356470239232</a><br />
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<b>December 2015 - Building Something Together?</b><br />
Sharing a blog post about a shared interest - digital citizenship - led to a Skype call and, two months later a global event had taken place.<br />
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Given my experiences with not having much to show for almost 10 years at the startup above, the first thing I now do is to check out an organisations core values.<br />
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The core values of this organisation spoke to me... but turned out to be nothing more than a cat poster.<br />
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As were the promises of payment, job offers and equity in an enterprise I was constantly told 'we were building together'<br />
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However, before all the drama there was a payment made in December 2015 in recognition of the time and effort put in between Nov-Dec 2015. So it's one of those 'Broken Treasures'<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238456571065257986">https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238456571065257986</a><br />
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<b>April-July 2016 - Hot Shot Silicon Valley Start Up</b><br />
When I was told of the redundancy in my previous role the first thing I did was to write down my new goals...<br />
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1) Work for a Hot Shot Silicon Valley Start-Up and/or<br />
2) Work for one of 'The Big Three' (Microsoft, Google or Apple)<br />
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The reason? Because those guys both take culture seriously and know how to scale ideas so they last!<br />
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In 2016, thanks to a connection made via Sarah Thomas and the friendship of James Stanbridge... I achieved this goal... YAY!<br />
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Unfortunately the first attempt at remote working proved challenging and non-payment (After James left the organisation) meant this experience also became a 'Broken Treasure' (Careful what you wish for folks!)<br />
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<b>December 2017 - The Christmas Gift </b>Times were tough and someone who's become a very dear friend sent presents from the US for our kids... Unfortunately there were customs charges that we didn't have the money to pay for... so they were returned.<br />
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This 'broken treasure' is dogeared as it serves as a bookmark in one of my favourite books I read often, to remind me there are kind people in the world.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1044794435"><br /></a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238457896456814593">https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238457896456814593</a><br />
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<b>July 2018 - Rebooting The Well's #YOYOW... Adding some JOI</b>As a result of my involvement with 'Connected Educator Appreciation Day' #CEduAD, which I had worked on since 2015 I connected with an organisation who told me about their 'JOI Compass' which, as you can see from the scribblings, I quickly pirated!<br />
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I seem to do and say lots that benefits others but the actions have not always benefited me, hopefully this will help ;)<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238458633098334208">https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238458633098334208</a><br />
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With the help of Scottish Government funding, this organisation was looking to hire me but there was an issue with the funding criteria. Yet another broken treasure.<br />
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NB A tidier version of the JOI Compass can be found at '<a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/12/an-edtech-stories-legend.html">An EdTech Stories Legend</a>' and on the #YOYOWJOI hashtag.<br />
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<b>September 2018 - Repossessed (Again!)</b><br />
Start-ups are tough and I knew what I hoped to achieve in 2011/12 would be more than a bit of a challenge.<br />
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By August 2018 due to the various non-payments - It's startup land, it happens! - the only home our kids had ever known was repossessed.<br />
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By September 2018 we had a family member who was terminally ill, we then find all our possessions that were in storage were now at risk.<br />
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Two months later, the day after my Mother-in-Laws funeral, I would put a desperate crowd fund together.<br />
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The 23 people who contributed to this are constantly in our thoughts.<br />
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<b>November 2018 - There Will Be Storms Child</b><br />
By now professionally and personally running on empty, I volunteer to go onto the 'Fair Start Scotland' program and in February during one of their Job Club sessions I switch from being the client to teacher for a day as I shared everything that I had done over the last few years.<br />
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The staff listening to my story were beyond amazed with it all.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1044794439"><br /></a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238460369628250113">https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238460369628250113</a><br />
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Being someone that wanted to see a return to 'The Well' since 2015, as well as seeing where the experiment of big social media of the 2010-2014/5 was headed as a direct result of what people like Howard Rheingold did after that space became predictable 30 years ago - I should not have been surprised at the results.<br />
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The founders of The Well founded a space that punched above it's weight, but struggled to make any money... When it did get investment and became more corporate, the space wasn't the same.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Capitalism wants to keep you in your cubicle and have you spend as much as possible... What happens if we dismember the tribe" </span>Well Founder Stewart Brand via Katie Hefnar's book.<br />
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<b>March 2019 - Tedx Presentation</b><br />
In March it was suggested that I submit a proposal at TedxGlasgow where the theme was 'Connecting and Empowering,' which I did.<br />
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The proposal was not accepted but, as someone that has struggled financially in Scotland's non-existent EdTech startup scene, it was a fantastic exercise for me.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238461919956291590">https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238461919956291590</a><br />
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<b>June 2019 - ISTE #MIEBoom</b><br />
Playing truant and taking my youngest son to a school to make a Skype call with his favourite author, SpyQuest's David Goutcher, was a real highlight of my professional career.<span id="goog_164606240"></span><br />
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Having Andrea Tolley (@TolleyA) present on this at ISTE last year and helping my son to create a movement of his own has been a joy.<br />
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The fact that this may be an unfinished project is another 'Broken Treasure'<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238463540337487872">https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1238463540337487872</a>William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-67579677985128601262020-02-25T02:50:00.000-08:002020-03-13T03:24:16.297-07:00Six Degrees of Separation: #SkypeMS Book ChallengeAs Scotland trended on social media when an MP arranged for Drag Queen 'Flow Job' to visit a school to read to primary school children... This post explores an idea where connected educators and school children could empower their class to have more appropriate role models visit their school.<br />
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Around this time last year I was reading Marc Smith's <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/voices-from-the-well-the-logic-of-the-virtual-commons/">1992 College Thesis 'Voices from the Well'</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Analyzing-Social-Media-Networks-NodeXL/dp/0123822297">'Analyzing Social Networks using NODEXL'</a> where I found out about the documentary<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rzxAyY7D7k"><b>Connected: Six Degrees of Separation</b></a></div>
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Over the last two years I've been supporting efforts to make an unconference/Edcamp and a related 'Skype Master Student' idea work.<br />
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Over the last 5 years I've been involved with efforts to make Tweets, class teddies as well as people connect virtually and 'F2F/IRL'<br />
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The early online community <a href="https://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html">'The Well'</a> and how this space punched above its weight has never been far from my mind, as well as how <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/opinion/stewart-brand-hippie-silicon.html">Stewart Brand changed the world, twice</a> by connecting people from different groups or 'tribes' which I've also found can have interesting and productive results.<br />
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Related to this is the fact that I have a dream skype call I'd like my 9 year old's school to make with people like Stewart and Ben Novak... Inspirational people who truly have changed the world.<br />
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However, getting a controversial speaker with some questionable tweets to accompany Mahri Black to a school in Paisley appears easier than to have these game changing influencers skype into my sons school???<br />
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Some critical friends tell me that getting change in Scottish education takes 10 years... well my 9 year old will be 19 when this change comes, or correspondence from Education Scotland suggests that<br />
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'We hope our 2030 STEM 'vision' is reassures you that we are on top of things'<br />
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A 2030 'Vision'? Too little too late for a 9 year old in 2020 and his class mates, I'm afraid.<br />
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I've seen some amazing collaboration result from the 'Shallow Engagement' of that first Skype call developing into meaningful collaboration and 'Deep Engagement' a few months after making an introduction.<br />
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In 2017 my son skipped school to help his favourite author to <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/11/digcitsummit-spyquest-mission-help.html">recruit Westquarter Primary School's class teddy Ellie the Elephant</a>.<br />
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Last year Andrea Tolley presented this project at the <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/06/digcitsummit-spyquest-mission-part-ii.html">Microsoft Innovaive Educator Boom event at ISTE</a><br />
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I re-watched the Connected film last week and wondered if we could replicate the 40 packages that were sent to MIT and came up with the<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Connected - Six Degrees of Separation Book Challenge</span></b></div>
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We are going to be sending the 11 books below - among others - to people we know on a first name basis and will follow the model of the social experiment from the film and see if they can make it to the intended destination within six connections (or less). <br />
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Among the books we'll be sending include:<br />
<b><br />For Kids</b><br />
Wonkey Donkey<br />
The Alchemist<br />
The Little Prince<br />
Spy Quest Polybius<br />
Spy Quest Cursed Diamond<br />
Wagon Train Adventure<br />
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<b>For Kids & Adults</b><br />
The Well<br />
Buzzing Communities<br />
Virtual Communities<br />
Analyzing Social Networks Using NodeXL<br />
Give and Take<br />
Things a Little Bird Told Me<br />
New Power<br />
Rough Diamond<br />
Be More Pirate<br />
World Gone Social<br />
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<b><br />Adult PD</b></div>
Atlas Shrugged<br />
Inside Out The Microsoft Story<br />
The Third Policeman<br />
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This is a project that started in October 2015 as, when I visited <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/10/digital-learning-pd-with-larbert-high.html">Larbert High School's PD Day</a>, I left my copies of Katie Hafner's 'The Well' and Richard Millington's 'Buzzing Communities' with a member of the English Staff.<br />
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In January 2016 The Alchemist made it's way from Glasgow to Boston within on connection.<br />
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In November 2017 my son gave his copy of both Spy Quest books to a kind kid he met at The Reception of Westquarter Primary School.<br />
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In April 2019 he handed Wonkey Donkey into the team at Be Yonder, by June it had virtually made it's way to ISTE via Greeneville Middle School<br />
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Others are about to be sent.<br />
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The hope here is that 'Connected Educators' will get more connected and the book challenge will see them collaborate in the not too distant future... I wonder how big this will grow between now and World Book Day 2021<br />
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The rationale here regarding the classes that are 'unconnected,' like my 9 year old kids' school is that there are two common traits with most educators:<br />
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1) "For the sake of the kids" is a true statement<br />
2) "A love of reading and life long learning" usually applies<br />
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In today's paper alone there is news of 11,000 jobs going along with the 150,000 retail jobs in 2018 to go with the 175,000 in 2019 as some 40,000 retail outlets closed their doors due to online shopping.<br />
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Community and movement building is and will continue to be an in-demand skill, but it's not being taught at any of my kids' schools... so we're teaching it - as best we are able to - at home.<br />
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A 9 year old student encouraging his school class to agree to getting their faviourite author to visit and them facilitating a dream skype call with others may be a bit of a stretch...<br />
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But he sure can arrange for a book with a letter where they 'Show their Friendship First' as Dave Kerpen puts it and/or a '5 minute favour' and sharing their faviourite book <b><u><i>IS</i></u></b> something they can achieve.<br />
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Maybe this will lead to the author of the book visiting their school and skyping with the class that they sent their books to?<br />
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Only time will tell... Hopefully we won't be waiting til any 2030 STEM Vision to see the results.<br />
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...And perhaps some MP/MSPs will be as enthusiastic as this as they are about giving Flow Jobs access to schools in their constituencies?William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-11744209137189006732019-12-02T18:14:00.000-08:002019-12-03T02:20:22.777-08:00An EdTech Stories Legend...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This post contains the legend to over 200 articles that are included in the #SeaTurtlePirates hashtag, which was set up as knowledge transfer for educators and the @BeMorePirate community in February.<br />
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As well as 16 short Twitter stories in 5-20 Tweet threads.<br />
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<b>Sales to #Cmgr</b><br />
In 2010 I realised that my current skill set of traditional sales and marketing were becoming less and less effective or welcome in the education/EdTech space.<br />
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Since then I have been reskilling to include the more in-demand skills of content marketing, inbound marketing, social selling and community management.<br />
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Since finding out about the #Cmgr community (Community Management) in 2014 thanks to a quick Tweet from @TameraRV during BETT, I've done my best to follow the CMAD business objective of<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Our business objective, if you will, in hosting these 24 hours of panels is to reach as many people as possible to educate them on the community industry"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In Scotland and within my education network. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>#Cmgr Support</b><br />I have done this in a number of ways including </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1) Supporting educators with EdChats (#UKFEChat, #StartUpEduChat/#EdTechBridge) and projects that were important to them (#SaveEdShelf, #DigCitSummit, #Get2ISTE, the CMAD inspired #CEduAD).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2) Research and data curation</span></span><br />
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3) Attempts at knowledge transfer<br />
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Ideas that are 100% sound but not ready yet require explanation, but the first time it's suggested the posts are too long and/or the idea is too abstract... only for it to be beyond obvious a few years later that it doesn't need any explanation.<br />
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This has happened with most projects. In November 2015 I suggested a #BlackFriday for education... 4 years and three attempts on the idea got traction on Friday and I've no doubt it will take off in 2020.<br />
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Last June I suggested an EdTech incubator with a strong #Cmgr provision... and feel this idea is also closer to getting traction.<br />
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The third point above has also proved to be tricky... Educators are time poor and there's no easy way to either<br />
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1) Convince people that what you have to say has value or to<br />
2) Encourage them to read 100+ articles<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My first attempt at this was with curating this Community Manager Resources <a href="https://declara.com/collection/8b9606cc-7109-4d19-b856-4d4ffd90f9b5/post" style="background-color: white; color: #007cbb; line-height: 18.48px;">Community Manager Resources</a>. </span><br />
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My second attempt was in February when we created the #SeaTurtlePirates hashtag.<br />
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The hope here was to share a little about our experiences with building edu movements, and share resources we found useful in a way that adults and children (Whether teachers and students or parents and children can learn about building movements together... Especially quiet people who don't have a voice).<br />
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It was no easy feat to try to make the thread make sense whether scrolling up or down and attempting to make the links relevant to adults and kids, but the feedback has been positive.<br />
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The third attempt was via <a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1199667979350351873">this thread</a> which consists of 16 stories/threads that are made up of 5-20 Tweets.<br />
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This latest attempt has been to look for the 'bright spots' and, in this case has come from the unlikely source, the unholy Bannon/Trump alliance... They have demonstrated how you can get ideas to 'stick' on social media.Thank you Steve!<br />
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Articles relating to the early online community The Well like Howard Rhiengold's Virtual Communities, Marc Smiths 'Voices from The Well' and the Epic Saga of The Well feature regularly in the hashtags and stories below... as does 'How Superman Defeated the KKK'<br />
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These articles, along with story telling, the ability to edit and community building hold the key to the last two goals that we are exploring...<br />
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1) Seeing a return to The Well's mantra of YOYOW (With a #YOYOWJOI twist) and<br />
2) Answering Tim Berners-Lees call to fight #ForTheWeb<br />
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Can't see the bickering 'lying' political classes doing either any time soon... can you?<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>#SeaTurtlePirates
Hashtag <br />(Knowledge Transfer... With a little fun sprinkled in there too)<br />
</b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BsMzc9mMs"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Walking Dead Bad Lip Reading</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=yYlTJFqVd08"><span style="line-height: 115%;">How Pirates Changed the Course of History, and
how you can too</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/almost-half-deprived-areas-glasgow-14910441"><span style="background: white; letter-spacing: -0.75pt; line-height: 115%;">Almost
half of Britain’s most deprived areas of the last 40 years are in Glasgow</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY5vs2WtlKM"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Yertle the Turtle</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130802112108-7374576-this-will-be-the-1-business-skill-of-the-next-5-years"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This Will be the Number 1 Business
Skill of the Next 5 Years</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Secret Structure of Great Talks</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVVick2kf8"><span style="line-height: 115%;">How to Start a Cultural Revolution</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/05/be-more-pirate-pirate-code.html"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Be More Pirate Code</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=2300999"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Skypeathon 2015 & 6 Virtual Field
Trips ZeeMap</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7rD86WhtvA"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Sea of Thieves Trailer</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1092950237004685314"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Alan Turing Quote</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"> (Tweet)<br />
</span><a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1092979817925001217"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Rosa Parks & Yertle the Turtle</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"> (Tweet)<br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f60dheI4ARg"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Steve Jobs About Managing People</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izP5n1SBEaI"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Crossing the Chasm in Consumer Markets</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Tribal Leadership Ted Talk</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyXRYgjQXX0"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Are you a Giver or a Taker</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Power of Introverts</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTOAqO1uJI4"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Level 5 Leaders</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsEzrx2VNrY"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Worst Pirate I’ve Heard of</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/techstory.pdf"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Tech Story 1 - What Further Education
can learn from Pixar’s Toy Story</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=1wSVt9X9wAM"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Red Hot Chilli Peppers Yertle the
Turtle</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB7L1BIDELc"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Young Artists for Hati – Waving Flag</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsr9HCOgQe0"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Dignity</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UnjGQZh_DI"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Aiming for the Top…Not the Bottom</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.enliveningedge.org/organizations/buurtzorg-uk-ireland-transforming-national-health-service-resources-scarce-part-1-shifting-mindsets/"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Transforming the National Health
Service when Resources are Scarce</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JrRQ1oQWQk"><span style="line-height: 115%;">How to Tell a Story</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nYFpuc2Umk"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Common Structure of Greatest
Communicators</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/drew_dudley_everyday_leadership"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Everyday Leadership</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
Obama Tech Day<br /><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/12/digcit-ship-ships-log-and-pirate.html">Ships Log & Pirate Articles</a><br />
</span><a href="https://hbr.org/2018/11/9-out-of-10-people-are-willing-to-earn-less-money-to-do-more-meaningful-work"><span style="background: white; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 115%;">9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to
Do More-Meaningful Work</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/07/skype-master-student.html">Skype Master Student</a><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYtpKqhFReo"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Misfits Trailer</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1807&v=MiRcoiFVrMw"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Charting Connections in your Community
with NodeXL</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/11/digcitsummit-spyquest-mission-help.html">DigCitSummit Spy Quest Mission</a><br /><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2016/01/digcitsummituk-closing-remarks.html">DigCitSummit Closing Remarks</a><br />
</span><a href="http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Virtual Communities – Heart of theWell</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://declara.com/collection/1d663a6a-a999-482f-91e7-fc99240998ae/post/d2b98390-6abb-4f9a-a0c7-ab814e974c2d"><span style="line-height: 115%;">4 Elements of Community: Part 4
Connection</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1094467450081607680"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Voices From The Well</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"> (Tweet)<br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_qBILwqNdY&feature=youtu.be&t=239"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Flipgrid – Oh The Places You’ll Go</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=502&v=wL0XZsxYeKw"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Connect with your PLN to Empower
Students</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-writing-class-id-like-to-teach/"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Class I’d Like to Teach</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/09/using-core-values-to-find-brands-voice.html">Using Core Values to Find a Brands Voice</a><br />
</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3UTXsJzAj4"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Social Rejection</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="http://www3.psych.purdue.edu/~willia55/Announce/cyberball.htm"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Cyberball</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/12/bullies-takers-ostracism.html">Bullies, Takers & Ostracism</a> <br />
</span><a href="http://blog.pledgecents.com/2015/03/27/we-want-to-help-you-get2iste/"><span style="line-height: 115%;">We Want to Help you #Get2ISTE</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-greenwhich-village-of-edtech.html">The Greenwich Village of EdTech</a><br />
</span><a href="https://declara.com/content/0828e6d7-f4d5-4410-9790-8960d9cf0644"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Reading ISTE Like a Book</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://declara.com/content/f9f0840a-b786-462a-bf03-1a2e1cdbe93f"><span style="line-height: 115%;">ISTE2016 Pirates Log: Week One</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://declara.com/content/2cd664b5-8742-4082-84e6-2c948cca9ea7"><span style="line-height: 115%;">ISTE2016 Pirates Log: Week Two</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://declara.com/content/d8fbe4e8-825c-4b6a-9595-8bdd42bfefa2"><span style="line-height: 115%;">ISTE2016 Pirates Log: Week Three</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://journal.alt.ac.uk/index.php/rlt/article/view/1327/pdf_1"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Aggregate-Then-Curate: How Digital
Champions Help Communities Nurture Online Content</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/Techn_Adoption_Cycle.pdf"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Pokemon Go Report: Technology Cycle
Section</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="http://tech-stories.co.uk/index.php/2016/06/10/the-community-is-the-company/"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Community is the Company</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.sitepronews.com/2007/05/03/21st-century-diggers-revolt/"><span style="line-height: 115%;">21<sup>st</sup> Century Diggers Revolt</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://onbeing.org/blog/the-gift-of-presence-the-perils-of-advice/"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Gift of Presence</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/site-of-the-niantic-gold-rush-ship-hotel"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Site of the Niantic</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz9nzDp3DkI&feature=youtu.be&t=411"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So You Want to Build an Edcamp</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz9nzDp3DkI&feature=youtu.be&t=2079"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So You Want to Build an Edcamp</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://medium.com/@fillthegaplearn/connected-educator-appreciation-day-all-wrapped-up-7a767c7f3aae"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Connected Educator Appreciation Day
all Wrapped Up</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz9nzDp3DkI&feature=youtu.be&t=2295"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So You Want to Build an Edcamp</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.ceduad.com/post/cooking-with-gas"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Cooking with Gas</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/11/connected-educator-appreciation-day.html">Connected Educator Appreciation Day</a><br />
Nike Believe in Something<br /><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-day-in-life-of-internet-or-plot-to.html">A Day in the Life of the Internet… Or the Plot to a Toy Story Movie?</a><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMdo8gsRow8"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Arse Piece </span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmhqvGNjGLQ"><span style="line-height: 115%;">CMAD Building Relationships to Ignite Movements</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7MCh19igW4"><span style="line-height: 115%;">What Jason Russell Remembers about his
Breakdown</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2013/03/twitter-chat-sessions-chatting-about_26.html">Twitter Chats: Chat or Change</a><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3G6rLCwo-I&feature=youtu.be&t=1149"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Scaling Personal Connections</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="http://tech-stories.co.uk/index.php/2015/08/28/oh-mycmgr-yer-a-relationship-wizard-harry/"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Oh MyCmgr! You’re a Wizard Harry</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.wired.com/1997/05/ff-well/"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Epic Saga of The Well</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyXRYgjQXX0"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Are you a Giver or a Taker</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGzSXLa_XjI"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;">Why, in a world of
injustice and vanishing human rights, I choose to hope</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiRcoiFVrMw&feature=youtu.be&t=1213"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Charting Connections in your Community
with NodeXL</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1460"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Charting Connections in your Community
with NodeXL</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA&feature=youtu.be&t=351"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement
Speech 2005</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BsMzc9mMs&feature=youtu.be&t=111"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Walking Dead Bad Lip Reading</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> (Apples & Dolphins)<br />
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Skill of the Next 5 Years</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</span></span><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/12/culture-eats-strategy-for-breakfast"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
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Loyalty and Word of Mouth</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</span></span><a href="https://medium.com/@sam_10166/this-book-should-contain-a-warning-9a0de104a2a8"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This Book Should Contain a Warning</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://qz.com/1017491/adam-grant-explains-why-you-dont-need-to-be-an-jerk-like-steve-jobs-to-be-a-good-leader/"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;">Steve
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</span><a href="https://www.quietrev.com/love-for-imperfect-things/"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;">Love for Imperfect Things</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;"><br />
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– The Basics & Benefits</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</span></span><a href="https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-great-leaders-focus-on-mastering-relationships/"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;">Why Great Leaders Forucs on
Mastering Relationships</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU&feature=youtu.be&t=80"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;">Where Good Ideas Come From</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;"><br /><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/11/digcitsummit-spyquest-mission-help.html">DigCitSummit SpyQuest Mission</a><br />
</span></span><a href="https://fortheweb.webfoundation.org/"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;">ForTheWeb Foundation</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihso0fFq5B4"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;">Why Are You #ForTheWeb?</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="http://communitymanagerappreciationday.com/schedule/building-a-global-community/"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;">CMAD Building a Global
Community</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span><a href="https://webfoundation.org/2019/03/web-birthday-30/"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;">30 Years on what’s next
#ForTheWeb?</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 115%;"><br />
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back on Group – After a Hug from a Muslim Man</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br />
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Build Meaningful Connections</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/06/aceing-made-to-stick-extensible-new.html" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">ACEing Made to Stick</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://introvertdear.com/news/5-superpowers-of-the-infj" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">5 Super Powers of the INFJ</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
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Build 21st Century Skills</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/05/edcampuk-dyw-tech-companies.html" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">UK Edcamp – DYW & Tech Companies</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
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Life in Scotland</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmhqvGNjGLQ" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">CMAD Building Relationships to Ignite Movements</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-KyQ90XByY" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">From Good to Great – What Defines a Level 5 Leader</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/11/please-help.html" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Please Help</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kZJF_44Fwg" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">My Book – The Next Big Innovation in Tech</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2013/05/social-media-and-better-job-prospects.html" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Social Media and Better Job Prospects</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A Story from BeYonder – Lessons from Hoover Guy &
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Wrapped Up</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMdo8gsRow8" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Arse Piece</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br />Courageous Followership<br /><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/09/using-core-values-to-find-brands-voice.html">Using Core Values to Find a Brands Voice</a></span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/05/be-more-pirate-pirate-code.html" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Be More Pirate Code</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br />
<a href="https://www.wired.com/1997/05/ff-well/"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Epic Saga of The Well</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><a href="https://firstround.com/review/how-to-become-insanely-well-connected/" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">How to Become Insanely Well Connected</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxyWmiY2u9A&feature=youtu.be&t=428" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">#CEduAD<span style="background: #F9F9F9;">
Introductory Session</span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> (Vladtka)</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHNfG7HxuD0&feature=youtu.be&t=735" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">#CEduAD<span style="background: #F9F9F9;">
Introductory Session</span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> (Vladtka) <br /><a href="http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html">Virtual Communities The Heart of The Well</a><br /><a href="http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html">Virtual Communities The Heart of The Well</a></span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxyWmiY2u9A&feature=youtu.be&t=463" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">#CEduAD<span style="background: #F9F9F9;">
Introductory Session</span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> (Tim)</span><br />
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#ForTheWeb?</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><a href="https://webfoundation.org/2019/03/web-birthday-30/" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 115%;">30 years on, what’s next
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In my last post I updated two other posts trying to figure out how to make an impact, when <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/11/what-if-you-dont-have-voice-keep.html">you don't have a voice </a>(And enough to have economic dignity in today's poverty stricken and manically depressed Scotland).</div>
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The previous two plans discarded I have decided to explore Steve Wozniak and Susan Cain's advice of 'Work Alone.' </div>
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This post details why I feel a return to The Wells mantra of #YOYOW is needed for the sake of our young Well Beings... and how I've been working on this idea since I first read Katie Hafner's book in 2015.</div>
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Our kids know the following to be true because we tell them constantly!</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"Words are the most powerful things in the world"</span></div>
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(You have the power to change the world, you really do... with an idea -> Nancy Duarte)</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"Books are the most powerful weapons in the world"</span></div>
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('Ah but what about swords, guns, bombs etc etc?' comes the reply... 'How you gonna learn to make those things?' asks a smart arse dad... 'Oh yeah, with a book'</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"It's not what you say... it's the way that you say it"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"If you've nothing nice to say don't way anything at all" </span></div>
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<b>...You should practice what you preach William!</b></div>
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"But you've been really snarky to people online - especially on your blog and on Twitter" I hear you say.</div>
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Well now I'm glad you mentioned that, maybe I've been 'Clearing the Path,' and 'Lowering the Barrier' as New Power puts it for others to follow and pick up on the work?</div>
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There are also a few other points worth making regarding any snarky tweets/posts</div>
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1) I almost quit social media because I was tired of being taken in by people who said one thing and did another... and/or were what can be best described as 'Fake Friends,' feigning friendship until they got all they could from your time, efforts and ideas*</div>
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*I fully accept that this may well have been due to either inexperience with movement building or the misunderstandings as social media is still quite new and in the real world 90% of our communication is non-verbal... so it's EASY to get things wrong when mostly text based. There is zero ill will about any of this, I'm glad something came of the ideas and my time/effort.</div>
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2) Hate groups in the Far Left and Right will no doubt say nice things to give vulnerable people a 'sense of belonging' before encouraging them to hate people who are different to them through 'othering'</div>
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This appears to be what happened with expert ISIS recruiter and Scottish school girl Asqa Mahmood, James Letts and Ivan Humble who is a former and reformed EDL member.</div>
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Where are the good guys giving these kids a hug and turning them away from hate... whether in their IRL communities or in their virtual communities?</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"If you've nothing nice to say don't say anything at all" </span></div>
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Let's all laugh and comment about someone who put a foot wrong during Remembrance Sunday... and forget about the issues of Education, the NHS and the economy, before we know it we'll have another 4 years of The Conservatives (Which will be worse as it's under Boris Johnson's 'Leadership') and the Brexit party.</div>
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Instead of picking at the minutia I would far rather overlook silly and, in many instances, irrelevant comments and take Ayelet Barron advice in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmhqvGNjGLQ" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">Building Relationships to Ignite Movements</a> CMAD session:</div>
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We all say or do silly things and when every encounter, big and small, is recorded... some things in context others taken out of context and it must be a nightmare for people in the public eye, especially politicians where approval ratings are low, it is a tribal affair and there are so many videos, clips and soundbites going back decades for many MPs/MSPs.<br /><br />Edward Snowden makes some excellent points about the internet of his youth Vs the internet of today, which political candidates are paying for today... How do we allow for our kids to 'just be kids saying stupid things' without it wrecking their job prospects/future...or worse their lives?</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">When I went back and reread the posts, I cringed. Half the things I'd said I hadn't even meant at the time - I'd just wanted attention - but I didn't fancy my odds of explaining that to a gray-haired man in horned rimmed glasses peering over a giant folder labeled PERMANENT RECORD. The other half, the things i thing I had meant at the time, were even worse , because I wasn't that kid anymore. I'd grown up. It wasn't simply that I didn't recognise the voice as my own - it was that I now actively opposed its over-heated hormonal opinions. I found that I wanted to argue with a ghost. I wanted to fight with that dumb, puerile, and casually cruel self of mine who no longer existed. I couldn't stand the idea of being haunted by him forever, but I didn't know the best way to express my remorse and put some distance between him and me, or whether I should even try to do that. It was heinous to be so inextricably, technologically bound to a past that I fully regretted but barely remembered.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">This might be the most familiar problem of my generation, the first to grow up online. We were able to discover and explore our identities almost totally unsupervised, with hardly a thought spared for the fact that our rash remarks and profane banter were being preserved for perpetuity, and that one day we might be expected to account for them. I'm sure everyone had an internet connection before they had a job can sympathize with this - surely everyone has that one post that embarrasses them, or that text or email that could get them fired.</span></div>
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Last December when reading Virtual Communities again I noticed that NodeXL's Marc Smith had written his 1992 College Thesis on 'Voices from The Well' and read it three times in as many days... SOOOO RELEVANT today 30 years on!!</div>
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I laughed when I saw not just how predictable my experiences with collaborating online were; they were inevitable, it's all been done before... 30 years earlier by a group of true visionaries.</div>
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I didn't like the way that some friends (Or, in some cases, people I hardly knew, who took my time, efforts and ideas and made me contribute them as a gift) with flattery and all their flowery words to get involved and then change the narrative - whether about myself and/or how ideas came together.</div>
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I called them out to experiment with what might work and what doesn't when taking the advice from New Power (The extract at the end of this <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/06/aceing-made-to-stick-extensible-new.html" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">ACEing Made to Stick</a> post).</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">"Has my generation taught the youth well enough to prevent another Holocaust from occurring? Or will our hard won freedom capsize in a new sea of hate?" </span><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">Edith Eger</span><span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-choice-capacity-to-love-hate.html" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">The Choice - The Capacity to Love and Hate</a></span></div>
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One where friends don't simply reach for the 'Block' option if/when there is a disagreement.</div>
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One where our young people have the kind of 'sense of belonging Tom Mandel had on The Well' in their School Communities...Not go looking for this in hate groups where the sense of belonging is conditional on hating others.</div>
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One where their is the kind of 'Love in Action' that Howard Rheingold details in the Heart of the Well... and less of the tragic examples of Blair Newman, Amanda Todd and Molly Russell.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>#DigiEndurance... Avengers Assemble for The End Game</b><br />The Dr Seuss books that we've loosely followed on our adventures include </span></div>
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Avengers Assemble! For the well beings of our young people and to answer the Tim Berners-Lees' Bat Signal to fight #ForTheWeb.</div>
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Anyone who answers the call may meet some familiar characters from Andy's playroom, Marvel, DC and Pokemon Go as well as some new characters like Hoover Guy? Damn Man? Ol'augh! and the Thunderbolt Kid?</div>
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Who writes this stuff? Anthony? I hate that freaking Turtle!</div>
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William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-53165690377885694142019-11-12T05:45:00.001-08:002019-11-13T02:26:15.088-08:00What If... You Don't Have a Voice? Keep Telling Your Story (Part 3)... But Work Alone?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1193860340553043969"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The Gods Send (a Twitter) Thread for a Web Begun</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">Whether in my own kids school, in my 'world of work' (Whether formal employment or loose, informal collaboration) I've found that, to date...and frustratingly!, when an idea gets to a certain point I don't have a voice, even in small groups of people I know quite well.<br /><br />No matter how accurate my insights are, or how much I care about the organisation and/or the people or the aims/goals/strategic objectives... It's like shouting in a storm.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;">No matter how long I've spent with the employer or how long I've spent working on an idea, when it gets to even 2-3 people my voice and ideas get lost... and that's OK.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;">It has not always been 'okay,' but today it's more than OK... It's ideal! One of the aims we are currently working on is to</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As fortune would have it I spotted this article that IntrovertDear Tweeted out yesterday:</span></div>
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<a href="https://introvertdear.com/news/5-superpowers-of-the-infj/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5 Superpowers of the INFJ Personality</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Today we are in agreement with Steve Wozniak's advice in Susan Cain's book Quiet that </span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/11/digcitsummit-spyquest-mission-help.html" style="background-color: white;">it might be an idea to work alone</a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me - they're shy and they live in their heads. They're almost </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">like artists. In fact the best of them are artists. And artists work best alone where they can control an inventions design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don't believe anything really revolutionary has been invented by committee. If you're that rare engineer who's an inventor and also an artist, I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is : Work alone.You're going to be best able to design revolutionary products and features if you're working on your own. Not on a committee. Not on a team." Steve Wozniak via Susan Cain's Quiet</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span></span>And then hand projects onto others who are heard once you've played to your strengths. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br />If you read Steve Wozniak's book you will hear stories like Steve Jobs agreed to share money with Woz 50/50 but then said that he got $1,000 for the work and gave Woz $500.<br /><br />When in reality he got $2,000 and so it was a 75/25 split... W</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">hile it being a stitch up and him being lied to wasn't very nice, without this partnership would Woz's ideas have come to life without Jobs?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">(And would Jobs and Wozniak have met if it wasn't for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Lt--KP9t0">Tech Visionary Stewart Brand</a>* providing the funding for the Home Brew Club where they met?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">*Don't do drugs kids... drugs are bad! But feel free to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/opinion/stewart-brand-hippie-silicon.html">change the world, twice</a> if you can ;)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I Don't Have a Voice... Even with People who Pay Me?!<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">To give just two examples from people who decided to pay me for my time:</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Colleagues response? "You sent this to the MD? Your braver than you look! You're braver than I am! It's like the author of this book was sitting in the office watching this unfold"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">2) I was asked to detail my career aims and how I would implement a project by a company interested in hiring me.<br /><br />I did this and when leaving the company I asked what there was about what I sent before starting with them what was different to the way I tried to implement projects?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The answer? Nothing... We just didn't realise what was involved.<br /><br /><b>I Don't Have a Voice... With Online Collaboration (Or with my own ideas?!)</b><br />Realising that my sales, startup and (Limited) #Cmgr experience was useful in the planning and 'Community Activation' stage to get momentum, I aligned with people and groups that do have a voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">First with people at the grassroots level in education through EdChat Moderators and later with authors looking to build momentum and community with their books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">18th November 2017 </span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/11/what-if-you-dont-have-voice-keep.html" style="font-family: inherit;">What If... You Don't Have a Voice? Keep Telling Your Story!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">I wrote a follow up to this after my #DigCitSummit and #CEduAD expereinces... When I was ready to quit social media.<br /><br />22nd September 2018 </span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/09/what-if-you-dont-have-voice-keep.html" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">What If... You Don't Have a Voice? Keep Telling Your Story (Part 2)</a></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just before ISTE 2014 I wrote a post that looked at 'Social Selling' <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2014/06/iste-record-and-replay.html">ISTE13 Reflections: Record, Rewind & Replay</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">"There is a real skill to effective engagement for suppliers on social media. Any attempt to treat social media as a one-way corporate broadcast will not win any friends or influence any influencers... </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">building relationships through authentic two way engagement is the only way to go" </span></span><br />
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For #GE2019 candidates my vote in GE2017 was I voted for whoever replied to me on social media. I have tagged my MSP/MP in many a Tweet in the last 2 years... not sure a reply on 'Vote for me to keep me in a £70,000 a year job' will swing it this time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Later in the same post I highlight that.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><br />"Social media has changed the sales process and anyone who has the view that sales people are the "slick snake oil" type of sales people who you believe will say whatever it takes to close the deal, then you may be surprised at how similar the new social models of selling are to developing and executing lesson plans. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">This process is one of the core messages from John Golden's book, he advocates the following model"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have tried to follow this model through research, listening and sharing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8th November 2019... A picture tells a thousand words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The image below shows how 16+ projects that I've been involved with come together to see the last 2 aims of the #SeaTurtlePirates adventure comes together:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1) Implementing ideas from the early online community The Well and following the advice of
people like Stewart Brand (The Man who Changed the World Twice), Howard Rhiengold (Virtual
Communities) and Marc Smith (Voices from The Well), among others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In particular to seeing a return to 'The Well's' mantra of #YOYOW... Although we've pirated/hacked/rebooted The Well's mantra to include the #YOYOWJOI Compass)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(My 2015 <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2016/01/digcitsummituk-closing-remarks.html">#DigCitSummit Closing Remarks</a> were on this topic...A few months ago I <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/08/digcitsummituk-closing-remarks-yoyow_4.html">updated thoughts from this post to take into account the changes on social media</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2) Assisting with Tim Berners Lee’s call to action with his call to fight #ForTheWeb</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You'd think that given all the problems with these two areas... the people who said during GE2015 'What can we do about online abuse' are now saying 'Tech companies can no longer turn a blind eye'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">...But do nothing to reign in their own support base, would be clambering all over someone with a track record like this and working on these areas, especially as their is a kick ass attainment gap story to be had too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sadly no! Either they are short sighted and lack vision or I don't have a voice... So I'll work alone for a while to develop these things. Hopefully we'll find 'Economic Dignity' and help promote Cmgr as a career here in Scotland.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Social Media Doesn't want you to have Economic Dignity & Cmgr in Scotland</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Experienced Community Managers will tell you that one of the best ways to get work in community management is to be an active member of the community... While this has worked on occasion this is tough in Scotland.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was told in 2010 by a tech executive at a major tech company that if they were hiring anyone they would look for their digital profile and 'Why can't I find you?' </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I saw there was a business case for being on social media I got connected... and had some early wins (If you are happy to be paid in smiles).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jaron Lanier's book highlights how you will get some early wins - and cites the Black Lives Matter movement as an example - but after these quick wins movements lose ground and slip backwards (Compare black lives matter's success with the raise of the Far Right).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another of Lanier's arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts right now, it that 'Social Media doesn't want you to have economic dignity,' and whether looking at films like 'Sorry We Missed You' or the amount that I've done in an unpaid capacity it sure seems like a whole lot of 'Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You either take all the risks and work 16 hours and struggle to make ends meet</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">...Or you give a whole lot of time and creativity away in the hope that you will be one of the hundreds/thousands of people all looking for attention of the few companies who actually have any money these days.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The advice I was given was 'Get on Social Media, it comes with the job today'</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">The advice I would give to my kids is 'Don't get on social media until you have a voice... Go on The Apprentice and then spout your </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">controversial</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;"> views like Katie Hopkins does'</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">Otherwise, follow the example of The Well and working in small communities of practice with what Howard Rheingold calls a 'No Asshole Rule'</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">I'm going to continue to work on some ideas that I KNOW have value and develop them until those who do have a voice and influence will take them on. The aims here will be to</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">1) Let quiet people know that they can have a voice and make a difference</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">2) Cut a path to find 'Economic Dignity on Social Media</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">3) Explore where Community/Ambassador programs are headed... Changes ARE on the way in edu at least!! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">4) Lower the barrier; flatten the path for others re the last two goals I'm exploring</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">5) Try to help provide in-demand skills for my own kids... and hope it helps others.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">"At a modest rate the value for my time on these projects would be £90,000" </span></span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/07/hustle-while-you-wait.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">July 2018 Hustle While you Wait</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">(Research & "Mind dump" only took 3 months but two complete rewrites took a little longer)</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><br />SaveEdShelf $30,000 (in 6 Weeks)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/EdChat_Resource_Plan.pdf" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">Edchat Resource Plan</a><span style="color: #666666;"> </span>(And adding chats to Chat Salad) 3 months</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><a href="https://www.pledgecents.com/org/get2iste/tlzqtk" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">Get2ISTE</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">5 people to ISTE<br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/DavidPollardIRL/status/963716097076850688" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">DigCitSummit</a><span style="color: #666666;"> </span>2 months<br /><br />Declara (Volunteer for 12 months) 6 months paid</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">Curating ISTE resources 2 months (Over 3 years)<br /><br /><a href="http://tech-stories.co.uk/index.php/pokemon-go-3/" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">Pokemon Go in Edu Report</a> 2 months</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><a href="https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=2724017" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">Scottish Schools on Twitter (2015 & 2017)</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">4 months</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><a href="https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=2260533" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">Skypeathon & MIE Experts maps</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">4 months</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/who-sells-edcamps-and-eventbrite-in.html" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">Edcamp Maps</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">2 months</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><a href="https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=2699894" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">Bloodhound Maps</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">2 months<br /><br />#CEduAD 2018 4 Months</span></span></div>
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William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-53176946400875607252019-11-04T02:44:00.003-08:002019-11-05T04:43:00.187-08:00#GE2019 #IndyRef2020 #Cmgr Edu and Life in Scotland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Having accurately predicted every election since 2014 and having responded to the kind of 'calls to action' that were put in at the #IndyRef2020 rally at 'Freedom Square' (George Square to the non-SNP Cultists who are capable of critical thinking), this post looks at GE2019 and why IndyRef2 will probably fail.<br />
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Like every other industry politics has been disrupted by both technology and new methods, thanks in large part to the unholy alliance of Trump, Bannon and Facebook... And politicians have struggled to get a handle on what's going on (Jaron Lanier's '10 Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Account Right Now and <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-choice-capacity-to-love-hate.html">Edith Eger's The Choice</a> are WELL worth a read! Both Michael Wolff books and The Great Hack documentary are worth checking out too).<br />
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If I start this post with something like:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">...You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you</span><span style="color: blue;">"</span><br />
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I wonder if it will be praised or see my local MSP tell me that the comment is 'Borderline Harassment,' I wonder if it will see the Education Secretary or First Minister praise the work that myself, my 9 year old son and others have done in the last few years?<br />
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In my experience, don't count on it... Check out the replies from MSPs in this pathetically hilarious Tweet:<br />
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I'm the first to admit that we are among the lucky ones to live in a country where education is a right and there is a system that helps when you are down... But equally Dalrymple is also right when he highlights that:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">One of the terrible fates that can befall a human being is to be born intelligent or sensitive in an English slum (But <a href="https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/almost-half-deprived-areas-glasgow-14910441">Glasgow has more of them than anywhere in England today</a> #GoDo #ScotlandCan!). It is like a long, slow, exquisite torture devised by a sadistic deity from whose malevolent clutches escape is almost impossible. <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/lost-ghetto-12261.html">Lost in the Ghetto</a></span><br />
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But when you see initiative after initiative and no real change since Dickensian times with 'Social Mobility,' 'The Attainment Gap,' 'Opportunity Area Fund' etc etc... the political soundbites Vs the reality becomes a little tiresome.<br />
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Throw in the fact that 20,000 retail outlets closed last year at the cost of 150,000 jobs and 2019 is set to see 23,000 outlets close at the cost of 175,000 jobs... what is it that is replacing them in 'The Most Entrepreneurial country in the world' <- if you listen to Entrepreneurial Scotlands marketing guff.<br />
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I'm enjoying the Netflix series 'Living with yourself' and how Paul Rudd's 'Better self' is listened to, but his other self saying the same thing is marginalised.</div>
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If you are Greta Thrunberg and encourage kids to take action, people go on #SchoolClimateStrikes and Scottish politicians praise the action. Tell politicians at a fancy ass UN event in New York and express your 'disgust' at them and you are applauded.</div>
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Try to encourage change in education - regardless of the tone used or the communication method used - in the SNP's blessed #GoDo #ScotlandCan land of milk and honey and see what reaction it gets.</div>
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Help empower other people's kids and educators and then try having kids in an education system where you constantly say "This doesn't seem right, there seems to be issues" then wait until they are leaving the education system and be told "Yeah, there appear to be undiagnosed issues"</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">To highlight the level of stupidity we are talking about here even when you send information with the title 'How MSPs can keep their jobs' you get a low level of inquiry... Even when your insights and projects have value.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">"If you have insights that prove to be accurate but struggle to be heard... when and where should you speak up? Before disaster? During? After?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">Speak up before hand and you're being negative. Speak up at the time and you're dismissed out of hand, silenced or ignored. Speak out afterwards and it's either you coming across as being smug or rubbing salt in the wounds etc.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">Regardless of when you speak out or the reaction the fact remains... opportunities for change are lost!" <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/06/ge2017-snp-how-mighty-fall.html">GE2017 & The SNP - How the Mighty Fall</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"No matter where you are from you are welcome and this is your independence"</span><br />
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Rhetoric at the weekend might have been inspiring and uplifting for me in 2014/5, it might even have left warm fuzzy feelings for the party faithful yesterday... Until they went into their local newsagent: </div>
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The front page of Friday's papers being full of the depressing levels of poverty here </div>
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The front page of one of Sunday's papers includes the level of racism in <b><u><i>SCOTTISH SCHOOLS </i></u></b><br />
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...Not English Schools.<br />
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On the next page was an article about how deprived Scotland's towns are today. Of course the default answer will be<br />
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Of course there <b><u><i>IS </i></u></b>something to this, but when that's the excuse since 2007 it wears a bit thin!</div>
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Especially if, over the course of the 2007 SNP Government you have had a 16 year old and 18 year old in this 'World Class Education System' that have been <b><u><i>BADLY</i></u></b> let down and/or you see how uninspiring the job pages are... AKA Sorry We Missed You zero hour contracts, self employed, minimum wage for your wage, you take care of your own tax etc.</div>
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<b>9th Sept 2014</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For the first time I wrote a post about education and politics</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">"I am not an ardent SNP supporter, neither do I necessarily want to be separate from the rest of the UK.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">However, what I do want, is to see better decisions being made for my kids and other peoples children... I can't see the status quo delivering this (esp as they have been failing at it for decades, if not centuries!), so I feel change is necessary. I don't believe that the SNP and/or an independent Scotland would have the same record with education or class division and elitism"<b> </b></span></span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2014/09/getting-political-about-education.html">Getting Political... About Education</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With the benefit of #Cybernat hindsight and the fact that the SNP were clueless about how to manage their grassroots movement in 2014, with the exception of the above... I stand by everything else in the post</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">...Especially the "<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">Why not you? Why not us? Why not now?"</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"> section at the end, something I have gone some way to demonstrate since writing it. As Sam Conniff highlights in his Tedx Talk </span></span><br />
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<b>19th Sept 2014</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">As Scotland wakes up to the fact that the hopes of Independence have been dashed and the army of #VoteYes feel "a little down" and are licking their wounds... this Glasgow nutter wonders if victory might be snatched out of the jaws of defeat. Is the best yet to come? <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2014/09/yes-scotland-how-can-i-help.html">Yes Scotland - How can we Help?</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;">I wasn't wrong... Will the insights below be just as accurate on the 13th Dec with the result of #GE2019?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">They heard me, but ignored the advice and insights. Every single piece of advice was 100% spot on!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">Citizens Assembly? <b>GREAT</b> idea... Erm in 2014 with 1.6 million people who voted 'Yes' at a cost of £0. If 1.6 million was a little ambitious then the 100,000 members was <b>EASILY</b> possible at a seriously low cost and would have delivered a game changing impact too! All on a budget of £0.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">A £1.4 million exercise involving 200 people in 2019? </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">Lol... What a bunch of idiots who really don't understand what fueled their 2014/5 success!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><br /><b>7th Oct 2014</b></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8667px;">The culture is now set, and hell mend anyone who disagrees with someone who voted Yes! We are the angry boycotters. We are the anarchists. We are the cybernats and it would appear that our mission to piss everyone off and to argue with anyone who disagrees with the hard line we decide to take.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.8667px;">Oh, and by the way, we're not very good with our maths... because 100% of 45% agreeing with each other is still only 45%, no matter how much more strongly we may or may not believe in independence, this is still a minority. <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2014/10/collaborate-as-if-your-country-depended.html">#The45Plus... Where did it all go Wrong?</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">In August 2019 Sturgeon demonstrates her lack of knowledge (And leadership with her own members AKA the Cybernats) with Community Management. I have encouraged politicians to connect and learn from this group since April 2014... on a regular basis since April 2018.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.4px;">If Vote yes people want to convince Scotland to "Go it alone" an improved economy is a sure fire way to win people over. <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2014/10/collaborate-as-if-scotland-depended-on.html">Collaborate as if Scotland Depends on It</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Instead five years later <a href="https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17929733.snp-ministers-lose-public-110m-bad-loans-investments/">we have a government that gives out bad loans to failing companies like moneys running out</a>, rewarding the lazy and/or those who lacked vision and the ability to plan... while doing nothing for the forward thinking innovators (Adding weight to the argument below that politicians need victims). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><b>6th May 2015</b></span><br />The day before the election when all the pundits were sayng <br /><br />"These polls about SNP can't be right, can they?" <br /><br />I wrote why they were right:</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">This process could be used in many areas of Scottish society. The SNP benefited from the kind of process that major technology companies utilise, so they know it works. When I'll be impressed with the SNP, or any other party, is when they decide to use these principles in other areas, not just politics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><br />If any politician (from any party) wants to know how to continue to take advantage of this process in politics or, ideally, apply to other areas, especially in education, you know where to find me if you have any questions. </span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/05/freakonimic-politics-why-snp-domination.html" style="background-color: transparent;">Freakonimic Politics: Why SNP Domination was Inevitable</a></span></div>
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<b>7th May 2015<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;">On election night Henry McLeish came closest to nailing what was going on re: the 'I'm voting SNP' movement. But listening to all the post match guff like 'It will take the Labour Party in Scotland 10 years to recover'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue;">"I was thinking "No it wouldn't!" It could be turned around by 2016... if they did things differently to the political classes usual methods, employing community management methods and "creating new patterns of engagement" </span></span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/labouring-on-with-team56-how-to-rebuild.html" style="color: red; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Labouring on with #Team56? How to Rebuild Trust When It Is Broken</a></span></div>
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So I wrote these two documents...<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/If_Tech_Stories_Did_Politics.pdf" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">If Tech Stories did Politics</a></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.48px;">When reading 'New Power' in May 2018 I was to both find out how accurate these insights were </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><b><u><i>AND</i></u></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.48px;"> be able to find the terminology for what was going on... Maybe should have tried the 'Radical Listening Exercise' of Citizens Assembly fame from 2007-2014 and not left it as late as 2019?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was the day that SNP MPs social media pictures were changed from images of candidates in their constituencies with their activists to the photo opp with Nicola Sturgeon and the #The45Plus was changed again to #Team56 AKA it's now all about us, not them... 'The People' our fans, members and constituents.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">"Many startups die of indigestion as much as of starvation"</span> Genome Project, that was the case at the height of the SNPs rock star celebrity stage in May 2015. </span></span></div>
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<b><br />29th Sept 2015</b></div>
The then Education Secretary asks me to pitch in - in the same way I might have after listening to Mhari Black and Nicola Sturgeon at the weekend - if I didn't know that these were nothing but empty words to get as many of their mates in £70,000 a year jobs ...and not much else!</div>
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Having a good idea of how things might pan out when dealing with the political classes... I had the foresight to spend one of the best 30 mins I ever have by writing this post: <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/09/using-core-values-to-find-brands-voice.html">Using Core Values to Find a Brands Voice</a>.</div>
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If you want to predict the future (Or get a 'bad loan' that the SNP will write off to failing businesses in Scotland) stand up and give a 'fine speech' or issue a press release. Tell educators and students that</div>
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"Scotland lacks talent" one year (SLF15)... then a year or two later get £600,000 to make<br />
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What shit! Across the board... from saying this is a talentless country (Except in the political arena)... to giving funds to someone who does not believe in the potential of a nations people? Maybe the talent is rotting in the many Scottish slums and deprived areas looking for opportunities that don't exist?</div>
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Since Sept 2015 I have worked on projects that I feel could be high impact/low cost with few resources, lots of challenges and stress and <b><u><i>ZERO</i></u></b>! I mean <b><u><i>FUCK ALL!!</i></u></b> help from the people and organisations that stand up and spout this shit at 'Freedom Square' </div>
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This thread shows what we achieved from 26th Sept to 23rd June 2019<br />
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The weekend of the GE2015 result I saw that The SNP was in stage 1 of what Jim Collins calls 'The 5 Stages of Decline"<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1) You turn out in force when you want something from 'The People' to crowdfund campaign funds to get you into a £70,000 a year job and then land the £70,000 + expenses + hiring family members + second jobs etc etc or</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Btw have you seen how many Tweets the AUOB account Tweeted on the day? They lay all the ground work only for ScotNational to move in and build on their work, don't be surprised if the organisers become a little less enthusiastic going forward).<br /><br />2) You <b><u><i>KNOW</i></u></b> that momentum has been lost and that the 'Network Effects' and 'Feedback Loops' of 2014/5 have gone and with it #IndyRef2 in 2020, so you try to replicate the 2014 success in the same way in 2019... But it won't work (At least nowhere near to the same extent).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"No one saw it coming" </span>Alex Salmond after GE2017 result and him losing his seat<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">"A party with such large numbers of supporters two years ago and only 65 people supporting Salmond's Crowdfunder... WOW austerity must </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><u><i>REALLY</i></u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"> be kicking in! <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/06/ge2017-snp-how-mighty-fall.html">GE2017 & The SNP How the Mighty Fall</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The 2014 'Yes' campaign was a 'New Power' storm where it promised both change and participatory politics... but reverted to 'Old Power' once the crowd delivered what the SNP wanted. The cost? Trust.<br /><br />As well as these posts various emails have been sent since 2014 to say <br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">'I have some insights that I think might help... I live here and my kids go to school here, I want to help'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>30th Aug 2018 #ForFairness</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">A £100,000 fund for one persons legal fees and titled #ForFairness (Or was it 'For Scotland' I forget which)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">This was confirmation about the usual 'Us' and our needs Vs 'The People' -> Just as self interested as the Tories. This sin't something people will shout about... You'll only see it on polling day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">But consider the data... Consider the time and number of steps that 4,000 people needed to go through to contribute money to this GoFundMe camapign in comparison to the act of a ReTweet that takes seconds to do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">If you are looking to replicate 2014 results you need to keep an eye on the 'Network Effects' ...take a look at the number of ReTweets that either #IndyRef2020 or SNP MPs get </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">...Then change the channel to see how many ReTweets either People's Momentum, Corbyn get at least 300 many well over 1-2,000.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">Or, if you prefer, the level of RTs Trump gets in the US - but this too is diminishing rapidly compared to 12-24 months ago! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">The numbers ain't there for a repeat of SNP Active 2014/5 in 2019. The 'Network Effects' to take the online support into offline rallies to create 'social proof' isn't there. It is for Labour in England and in 2-3 weeks that could easily make it's way to Scotland... Look at #IndyRef in the 2-3 weeks leading up to 19th Sept 2014!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">Go check the combined total of SNP candidates campaign crowdfunds after a week Vs Salmonds in 24 hours in 2018... Is the combined total anywhere near £100,000 after a week of asking for contributions? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">Or check the number of advocates on the doorstep (I know its December) and the number of Scottish National #IndyRef2020 posters in the windows compared to 2014/5.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>'For Fairness' Crowdfunders, Progress Scotland, Citizens Assembly & IndyRef2020</b><br />All of these things were the right thing to do... in 2014! Maybe even as late as 2015. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But this organisation didn't take the organisational culture seriously at a crucial time when it was scaling and onboarding new members (Both members of staff and fans).</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"Ever heard of a company called Ames? From 1973 to 1986 Ames was doing in the North East of the USA
what Wal-Mart was doing in the South. Ames stock performance tracked Wal-Mart’s. But while Wal-Mart
is alive and well (#1 on the fortune 500), where is Ames today? Dead. Gone. What distinguished Wal-Mart
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<span style="color: blue;">Ames acquired a company that changed their focus and destroyed the momentum they built over 3
decades. Wal-Mart continued to focus first on rural small town areas before making an evolutionary
migration into more urban settings. In contrast Ames acquired a chain that made them a significant urban
player overnight. While Wal-Mart remained obsessed with offering everyday low prices on all brands all
the time, Ames dramatically changed to a strategy that was new to them (relying on special loss leader
promotions)…one that eventually plunged them into bankruptcy. Meanwhile Wal-Mart continued its
relentless march across the US – step by step, store by store, region by region – until it reached the North
East and killed Ames with the very same business model that Ames pioneered in the first place"</span> Jim Collins – How the Mighty Fall </div>
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Regardless of your politics you're a pretty shit human being if you wish ill on a group who's aims and goals are worthy but may be unwravelling because of issues around scaling... especially if it's the life's work of some people - and I include Salmond in that, regardless of the court case outcome. (But is obviously with the exception of intolerant hate groups who wish to harm others).</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">"I even have empathy for politicians (believe it or not). We saw how keen Barack Obama wanted health care reform, but he faced some serious challenges with opposition parties and the industries lobby groups.<br /><br />I also get that politicians need to show that they are doing "something" in a 4 year period to keep their jobs (whether reshuffle, or losing their seats in an election). One of these challenges may be that good ideas can take a while for results to come through.<br /><br />I can't imagine that a politician would get praised too much from the media or party whips if their conference speech to included</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">"What my predecessor established is working, let's leave it another few years"<br /><br />So having an understanding of the any challenges that people face in their job and obstacles with affecting change is important" </span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/09/using-core-values-to-find-brands-voice.html" style="line-height: normal;">Using Core Values to Find a Brands Voice</a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;">I have a better understanding of some of what's in play with the rise of the far right, social media's BUMMER model and the fact that it's unproductive to simply snipe from the sidelines (Especially anonymously), I may deliver messages in a grumpy tone - in the hope of being heard - but it's <b><u><i>ALWAYS</i></u></b> because I have solid solutions that are cost effective and know would work... and are always high impact/low cost, some ideas I've seen work in other settings.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;">But if you offer sound solutions the input is not heard... (Unfortunately) you've got to follow the tactics of Bannon and his crew and change the tone of voice in the hope you are heard.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;">It's easy when you have a platform and it's gossip like the Thomson Vs Sweeney grope gate...Or 'A Tory Teacher said some mean things about me... lost her job and now is standing against the SNP' (At least they are not up on criminal charges for something like the former first minister a cynic might retort) </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;">With the Thommson/Sweeney gropegate... the SNP/Salmond acolytes are quick to say 'Innocent until proven guilty' but we have what is essentially a workplace complaint that would never see the light of day in the media at this stage if it was any other organisation other than Westminster/Holyrood during an election.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;">It's less easy for good ideas from the little people to be heard. I <b><u><i>KNOW</i></u></b> that these ideas and insights were and are sound, I can explain what's going on better than any highly paid media pundit (Who are increasingly and consistently wrong)... but it's painful always looking in the rear view mirror and having people say </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;">But as a former supporter (Because of the cultural conditions of 'Yes' in 2014), my perspective is that the soundbites at the weekend ring extremely hollow indeed... take that input/opinion however you like. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;">We'll see if the 124,000 members who will be out canvassing for their candidate and the people they convince on the doorsteps feel the same way as these views on the 12th December.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;">Maybe we'll have a 'Who knew?' and ' 'No one saw it coming' when the results come out on the 13th Dec.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;">Spare the same thought for those who will be losing their jobs at Christmas if it is more than 35 SNP MPs as you would if it was a result like 1997 and the sympathy you'd have for the 29 colleagues who lose their jobs. I know what it's like... it's stressful at the best of times, worse at Christmas.</span></div>
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You can tell by the lack of ReTweets... that and the fact the #Cybernats have killed off any opportunity to debate and have 'agree to disagree' conversations. May find the support base has done <b><u><i>A LOT</i></u></b> of damage.</div>
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<b>Labour</b> - A clear majority thanks to Scotland quietly returning to pre-2014 voting habits without sharing too much on social media or in the polls.</div>
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<b>SNP</b> - Less than 35 MPs to send a clear message that both Brexit and IndyRef are less of a priority than education, NHS and the economy</div>
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<b>Smaller parties</b> - it's not done much for us so people may just go for the party that could get a clear majority. Just like Brexit being 'My vote doesn't matter... I'll use this to give the Tories a kick' but everyone else was thinking the same = a shock leave result' may deliver the same 'shock' labour result </div>
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*NB There is <b><u><i>LOTS</i></u></b> candidates could do between now and the 12th Dec but it will be too new for them to consider.</div>
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In a post called <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2014/02/grant-versus-rand-objective-trial-was.html">Grant Vs Rand</a> I make an argument about 'politicians need victims' and how keeping the population stupid works for them, so why try to make a serious stab at The Attainment Gap or Digital Citizenship, right?<br />
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Whether Boris and #Brexit or Sturgeon and #IndyRef2020, the levels of poverty here, lack of literacy improvements, lack of digital citizenship focus in education... I think the suggestions I made in Feb 2014 (Below) both proves the argument that these politicians need 'victims' and that they are responsible for the deterioration of the conversation on social media more than just about any other group.</div>
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<b>8th November 2019 Update</b><br />
When I published this post on 14th Oct 2019 I took it down after two days when people in my PLN told me that detailing things that actually happened wasn't right... I took the post down.<br />
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I have re-posed it after reading Oliver James' Office Politics. If it is a case of<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"We are still getting a handle on social media and 90% of our communications is non-verbal and this was the first movement we were involved with and we've all learnt lots"</span><br />
No problem! Lets discuss it and #BeTheDigitalChange we want to see... If people fall out we do out best to make amends and move on. There's a new project that has it's origins in some of the work below and I would hate for the contribution of others not to be acknowledged.<br />
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Let's arrange a call to discuss at your earliest convenience.<br />
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If on the other hand, the experiences Oliver James details about Gerald's relationship with Jan is a more accurate assessment, I hope this helps others to avoid some of the things myself and other early summit organisers went through.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Be at pains to establish what this person is saying about you to colleagues. Without being paranoid, you need to assume that they will be telling the most astonishing untruths about you. Having identified them, there is at least a chance that you will be able to clear your name" </span>Oliver James<br />
<br /><b>Think and Grow Rich</b><br />I have recently re-read Napoleon Hill's classic 'Think and Grow Rich' and am aware that the 7 negative emotions are: Anger, Jealousy, Revenge, Hatred, Fear, Greed and Superstition.<br /><br />I guarantee that I feel none of these emotions when detailing my experiences... Nor do I wish ill of anyone that I have helped even if there are issues like non-payment of money or unkept promises of 'We're building something together'<br />
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I can demonstrate this too. In a post called 'On the Record' (Which has now been deleted) the Summit organisers said this about me:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"What William brings to any project is vision and execution. His attention to detail is exquisite. William is like a conductor and he anticipates and prepares meticulously. What distinguishes William from the rest? His core values. He does not compromise. His core values and his work ethic are beyond anything I have ever witnessed. One PLN member shared, 'His work ethic is unsurpassed.' Others used terms like visionary leader, selfless giver and influencer. All agreed that no one should ever pass up an opportunity to collaborate with William in the future" </span><br /><br />I welcome both the DigCitSummit Founders to get in touch to discuss how we have developed the DigCitSummit project that started in Novemebr 2017.<br />
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I agreed to have a Skype call with you guys in Nov 2015 and offered to pitch in taking who you said you were and what your aims were at face value... Your welcome to reciprocate by accepting this offer to both arrange a Skype call and collaborate with some current projects.<br />
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<b>Salty Tone</b>The tone below is salty and it may well come across as sounding rather angry... Whether intentional or due to inexperience and miscommunication, the tone below is in the hope of making sure I don't experience <b><u><i>ANYTHING</i></u></b> like this <b><u><i>EVER AGAIN!</i></u></b><br /><br />I've had my fill of attracting Takers and Fakers! Other Pirate crews out there may want to keep an eye out for the pirates like Stede Bonnett... they are rather incompetent:<br />
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<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gentleman-pirate-159418520/"><b>The Gentleman Pirate</b></a></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"Disagreeable givers are the most undervalued people in our organizations, because they're the ones who give the critical feedback that no one wants to hear but everyone needs to hear. We need to do a much better job valuing these people as opposed to writing them off early, and saying, "Eh, kind of prickly, must be a selfish taker." </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The other combination we forget about is the deadly one -- the agreeable taker, also known as the faker. This is the person who's nice to your face, and then will stab you right in the back" <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_are_you_a_giver_or_a_taker">Adam Grant - Are you a Giver or a Taker</a></span><br />
<b><br />14th October 2019</b><br />
This post updates my experiences with the #DigCitSummit Pirate Crew that I was part of in November 2015... and is written in the hope of helping others who are working with groups in loose/informal collaboration.<br />
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If you're doing difficult work like this and your first attempt doesn't work (How many first attempts do turn out perfect?), try again... if that fails, hopefully you'll hear some kind words and experience a little bit of 'Love in Action' and you'll give it yet another go.<br />
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As you will see in this post... I have!<br />
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If the people in this particular community who only get in touch with me to gossip and/or trash talk me or others, you're in for a treat! But you may also be a little disappointed as I'll also be drawing on Plato's 'When men speak ill of thee...' philosophy too.<br />
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I learnt a lot about how predictable the mistakes I made were in the last 18 months through reading books like Be More Pirate (@BeMorePirate), New Power (@ThisIsNewPower) and, in particular, Nicole Yershon's (@NicoleYershon) Rough Diamond and Marc Smith's (@Marc_Smith)1992 College Thesis 'Voices from The Well'<br />
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My core values, aims to reach out to my contacts to help Scottish educators and policy makers with their #DigiLearnScot consultation and my 'Love' for tools like Skype and Twitter have not changed, my relationships with those who spouted 'Be the same person you are online as you are offline' has!<br />
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<b>Some Previous #DigCitSummit Posts </b><br />
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<b>28th March 2015</b><br />
<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-i-met-your-awesomness-declara.html">How I met your Awesomeness - Declara</a><br />
(Check out the Howard Roark quote at the start of my first <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-i-met-your-awesomeness-pledge-cents.html">How I met Your Awesomeness Post</a>)<br />
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<b>29th September 2015</b><br />
<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/09/using-core-values-to-find-brands-voice.html">Using Core Values to Find a Brands Voice</a><br />
(Modeled both in this post and throughout my #DigCitSummit experience)<br />
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<b>7th December 2015</b><br />
<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/12/digcit-ship-ships-log-and-pirate.html">Ships Log and Pirate Articles</a><br />
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<b>24th January 2016 </b><br />
<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2016/01/digcitsummituk-closing-remarks.html">#DigCitSummitUK Closing Remarks - YOYOW</a><br />
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<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/11/digcitsummit-spyquest-mission-help.html">DigCitSummit @SpyQuest Mission - Help Recruit Ellie the Elephant</a><br />
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<b>July 2019</b><br />
For more detail - But a more succinct version of how this comes together to suggest #SkypeMS - see<br />
<a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/TEDxGlasgow.pdf">TedxGlasgow The Power of Introverts & The Ripple Effect of the @BeMorePirate Sea Turtle Pirates</a><br />
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To see this same story as the Tedx proposal but in around 20 or so Tweets check out this thread because, if Jason Fried is right that 'The future belongs to the best editors' we better get practicing!<br />
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<b>Background</b><br />
<b><br />8th March 2015 </b><br />
Find out about Declara CEO, Ramona Peirson, as a result of International Women's Day and the #SXSWEdu Minority Women in Tech #DigiDiversity presentation.<br />
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I connect with James Stanbridge (@Stanbridge) via Skype and discuss the very ideas in this post with him... He can see the value in them Yay!<br />
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<b>26th September 2015</b><br />
Chris van der Kuyl gives his keynote speech at the Scottish Learning Festival and suggests that<br />
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1) 'Education lacks leadership'<br />
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I agree with this and after struggling to be heard with ideas in the past, I use this keynote as a catalyst and pull some visual data together. I take Susan Cain and Steve Wozniak's advice and 'Work alone'<br />
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<b>12th October 2015 </b><br />
The research I pulled together appears in TES Scotland<br />
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<b>26th October 2015</b><br />
The then Scottish Education Secretary, Angela Constance, asks me to<br />
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I do just that... and<br />
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<b>9th November 2015</b><br />
First contact with #DigCitSummit!<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Would really like to connect with your both via Skype or GHO about planning a #DigCitSummitUK"</span> is what the Tweet says.<br />
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The first thing that I do when I look at collaborating with any organisation is to see if they have their core values on their website... Do they know what they stand for and do I agree with these values?<br />
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They do and they they resonate<br />
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While these core values and phrases appeal to me... I would find out, like with way too many organisations, that they were nothing more than cat posters and empty words.</div>
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<b>16th November 2015 </b></div>
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I say I'll help on one condition... that any UK event takes place in Scotland and, ideally Falkirk... and ideally Larbert High School. The DigCitSummit team agree to this.</div>
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<b>15th December 2015</b></div>
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<b>21st January 2016</b></div>
Due to a lack of support from Education Scotland - despite the request to reach out to people in my network - we relocate the event to London and arrange it during BETT.<br />
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I get a direct message that I send one of the organisers is both read at 5am in the morning and is both mis-read and mis-interpreted and sees an angry reply that starts<br />
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What the fuck! I think, and don't speak to the organisers for two days and they wonder if I'm even going to make the trip to the event...<br />
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I did go in the end and as I write this during the 5th Annual #DigCitSummit and see the contribution of myself and my 9 year old kid completely sidelined, I wonder if I would have been better staying at home.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">'I don't know why I bothered' </span>I sit here thinking to myself<br />
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<b>23rd January 2016</b><br />
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The event is over subscribed with speakers and, given both my planning experience and relationships with the speakers knew how to handle this... But as I retracted my time and ideas the event on the day was supposed to finish at 5pm... it ran to 7pm and the DigCitSummit organisers didn't even let the hosts welcome people to Bournemouth University, they just jumped up on stage for the #DigCitSummit show... don't #BeTHATKindofRude kids!</div>
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<b>26 January 2016 (Circa)</b><br />
Messages in a #DigCitSummit group conversation immediately after the event goes something like this from one of the Co-Founders<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"He's an Asshole Man"</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">"I'm in it to win with you"</span><br />
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I've no idea if this is about me or someone else... A message meant for a different DM or what.<br />
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It's not very 'kind' and you won't see comments like that in their online profile. I leave this group conversation.<br />
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<b>February 2016</b><br />
I speak to one of the DigCitSummit Co-Founders 1:1 and there's nothing but gossip, trash talking others and toxicity... bear in mind this is the<br />
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I leave the #DigCitSummit community/group/movement entirely.<br />
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<b>April</b><br />
Right up until April I get emails asking <br />
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'WHERE ARE YOU! WHY ARE YOU NOT SPEAKING TO ME!'<br />
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<b>June/July 2016</b><br />
When one of the #DigCitSummit Co-Founder's who holds the #DigCit PLN Chair and sees me exploring ISTE resources via Declara and then PokemonGo, they ask if they can be involved, in a more humble tone.<br />
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With the exception of the Games PLN's section, I write the entire DigCitPLN Pokemon Go report and happily allow them to pass off various other bits of work as their own.<br />
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Again, TES Scotland kindly agree to run a story on the report...<br />
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One snag however, we need to pull an all nighter to get it finished and the link up on time for their deadline in the morning. I stay up all night... My 'Life Long Family Friend' falls asleep.<br />
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When they wake up and read the report the first words are<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><br />"Wait what?! I've just done all this work for you and this is all you have to say?"</span></div>
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Later in the same week I see that this person exhibit what Adam Grant calls 'Taker' tendencies, when they 'kiss up' to an influencer but 'kick down' to those that don't matter when they gush about<br />
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But I get, 'I don't know why I bother?' WTF! <br />
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<b>6th September 2016</b><br />
In an attempt to make amends, they do what I've seen them do in the past... go off looking for saccharine words with their 'On the Record' post (Now deleted... On the record, off the record again. #YOYOWJOI!)... and going round the 100 or so people looking for a soundbite about how awesome I am.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"What William brings to any project is vision and execution. His attention to detail is exquisite. William is like a conductor and he anticipates and prepares meticulously. What distinguishes William from the rest? His core values. He does not compromise. His core values and his work ethic are beyond anything I have ever witnessed. One PLN member shared, 'His work ethic is unsurpassed.' Others used terms like visionary leader, selfless giver and influencer. All agreed that no one should ever pass up an opportunity to collaborate with William in the future" </span><br />
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Aw Shucks! TY... Hope you feel the same about those core values today by the time you get to the end of this post ;).<br />
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As you'll see I'm happy to 'Collaborate' let's see if you're capable of 'Owning Your Words' (For once!)<br />
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<b>28th September 2016</b><br />
I ask for a bit of help from a friend and life coach for a bit of mediation regarding my relationship with the #DigCitSummit brand...<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">'Stay away from one another, it's a toxic relationship' </span></div>
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<b>12th November 2016</b><br />
However, I get all this 'Please can we keep collaborating... it will be different this time'<br />
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There is always a disconnect, the sincerity of the words never match the actions... But Man! Are these guys good with their words!<br />
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Upon hearing about the Skypeathon and the 'Three Nations Challenge' I create a group conversation to encourage 'Team Scotland' to take part... @ElliePrimary1 and @FillTheGapLearn make their first Skype call as a result of this group. One of them get involved as a result of the 2016 attempt at <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2016/11/ceduad-skype-supplier.html">#CEduAD and Skype a Supplier</a>.<br />
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One of the #DigcitSummit Co-Founders gets involved and, fair play, on this occasion that is no drama and we nudged the needle forward a little.<br />
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<b>30th March 2017</b><br />
Not for the first time and not for the last comments around <br />
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So there was the constant promise of 'We are building something together here' right up to our very last call assurances like this were made.<br />
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<b>12th October 2017</b><br />
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<b>Subject:</b> Global Maker Day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I’m
not suggesting we collaborate nor am I suggesting that we have to be associated
or even mentioned or tagged in what I’m about to suggest, but if it is
something that could help, I would gladly do it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I’d
also like to add that this has absolutely nothing to do with the Institute or
the Summit and is not in any possible way an option to benefit myself. The
offer as it is stands is to help the author you have been supporting and that is
it. No strings attached, no opening doors to communicate or collaborate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I
have an opportunity on Tuesday, October 24 on Global Maker Day and thought <i>if</i>
you want, I could introduce David Goutcher’s innovative work <i>if</i> you
think it will help him. I’ll be in a library in an elementary school hosting
the online event all day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I’m
not sending this to stir the pot or upset you and if the idea is in any way
offensive or insensitive, I apologize immediately and guarantee you that I will
<b>not</b> do anything suggested above. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I’m
sending this as you would call it as a 5 minute favor. No need to respond if it
is received any other way. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Don't be an 'Ask Hole' Mark Babbit at the #DigCitSummit Nigeria event... How did the 'selfless giving and '5min favour' pan out for you? To your benefit I see ;)<br />
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<b>3rd November 2017 </b><br />
I am extremely cool and cautious throughout the collaboration... only chatting in group conversations and not much 1:1... but we manage this rather impressive Mission. And it was a real highlight for me.<br />
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<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/11/digcitsummit-spyquest-mission-help.html">DigCitSummit @SpyQuest Mission - Help Recruit Ellie the Elephant</a><br />
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<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/11/why-i-wasnt-at-school-today-i-went-to.html">Why I Wasn't at School Today - I Wnet to Utah</a><br />
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Credit where it's due this would never have been possible without the combined talents of the extroverts in the #DigCitSummit camp and my ability to plan etc.<br />
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The kids had a challenge of recruiting Ellie, which they did... although she never visited Agent Isaac's school (For whatever reason).<br />
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The adults had the challenge of 'Who tells the best stories?' Introverts or extroverts?<br />
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My submission to this challenge is this post ;) -> Keep reading folks, especially if you're one of the #DigCitSummit acolytes who have had <b><u><i>PLENTY</i></u></b> to say to and about me. Ass holes! Erm I mean Donkeys (Remember @BeMorePirate kids, you should always use the YOYOWJOI compass!) <br />
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Hint: YOYOW = You Own Your Own Words (As per my 2015 #DigCitSummitUK closing remarks!)<br />
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The JOI? You'll need to search @BeYonderLtd and find either a #SchoolClimateStrike Sea Shepherd or Super Hero for that part ;). Spoilers sweetie, spoilers ;)<br />
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<b>28th November 2017</b><br />
This leads to 8 schools connecting with Spy Quest and the DigCitSummit brand during the Skypeathon<br />
<a href="https://sway.office.com/s/mFEVY4DJ9AvqHyMg/embed?accessible=true">SpyQuest Skype Connection</a><br />
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The first time we speak after myself and my kid supporting this toxic brand (Yet again!) is the following<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"I think you have hatred in your heart for me"</span><br />
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Seriously? We've just went <b><u><i>WAY!</i></u></b> outside our comfort zone to support you and these are the 'Be <b>THAT</b> kid of kid' words you choose to use? Fuck you... and the drama you bring with you! Did you see my 2016 DigCitSummitUK Closing Remarks of #YOYOW? I think I can offer a rather compelling argument that it's you with the 'hatred in your heart' as you so eloquently put it.<br />
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<b>1st December 2017</b><br />
We had already arranged for the #DigCitSummit Co-Founder to Skype into the Scottish #Cmgr meet up when I was presenting my experiences of making the transition from sales to community manager.<br />
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That was one of the last times we spoke...<br />
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Think there were 1-2 more calls to try to make the best of a bad situation and there was a comment about trying to make a #DigCitSummitScot event happen when #DigCitSummitIRL was on... but there was no one to organise it.<br />
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<b>2nd February 2018</b><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Following Chris van der Kuyl’s keynote speech at the 2015
Scottish Learning Festival where the message was that there needs to be more collaboration
in education, after listening to this keynote I got to work with a few projects
and ideas. If anyone wants to know the specifics of these project please see <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/02/oh-places-youll-go-nt2t-edcamp.html">this
post</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">One of the initiatives that I got involved with was a
Digital Citizenship event where I said to the organisers:</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">“I’ll get involved
with this on one condition… that the UK event takes place in Scotland and,
ideally in Falkirk”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Articulating the reasons for this and the implementation of
this statement might have been better at the time. While the event did go
ahead, unfortunately, it was moved so that it was closer to London so
international speakers and attendees could attend the BETT Show.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I hope that the collaboration that’s taken place between
Falkirk schools, Spy Quest and some US Connected educators during the 2016
& 2017 Skypeathon demonstrates the value of my suggestion that this would
be a great place to host the event. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I understand that some connected educators will be in the UK
again this April, and wondered if it might be worth exploring the idea of
hosting an event in Scotland this time? </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">If enough people in this group like the idea then the you
could probably make this happen with very little effort (many hands make light
work and all that jazz) and IMHO would be a fantastic opportunity to exchange
ideas, share best practice and generally make connections that would facilitate
more collaborative online projects.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I’d be happy to pitch in as and when I could, but my time is
limited, as I need to focus new goals and opportunities… but it would be
fantastic to see an event take place in Scotland when people are in the area to
put a bit of “social proof” to work to help get others connected. </span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> 03 February 2018 13:31<br />
<b>To:</b> William Jenkins<br />
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: Scottish Digital Citizenship Event?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Really happy to see the responses especially this one from
Hadley! I know you have wanted to bring an Edcamp to Scotland for a long
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<span style="color: blue;">Happy to support you to bring an event to Falkirk</span></div>
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It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows the #DigCitSummit brand that they have now tapped into what became of this project as it 'Pivoted' to #CEduAD (Well before the 2 months that the 'Radically Transparent' #NewPowerEducation crew got involved)<br />
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Note to self remember to write a 'How Trust was Destroyed in a single blog post in October 2018'<br />
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<b>8th March 2018</b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">"By January 2016, I was connected with Joanne Sweeney because we brought the #DigCitSummit to the UK with the help of a colleague, William Jenkins, who really is responsible for uniting all of us" @Mbfxc</span><br />
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NB We were <i style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">NEVER</i> colleagues! With the exception of being asked to do some work in Feb 2017 (where the amount was contested and when it would be paid... 50% was paid on time the rest was months later) I was always a volunteer of the #DigCitSummit brand!<br />
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<b>28th April 2018</b><br />
On the day of the #DigCitSummitIRL event people start Tweeting about their enthusiasm for a #DigCitSummitScot event... Something I had tried to do in Nov 2015 and again in Feb 2018.<br />
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At the time my thoughts were simply... YOU COULDN'T MAKE IT UP and/or I would find myself agreeing with Michael Sinclair's observation when we connect during #CEduAD 2018 in June<br />
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Today, with the benefit of my books and seeing a few ideas get traction after the 3rd or 4th attempt... I can see that this is part of the process.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">"All truth passes through </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">three</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"> stages: </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">First, it is ridiculed</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">Second, it is violently opposed</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">Third, it is accepted</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"> as </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">self</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">-</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">evident</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">.”</span> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 22px;">Arthur Schopenhauer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 22px;">So of course three years later this is self evidently a good idea... and just as I did with </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 22px;">Nov 2015 - Feb 2018 with #DigCitSummit </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 22px;">Nov 2015 - Oct 2018 with #CEduAD</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 22px;">I'd be <strike>happy</strike> willing to do a quick '5min favour' (not a 5 month one)... even if the end will mean that people end up saying </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 22px;">'I hate that freaking turtle' </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 22px;">Because you are either working with a group of passionate people and/or as a result of miscommunication when collaborating virtually and we miss the 90% of our comms that is non-verbal..</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">You get no birthday!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">There’s a party and you can’t come, how’s that?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">They’re gonna have flaming cars, and trailer folks</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">and shrimp-dogs and pizza!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Oh, no, no, no, oh dang it!</span></span><b><br /></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 22px;">Check the very first tweet on the #SeaTurtlePirates hashtag to see what that is in reference to. Lol</span></div>
<b><br />28th May 2018</b><br />
In May I was perusing Waterstones for my next book to read and a pink 'Be More Pirate' one caught my eye immediately... as did these two quotes:<br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"In the workshops we run, the second stage is where things really get started, we break into crews and a sense of mutiny begins to fill the room. Making new rules can be complex, but that's not where we start; the first thing to do is get a crew to choose the one rule they collectively most want to break, and then begin the task of remaking it. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In this challenge, we've seen things get pretty heated; crews fight, split, re-form and commit to actual rule breaking there and then. We find when you really reconnect with that rule you know needs breaking, and actual alternatives begin to emerge, with a crew ready to try to change them, pirates begin to get serious.</span></span></span></div>
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So to any 'New Power,' 'Be More Pirate' crews... especially those in education who have organised a Twitter chat or Edcamp or anything and found their efforts margianlised by the 'Takers' and 'Fakers' ( The qualitative and quantitative data suggests this <b><u><i>IS</i></u></b> the case)...don't stop collaborating!<br />
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Find a different group. Don't let the takers mean that you don't share your ideas and creative gifts with the world, it's those people that are wrecking social media (Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accouts Right Now detail how and why this is the case)</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">"When I say fight, I mean actually fight. That doesn't have to be physical, it could be a fights with the system, it could be a professional conflict, a falling out with a friend or a row with a stranger. It could be a war of words, it could be a battle of wills or if could be lobbying, arguing, demonstrating or debating.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">But whatever it is, it's a real fight, one where you're putting your neck on the line, you could get hurt, you've got something to lose, it could cost you your job, end a relationship, damage your reputation, or worse" </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">My core values include having honest relationships... and if someone runs around the internet saying </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">'Be the same person you are online as you are offline'</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">Be The Digital Change you want to see in the world</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">What happens if you call them out and pick a fight, I wondered ;)</span></span></span></div>
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With 4 years of messing about with the Pirate Code, I thought at the very least I could give the Be More Pirate community a win with a Blackbeard style #DigCitSummit Tall Tale... and one that would also (Hopefully) keep future takers/fakers away from any projects that I might work on<br />
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<b>1st June 2018</b><br />
After reading Be More Pirate, the New Power Community Manager suggested that I read their book.<br />
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As they said at the inaugural New Power Virtual Gathering, I tweeted out half the book, wrote '<a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/Tech_Story2.pdf">Tech Story 2</a>' and was loved by the authors and their #Cmgr<br />
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I went on to incorporate the #NewPowerEducation movement into the Skype Edcamp and the 2018 attempt to bring the #CMAD for Edu 'Connected Educator Appreciation Day' to life.<br />
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By the 1st August my ideas and voice was marginalised and by 20th October the #CEduAD story was changed entirely and I was suddenly labeled as 'The wrong kind of people with the wrong kind of purpose'<br />
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Fuck New Power's idea of 'Radical Transparency' thought I.<br />
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*Waves* to the New Power team... Love you guys, #YouMatter... if you didn't we wouldn't be connected yadda yadda etc etc.<br />
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<b>17 &19th July 2018</b><br />
<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/07/skype-master-student.html">Skype Master Student</a><br />
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<b>31st July 2018</b><br />
The event that stated out as the #DigCitSummitScot idea had developed to a UK Edcamp and - because of the level of interest internationally - #CEduAD 2018 and an initial Skype call was arranged with people who were interested in getting involved.<br />
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<b>14th September 2018</b></b><br />
Having had enough of attracting assholes and feeling the effects of ostracism and bullying I thought I'd experiment with the 'Be the same person you are online as you are offline' by sharing some of the horrible things said to me in private messages online.. before quitting Twitter.<br />
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Sharing what was said privately by the 'Be the same person you are online as you are offline' brand, wasn't very well received by the #DigCitSummit community... Go figure?!<br />
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Like all the flowery things that <a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/DigCitInstitute_Tweets.pdf">the DigCitSummit Founder had to say about me</a>, anything controversial I had to say about them has been deleted... they were only up for a day or two.<br />
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Long enough to create a moment of conflict and start a fight... I was just trying to implement New Power and use if for good ;)<br />
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It was Microsoft's Ray Fleming who got me onto Twitter. When looking for a little career advice in 2010 he told me that<br />
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Social media hadn't done much for my career and, after lashing out because of the bullying and ostracism and general lack of progress, I almost deleted my account... a quick 5 min favour prevented me from doing so<br />
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This post and my experiences here seem spookily similar to both the 'Love in Action' that Howard Rhiengold saw on The Well, as well as the kind of scribbling that Blair Newman did before tragically taking his own life (See <a href="https://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html">The Heart of The Well</a>).<br />
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All the people who said flowery things until they got what they wanted/needed from me then blocked me... was actually a huge blessing, I will be using this in a number of projects going forward. So thank you all!<br />
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Anything I do here on out using Twitter I won't know if it would not exist without these 14 words from @Sfm36 last September. Thank you Sarah! If you ever read Nicole Yershon's #RoughDiamond make sure you pay particular attention to the last page of the introduction.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">'Words on a screen can hurt people. Although online conversation might have the ephemeral and informal feeling of a telephone conversation, it has the reach and permanence of a publication' <a href="https://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html">Howard Rheingold The Heart of The Well</a></span></span></div>
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Equally, the impact a kind word can have is unbelievable.<br />
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<b>18th December 2018</b><br />
When rereading Virtual Communities I notice for the first time Marc Smith's name and read for the first time ever his 1992 College Thesis 'Voices from the Well' I read it three times in as many days.</div>
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I laughed my head off at all the experiences above, not only were they inevitable... they were entirely predictable. The Well Beings truly were and are geniuses!! So far ahead of their time.</div>
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<b>5th January 2019</b><br />
You simply couldn't make this shit up! #CEduAD 2018 was pivoted when one of the DigCitSummit Co-Founders didn't reply to my efforts to have a #DigCitSummitScot event around the same time as #DigCitSummitIRL in April?!</div>
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<b><br />5th February 2019</b><br />
I see for the first time Michael Sinclair's comment about me dropping out of #CEduAD because I </div>
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A little bit of #NewPowerEducation 'Radical Transparency' ...who drops out of something they've worked on for 4 years? <br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Before forming your "Master Mind" alliance, decide what advantages, and benefits, you may offer the individual embers of your group, in return for their cooperation. No one will work indefinitely without some form of compensation. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">No intelligent person will either request or expect another to work without adequate compensation, although this may not always be in the form of money...” Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich</span></span><br />
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When I saw that the first Be More Pirate meet up was on the 28th February I wondered to myself</div>
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I put everything in place for #SkypeMS by the middle of March and thanks to the following:</div>
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<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">It
was a Skype call with @Stanbridge in March 2015 that is responsible for
anything I’ve done in education since that call… a kind word from him on a
quick Skype call.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><br />(Who I found out about as a result of Sarah Thomas’ #SXSWEdu ‘Minority Women in
Tech’ DigiDiversity presentation)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Since the inaugural Skypeathon
only a handful of Scottish schools have taken part in the event. Skype was the
main comms tool I used when I worked with a hot shot Silicon Valley startup a
few years ago... Which is why I'm both a fan and have tried to get more schools here connected</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Linda Fabiani let me know that
an entrepreneur in her constituency was working on an ‘Ingress for kids’ game
when I sent a copy of the Pokemon Go in Edu report to </span><span style="color: blue;">politicians</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Seeing how much the Skype call
was second nature to my 7 year old son on the 2017 #DigCitSummit Spy Quest
Mission Vs how nervous I was and that I couldn’t wait to get out of the class, made me see the value in young people taking a lead on events like the Skypeathon</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">LI Paper Community Manager Kelly Hungerford for sharing her experiences with me via CMAD 2016 and a Skype call in 2017</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Skype for Good Director Ross
Smith taking a moment to speak to my oldest son… He grew 2 feet
taller during the call. If a kid had enough calls like that with people like
that during his/her school life, I would not be surprised if it turned out to
be a High Impact/Low Cost (Vs Low Impact/High Cost) that could easily make a
dent in the #AttainmentGap and #DYW.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Reading Ross Smiths RSA 21</span><sup style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">st</sup><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">
Century Skills post and then having a conversation about it on a walk with my youngest son… and led to us plotting about how he could encourage his teacher to make
a call. Lastly, but by no means least!)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Andrea Tolley and her awesome
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<b><br />4th August 2019</b></div>
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Given the way that re-purposing what people say online - in particular in the dark spaces where Far Right extremists are talking about<br />
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In the case of Shamina Begum, Asqa Mahmood, James Letts etc etc the answer is no one!!<br />
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Just this week we have a 16 year old kid in court for being a Neo Nazi and an 8 year old kid trying to 'scratch his skin off' because of kids N-word abuse (See <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-choice-capacity-to-love-hate.html">The Choice - The Capacity to Love and Hate</a>)<br />
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Policy makers have dropped the ball entirely with Digital Citizenship and the only group that I can see that will play catch up with Bannon's 'Network Effects' and 'Feedback Loops' are educators.<br />
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<b>19th Augaust 2019</b><br />
I have done all that I can to make a Classroom Skype call at my kids school, but it ain't happening<br />
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<b>23rd August 2019</b><br />
...So I made a note of some ideas that others - where they <b><u><i>DO</i></u></b> make Classroom Skype calls might want to explore: <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/08/skypeathon-2019.html">Some Skypeathon Ideas</a><br />
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<b>14th October 2019</b><br />
I see all the people that I've helped connect the #DigCitSummit brand to and all the people who joined in and, as a so called 'Crowd Leader' (According to New Power), those I helped to 'empower'<br />
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I sure as fuck don't want my kid to be <b><u><i>THAT</i></u></b> kind of kid!<br />
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fall out all the time! Every single day in the playground, at their offices, in their group of
friends, neighbors and families too… We need look no further than our so called
political leaders… and they have contracts, staff handbooks, HR etc etc.
Voluntary collaboration like this doesn’t. </span></div>
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Go sit in a coffee shop for a day and see if you can go an entire day without listening to people talking about their so-called-friends or colleagues, I'd be amazed if you had a gossip free day!<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As we see in the world of politics and us voting for Trump/Bannon/Farage/Boris and Brexit, we’re still figuring online out, who's going to show them the way if not educators? Boris Johnston and Donald Trump?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unfortunately, negative and controversial messages and approaches work (It's Jaron Lanier's BUMMER at play again)<br />
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want to model for my kids the advice from Sam Conniff’s book Be More Pirate (And model <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24b3BAUXD_Q">Molly Stanbridge's example too</a> – What
are you willing to take a stand for… what you willing get in a fight for
(something that could see you lose friends, has the potential to harm your
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've done that here and, if nothing else, hopefully the @BeMorePirate Community have one heck of an Edu based Blackbeard Tall Tale to tell!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">... Just like @ThisIsNewPower have a #NewPowerEducation 'Radical Transparency' case study with #CEduAD as a result of my time and efforts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But I also want my kids to model ways that if/when friends fall out (online or offline) that they find ways to communicate and, ideally, to make up or at the very least part
ways as amicably as possible (Preferably using the #YOYOWJOI compass). So I'll #BeTheDigitalChange I want to see! </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We included everyone who was involved in the #MIEBoom presentation and very much hope that everyone who was involved previously will get involved going forward<br />
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Any of the #DigCitSummit acolytes who sees this post as anything other than sharing my experiences and trying to help can get themselves to F**k, I've had enough of you and your judgmental attitudes ('You <b><u><i>KNOW</i></u></b> who you are' as @FillTheGapLearn cryptically says in his #CEduAD 'Cooking with Gas' post).</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">God himself</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">sir</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">, doesn't </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">propose</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;"> to </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">judge man until the</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;"> end of </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">his </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">days. So why </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">should you</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;"> and I?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">Before you</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;"> start to </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">judge me</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">, step into </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">my shoes</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">walk the</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;"> life </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">I</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">'m living and if </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">you</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;"> get as far as </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">I</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;"> am, just maybe </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">you</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;"> will </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">see</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;"> how </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;">strong I</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.98px;"> really am."</span></span></div>
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Just as I made a few mistakes and learnt from them, I'm sure the #DigCitSummit brand did after their first few events... whether you know me or not, here are some facts.</div>
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<li>My Core Values have remained unchanged since Sept 2015</li>
<li>The reason I got involved with the #DigCitSummit to help get more Scottish educators connected - this has remained unchanged</li>
<li>The title of the Thunderclap 'Skype & Twitter We Love You' - this is unchanged, still a fan of both... but a little bit less so 4 years on.</li>
<li>'Be the same person they are online as they are offline' I'm still down with that idea... Especially after reading Edward Snowden's Permanent Record! </li>
<li>#BeTheDigitalChange you want to see - I see value in this, especially with the rise of the Far Right. I have tried to #BeTheDigitalChange in this post and elsewhere. <br /><br />Is reaching for 'Block' the best we can do? What if that act of ostracism leads a young person straight into the arms of a <b><u><i>REAL</i></u></b> hate group, as former <a href="https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/edl-member-reveals-how-turned-14874552">EDL member Ivan Humble</a> highlights these guys are waiting with open arms to give people that 'magic sense of belonging'</li>
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I also think that various commentators are right - that this kind of loose informal collaboration will be the future of work for many people. <br />
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<li>Take Jim Collins advice and 'Get the right people on the bus first'</li>
<li>Take Napoleon Hills advice and work in harmony with everyone in your group</li>
<li>Take Tribal Leaderships advice and 'Identify your core values and then align them with a noble cause</li>
<li>Take time to discuss your Pirate Code 2.0... Personally I like Biz Stone's 'New Rules' and some of Sam Conniff's 2.0 Pirate Code</li>
<li>Read about what Nicole Yershon learned about the Lab Team, Lessons from the Lab and her Innovation Framework</li>
<li>Get NewPower, it's a good read for movements, but I'd give joining their community a miss... they are not very supportive, not in my experience anyway. At least they were the 'Wrong kind of people for me' but maybe I'm just a Misfit ;)</li>
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Thus ends my #DigCitSummit Adventure... and my Skype one... and my Scottish Education one too for that matter, that's one tough nut to crack!</div>
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'Scotland Lacks Talent' @ChrisVDK #SLF2015... but then gets £600,000 from @ScotGov to make Scotland the most entrepreneurial country in the world. What Tosh! Might be an idea to g<span style="text-align: center;">ive the money to people who actually believe that Scotland has talent!!</span></div>
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William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-16846870386558680132019-09-22T07:12:00.003-07:002019-09-22T11:17:37.333-07:00Books, The Internet or School? <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.4px;">Which would it be? For me I think it would be books.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">I never picked up a book for pleasure until I was 29 years old and was thanks to the Open University. </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">I</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> got my first computer at around the same age (Although did have games consoles when I was younger). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">As per, Jack Dorsey's Ted Talk, </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">I do indeed try to use the internet to share the ideas that I've learnt from the books that I've read for pleasure... and have done since my first blog post in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">My head is buzzing with ideas from books that I've read in 1999 (Esp Jane Jacobs) and mashing them up with more recent ones, which include: </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-choice-capacity-to-love-hate.html">The Choice</a>, Bad Blood, </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">Siege Trump Under Fire, Ten Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts Right Now, </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.4px;">The 5 People you Meet in Heaven &</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">Permanent Record (To name a few). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">The ideas from these books are then </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;">supplemented</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> with all the people I've met online and the articles and videos that they have shared and my attempts to re-skill from sales to community management.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">But the 'laggard' and what Adam Grant calls the 'Gisagreeable Giver' in me is so sick of what the internet has become... that I came very close to taking Jaron Lanier's advice and delete my social media accounts at the end of last year. I didn't for similar reasons to the second extract in this post.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">Here's some super important lessons I've learned through following people in my network and my books... I hope it helps education leaders make better use of all the resources currently available to keep our kids safe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">The first extract is from Twitter CEO and how he feels Twitter needs to change.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background: white; letter-spacing: -.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">"What we believe now to be the most important thing,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">which is healthy contribution back to the network<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">and conversation to the network,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">participation within conversation,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">learning something from the conversation.<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Those are not things that we thought of 13 years ago,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">and we believe are extremely important right now.<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background: white; letter-spacing: -.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">You have to balance and look constantly<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: auto; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">at
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healthy experience for people.<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: auto; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Ultimately, we want to get to a metric<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: auto; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">where people can tell us, </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: auto; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">"Hey, I learned something from
Twitter,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: auto; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">and I'm walking away with something valuable"<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: auto; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">That
is our goal ultimately over time,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: auto; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">but that's going to take some time" Jack Dorsey, <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_dorsey_how_twitter_needs_to_change">How Twitter Needs to Change</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In Feb 2014 I wrote a post called </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2014/02/grant-versus-rand-objective-trial-was.html"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Grant Vs Rand: An Objective Trial was Roark a "Giver"</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the end of the post I wrote the following:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">With regard to my agreeing with Rands assertion that "politicians need victims" please allow me to play devils advocate for a moment... </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">How many adults leave school with a reading age of 5 or the inability of critical thought? </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Do these factors then make certain newspapers their news source of choice?</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Are such a newspapers capable of getting our politicians into No10? </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Do politicians get all cozy with the owner of these publications? </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">If "yes" why would any politician from any party want to change any situation that delivers power in such a straightforward manner?</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><br />This might be especially true if you then consider the implications if politicians were committed to ensuring critical thought was a priority in our young people. After all people may start to wonder;</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><br />What is it exactly that politicians do? </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">If "we're in this together" can you let us the last time a politician had to visit a food bank? </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">If political action is indeed making "people's lives better," who for? Where do they live? </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Why does every encounter with the public need to be stage managed and filled with party political drones, stooges and yes men?<br />Who is John Galt?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">The second extract? </span></span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">Well let's just say if this person was online today as a teenager who's to say if they might have found themselves living in exile with their citizenship revoked because their extremist comments about taxing games might have seen them be befriended by Scottish School Girl and ISIS recruiter, Asqa Mahmood, and join people like Shamina Begum and Jack Letts in Syria?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">Whether to log onto 'The Well' or other forums, so the people these kids met were tech savvy and intelligent... and helped these teens to learn and assisted with their careers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.4px;">And I think we'll get there too. Jane Jacobs teaches us that attempts to create order leads to chaos... and chaos of the city can lead to order:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px;">"When Jimmy Rogan fell through a plate-glass window (he was separating some scuffling friends) and almost lost his arm, a stranger in an old T shirt emerged from a bar, swiftly applied an expert tourniquet, and, according to the hospital’s emergency staff, saved Jimmy’s life. Nobody remembered seeing the man before and no one has seen him since. The hospital was called in this way: a woman sitting on the steps next to the accident ran over to the bus stop, wordlessly snatched the dime from the hand of a stranger who was waiting with his fifteen-cent fare ready, and raced into the Ideal’s phone booth. The stranger raced after her to offer the nickel too. Nobody remembered seeing him before, and nobody has seen him since" </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px;">Jane Jacobs, Life and Death of Great American Cities</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.4px;">Our kids will help clean up the mess that the current generation have made of the toxic internet just like they did on Friday in our physical spaces to protest about the toxicity in our oceans and climate change during the school climate strikes... Even if they do make the odd mistake online.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">But ultimately, I couldn't. Something kept preventing me. It just felt wrong. To blank my posts from the face of the earth wasn't illegal, and it wouldn't even have made me ineligible for a security clearance had anyone found out. But the prospect of doing so bothered me nonetheless. It would've only served to reinforce some of the most corrosive precepts of online life: That nobody is ever allowed to make a mistake, and anybody who does make a mistake must answer for it forever. What mattered to me wasn't so much the integrity of the written record but that of my soul. I didn't want to live in a world where everyone had to pretend that they were perfect, because that was a world that had no place for me or my friends. To erase those comments would have been to erase who I was, where I was from, and how far I'd come. To deny my younger self would have been to deny my present self's validiy.</span></div>
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William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-49500648760935631852019-08-23T13:46:00.001-07:002019-08-26T02:10:56.453-07:00Some Skypeathon Ideas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've done what I can over the years (As and when I've been able) to support tools that I'm a fan of. This includes Skype and encouraging people to get involved with events like the Skypeathon since it started in 2015.<br />
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In 2015 it looked like 2 Scottish schools got involved with the Skypeathon, fifteen in 2016 and two initiatives in 2017 (Not sure about 2018).</div>
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One of the most successful initiatives with the Skypeathon in Scottish Schools was the year that Paul Watkins organised the 'Three Nations Challenge" a competition between Scotland, England and Wales to see who could travel the most virtual miles.<br />
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In our first attempt at content marketing and market research and our Twitter in FE report in collaboration with Social Nation author, Barry Libert we noticed the Texas A&M Vs Texas Uni football rivalry spilling into social media (But in a friendly way... not like political adversaries go after one another today)</div>
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<span style="color: #3333ff;">In our search for good examples of colleges in Social Media and who had the most fans, we came across a great example involving Texas A&M and The University of Texas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3333ff;">The longstanding rivalry between the two universities never fails to cause a stir amongst students & fans. In the modern age of Facebook and Twitter, the competition extends beyond the playing field and onto the Internet. These two rival universities compete with one another to have the most followers and fans. At the time of writing this currently stands at;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A twist on this might be that the Twitter chats and/or Edcamp organisers from each state compete against other state Twitter chat and/or EdCamp to see who wins the bragging rights for the most miles travelled within and outside of their state?</div>
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Here's a list of <a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/lists/edchat-moderators/members">Edchat Moderators</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/lists/edcamp-accounts/members">Edcamp Accounts</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/lists/edcamp-organisers/members">Edcamp organisers</a><br /><br />In Scotland (And across the UK) this could be seeing who Skypes with the most people within their Local Authority outside their district, perhaps buddying up with a state for the right kind of collusion (AKA not the political kind of collusion) to clock those Skype miles up.<br />
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Or perhaps there could be collusion along Microsoft Ambassador lines with #MIEExperts, #SkypeMTs, Mincraft Global Mentors, Flipgrid Ambassadors, Wakelet Ambassadors and their students seeing which group can get the most schools making that all important first Skype call.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a;">Ever read a book called Harry Potter? Remember the sorting hat? Did you see how seriously those kids took the house competition... and how loyal they were?<br /><br />#WhatIf... There was Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin for Skype?</span><span style="background: white; color: #14171a;"><br /><br />I've been exploring some Citizenship ideas with a few educators for some young digital leaders and wonder what some friendly rivalries could look like.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #14171a;">Perhaps having educators and authors who help students to encourage other classes, schools, educators and students connect. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #14171a;">Based on some of the books me and my kids have got a lot out of over the last couple of years this could include books like:</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #14171a;">Agent Jones' Mission is to encourage reluctant readers to discover the world of books and he has helped bring reading to life in our house.<br /><br /><b>BeMorePirate</b><br />If, as we suspect, Be More Pirate author Sam Conniff is right and that </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #14171a;">Then applying principles from this book will come in useful... Just look at Greta Thrunberg and the School Climate Strike if you are looking for any evidence of this. (Sam Conniff has also inspired young people through his work at Livity)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #14171a;">We have seen how 15 year olds are making money from things like the Fortnite World Cup, YouTube and other ideas that simply were not here a decade or two ago... Minecraft experts like Stephen Reid, Minecraft Global Mentors and organisations like Smart Stems could help with this group</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #14171a;">...Maybe it needs a little more collusion with more turtles that we haven't met yet before there is that 'Eureka' moment and/or the meeting of minds and mixing with other people's 'Slow Hunches'. I love those <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BsMzc9mMs">freaking good idea Turtles!</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">This post, like my previous one is more cathartic and 'thinking out loud' as much as anything. It details what I would like to happen... but will, no doubt, hit road blocks and/or may take a few attempts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">My own kids' school(s) should not be a tough audience for me - just like this post, like the one I wrote last July, should be a single paragraph:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">"I want my kids to be able to make Skype calls at school, to connect with the kind of people that I've been able to connect with... But in order to do that a bit of encouragement and hustle is needed"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">But I've found that's not how things work. </span><span style="color: #14171a;">Four years ago I would have (and did!) scratch my head about how and why it was so tough. Nicole Yershon articulates this very well in her </span><span style="color: #14171a;">fantastic book about creativity and innovation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a;">So... What if you have ideas but don't have a voice? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a;">To give just one example... </span></span><span style="color: #14171a; font-family: inherit;">What if you agree with people like Chris van der Kuyl that 'Education lacks leadership*' and ag</span><span style="color: #14171a;">ree that you feel there would be a lot of benefits if Scottish Educators were to collaborate more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">However, unlike those who do have a voice, you are not a position to simply give a fancy keynote speech at and think nothing more about it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">"You have to be sure to tell your side of the story... Because if you don't, the truth will be invented by other people to get the credit" </span><span style="color: #14171a;">Nicole Yershon, Rough Diamond </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a;">So it would appear that there are two options...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a;">1) Just give up and conform.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a;">2) Take Susan Cain and Steve Wozniak's advice and start a @LiveQuiet revolution and work alone. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">"Most inventors and enginners I've met are like me - they're shy and they live in their heads. They're almost like artists. In fact the best of them are artists. And artists work best alone where they can control an inventions design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don't believe anything really revolutionary has been invented by committee. If you're that rare engineer who's an inventor and also an artist, I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is : Work alone.You're going to be best able to design revolutionary products and features if you're working on your own. Not on a committee. Not on a team." Steve Wozniak via Susan Cain's fantastic book "Quiet"</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a;">Work on an idea until it becomes a good idea to 'Flatten the path' and 'Lower the barrier' to help others... until the rationale for the idea is beyond obvious and the value in exploring it no longer needs any explanation at all.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #14171a; font-family: inherit;">I've come </span><b style="color: #14171a; font-family: inherit;"><u><i>REALLY</i></u></b><span style="color: #14171a; font-family: inherit;"> close to the first option in the last 12 months, including last week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a;">The people who have provided a kind word know who they are - if anything happens with this going forward it might not have without your input! TY - The two experiences with my kids are below.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a;">Last year there was a "World of Work" day at my 8 year old son's school, and parents were asked if they wanted to get involved. I didn't get involved. The reason?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a; font-family: inherit;">I "lack presence," I've done the 'stand up and pretend to be an </span><span style="color: #14171a;">extrovert</span><span style="color: #14171a; font-family: inherit;">' stuff on sales calls and at conferences... I'm neither a fan of public speaking and find current sales practices to be so 1980s Gordon Gekko... and, if you take a look at companies that scale well you'll notice that the times they are a changing.<br /><br />(If you check out my <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-trouble-with-conferences.html">Confessions of an EdTech Salesman from Jan 2014</a> you'll see that @TolleyA pretty much modeled this at ISTE this year)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a; font-family: inherit;">Another reason I didn't get involved is because what I was working on wasn't quite ready. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a; font-family: inherit;">It is now ready, but the timing might not quite fit in with the schools World of Work Day schedule. So unless a rule or two is broken, they might not hear about the exciting summer that one of their young students has had.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">When I picked my son up from school after his World of Work Day, I asked:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">Was anyone from Minecraft there?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">Was anyone from YouTube there?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">Was anyone from Pokemon Go there?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">Was anyone from Xbox there?<br />Was anyone from Microsoft there?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">All games and tech that he likes... answer to each question was 'No' until I get an exasperated </span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;"><b>"Look Dad! No-one from any technology companies were there today! OK!" </b></span></div>
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can access more information at the click of a button than at any point in
history”</span> John Swinney, EdTech50 Schools report... along with a link to my previous post: <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-choice-capacity-to-love-hate.html">The Choice</a>.</span></div>
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But I asked these things as I felt I was working on a solution to this lack of tech companies at the school's World of Work Day.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When Agent Isaac turned up to Westquarter Primary School on his <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/11/digcitsummit-spyquest-mission-help.html">DigCitSummit SpyQuest Mission Classroom Skype Call</a> to model the movements aim to 'Act Locally; Connect Globally' I envisioned inverting this so that once he had connected globally it would help locally with this very issue.</span></div>
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is here"</span> Fred Terman, <a href="http://www.netvalley.com/silicon_valley/Fred_Terman_Father_of_Silicon_Valley.html">The Father of Silicon Valley</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a;">A trip to the game shop CEX with my teenage son at the weekend helped with this. Here's the story...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a;">He then had to haggle for the rest in the shop but telling me why he felt he deserved the additional amount he needed (It took a while, it was a fierce negotiation!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #14171a;">When he secures the additional funds I then see that the game isn't quite age appropriate... Great opportunity for confidence building, thinks me... as well as to encourage a little Be More Pirate rule breaking too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">We're talking about a quiet kid here... a <u><i><b>real</b></i></u> introvert, he'll avoid things like going up to any counter to pay for something if at all possible, so suggesting that they go up to the counter while breaking a rule?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"Well last time I tried to get a game in there they asked for ID and I had to wait 30 mins for Mum to come and get it for me, so you can't blame me for (Being a stroppy, stubborn teenager) not wanting to go up to the counter by myself"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">So, like said stroppy teenager, there's a good chance I'm older and wiser too... there's also a good chance that the next project(s) I work on will pan out differently too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">The plan is extremely simple...and is unchanged since the <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/07/skype-master-student.html">Skype Master Student post</a> I wrote last July:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I want my kids to be able to make Skype calls at school, to connect with the kind of people that I've been able to connect with... But in order to do that a bit of encouragement and hustle is needed"</span></span></div>
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simple idea that is possible to introduce elsewhere. Good example of becoming a
global citizen using Skype” </span>Ysgol Bae Baglan, Port Talbot entry.<br /><br /><b>Progress</b><br />I know a student at one of my kids' school who has been busy connecting with people globally and could help with local initiatives like their World of Work day.<br /><br />In addition to this, if Shane Snow and Sam Conniff are right that <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130802112108-7374576-this-will-be-the-1-business-skill-of-the-next-5-years">Story Telling will be the #1 Business Skill of the next few years</a> and that we should <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/05/be-more-pirate-making-pirate.html">Tell Tall Tales like Blackbeard</a>, we think this one is pretty awesome:</span><br />
<span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="color: #3333ff;">A 7
year old student connecting with @TolleyA in Tennessee and having their work
presented at one of the world’s biggest Edu conferences and helping local
#EdTech50 entrepreneur @GoutcherD with his @SpyQuest Mission to encourage
reluctant readers to explore the world of books.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;"><b>Gamers</b><br />We are seeing all kinds of ways that people are finding a way to make a living with games, whether through Youtube/Twitch or the Fortnite World Cup. Agent Piggy wants to move to Tennessee so he can play Minecraft in class, I am sure there are less drastic (And more affordable!) options... perhaps starting with having people like Immersive Minds Stephen Ried and Global Minecraft Mentors like @TolleyA and experts like Sherry Jones skype in to discuss how they use Minecraft and other games in education.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">Since 2015 I have been looking at the early online community 'The Well' and am delighted to be able to say that some of the members of this community - the Well Beings - are interested in getting involved and would love to skype with more schools and classrooms</span><br />
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<span style="color: #14171a;">We have a group of people who really like the idea of a 'Skype Master Student' idea to help the Skype Master Teachers to help other classes and schools to make that all important - but, like anything that's new, nerve wracking! - first call.<br /><br /><b>Date & Venue</b><br />In an ideal world the date for this would be the 2nd September as a few people who would like to be involved are available on that date.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #14171a;">That's no different as I try to take the Skype Master Student idea from an idea -> to a good idea, by trying to tell the best EdTech Stories that I possibly can... Even if it does involve breaking the odd rule or two ;) </span></div>
William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-79536442268445412722019-08-18T10:02:00.000-07:002019-08-20T02:14:18.903-07:00The Choice - Capacity to Love & Hate<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As educators get ready for the back to school
preparations I wonder to what extent their endeavors to keep our kids safe
online will look like? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I also wonder if any initiatives might be a little behind the curve... as the
landscape has clearly changed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The underlining message of this post is... If you see a marginalised kid in
your school this year, give em a hug!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I joined social media in early 2011 starting with LinkedIn, then Twitter and
wrote my first blog post in April 2012. I continue to work on ideas from that
first post... in particular around the<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/lost-ghetto-12261.html">Lost in the
Ghetto</a> </span></span>article<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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</span>In 2011 my
sons were 9 & 10 years old. Both enjoyed school and, as a family, things
were going well for us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Today I have two teenagers who are at the end of their school experiences and
it's not been a great experience for either... and as a family the wheels came off a
little. We're currently picking up the pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So perhaps I am able to empathise with how/why some of these lost kids become a
little lost, I can see how this could<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>easily</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>have been one of my kids given the challenges they've faced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Regarding my experiences with social media it has been fascinating seeing the
early potential of collaboration when I first joined -> to seeing where things were heading both in education and in politics in 2014/15 -> to the level of hate that
exists today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This includes the way that our so called political 'leaders' use social media
(Not to mention the difference between what they say about issues like online
abuse Vs the way they sub-tweet their political adversaries and/or how they
turn a blind eye to their support base). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Policy makers will tell us that 'It's everyone else's fault' and claim they
have nothing to do with the discourse of hate online that we find today...
which is now spilling onto our streets with extreme groups killing in New
Zealand, Dayton and El Paso, to name just a few!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Two weeks ago Dayton and El Paso, last night Portland Antifa protests and today 24 year old Jack Letts loses his UK Citizenship. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2006 Letts would have been 12 years old and 'Every Child Matters' would have been part of his school which included a 'Stay Safe' strand... I wonder what Blair did to keep Letts safe from being radicalised?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Articles like <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/jihadi-jack-stripped-of-uk-citizenship-sky-sources-11788024">this one</a> saying:<br /><br />"I think Jack was impressionable, he was very young and I think he was very easily targeted by someone" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Isn't a ringing endorsement for the 'Things can only get better... Education! Education! Education!" Blair/Brown 'New labour' legacy... but what do they care now that they have their memoirs and lucrative speaking gigs? I bet they care a lot less than Letts' parents do about the situation!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Through <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1) Books like The Ten Types of Human (The Octracist Chapter <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2) What US Counter-Terrorism explore in response to threats posed by people
like Scottish school girl-turned-ISIS-recruiter Asqa Mahmood <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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3) Hearing how some young people who were marginalised in their school life
found a sense of belonging on Reddit... a space that we now know that the Alt
Right has been using to recruit people for years.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today the far right are creating their own spaces where people like the New Zealand shooter are praised... When things get to the stage where our kids are on these far right/extremist spaces described in articles like <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/christchurch-attack-new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-facebook-internet-far-right-a8991051.html">Dark Corners of the Web that Fight to </a></span></span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/christchurch-attack-new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-facebook-internet-far-right-a8991051.html">restrain the far-right after Christchurch massacre</a> where messages in their online forums that</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">"Glorify the New Zealand terrorist as St Tarrant — patron saint of the far
right"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's probably too late!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Which organisation and/or group is doing what to prevent them going onto these sites, in a way that actually works? If the answer is no-one, then who will lead on this? How preventable could this have been with a 12 year old Mahmood, Begum and Letts with the right word from the right teacher? ECM Stay Safe?!</span></div>
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<b>"When you're young a little bit of correction goes a long way" </b></div>
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Steve Jobs regarding how his 4th Grade Teacher probably kept him out of jail</div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />I have some contrarian thoughts to what many think and includes wondering:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>To what extent have we let our young people down as they lack a sense of
belonging at home and at school that they feel the need to seek out extremist
groups... and find a sense of belonging there?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If it takes a village to raise a child, this kind of reflection is a lot more
challenging that simply saying <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"It's the tech
companies fault"</b><br /><br />Or</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"All the blame is on this impressionable/lost teenager and the choices they made" </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Such suggestions would mean that grown ups across the board from policy makers,
educators to parents have dropped the ball and let these kids down... Which is a concern given the scale,
influence and damage the groups recruiting these kids are doing today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">...Or a testament to the tactics that Bannon and Alt-Right & ISIS recruiters like Mahmood used (See the Google example below).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A twenty year old today who is an angry keyboard warrior and/or who
is demonstrating on the streets with whatever colour of shiny flag (Whether
Confederate, Star Spangled, Saltire, Union Jack or EU) will have seen numerous
governments and their shiny initiatives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Every Child Matters (2006 UK)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Society (2010
UK)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Attainment Gap
(Scotland)<br />
Developing the Youth Workforce (2015 Scotland)<br />
Curriculum for Excellence (Scotland)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">No Child Left Behind
(2008 US)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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As well as leaders from diverse backgrounds with Barack Obama and female leaders
like Theresa May (But in the case of the UK in actual fact there is actually
zero diversity as it's always Oxbridge & Eton types!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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While Alt Right were on Reddit making angry young white men even angrier...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Where were the No Child Left Behind advocates? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where was Blair's 'Every
Child Matters' proponents when Shamina Begum was in his education system</span><br />
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was Cameron and Gove's 'Big Society' when Begum was being recruited by
Mahmood? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dismissing social media and seeing schools block these services from 2007-2010(ish)... only for the
all too familiar Twitter, Youtube and Facebook icons to be prominent on many
school webpages a few years later?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some school policies include that educators are not allowed to follow students on social media... let alone reply to them or send any private messages etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I understand the risks with suggestions like this <b><u><i>BUT</i></u></b> I don't see Alt Right or ISIS recruiters having any issues with engaging with students when they were under ECM's 'Stay Safe,' and today Begum and Letts most certainly are children that were left behind with their UK citizenship revoked... by the very people who were spouting 'Every Child Matters,' 'Things can only get better,' 'Education! Education! Education!,' 'Stay Safe.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How much worse could things have been if educators were encouraged and empowered to embrace these tools and engage with their students? Surely no worse than what's happened to Begum, Letts and many other impressionable - and by all accounts vulnerable - teenagers?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">Has my generation taught the youth well enough to prevent another Holocaust from occurring? Or will our hard won freedom capsize in a new sea of hate?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Is a question that Edith Eger asks in the extract below, can policy makers in charge of education really say "Yes" to this question with a straight face and without it being nothing more than Trump's 'Alternative Facts' and #FakeNews?</span><br />
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<b>Are you Smart Enough to Work at Google?</b><br />You've probably heard the kind of 'You're stuck in a blender' type interview questions that prospective Google employees were asked... or the 5-6 interviews that Biz Stone had when Ev Williams wanted him on the Blogger team... Or that Page and Brin signed off on every member of staff and have 42 page dossier on each member of staff.<br />
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So how does this kind of thing happen at organisations that are so thorough with their recruitment practices?<br />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="color: blue;">"Googlers on both sides of
the battle lines had become adept at working the refs—baiting colleagues into
saying things that might violate the company's code of conduct, then going to
human resources to report them. But Googlers on the right were going further,
broadcasting snippets of the company's uncensored brawls to the world, and
setting up their colleagues for harassment" <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/">Three Years of Misery Inside Google</a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />The same as has happened at Twitter and Reddit happened at a company with a stringent hiring process and that had such a great culture that it welcomed diversity and dissent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks to Bannon and his mission to unite the far right... Without the proper checks in place this has affected our young people, tech geniuses and politics in the US, UK and elsewhere... Online and now offline too.<br /><br />(The crazy thing is that in 2014 The SNP/Scot Govt had the same momentum as the far right did, as the same 'network effects' and 'feedback loops' were in place).<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">What if... There was more pro-action and forward thinking and things like #ForTheWeb and #OnlineHarms were launched a decade ago?</span></div>
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</span>As it is, given some of the topics and comments about them, I am kind of glad that my 16 and 18 year old kids are not on social
media today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>But these 'radicalised' kids didn't grow up in a vacuum and it seems a little too easy to
vilify all things tech and/or put all the blame on a 15/16 year old and not take a closer look within the 4 walls of our IRL
institutions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I have just finished Edith Eger's book 'The Choice' and regarding both Digital
Citizenship and Citizenship I found the session that Edith had with a 14 year
old white supremacist extremely interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This extract is below, followed by others that are relevant regarding the role
that bullying, ostracism and kids who are just plain lost and how it contributes
to some of the online hatred today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If you see a kid who's alone this academic year... Give em a hug! (It worked
for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/edl-member-reveals-how-turned-14874552">EDL
member Ivan Humble</a>) </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>If you see
a kid sharing messages of hate online, I don't understand why educators are not
swarming in on the convo to both change the narrative and give them a virtual
hug... It <b><u><i>IS</i></u></b> possible to tone the convo down, I know because I've experimented with this myself. </span></div>
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(Actually I do know why educators don't do this... Because pushing back on these messages is super scary! Not to
mention that there are also reputational issues... especially if kids from your
class follow your Tweets. But if it isn't educators who lead on these issues -
in their own IRL communities and in their online networks - I can't think of
any other group who will... you expect Trump, Farage or Boris to? Given that they employ people like Bannon, Cummings and Banks?? Can't see that happening any time soon, can you?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Choice</b></span></div>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">In the middle of the afternoon we reach Krakow. We will sleep here tonight - or try to. Tomorrow we will take a cab to Auschwitz. Bela wants to tour the Old Town, and I try to pay attention to the medieval architecture, but my mind is too heavy with expectation - a strange mix of promise and dread. We pause outside St Mary's Church to hear the trumpeter play the bejnal that marks the top of every hour. A group of teenage boys jostles past us, joking loudly in Polish, but I don't feel their merriment, I feel anxious. These young men, a little older than my grandchildren, remind me how soon the next generation will come of age. Has my generation taught the youth well enough to prevent another Holocaust from occurring? Or will our hard won freedom capsize in a new sea of hate?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I have had many opportunities to influence young people - my own children and grandchildren, my former students, the audiences I address around the world, individual patients. On the eve of my return to Auschwitz, my responsibility to them feels especially potent. It isn't just for myself that I'm going back. It's for all that ripples out from me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Do I have what it takes to make a difference? Can I pass on my strength instead of my loss? My love instead of my hatred?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I've been tested before. A fourteen year old boy who had participated in a car theft was sent to me by a judge. The boy wore brown boots, a brown shirt. He leaned his elbow on my desk. He said, "It's time for America to be white again. I'm going to kill all the Jews, all the niggers, all the Mexicans, all the chinks"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I thought I would be sick. I struggled not to run from the room. What is the meaning of this? I wanted to shout. I wanted to shake the boy, say, Who do you think you're talking to? I saw my mother go to the gas chamber. I would have been justified. And maybe it was my job to set him straight, maybe that's why God had sent him my way. To nip his hate in the bud. I could feel the rush of righteousness. It felt good to be angry. Better angry than afraid.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">But then I heard a voice within. Find the bigot in you, the voice said. Find the bigot in you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I tried to silence that voice.I listed my many objections to the very notion that I could be a bigot. I came to America penniless. I used the 'coloured' bathroom in solidarity with my fellow African American factory workers. I marched with Dr Martin Luther King Jr to end segregation. But the voice insisted: Find the bigot in you. Find the part in you that is judging, assigning labels, diminishing another's humanity, making others less than who they are.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">The boy continued to rant about the blights to America's purity. My whole being trembled with unease, and I struggled with the inclination to wag my finger, shake my fist, make him accountable for his hate - without being accountable for my own. This boy didn't kill my parents. Withholding my love wouldn't conquer his prejudice.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I prayed for the ability to meet him with love. I thought of Corrie ten Boom, one of the Righteous Gentiles. She and her family resisted Hitler by hiding hundreds of Jews in their home, and she ended up in a concentration camp herself. Her sister perished there - she died in Corrie's arms. Corrie was released due to a clerical error one day before all of the inmates at Ravensbruck were executed. And a few years after the war, she met one of the most vicious guards at her camp, one of the men responsible for her sisters death. She could have spit on him, wished him death, cursed his name. But she prayed for the strength to forgive him, and she took his hands in her own. She says in that moment, the former prisoner clasping the hands of the former guard, she felt the purest most profound love. I tried to find that embrace, that compassion, in my own heart, to fill my eyes with that quality of kindness. I wondered if it was possible that this racist boy had been sent to me so I could learn about unconditional love. What opportunity did I have in this moment? What choice could I make right then that could move me in the direction of love? </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"> I had an opportunity to love this young person, just for him, for his singular being and our shared humanity. The opportunity to welcome him to say anything, feel any feeling, without the fear of being judged. I remembered a German family that was stationed for a while at Fort Bliss, how the girl would climb into my lap and call me Oma - Grandma - and this little benediction from a child felt like the answer to the fantasy I'd had as I passed through German towns with Magda and the other inmates, as the children spat at us, when I dreamed of a day when German children would know they didn't have to hate me. And in my own lifetime, that day came to pass. I thought of a statistic I read, that most of the members of white supremacist groups in America lost one of their parents before they were 10 years old. These are lost children looking for an identity, looking for a way to feel strength, to feel like they matter.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">And so I gathered myself up and I looked at this young man as lovingly as I could. I said three words: "Tell me more"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I didn't say much more than that during the first visit. I listened. I empathized. He was so much like me after the war. We had both lost our parents - his to neglect and abandonment, mine to death. We both thought of ourselves as damaged goods. In letting go of my judgement, in letting go of my desire for him to be or beleive anything different, by seeing his vulnerability and his yearning for belonging and love, in allowing myself to get past my own fear and anger in order to accept and love him, I was able to give him something his brown shirt and brown boots couldn't - an authentic image of his own worth. When he left my office that day, he didn't know a thing about my history. But he had seen an alternative to hate and prejudice, he was no longer talking about killing, he had shown me a soft smile. And I had taken responsibility that I not perpetuate hostility and blame, that I not bow to hate and say, you are too much for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">Now, on the eve of my return to prison, I remind myself that each of us has an Adolf Hitler and a Corrie ten Boom within us. We have the capacity to hate and the capacity to love. Which one we reach for - our inner Hitler or inner ten Boom - is up to us" </span>Edith Eger, The Choice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Ten Types of Human - The Ostracist</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">Ostracism threatens our need to feel we belong, that we are worthy of attention - are not invisible. It is a pain, Williams says, 'that keeps on giving.' The reaction to such social rejection can be both fundamental and fierce.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">On Wednesday 24th November 2004, it was the first period of the last day of school before Thanksgiving at Valparaiso High School, Indiana.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">James Lewerke, a 15 year old class member, offered to close the classroom door and turn off the lights for the video. He stood. His teacher, Ashley Dobis, daughter of the State Representative Chet Dobis, thought he was being polite. Students tended to behave well with her. They liked her. So when Miss Dobis gave permission, Lewerke got up. He was a generally quiet boy with pretty good grades. But when he turned to face the class, Dobis says, 'He just had a look in his eyes.' James Lewerke pulled out a machete and a serrated tree saw.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">He slashed 7 of his classmates with the weapons.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">As he rushed out of the room, several courageous teachers tackled him. One of them kicked a weapon along the school corridor. Later Lewerke told the police that he targeted his fellow pupils indiscriminately because</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">'</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">They were all the same to him'</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">In the aftermath of his rampage, it was reported by the Indianapolis Star that</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">'He was so invisible at High School this fall that students who sat next to him didn't even know his name'</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">'To repair the pain of invisibility, we may provoke other people into paying attention to us, to force others to recognize our existence. Ostracism is a thread that weaves through case after case of school violence' </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">Kip Williams</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">In 2003, Mark Leary and colleagues published meta-analysis of school shootings in the US since 1995. They called it, 'Teasing, Rejection, and Violence.' They found that 87% of incidents had as a major contributory factor acute or chronic social rejection. In that period, 40 children had been shot dead in their school corridors and classrooms.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">'They are past wanting to be liked or readmitted into society, they may even want to be immortalised for their actions, even their death. By doing what they're doing they're going to get noticed. They'll be invisible no more'</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">'</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">When Animals experience extreme physical pain,'</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"> Naomi Eisenberger, speaking in Reject, a film about ostracism, says '</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">one of thier first responses is to attack whatever's nearby. This sheds some light on why people may be aggressive after they feel rejected. The extent to which there's some overlap between the system that regulates physical pain and the system regulating pain of rejection, means people may become aggressive in response to social rejection'</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">'I'm not insane, I'm angry'</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"> Luke Woodham, 16, to psychiatrists when arrested in 1997 for opening fire with a hunting rifle in a cafeteria at Pearl High School, Mississippi. He killed two, wounded seven.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">'All throughout my life, I was ridiculed, beaten, hated'</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">...Cognative systems are likely to have developed to solve recurring vital survival problems, including the problems of group living. Deviance from the norm may trigger similar systems to those directed at distancing from contagion. Group members who loyally hold onto the pervasive group norm avoid individuals who depart from or transgress it in a similar way to that in which they avoid disease-bearers. As such, ostracism amounts to a social isolation which can be viewed as a kind of quarantine, with the ultimate sanction being total group isolation.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">As it floated and shimmered through the air towards him, the Frisbee that changed Kip William's intellectual life carried with it a message about human communication and connection. Of course, tossing a ball or a Frisbee by oneself can provide the same aerobic and energetic workout, more so if we wish. It's just not phenomenologically rewarding for humans - at least some of the time. But simultaneously, we have a residual, often unvoiced, fear of the fun stopping, of it being taken away, of our being unfriended, unfollowed.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">What is all this for?</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">Beyond a few, relatively rare exceptions, most of us need the impromptu Frisbee games of life with strangers. The opportunity for fruitful future interaction means that the sting of social rejection may be an avoidance adaptation to encourage steering clear of behaviors that lead to exclusion, a method for promoting social bonds. In broad agreement, Williams says,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">'I think it has an evolutionary basis. We have evolved as social animals, and it's important for the survival of a social animal to maintain a connection with others. So we are wired to detect hints that we could lose it.'</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">But that group connection is not free, it comes at a cost.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">Groups have norms - rules. Ostracism or its threat operates as a form of social control, the enforcement of norm conformity - even if it is not fair or equitable, even if it is pathological and harmful. The power of ostracism derives from its targeting of our vulnerabilities and insecurities: The fear of not belonging - ultimately, of being alone.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">'So as we have seen, interesting patterns of behavioral responses to ostracism. For many people, they will conform more to a unanimous group, even if that group is clearly wrong in their perceptional judgments. They will go along with it. They will be more likely to comply, to obey a command'</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"> Kip Williams</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">In other words, they become more susceptible to social influence, to avoid, as Williams puts it, the 'kiss of social death'</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue;">We ostracize; we are ostracized. We are the Ostraciser; we are it's victim. Ostracism lances surgically straight into our mind. Neural systems fire; avoidance systems are engaged; social pain feels like real pain. It is real. Whether the mental module has developed independently or recruited pre-existing systems for physical pain, we are constantly alive to its signals. Acceptance, rejection, they matter. Rejection can lead to serrated tree saws in the classroom; blooded knives being kicked along school corridors; the slashing of wrists after a reality TV eviction; a well meaning boy like Joshua Unsworth walking quietly out of his parents farmhouse and into the </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">trees.</span>(For more extracts see<span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/12/bullies-takers-ostracism.html">Bullies, 'Takers' & Ostracism</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>New Power</b><br />Reddit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">"The Reddit world is made up of its users, who skew young, male, and geeky, and do the upvoting, linking and commenting...In the months prior to the #RedditRevolt the CEO had tried to create new rules to shut down offensive content and hate speech on the site. Predictably, this had clashed with the somewhat outlaw, libertarian ethos of Reddit. Many suspected these efforts were not driven by a moment of moral awakening but rather were an effort to clean up the site so it could be more easily monetised for advertisers. The speech that the CEO was targeting was extreme: Revenge porn, attacking transgender people, <b><i><u>white supremacists</u></i></b>... It was also easy to sense gender dynamics at play on a platform whose users were mostly male"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue;">"Brian recalls why he chose to become a volunteer moderator when the site introduced them 'You got to build a community. You build a policy structure that keeps it thriving, keeps it going. That's why Reddit was successful. You feel like you own it"<br /><br />Courtnie talks about her identity as a super users like this: 'Reddit is my community center, it's my YMCA'"</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"After these false starts, the United States began to realise it needed to take a different approach. CSCC coordinator Alberto Fernandez laid out a new direction, speaking to Congress in 2015:<br /><br />"You need to find a way to form loose, open source communities of interest or swarms that can swarm back and push back against the ISIS message. It's not an impossible thing to do. It can be done"<br /><br />The new inter-agency Global Engagement Centre is trying to make this happen. Discarding the top down hectoring tone of the Think Again Turn Away campaign, the centre is trying to build a "Network of positive messengers" to share not just counter narratives, but <i>alternative</i> narratives drawing people away for more extreme positions, amplifying the messages of its partners, from religious leaders to schools.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One promising effort is the P2P (Peer-to-peer) Challenging Extremism competition, which partners with Facebook and hundreds of universities around the world. The brief here is loose: students come up with creative ways to </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Push back on online hate, prejudice and extremism while empowering their peers"</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A group of Finnish students launched a movement of pop-up restaurants where asylum seekers shared their native foods with locals. A US team created a Snap Chat campaign. A class from Azerbaijan created a tolerance toolkit for teachers to use in the classroom. </span></span><span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">.</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 18.48px;">(For more extracts and thoughts about this in relation to Glasgow see </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/06/aceing-made-to-stick-extensible-new.html" style="line-height: normal;">ACEing Made to Stick - An Extensible New Power Essay</a>)</span></div>
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William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-19664459954173269702019-08-04T07:30:00.003-07:002019-08-04T13:15:29.736-07:00DigCitSummitUK Closing Remarks #YOYOW - Three Years Later<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
In March 2015 I was fortunate enough to have a Skype call
with @Stanbridge, who saw the value in my ideas before I did... It made all the
difference!<br />
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Myself and my kids are now 'Paying it Forward' by taking what we've learnt and sharing with others - in a number of ways - including this post regarding our experiences with Digital Citizenship and the lessons learnt.</div>
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In the same month I connected with James Stanbridge, I wrote about educators needing to
'Swarm' to help model good Digital Citizenship.<br />
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By November 2015 I would be
collaborating with the #DigCit Twitter chat moderators over the course of the
next 2 years, even meeting two of them from across the pond F2F/IRL.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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During this collaboration I shared my thoughts about how we needed to make a
return to the early online community, The Well, and their mantra of #YOYOW; You Own Your Own Words.</div>
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This post is an update on the advice and suggestions from 2015 after one of those awesome walks with my youngest son about what's happened in my world of work over the last 2 years.</div>
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<b>The Story So Far... Previous Voyages</b><br />
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13th March 2015</b><span style="color: #666666;"><b><br /></b>
</span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/03/digcit-vs-trolls-im-student-friendly.html" style="font-weight: normal;">#DigCit Vs Trolls: I'm A
Student Friendly Social Media Educator</a><br />
(NB In Apr 2018 this<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mosaicscience.com/story/why-good-people-turn-bad-online-science-trolls-abuse/" style="font-weight: normal;">"Why Good People Turn
Bad Online"</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>post & New Power suggests
similar advice to this post)<br />
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<b>7th December 2015</b><span style="color: #666666;"> </span><br />
<a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/12/digcit-ship-ships-log-and-pirate.html" style="font-weight: normal;">Ships Log and Pirate
Articles</a><br />
NB From Dec 1914 to the present day IMHO this remains relevant<br />
<span style="color: blue;">Shackleton's leadership style was formed when working
under people like Scott and vowing not to treat men they way he and his crew
mates were treated. What he hated most about these jobs were pettiness,
irresponsible bosses, insufferable working conditions and a lack of trust and
respect among crew members. In the early expeditions which he led he
learned that leadership that was rigid, remote, undemocratic, and uncertain
didn't work. On the Endurance he focused on the one thing that that gave the
best chance at reaching their goals: </span><i><u><span style="color: blue;"><b>Unity</b></span></u><span style="color: blue;">"</span></i><br />
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<b>27th Novembder 2015<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/11/connected-educator-appreciation-day.html" style="font-weight: normal;">Connected Educator
Appreciation Day</a><br />
NB In Oct 2018 The #CMAD organiser would help an awesome crew of educators
bring the '#CMAD for Edu' #CEduAD idea to life See <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-trust-grew-idea-global-event-tim-mcdonald/?published=t">How
Trust Grew an Idea into a Global Event</a><br />
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<b>30th November 2015</b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><br />
<a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/11/mad-learning-with-connected-educator.html" style="font-weight: normal;">Mad Learning with a
Connected Educator</a><br />
NB At ISTE 2019 the we would see our work presented in a similar way thanks
to @TolleyA's #MIEBoom 'Skype Master Student' presentation<br />
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3rd November 2017</b><span style="color: #666666;"><br /><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/11/digcitsummit-spyquest-mission-help.html">DigCitSummit
SpyQuest Mission – Help Recruit Ellie the Elephant</a></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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NB We would model New Power by highlighting that, like
Oreo's Superbowl 'You can Still Dunk in the Dark' campaign... That some of the
hustle behind the scenes gets left out of the story <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/06/digcitsummit-spyquest-mission-part-ii.html">DigCitSummit
@SpyQuest Mission - Part II</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The Heart of The Well 30 years Ago? Or IndyRef a few
years Ago?<br /><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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After re-reading Howard Rheingold's 'Virtual Communities'
again in December, which is from almost 30 years ago AKA before Facebook and Twitter... Before Bannon,
Trump, Farage and Brexit:<o:p></o:p></div>
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people</span></b></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Although online conversation might have the ephemeral and informal feeling of a
telephone conversation, it has the reach and permanence of a publication. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><span style="color: blue;">And details how the community dealt with the
suicide of one of the members... The arguments being a far cry from
the 'Love in Action' from earlier. Take a read</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #1b95e0;"> </span><a href="https://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html">Heart of The Well</a><span style="color: blue;">.</span><span style="color: blue;">.. sound familiar?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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Like #IndyRef perhaps? From unity and leaving food in George Square for those
in need... To #AUOB</span><br />
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25th December 2018</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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I heard about and read Marc Smith's 'Voices from the
Well' for the first time in Mid-December (And read it 3 or 4 times in as many
days) <br />
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I watched Marc's #OCTribe Presnetation on Christmas day... And Man! How I
laughed at just how predictable (Inevitable even!) Some of my experiences have
been.<br />
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I've been reflecting - in writing, re-reading, thinking and talking about
everything learnt over the last few years ... and included a conversation with
a young Pirate Stowaway I know <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Yesterday... All My Troubles were far away</b><br />
Just like a walk with this young lad this time last year contributed to the idea - which was formed with the influence of a number of sources - SkypeMS initiative.<br />
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another awesome walk, with more awesome ideas discussed and more awesome PD (From an 8 year old!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>#YOYOW... Or Do You? They Get Mis-Appropriated &
Meme'd</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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So, 30 years ago words on a screen hurt... Just as they
do today!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>HOWEVER! </b>This was before
the politicians threatened to ban people who say mean things on social
media from running for public office... and before those same politicians lied
to the same extent that they do today.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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We have the #OnlineHarms document that Sajid Javid
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<li>There are all kind of rumours about Bannon speaking to
people like Boris and Gove. </li>
<li>Dominic Cummings doesn't appear before a Parliamentary
Select Committee when asked now in No 10 </li>
<li>Priti Patel 'distancing herself' from her own words from
a few years ago regarding capital punishment</li>
<li>Vince cable saying in 2008 that banks were 'Too Big to
Fail' only to say a few years later... 'should have let them fail' (You bailed them out but failed us mate!)</li>
<li>Liz Truss and her 'We've all been affected by austerity'
yesterday but could not say how it had affected her... Give me a shout if you wanna hear our story Ms Truss.</li>
<li>Aaron Banks <b><u><i>DOES</i></u></b> attend
the Parliamentary Select Committee, but says it's not his job to
tell the facts but to agitate... And this agitating #FakeNews gets to influence UK politics by bank rolling Farage and his UKIP/Brexit Party 'Right Honourable MEPs'? </li>
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Many can't keep up with the news cycle but is this all
simply a case of 'smoke and mirrors?'<br />
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Boris says that 'No Deal Brexit is not the preferred
option and is avoidable' on the same day that Gove says that 'No Deal is
unavoidable now' (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/06/steve-bannon-far-right-radicalise-europe-trump">Bannon
is on a Far Right Mission to Radicalise Europe</a>)</div>
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Political Leaders appear to give controversial soundbites
in one setting, only to take the comment - whether in or out of context - to their base
at rallies to get people fired up. So in addition to <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;">Words on a Screen</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><u><span style="color: blue;">STILL</span></u></i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: blue;">Hurt</span></b></div>
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30 years after Virtual Communities was written, today <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Words on a Screen also get misappropriated, meme'd & misinterpreted </span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes this is intentional by 'Bad Actors' with their own words
- like the Bannon/Trump and their Alt Right buddies<br />
<br />
(Check out the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1086994914603384832">#CovingtonBoys
thread</a> I curated after I jumped in on the anti-Trump MAGA message when the
story broke. The tweet that started the story coming from an educators account,
but which had some strange activity).<span style="color: #14171a;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sometimes messages being mis-appropirated is also
intentional, but it is sharing private messages publicly when former friends and
colleagues fall out - just like with #IndyRef 'All Under One Banner' organisers and/or during the
Reddit Revolt when their popular #Cmgr got fired.</div>
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These are a couple of the stories that make the news... but will happen
every day on a local level when fall outs occur and friends take sides.<span style="color: #14171a;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sometimes it's others taking your words and turning them
into a Meme... Sometimes this is good natured and fun, sometimes it's filled
with hate and has consequences that lead to discrimination and loss of life.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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So in 2019 it's no longer a case of <span style="color: #14171a;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Words on a Screen Hurt</b><span style="color: #14171a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Words on a Screen are now leading people to hate &
kill</b> </span><span style="color: #14171a;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If it is not educators who are going to lead on both the
Citizenship and Digital Citizenship lessons, if and when people see conversations
like this happen. Who will?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/AENwV9sxx-8?t=101">Walking Dead Daryl & Beth Fight: <br />You Were Being a jack ass</a></td></tr>
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Like Shackleton's lesson in the importance of Unity, we can learn from other brave Antarctic explorers... At how humour can help diffuse some tense life and death situations. We need more Zombie Loyalists. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #1b95e0;"><span style="color: blue;">"Adolf Lindstrøm was basically the most
important person on Roald Amundsen's successful expedition to reach the South
Pole... He played an essential role in keeping the peace in the group when there
were tense moments" </span><a href="https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/what-roald-amundsens-polar-exploration-comedian-can-teach-us-about-a-mission-to-mars/">What
Roald Amundsen’s polar exploration ‘comedian’ can teach us about a mission to
Mars</a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BsMzc9mMs">You're uncaring attitude is BULL SHIT!! Or...<br />Anthony the Turtle is Mushy</a></td></tr>
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Who will teach these valuable comedy lessons? Our current political leaders who seem to have
a preference for another, better known and more evil Adolf? Erm... While some of the clowns in politics are without a doubt a joke (as are their words!)... I can't see
them utilizing the right kind of comedy any time soon, can you?!<span style="color: blue;"> </span></div>
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When mis-understandings happen online it could be not
unlike the hilarious bad lip reading sketches but with less fun results... as
90% of our IRL/F2F communications are non-verbal. <br />
<br />
Mis-understandings will
happen when something is lost in translation from human-to-screen-to-human <br />
(Or worse when the <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/politics-governments-bots-twitter">bots get involved</a>, which Trump Retweets?!)</div>
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Especially if that all important punctuation mark ;)
and/or emoji is missing</div>
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(or in my case clumsy fingers, touch screens and predictive texting! I do miss the real buttons of Blackberry phones)</div>
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<tr><td><a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1105786826571370496" style="color: red; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="593" height="189" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ilpnuHvzxuk/XUFRLKnzmnI/AAAAAAAAEDs/4CCuNdDDyVwxZRrOAZmYSNGBlNJ6YcHJACLcBGAs/s320/90%2525%2BComms.JPG" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.56px;">Both these articles are worth a read...<br />
Then compare with <a href="https://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">The Heart of The Well</a></td></tr>
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</span></b>I don't think it's just colonizing Mars that comedians will play a
vital role with... I think they will also be needed online to help tame the
'Wild West of the Internet,' which is the reason I took the examples from New
Power and mashed them up with Toy Story characters for:</div>
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<a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/Tech_Story2.pdf">Tech Story 2
- The Wild West of the Internet… And the Digital Citizen Ship</a></div>
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I know the script... Movie will be coming to a classroom near you soon!</div>
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(You can Bank on me finding a Head to help with this
particular Mission)</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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On March 2015 I wrote this post <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/03/online-abuse-i-blame-politicians.html">Online
Abuse... I Blame the Politicians</a>, the sentiment remains the same. <o:p></o:p></div>
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They can write all the #OnlineHarms reports they like
but, as long as they have conversations with the far right and refuse to lead by toning down
their own hate speech... They are part of the problem, not the solution.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Perhaps we need a #DigCit rebellion? A sexy rebellion? A
#DigCit Star Wars Rebellion... on a ship called Digi Endurance perhaps? (Shackleton Family motto: By Endurance We Conquer)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Maybe there will be a EdTech Story about a #DigCit Star Wars Rebellion... along with some '#NewPower Avengers Assemble' Super Hero adventures written at some point.<br />
<br />
If there will be it will be one in faraway scene (A long, long time ago by in a galaxy far far away), with people s<span style="color: #222222;">ipping
down coffee and reading Ayn Rand... And it will be written with Dignity.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">In the mean time any agents of #DigCit may find they are called upon for some important missions soon... #DigCit & #Cmgr Wizards Unite! </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;">Whether in politics and a
trending topic like #WhiteSupremacistTerrorism for all to see (As is the case as I hit 'Publish' on this post???!!!) </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222;">To go along with any comments you may have published about Trump Super Fan Cesar Sayoc last July and the New Zealand Mosque shooting.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222;">While a <b><u><i>REAL</i></u></b> Leader, New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Arden, will not say that person's name... others call <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/christchurch-attack-new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-facebook-internet-far-right-a8991051.html">The Patron Saint of the Far Right?!</a><br /><br />Or, if it's a disagreement in private, whether while playing a game on an Xbox or a closed forum with a group of friends who have fallen out in a private
conversation... What you gonna do?</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222;">Throw fuel on the fire? </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">Help diffuse the
situation with humour, and/or <br />Be the bridge? Be the person that connects!<br />
<br />I hope that my kids will go for the last two options. Because I want them to #BeThatKindofKid! Because I know we are #Bettertogether!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Let's learn from the toxic and negative Digital Citizenship lessons as well as the positive ones. Whether White Supremacists or groups like ISIS & Scottish School Girl <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/06/aceing-made-to-stick-extensible-new.html">Asqa Mahmood</a>/Shamina Begum... Let's make sure our kids don't lose their Citizenship, like Begum did.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">"Courtnie talks about her identity as a super users like this: 'Reddit is my community center, it's my YMCA'"</span><br style="color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">via <a href="https://quiz.thisisnewpower.com/">New Power</a> (Crowd Leaders Assemble!).</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We now know that the Alt Right made Reddit their playground.. and a dangerous place for some of our young people. </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">So there's a bit of catching up to do. </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">We need to help people find a sense of belonging and create spaces that people would die for... Not ignore people to such an extent that it makes them hate and want go out and kill.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">"In 2003, Mark Leary and colleagues published meta-analysis of school shootings in the US since 1995. They called it, 'Teasing, Rejection, and Violence.' They found that 87% of incidents had as a major contributory factor acute or chronic social rejection. In that period, 40 children had been shot dead in their school corridors and classrooms.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue;">'They are past wanting to be liked or readmitted into society, they may even want to be immortalised for their actions, even their death. By doing what they're doing they're going to get noticed. They'll be invisible no more'" </span>Dexter Dias, The Ostracist Chapter in Ten Types of Human</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;">Solutions? Could be as simple as<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3UTXsJzAj4">Throw someone in the park a frisbee</a>? <br /><a href="https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/edl-member-reveals-how-turned-14874552">A hug</a> (Real or Virtual)? <br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR4lLJu_-wE">Some bad lip reading humour</a>?</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222;">I'm not kidding either... Check the 3 links above to see how simple it could be to make a difference to someone's life. I'm lucky enough to have had a few people make a big difference in our lives. TY!</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">“I do not<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-style: normal;">forget any</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> good<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-style: normal;">deed</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-style: normal;">bad</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> one.”</span></span> Viktor Frankl</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #14171a;">Walking Dead 'I Hate that Freaking Turtle' - The Actual
Script</span></b><span style="color: #14171a;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What the hell you do that for? </div>
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I was having fun. No, you
were being a jackass. </div>
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...Killing them is not supposed to be fun. </div>
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What do you
want from me, girl, huh? </div>
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I want to you stop acting like you don't give a crap
about anything. Like nothing we went through matters. Like none of the people
we lost meant anything to you. It's bullshit! </div>
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- Is that what you think? -
That's what I know. </div>
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You don't know nothing. </div>
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I know you look at me and you just
see another dead girl. I'm not Michonne. I'm not Carol. I'm not Maggie. I've
survived and you don't get it 'cause I'm not like you or them. But I made it
and you don't get to treat me like crap just because you're afraid. </div>
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I ain't
afraid of nothing. </div>
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I remember. </div>
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When that little girl came out of the barn after
my mom. You were like me. And now God forbid you ever let anybody get too
close. </div>
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Too close, huh? You know all about that. You lost two boyfriends, you
can't even shed a tear. </div>
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Screw you. You don't get it. </div>
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No, you don't get it! -
Everyone we know is dead! - You don't know that! Might as well be, 'cause you
ain't never gonna see 'em again. You ain't never gonna see Maggie again. </div>
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Just
stop. </div>
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No! </div>
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The Governor rolled right up to our gates. </div>
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Maybe if I wouldn't have
stopped looking. Maybe 'cause I gave up. That's on me. Maybe-- maybe I could
have done something.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #14171a;">Walking Dead - The Misappropriated Bad Lip Reading Script</span></b><span style="color: blue;"><br /><span style="color: blue;">Look what happens when a
comedian enters this particular scene? <br />The bullshit becomes Mushy... and the
hatred turns into a fun Meme </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">(Even if the words were never said, it's heavily edited and/or the story no longer makes any sense)<br /><br /><b> </b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I hate that freakin’ turtle<br />
His name’s Anthony!<br />
Well, I might just do an evil drive-by on Anthony!<br />
You keep away from my turtle, got it?<br />
Ugh, he’s MUSHY!<br />
Oh yeah?<br />
You get no birthday!<br />
There’s a party and you can’t come, how’s that?<br />
They’re gonna have flaming cars, and trailer folks<br />
and shrimp-dogs and pizza!<br />
Oh, no, no, no, oh dang it!<br />
You don’t even get to touch the blind kid!<br />
No, I need to come!<br />
Nah-uh!</div>
William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-75990764591555956692019-08-02T06:28:00.001-07:002019-08-02T14:32:09.028-07:00#SeaTurtlePirates... The End of An Excellent Adventure!This post is taking #RoughDiamond author Nicole Yerson's (@NicoleYershon's) advice and get your story out before anyone else does... So I'm going to tell you what a brave group of young Pirates are going to do before they do it!<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Tell Tall Tales... Tell Blackbeard Pirate Tales!</span></b></div>
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Between now and the Skypeathon a merry band of Misfit-Spy-Guy-Pirate-Zombies (Spoilers Sweetie. Spoilers. Lol) are going to go on an excellent adventure and man! Are they gonna have fun while getting stuff done!<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Story So Far...</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A 7 year old kid from Glasgow (Agent Piggy) breaking a little rule and skipping school in 2017 to connected with Andrea Tolley (@TolleyA) in Tennessee at Westquarter Primary School (@ElliePrimary1).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In June 2019 they presented their work at ISTE (@ISTE) and how they helped #EdTech50 entrepreneur David Goutcher (</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">@GoutcherD) on a #DigCit Mission and his goal to encourage reluctant readers to explore the world of books... This wasn't just a awesome @</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">SpyQuest Mission</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was such a compelling story that it helped other schools to get connected too ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In July 2018 Agent Piggy was sent a brief for his first solo @SpyQuest Mission - A <a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1019334664086065158">#SkypeMS Mission</a> with the objective being to make sure a Classroom Skype call happened at his school. <br /><br />This took place in Sept 2019... Even if it had to be improvised, with the help of his Power of Nine Crew.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br />...What Happened Next</b><br />This act of breaking a small rule inspired others - teachers, students, parents to take Nicole Yershon's advice from #RoughDiamond to 'Find a Way, Make a Way,' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Even if this was to make Skype calls at home, in the playground, the car park or at a McDonald's or coffee shop because of connectivity/Skype-is-blocked-in-our-school-issues</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By November 2019 a number of Spy Guy briefings & Pirate meetings take place with </span>#RoughDiamond Digital Leaders (Kind of like a rebellion... a sexy Star Wars rebellion).<br />
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Under the guidance of some awesome Pirates, Agents and educators (Currently still working undercover on some covert training: Released when declassified).<br />
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This <span style="font-family: inherit;">led to</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> at least one School in each of the 32 Scottish Local Authorities taking part in the 2019 #Skypeathon and connecting with educators from some of the 137 school districts in Tennessee (Or was it with classes in all 50 of the States... It all happened such a long time ago that I forget which it was)</span><br />
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The educators who connected with each other from across the pond saw the 'Shallow Engagement' of that first @ClassroomSkype call led to 'Deep Engagement' in the same way some of the Scottish Educators who took part in the 2016 Skypeathon did like<br />
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1) Meeting up IRL at the #DigCitSummitIRL event<br />
2) Authouring the DigCitKidz book and<br />
3) Organising global events like #CEduAD.<br />
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<b>A Sting in the Tale: Tears & A Journey</b><br />
By the end of the voyage - as this is a Pirate crew - some horrible words were said on the voyage... some were due to mis-communication and/or mis-understandings during stressful times.So when people said anything like:<br />
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Whether to that persons face... or by being a real ass and saying mean thing about someone in private behind their back, or taking to social media and saying it publicly... the crew took these actions the same way we do with Donald Trump's 'Locker Room talk' or Boris' 'Letterboxes,' and just let it slide.<br />
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In fact, some thick skinned members of the crew even saw them as terms of endearment, to help take the sting out of the tale... it helped prevent tears during and after the journey.<br />
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Because we know from the work of Well Beings like Stewart Brand, Howard Rheingold and Marc Smith:<br />
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<a href="https://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html">The Heart of the Well</a> </div>
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Black Spot? No problem... Jump on board!<br />
Fake words, flattery, fake friends or worse... Black heart? Erm... No thanks!<br />
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This @BeMorePirate crew wanted a @QuietRev, so modeled The Well's 'Love in Action' as and when they could.<br />
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For example, the crew modeled 'Love in Action' before setting sail by trying to build bridges and mending fences with crew mates from previous voyages. <br />
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In the 'First Pirate Council Meeting' they also Pirated @Marc_Smith's AWESOME! #OCTTribe comment.<br />
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Now as this is a rowdy rabble of Pirates the language could be salty at times and there were plenty of fights!<br />
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<b>Salty Language!</b><br />
So as well as a Be More Pirate 2.0 Code, we also have a Spy Guy Pirate Code. Here's one of them.<br />
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When people said things like:<br />
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"I hate that freaking Turtle" it could actually be Misfit Spy Guy Pirate Zombie code for<br />
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"I love you man!"<br />
"You are <b><u><i>AWESOME!</i></u></b>"<br />
"Great Idea"<br />
"#YouMatter!"<br />
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"You are an ass!" Might translate as "You have a great work ethic and you help me in lots of ways"<br />
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"You are the wrong kind of person!" was taken to be one of the biggest compliments ever! <br />
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As it means that you solve complex problems that others couldn't quickly and easily... A bit like these guys: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creative-power-misfits-adam-grant">The Creative Power of Misfits</a> (#RoughDiamond #NewPower Avengers Assemble!)<br />
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Or it could be taken as a polite way of saying, you're kind of bugging me at the moment.Wanna go find something else to do for a while... Before I maroon you or throw you overboard.<br />
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<b>Treasure & Credit</b><br />
Like the first Apple Mac, every member of the crew was credited for their efforts... and every single member of the crew also found a little treasure, a #RoughDiamond the size of the Hope Diamond (None of them cursed!) right under their noses... and, just like Santiago, one crew member even found his Bliss. It's amazing what a little alchemy can do!<br />
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We followed Black Beard's lead as he had fire works in his beard when in battle:<br />
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<b><b>Be a Fire Starter... Not a Lime Lighter</b></b></div>
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<b>Black Bart Rules... and The JOI Compass</b><br />
Young Pirates were always welcome and they were asked to check out episode 1 season 1 of Horrible Histories to see the kind of tight ship that Pirates like Black Bart ran.<br />
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In the 'Second Council Meeting' the crew 'Manifesto Jammed' the Ships articles, which included in the mix<br />
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<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/6K96DMN">Biz Stones 'New Rules'</a> and<br />
<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/6JVHYPD">Be More Pirate's 2.0 Pirate Code </a><br />
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And we used the #YOYOWJOI Compass when communicating (Especially when in storms and/or battle).<br />
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It was an excellent adventure!<br />
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And this was only one of the things these guys got up to on their travels, you should see <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/06/seaturtlepirates-story-so-far.html">the others!</a><br />
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William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-88149589235717828752019-07-30T12:44:00.000-07:002019-08-01T07:08:38.335-07:00My #CEduAD ExperienceThis post details my experiences with the 2018 attempt to bring Connected Educator Appreciation Day to life which, like the original idea in 2015... Started out trying to bring a Digital Citizenship Event to Scotland.<br />
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No one would like more than me to be detailing something along the lines of:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"My collaboration with the #DigCitSummit movement in 2015 has succeeded with their grassroots district-by-district, school-by-school approach and has achieved what Invisible Children did, as detailed in New Power"</span><br />
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But unfortunately that is not how my DigCitSummit story ends or how this post begins... But that's OK because getting that 'balanced triangle with the right incentives and feedback mechanisms' is freaking hard work (I'm wondering if it might actually be impossible! Lol)<br />
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In the event that it's a long and/or garbled post... you should have tried living this particular dream from Jan-Oct 2018 (Especially since July)... It sure as heck wasn't fun!<br />
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But just wait and see how this post gets boiled down to a single sentence in 12-24 months time... Spoiler alert: that sentence is already included in this post, see if you can find it ;)<br />
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But the comment will be rejected and resisted at the moment... but will be beyond obvious in a few months.<br />
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It feels like some of my experiences are a little ahead of the curve in some ways with 'loose, informal collaborations'<br />
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For example we are seeing movements started in 2014/5 like the Scottish Independence Movement's 'All Under One Banner' (#AUOB & @AUOBScot) going through some rough times, and are currently over sharing all kinds of details on social media - More evidence that we need to see a return to #YOYOW.<br />
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If I had any advice for anyone exploring this kind of collaboration (Which may well be the future of work) it's this. <br />
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<b>Get your <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/05/be-more-pirate-pirate-code.html">Pirate Code 2.0</a> 100% right! </b></div>
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<b>"Identify your core values and then align them with a 'noble cause'"</b></div>
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Get the right people on the bus first (As Jim Collins puts it) before you identify the core values and the destination.<br />
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The 'noble cause' that I have been interested in over the last few years has been to encourage educators to collaborate more using tech tools like Twitter and Skype.<br />
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In sharing my #CEduAD experience here I have used my own words... Whether in a public Tweet, blog post, email or private DM, I do my best to own my words and this post is made up of them.<br />
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When referring to anything that others have said, it is using posts that have been publicly shared about how they feel the idea and event came together.<br />
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There are a number of groups that I hope benefit from me detailing my experiences here:<br />
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1) Groups like #AUOB who have collaborated with people that they clearly trusted and saw as friends at one point in their relationship... clearly this is no longer the case.<br />
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2) Political types getting used to the nonsensical news cycle<br />
(And I'm playing about with #NewPower Storms to explore some ideas around the #OnlineHarms consultation)<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">“A lot of people around here say ‘we have to be our best selves’ and not speak or do negative things, would you agree that that is something you cannot control, or do you think positive messages are more effective”</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"It depends on the context, remember this framework of the three storms… sometimes you have to create a moment of conflict, you need an enemy!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Think about the girl trying to save the school, the enemy was the Governor of Rio, who was going to bulldoze her school, you can’t just rely on positive messaging… especially in the current context in which intensity matters so much, that passionate people support. </span>New Power Virtual Gathering July 2018<br />
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Most importantly I hope this helps this group<br />
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3) Educators who have selflessly given up their free time only to find that they were doing all the work for someone else's brand and/or career.<br />
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Both the quantitative data and the anecdotal evidence highlights that this is an issue. <br />
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In 2015 I used the Pirate code for a project, since then I have read 'Be More Pirate' which asks:<br />
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1) What are you willing to take a stand for... to put your neck on the line for?<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">"When I say fight, I mean actually fight. That doesn't have to be physical, it could be a fights with the system, it could be a professional conflict, a falling out with a friend or a row with a stranger. It could be a war of words, it could be a battle of wills or if could be lobbying, arguing, demonstrating or debating.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">But whatever it is, it's a real fight, one where you're putting your neck on the line, you could get hurt, you've got something to lose, it could cost you your job, end a relationship, damage your reputation, or worse" </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">Be More Pirate</span></span><br />
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2) Highlights that groups fall out, split and reform as they try to find the right mission and/or crew.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"In the workshops we run, the second stage is where things really get started, we break into crews and a sense of mutiny begins to fill the room. Making new rules can be complex, but that's not where we start; the first thing to do is get a crew to choose the one rule they collectively most want to break, and then begin the task of remaking it. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In this challenge, we've seen things get pretty heated; crews fight, split, re-form and commit to actual rule breaking there and then. We find when you really reconnect with that rule you know needs breaking, and actual alternatives begin to emerge, with a crew ready to try to change them, pirates begin to get serious.</span></span></span></div>
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So, to anyone who has had experiences like this. <br />
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Keep giving! Keep collaborating! Share the gift of your idea... Learn from your mistakes the first or second time round and try again which, as irony would have it, is the same advice that The New Power authors gave at the inaugural <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7uwo5bnztgx9ht7/zoom_0.mp4?dl=0">Virtual Gathering last July</a>:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Question: “When you’ve thought of giving up… what have you done to hang in there”</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">“The failures are sometimes more important than the victories… use it to refocus”</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Do you go back to core values (<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/09/using-core-values-to-find-brands-voice.html">Here are mine!</a>)… or get de-motivated. Chase those storms… Being grounded in the community. You know, the collaboration. Think about those kids in the cave. Those kids got through that because of that solidarity and that sense of community. Those New Power models, when done right really enable and that can get you through those periods in the wilderness” Jeremy</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"It feels like a very big defeat if you try something new and it doesn’t work out… We all have defeat after defeat after defeat…New Power is like a muscle you have to strengthen it again and again and again, and that’s how you become more resilient" Henry. </span><br />
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<b><br /></b>Be More Pirate and Nicole Yershon's Rough Diamond would prove to be <b><u><i>far better</i></u></b> PD than anything New Power had to offer.<br />
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I honestly have no idea if the content below will all come across as 'sour grapes,' or seen as 'airing your laundry in public,' <b><i><u>OR</u></i></b> if, as is hoped, people see it as an attempt to be helpful. <br />
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I share my experiences in the hope that it helps those ready to quit social media and collaborating and/or building movements to find a different crew and try again.<br />
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Thanks to a kind word and the right support, I have done just that!<br />
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Whatever way people choose to interpret this<br />
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1) If you feel it's not to be helpful, then you clearly don't know me or what I've been through!!<br />
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2) Every coffee shop, workplace and school sees friends and colleagues talking about each other, falling out and making up again.<br />
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With social media being relatively new and passionate people working on projects they care about, we simply have not figured out how to fall out and make up, beyond reaching for the 'Block' option.<br />
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Finally, I saw that one of the #CEduAD 2018 sessions was all about promoting your own skillset... I have not watched the video but here's my attempt at it by detailing my contribution to this movement and 'promoting my skillset' to show what I did to contribute to this idea.<br />
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<b>#CEduAD: The Alternative Story!</b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">"Connected Educator Appreciation Day started with the idea of giving all learners the opportunity to experience the best that education has to offer" </span>8th Aug 2018 <a href="https://www.ceduad.com/post/none-of-us-is-as-smart-as-all-of-us">None of us is as smart as all of us</a><br />
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I was both shocked and upset when this was written without asking for my input before, during or after it was published. I highlighted the fact that this was not how the event came about.<br />
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I told the people who managed the site and the person who wrote the post that this was inaccurate at the time... But my voice was totally ignored, and has been ever since.<br />
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Add to this the fact that the first thing that's added once people in my PLN contributed to the cost of hosting the website:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">'#CEduAD proudly created by Vlatka Butkovic Consulting' </span></div>
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But no mention of the people who paid for the hosting or those who put a lot of time and effort in from Feb-July 2018... not to mention the hustle that went into the idea since 2015!<br />
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If Adam Grant's book 'Give and Take' and previous experiences about culture is anything to go by, these are clear early indications that you are in the wrong crew... and a useful reminder that anyone who ignores the advice from 'Zero to One' will pay for not heeding the old quote 'Act in haste, regret at leisure'<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"If you can’t count durable relationships among the fruits of your time at work, you haven’t invested your time well"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Met at a networking event, talked for a while, and decided to start a company together. That's no better than marrying the first person you meet at the slot machines in Vegas: You might hit the jackpot, but it probably won't work"</span></span><br />
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Or as New Power highlights with the <a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/Tech_Story2.pdf">Snap Chat story</a> (Page 19)... It happens with start up founders, it happens with Politicians, it happens in the workplace, it happens with friends and in every playground every day, [*shock! Horror!*] it happens online too!<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1105786826571370496" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="593" height="189" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ilpnuHvzxuk/XUFRLKnzmnI/AAAAAAAAEDs/4CCuNdDDyVwxZRrOAZmYSNGBlNJ6YcHJACLcBGAs/s320/90%2525%2BComms.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Both these articles are worth a read... <br />
Then compare with <a href="https://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html">The Heart of The Well</a></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">#CEduAD: The REAL Origin Story!</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ironically, #CEduAD was started as I was inspired with what No Kid Hungry does with Black Friday and as a result of what I'd learnt from 'Community Manager Appreciation Day' #CMAD</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">27</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">th</sup></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> Nov 2015:</b> </span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/11/connected-educator-appreciation-day.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Connected Educator Appreciation Day</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Seventeen other posts about how and where I worked on this idea between 2015 and the Aug 2018 post on the #CEduAD website can be found at the end of this post.</span><br />
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As you will see, on the actual day of last years' event, some pretty hurtful things were said.<br />
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However! One thing that I <b><u><i>totally</i></u></b> agree with and 100% admit to is that when I try to bring ideas like this to life it can be chaos! Some of this may be inexperience, some because I have ideas that I know will work but don't have a voice...but equally there is an element of<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;">First</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;">, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;">self</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;">-</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;">evident</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;">.</span></span></div>
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If anyone was to care to take a look at my attempts to bring the DigCitSummit 'brand' to the UK in 2016<br />
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This was someone that wanted to help organise initially but, by the looks of things, when we started to talk about crowd funding the travel of US Connected Educators, went from supporter to detractor...<br />
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Compare this with the comments that were made in April 2018 (Which are below).<br />
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And/or the comments from early attempts to make #Get2ISTE happen<br />
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And then compare with the 2016 ISTE article<br />
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'<b><a href="https://www.iste.org/explore/ISTE-blog/5-ways-to-fund-your-trip-to-ISTE-2016">5 Ways to Get to ISTE</a>' </b></div>
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As you can see there is resistance... before they become beyond self evident.<br />
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Compare this 2015 #Get2ISTE comment with June 2018 when I hear that a member of the 'Official #CEduAD team' wasn't going to be at ISTE.<br />
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People said some really hurtful things to and about me to start with about these ideas and after all the work has been done too! Words on a screen hurt folks!<br />
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Good ideas (And bad ideas that need to iterate into good ones) that are 'different' need time. They get rejected initially. You need a thick skin to innovate! #BeThatKindofElephant.<br />
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Things can be disjointed and messy as you roll with the punches of 'fake friends' saying they'll support your work but then leave you in the lurch... or your real friends stepping in to host, only for the date not to work and have to drop out.<br />
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So yeah! I roll with the punches and work with the hand I've been dealt with each project. I find that Dave Logan/Tribal Leadership's '90 Day Strategy' is invaluable.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">"I
think when we think about what’s possible from an idea that maybe was planted a
few years ago by William and, you know was maybe talked about… and discussed in
length for quite a while with him and others, but you know, to see once
the right people came together what’s possible… and what can happen" <a href="https://youtu.be/hxyWmiY2u9A?t=460">#CEduAD Introductory Session</a> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Words on a screen hurt... Esp if from people you once looked up to!)<span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span><br />
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To this comment I say to the person that said them... You don't know me! You didn't take the time to get to know me! We had something like three calls between April and July and that was it for the whole of 2018 (and have only ever had about 4 calls ever!)<br />
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I use the time, skills and resources I have to try to get people connected... The reason I do this? <br />
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Because a kind word from the right person can make <b><u><i>ALL</i></u></b> the difference, as a 30min Skype conversation did for me a few years ago... You know who you are. You have been thanked. And you're a Lego Mini Figure Super Hero in our house too!<br />
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Here's my messy, disjointed story that helped the #CEduAD team build a global event within a few months.<br />
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I'm glad it did come together. I'm grateful for every single second that every single person put into anything I was involved with in 2018 (And every other year!) Here's to taking the lessons learnt onto the next one ;)<br />
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<b style="color: blue;">"It's not a movement if it doesn't move without you" @jeremyheimans & @henrytimms via @ThisIsNewPower </b><br />
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Sod #NewPower... I'm going back to Being More Pirate, it's way more fun!<br />
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And I think I'll try my hand at empowering some young #RoughDiamond Pirates too, because working with the grown ups can be complicated and stressful. Serious fun is hard work folks.<br />
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<b>Jan 2018</b><br />
Following yet <u><i>another</i></u> 'Ask' from the DigCitSummit 'brand' when I support the 2017 DigCitSummit in Utah, I have a couple of calls to try to make the best of a bad situation (And not for the first time either!).<br />
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On one of these calls I'm told:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"We tried to make a #DigCitSummitScot event happen when we were in Ireland for #DigCitSummitIrl, but there was no one to organize it"</span><br />
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So I think to myself<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Oh what the heck! One more '5min favour' after <a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/DigCitInstitute_Tweets.pdf">4 years of 'collaborating' with the #DigCitSummit</a> 'brand' isn't going to kill me"</span> <br />
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I send an email to a group of people that could make this happen quickly and easily.<br />
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Three people make up those all important <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izP5n1SBEaI">'First Followers'</a> with an almost instant reply... and without whom nothing would have happened here! <br />
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One of the people who replied to this email benefited from the 2018 #CEduAD, unfortunately, I can't see that the other two did with their respective work and projects... When they easily could have (And IMHO should have too!)<br />
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After getting messages from the DigCitSummit team saying 'Yeah let's do this,' followed by a message saying they can't reply to the email or get involved. <br />
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Two days later I get an email from one of the DigCitSummit Co-Founders saying:<br />
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At this point I wonder<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"OK, there's interest, do I forget I ever sent the email? Or run with it and see what comes of it all"</span><br />
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NB It might come as no surprise to anyone that the DigCitSummit 'brand' jumped on it once all the work had been done... Good old reliable DigCitSummit and their buddies. Check it out! It's predictably hilarious!<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Making Connections that matter! Oh Man! The stories I could have told that one if I'd joined the other panelists!</span></span><br />
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Good to know the #DigCitSummit 'Brand' are reliable in some ways... They always seem benefit from my ideas, time, effort and work (Shame about all the drama and BS they bring with them!). <- And that's me owning my words <br />
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(Before the usual suspects jump to complain about these comments the DigCitSummit 'brand' might want to tell them to 'Back off man!' and count their blessings I have never went down the #AUOB road with over sharing!)<br />
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<b>March 2018</b><br />
In March I create a @SkypeEdcamp account and spend a lot of time creating lists, reaching out to people and developing the account and idea.<br />
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NB when the 'Official #CEduAD organising team' who end up taking over at the end of July - without listening to a thing that had been planned since Feb - and drop the physical event, I change the account name to @ConEduAD.<br />
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A physical event and a 24 hour virtual event could have easily happened in late Sept! But they opted for an 8 hour virtual event with no physical meet up in Oct instead.<br />
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Also, myself and others (No one in what would become the 'Official #CEduAD Team') have conversations with various groups who have experience with Sype and unconferences to discuss how a physical PD event in Scotland could work connecting with educators from elsewhere.<b><br /></b><br />
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To then see people saying 'Let's Do It' and tagging me in Tweets about organising a #DigCitSummit event in Scotland during the Ireland event<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Are you kidding me? </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">Unbelievable... You simply could not make this up!<br />[*Sigh*] </span></b><br />
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As is perhaps understandable under the circumstances I politely turn down the invitation to get involved, but acknowledge the 15 people who were first to pitch in and help out with the #DigCitSummit 'brand' in 2015.</div>
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Then a member of my PLN shares this #DigCitSummitIRL video with me</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"I was connected with Joanne because we brought the Digital Citizenship Summit to the UK with the help of a colleague William Jenkins </span><span style="color: blue;">[Fact check we were never colleagues, I stupidly volunteered my time to this person's 'brand' over a two year period!]</span><span style="color: blue;">,</span><span style="color: blue;"> who really is responsible for uniting all of us... So we brought some educators from the US and from the UK... "</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/RHNfG7HxuD0?t=735">Digital Citizenship Interview</a></div>
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Seriously, you couldn't make it up! As someone said to me when I shared some of my experiences</div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">It's like the script to a horrible movie.</span></b></div>
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<b>May 2018</b></div>
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But, loose informal collaboration is new to many of us. Social media is only 20 years old (Late 2011 was when I opened my first Twitter account)... We're still getting to grips with it all and I am a life long learner.<br />
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<li>'Radical Extreme Collaboration' as my friends at Declara put it</li>
<li>'Knowledge Transfer' (Check out my #Cmgr Declara Collection!) and, </li>
<li>According to the New Power Quiz, I am a 'Crowd Leader'</li>
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So I do indeed lash out but, in learning from previous mistakes (And to play around with what people like Trump do to continuously disrupt the news cycle)... as well as to play about with some Pirate 'rule breaking' all with the aim of keeping the idea alive. I lash out... but with gratitude.<br />
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I send an update to the group I emailed in February telling 'Mr Microsoft,' 'Uncle Oracle,' and 'Professor Green' how much taking 30 mins out of their schedule a few years ago meant to me.<br />
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It was a bit of a risk! It was the kind of risk that people 'who like to manage their brand' would never send in a month of Sundays... but who would sure as heck benefit from when others take those risks!<br />
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<b>1st June</b>One of the 'Official #CEduAD Organising Team' members recommend that I read New Power, as well as Tweeting out insights I write a number of posts about the book as well as Tech Story 2.<br />
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<a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/06/aceing-made-to-stick-extensible-new.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">ACEing Made to Stick - An Extensible New Power Essay</a><br />
<a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/Tech_Story2.pdf" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Tech Story 2 - The Wild West of the Internet</a><br />
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Saw Toy Story 4 for the first time this week and love how Bo sees loyalty to your crew as important, but as one member of my PLN and as Woody demonstrates in Toy Story 4.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"People move on... It happens"</span></div>
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Anyway, after 4 months of time and effort developing the idea..It's starting to look interesting to a group of educators who, like the #DigCitSummit 'brand' have recently left the classroom for startup land and are looking to build their own brand through the time and effort of others...<br />
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Been there done that and got the '#BeTheDigitalChange you want to see' T-shirt!!</div>
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<b>20th June</b><br />
There is a Skype call scheduled with myself and three others... But I have tech issues and no connectivity and can't contribute to the conversation to discuss what's been done and agreed to date.<br />
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While two members of the 'Official #CEduAD organising team' might have bonded on this call when I wasn't able to connect, this connectivity challenge would end up providing some valuable insights to creating movements and seeing me well rewarded with ideas that (I hope!) will prove invaluable for future projects!<br />
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<b>23rd June</b><br />
When putting some hustle into the Skype Edcamp & #CEduAD (2018) by reaching out to people in my PLN I found out that one of my 'weak ties' wasn't going to ISTE and this was partly due to costs... so I put some #Get2ISTE hustle into #GetCassie2ISTE18.<br />
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If I'm 1000% honest... with the benefit of hindsight, I kind of wish I hadn't bothered now!<br />
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Go check out how the story changed with how the 'Official #CEduAD organising team' met from July-Oct 2018!<br />
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I made a connection with someone who is <b><u><i>AWESOME</i></u></b> As a result of a conversation with one of the 'Official #CEduAD Organisers' during #ECGlobal 2018<br />
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...And I <b style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">WON'T</b> be changing the narrative of when, how and who it was that saw us connect!<br />
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Furthermore, I will <b><u><i>ALWAYS</i></u></b> be grateful to those who helped make the introduction! Sick of the bull shit artists I attract who change their stories... I was never there? Yeah right! #You Matter? Hmmm.<br />
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[Note to self: Delete the venting/frustration before publishing: Btw this post comes with me closing the door on some people... With a f**king well deserved and <b><u><i>LOOONG</i></u></b> over due slam! You know who you are... I think is how it goes in #CEduAD speak].<br />
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<a href="https://introvertdear.com/news/infj-door-slam-things-you-should-know/">What is the #INFJ Door Slam</a></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"Treat an #INFJ personality with respect and kindness, and the door will never be slammed"</span></div>
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<b>6th July</b><br />
As a result of the #Get2ISTE hustle and knowing that Edchange Global was coming up... I thought it would be an idea to have a conversation with EdChange Global for two reasons:<br />
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1) To make it clear that what we had planned was in no way trying to compete with what they were doing, but it should complement their event.<br />
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2) As I thought these 'Crowd Leaders' would benefit from learning about Community Management from someone with experience in this area and was 100% in line with the CMAD aims:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Our business objective, if you will, in hosting these 24 hours of panels is to reach as many people as possible to educate them on the community industry" </span><span style="color: blue;">CMAD 2016</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><br /></span>If after the conversation they wanted to share how they put a virtual event together and/or let their #ECGlobal community know about #CEduAD, great!<br />
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If not that would be fine too... We had a good idea of how things could run and had the experience we needed.<br />
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I had a word with EdChange Global on their own before others joined the call and said:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"I know that Edchange Global team have a relationship with the DigCitSummit people... Just so you know I have not had the best experience with that 'brand' and no longer have anything to do with them" </span><br />
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When others join the call<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Shall we give member of our Edcamp team a shout and see if they can join us?" </span><span style="color: blue;">I ask</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"We'll catch them up later"</span> was the reply... I wonder if anyone ever did?<br />
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Given the links with the DigCitSummit/Institute and my relationship with that 'brand' it was <b><u><i>never</i></u></b> my intention (Or preference!) for the EdChange Global Team to get involved in the way that they did!<br />
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From my perspective, it was a quick introduction with someone that I thought could assist with their #ECGlobal work. A quick '5 min favour'<br />
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I can only imagine the kind of conversation that took place between team #DigCitSummit & #ECGlobal<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Yeah, the guy has great ideas and he's real easy to push out the way... he'll give you the shirt off his back"</span><br />
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Yep! And you know what... when you've got all your gonna get, I'll intentionally ramp up my giving after being stung by the 'Takers' and 'Fakers' as you're not going to change who I am, and to ensure that I don't 'over correct' to become a <a href="https://qz.com/1017491/adam-grant-explains-why-you-dont-need-to-be-an-jerk-like-steve-jobs-to-be-a-good-leader/">jerk</a>.<br />
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I have the skills, experience and ideas to do it all again... But hopefully in a way that empowers 'My Kind of People'<br />
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<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/11/what-if-you-dont-have-voice-keep.html">What if you don't have a voice? Keep Telling Your Story (Part One)</a><br />
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<b>7th July</b><br />
I send over a doc with some suggested community guidelines to a group of 5 people and consists of<br />
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Biz Stones 'New Rules' from Things a Little Bird Told Me and <br />
Sam Conniff's 2.0 Pirate Code from Be More Pirate<br />
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The correspondence goes by ignored completely!<br />
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<b>11th July </b><br />
I join the inaugral <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7uwo5bnztgx9ht7/zoom_0.mp4?dl=0">New Power Virtual Gathering</a> and here's the wonderful thing that the guys have to say about me in July 2018.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">37:42secs </span><br />
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7uwo5bnztgx9ht7/zoom_0.mp4?dl=0" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="179" data-original-width="314" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7p49eI5mYeU/XT9D5-rQ42I/AAAAAAAAECk/t0WYsDqT3384kvwSBLW-hc_NzNTUjH_-gCLcBGAs/s1600/Virtual%2BGathering.JPG" /></a><span style="color: blue;">"One thing I want to throw out here, I know you guys have seen on Twitter, William Jenkins (@EdTech_Stories). William is in here.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Jeremy: “William we love you”</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Henry: “He’s a hero”</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">He is starting up, trying to create a New Power movement based upon all the learnings he’s gotten from the book, from you guys… to bring connected educators together.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">I’m pretty excited, I’ve been talking to him personally about some that, so just wanted to put a shout out to him and let you guys know he was here"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">For those who have read the book, we really appreciate the enthusiasm and engagement about the book. It’s been terrific to see so many reviews of the book being posted by members of the community. If you haven’t had a chance to do that, and you’re so minded, that’s terrifically helpful to us, to the book and those who are not read the book we look forward to hearing from you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Henry: But you’ll need to go some to beat William, because William basically tweeted the entire book from start to finish, with his commentary as he went along, it was like a week’s worth of insight, taking the book to a new level.</span><br />
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I wanted to 'Pay it Forward' for everything I'd learnt with #CMAD by aligning the 'CMAD for edu' #CEduAD with the #NewPowerEducation movement.<br />
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This has indeed happened with the 'Official #CEduAD organising team' <br />
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But when one of the New Power values is 'Radical Transparency' and the way things were fabricated... It's not my idea of transparent!<br />
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The comments in July are <b><u><i>A LOT</i></u></b> different to the ones made three months later.<br />
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What changed? I have no idea! Neither me, my ideas, core values or the way I communicate changed.<br />
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Just as well I'm a fan of Ayn Rand's work... That provides a few insights. #WhoIsJohnGalt? No idea, but beam me up any time you like!<br />
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<b>20th July </b><br />
On the weekend that my mother-in-law is getting another round of chemothrapy for her late stage cancer, as well as trying to 'connect with purpose' I make more introductions and I do what I can to support the EdChange Global Event... and includes taking a bit of time curating data for a #ECGlobal Zeemap.<br />
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In the "<a href="https://youtu.be/cz9nzDp3DkI?t=412">So You Want to Build an Edcamp</a>" session here's how Michael introduces himself:<br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">Michael from Edinburgh in Scotland, I’m William’s counterpart, he’s in Glasgow
we are together pursuing the possibility of an Edcamp in Scotland, which hasn’t
been done before. We’re here to listen and learn from you folks who are quite
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Here's the <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/07/ecglobal-2018-connecting-dots.html">ECGlobal Joining the Dots</a> post I wrote... You can see some of the things that the #ECGlobal team had to say on <a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1095419113546174469">this Thread</a> during and immediately after the event #YOYOW<br />
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<b>30th July</b><br />
There has been a group Twitter conversation going for a while, a '#CEduAD Watercooler' so that people could get to know one another. We arrange a group Skype call.<br />
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The EdChange Global team volunteer to help design any website <br />
(I can see why that was now... He who owns the website can make up blog posts and change the narrative... Well played!)<br />
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One of the first things that happens after this call is an 'ask' that people pay to cover the cost of the website... Most definitely <b><u><i>NOT</i></u></b> the kind of ask I would put in initially, but people kindly contribute to it.<br />
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When a website planning meeting is scheduled with three members of the 'Official #CEduAD Organising Team,' I ask if they want me to join the call<br />
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They never did and/or I am still waiting to be 'caught up'... Boy! Would I have a few edits to suggest!</div>
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<b>20th Sept</b><br />
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">“I
guess what got me going on the whole connected trail was a guy called William
Jenkins, he runs a blog called EdTechStories and it was him that put the idea
to do more of this… I was talking to him one day on Twitter long ago, he was
talking about Skype and how Skype in some schools in Scotland was amazing
because of how it got schools together across the world connected and I jumped
on that bandwagon and gave it a go.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Skype…
Lead to Twitter… twitter lead to a variety of conversations I’ve had, leading
to an organization called EdChangeGlobal, that’s Cassie Reeder and other there.
Amazing, amazing people… I’ve now volunteered to organize that for next year
and I would never have thought that was going to come before I had this journey
that began years ago with Skype. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the 'Official #CEduAD Organisers' first Periscope videos</span></span><br />
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<b>22nd Sept</b><br />
In frustration I take to blogger and write a<br />
<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/09/what-if-you-dont-have-voice-keep.html">What if you don't have a voice? Keep telling your story? (Part II) post</a><br />
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A 2019 Update... to the advice of 'Keep Telling Your Story'<br />
Sod that! My voice is hoarse and I'm tired of at best being ignored, at worst being taken advantage of... so I'll opt for whispering, speaking my ideas quietly with the people and groups I can trust and where I actually have a voice. It's easy to say<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">'You Matter' <br />'Appreciate You' </span></b></div>
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Relationships take a little more commitment and candor to demonstrate to people that they <b><u><i>ACTUALLY </i></u></b>matter to you and that you truly appreciate them.<br />
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<b>19th Sept</b><br />
I notice a @ConnEduAD account on the #CEduAD website with no followers. I volunteer to hand the @SkypeEdcamp (Now changed to @ConEduAD) account over to save them starting from scratch with them this close to the event.<br />
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I voluntarily hand over the log in details to this account (With over 700 followers, a ton of hustle via DM and lots of lists curated).<br />
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I do this on the assumption that I will be helping out with the social media side of things in the run up to the event and on the day... Just as I had Tweeted out <b><u><i>A LOT</i></u></b> of things during #CMAD (See <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2016/02/cmad-2016-reflections-of-newbie.html">CMAD 2016 Reflections of a Newbie</a>).<br />
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I was mistaken. It would end up that in four weeks time I would be labeled as<br />
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<b><br />27th Sept</b><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">"A shared Twitter account is
something that is new to me and one thing that I’d love to learn from you is
how to keep a shared account secure, finding and using a ‘brand voice’ etc etc"<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>28th Sept</b><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>Email to 'Official #CEduAD organisers' from me:<br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">"Managing a shared account and one with a consistent brand voice
with a number of people involved would be of interest to me, I would like to be
part of any documents or conversations about this that take place"</span></div>
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<b>1st Oct</b><br />
I send an idea for a 'Potential #YouMatter #CEduAD session' based on the projects that I've been involved with and the people who worked on them.<br />
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I get a reply from former Edchange Global organiser (Formerly called EdCamp Global)<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"I’m not sure why I’m included in this email as I’m not involved in any of these projects, but please unsubscribe me. Thank you"</span><br />
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Here's the DigCitSummit 'Brand' making stuff up (again!), this time regarding the sponsors for the DigCitSummitUK event... What chutzpah those guys have! Nice to get some unexpected free publicity though. <br />
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I am hurt and shocked that there wasn't even a single sentence that acknowledges myself and the contribution of others who put a lot of time and effort in with this... But much worse was to come on the day!<br />
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The account I created, invested a lot of time in, and thought I'd continue to have access to with a movement I thought I was still a part of... blocked me.<br />
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The difference from the comments that would be made on the 11th July at the inaugural New Power Virtual Gathering Vs during CEduAD on the 20th Oct would be a shock for me!.<br />
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#RadicalTransparency #YouMatter #AppreciateYou... Love the #NewPower guys right back at you and with exactly the same duration and level of authenticity! You guys are my heroes too. #NewPower Avengers Assemble! Lol<br />
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<b>20th Oct </b><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Vlatka:<br /><span style="color: blue;">"Cassie
and I met through Edchange Global [someone] introduced us to one another, and
we just clicked immediately. I’ve learned from Cassie so much about organizing
and tech… people are not used to communicating in this way in Croatia, not as
much not as they should. </span><br />
<br /><span style="color: blue;">So I’m open to learning but I didn’t know how to do that globally, so Cassie
was the crucial element to make that happen for me. And then just Michael
jumped in, and William Jenkins was wonderful to introduce you to me and just
one thing led to another… the swiftness of the change that this makes possible,
I think this is faster than anything else in my learning, my professional
development, for personal growth. I love it, I’m loving every minute of it"</span><br /><br />Vlatka looking about as emotional
as I was watching this… but for rather different reasons to me I suspect! </span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tim: <span style="color: blue;">And it just can’t happen… when you don’t have the right people, or the right
purpose… the shared purpose with each other… But when you do, it’s like Vlatka
said, a couple of months ago… we didn’t have a website</span><span style="color: #1f497d;">, </span><span style="color: blue;"> we didn’t have any social media accounts</span><span style="color: blue;">,
we didn’t really have the idea other than ‘Hey let’s do a virtual event’
(Mwahha hhha)… We didn’t know what it would look like, we didn’t know who was
going to get involved… we didn’t know anything… to sit here today, and see over
40 people that are going to be on air, to see over 30 people who are helping
promote this on social media… and to see every body doing it from all corners
of the globe… is just phenomenal! Phenomenal. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 18.4px;">Who was it that helped pay for the hosting of the website? Why were those people not acknowledged? </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><br /></span>No social media accounts? Check the date that the CEduAD acct was created. The tweets and DMs prior to late Early Oct 2018 was all my time and effort!</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cassie:
<span style="color: blue;">OK.. so… yeah… Erm, Kinda like Vlatka said we met though EdChange Global and I
met Michael through Edcahnge Global as well, with connections, erm </span>[eyes look
down and shify]<span style="color: blue;"> William, so thank you for that. <br />
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I’m going to be 1,000% honest with everyone, so for Edcahnge Global when we
plan we start months and months and months in advance… we’re already looking
forward to next year and, it’s… you know… nowhere near time for that event. <br />
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All that being said, in July I think, when we all started connecting as a team,
to host this event and we’re like… Maybe we’ll do it in September.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I
was like, that’s like two months away. What are you talking about? And now it’s
October and this has been pulled together by this amazing team. Vlatka, Tim and
Michael… and all of your hard work and effort.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">And
I’m just like in awe of everything that you guys have done to put this
together, I’m just giving you kudos, because I know what it takes to put
something like this together… and to see it come together so fast, and to see
so much excitement out there from so many people like you were mentioning Tam
from all over, it’s just incredible to see it, and now EVERYONE gets to see all
the hard work that’s been put into this by THIS team… but everyone else who’s
sharing… and you know just kind of enjoying it… basking in this connectedness
that will come today, and I hope you guys just so give in because it’s going to
be a day you won’t forget. </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span>
<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br />Might want to check the links at the end of this post and/or check the DMs on the @ConEduAD acct from March-Sept Cassie... and/or speak to your buddies at #DigCitSummit UK to see how that came together within 2 months and on £0 budget.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Michael:</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"> The
idea that William Jenkins put forward was that, schools in Scotland weren’t
particularly connected and he wanted to see more examples of how kids and how
their teachers can link up and learn from each other. <br />
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So why not [Take his ideas] and do this.
Skype in the Classroom was a big start for me… and it was wonderful Skype in
the Classroom that allowed us to go beyond our classroom walls.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>18th Nov</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="color: blue;">"The initial idea came from
William Jenkins and Andrea Tolley, who sadly were not able to join us on the
breakneck speed process of planning a global professional development event" </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><a href="https://fillthegaplearning.co.uk/connected-educator-appreciation-day-all-wrapped-up">C</a></span><a href="https://fillthegaplearning.co.uk/connected-educator-appreciation-day-all-wrapped-up">onnected Educator Appreciation Day All Wrapped Up</a> </div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>1<sup>st</sup> Jan 2019</b><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">Through</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #737f85;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/"><span style="background: white; color: #5ca2df;">William Jenkins</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">, I
met</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #737f85;"> </span></span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/tamcdonald"><span style="background: white; color: #5ca2df;">Tim Macdonald</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #737f85;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">and</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/tolleya"><span style="background: white; color: #5ca2df;">Andrea
Tolley</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">. <span style="color: blue;">It was at this point that
things started to really heat up. Andrea and William were floating the idea of
a virual / Skype EdCamp. For those of you who don’t know what an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://edcamp/"><span style="background: white; color: #5ca2df;">EdCamp</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #737f85;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: blue;">is, I recommend you check it out.<br />
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Through no fault of their own, William and Andrea were not able to
continue with the concept, despite months of planning, so Tim, Cassie, Vlatka
and I ran with the idea. </span></span></span></span><a href="https://fillthegaplearning.co.uk/bring-on-2019" style="line-height: 18.4px;">Bring on 2019!</a> Post<br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Curious as to why the #CEduAD team don't include my name on posts like their '<a href="https://www.ceduad.com/post/cooking-with-gas">Cooking with Gas</a>' but can on other blogs? Wonder what that's all about?</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Jan: '</span>Through no fault of my own'</span></b> </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Which is it? </span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Perhaps being ignored and then sidelined is more like it? </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">What kind of idiot invests as much time as I have here and don't expect to have their time and efforts acknowledged in some way? Ever read 'Think and Grow Rich'</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">"No one will work indefinitely without some form of compensation. No intelligent person will either request or expect another to work without adequate compensation, although this may not always be in the form of money"</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><b>The #CEduAD Organisers Intelligent Person's Test</b></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">1) Take a look at the number of links at the end of this post, and then </span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">2) Then consider whatever time you've invested since July 2018</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">3) Then ask yourself</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.4px;">"Would I just step aside and give up on all this work that I've put into #CEduAD in the last 9 months"</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br />No? Then why would someone else? Perhaps you didn't get all the emails I sent over the course of July-Oct?</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">These are my #CEduAD experiences, I almost deleted my Twitter account as a direct result of these experiences... But, equally, I also didn't because of these exact same experiences. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">I didn't because contrary to my #DigCitSummitUK Closing Remarks of #YOYOW. I realised that, while I do my very best to <i>'Own My Words,'</i> I don't own them once they have been said, they are shared words.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They also belong to the people I spoke about, and it was my choice to speak about them on a platform for the world to hear what I had to say about them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.4px;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">To take those words from them by deleting my account? That would have been wrong of me! </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.4px;">To delete a kind word after they have been said is to take something from that person</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.4px;">But equally, to say something like:<br /><span style="color: blue;"><br />"You are the wrong kind of person with the wrong kind of purpose"<br />"Can you stop tweeting from the @ConEduAD account" <span style="color: black; line-height: 18.4px;">in a really crappy way and tone</span></span><span style="color: blue;">[Which is <b><u><i>your</i></u></b> account for an idea you came up with and invested a lot of time and effort in?]</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: blue;">"Don't tag me in tweets" </span>But previously being full of flattery and praise... Until you've gotten all you can!<br /><span style="color: blue;">"I think you have hatred in your heart for me" </span>After supporting people in their work for a prolonged period </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br />Whether publicly, privately... In text or voice and even if you do delete, retract and or apologize for words like that, speaking from some rather painful experiences... I 100% agree:</span></div>
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<b style="text-align: center;">"Words on a screen hurt"</b><br />
<b style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Howard Rheingold Virtual Communities</span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">I long for a sense of belonging in groups (Whether F2F IRL or online with my PLN) the way that Tom Mandell did on The Well... I would like to see nothing more than the 'Love in Action' that the Well Beings found there. I wonder how Howard feels about these words almost 30 years on.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">When I saw them for the first time in December 2018... I laughed so hard! What many groups like @AUOBScot are going through has all been done before, almost 30 years ago online.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><b><span style="color: blue;">"Choose your words carefully, they may out live you" </span>Marc Smith NodeXL Book</b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">I wonder what I'll make of this in 3 years time never mind 30! I have no doubt I'll be thinking </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: blue;">'Wow! what an idiot I was back then!' </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">If/when I re-read this then... But I will own them then as I do now! <br /><br />I will know that it was a stupider, more naive younger me who said them. I will also know that I wrote this post as some of the people I care about, their time and efforts simply was not acknowledged with this when others just took over.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.8px;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.8px;">If a person harms someone that the INFJ cares about, they will become very angry. They are very protective over the people that they care for.<br /></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.8px;">If you are kind to the INFJ, they will see no reason to shut you out. They understand perfectly that people make mistakes, they will even be willing to help you resolve your issues. Being honest with the INFJ and trying not to hurt them, is all you truly need to do. It takes a great deal for an INFJ to finally Door Slam someone, meaning that this action is often well-deserved. Basically do not be the world’s biggest jerk, and you won’t suffer the consequences of the INFJ Door Slam.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: inherit; line-height: 23.8px;"><br />The INFJ does not take the action of the Door Slam lightly. If this occurs there has likely been many warning signs beforehand. INFJs are extremely caring individuals, but everyone has their limits. The INFJ simply feels that they must “take out the trash” or else this person will continue to hurt them or the people that they love" </span><a href="https://personalitygrowth.com/the-hard-truth-about-the-infj-door-slam/" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 23.8px;">The Hard Truth About the INFJ Door Slam</a><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">...And I will know that I said them to help others learn from my hard fought for experiences (Especially #INFJs and <a href="https://www.mindtime.com/archetypes/connector/">Mind Time Connectors</a>) and with the hope that they avoid making the mistakes that I did, I am after all a New Power 'Crowd Leader' (Apparently).</span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"> </span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><b style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br />Genuine Gratitude!</b></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">"We might meet as strangers... but we can part as friends"</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Here's my best attempt at that - for the benefit of groups like #AUOB <b><u><i>and</i></u></b> for the 'Right-kind-of-people-with-the-right-kind-of-purpose Official #CEduAD organising team'</span><br />
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<li><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">I would (Eventually, once I got over the pain of social rejection and ostracism) come to realise that I am still learning and that I can always try again, and did!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">If all had gone well with the #DigCitSummit 'brand' then I wouldn't be able to say that I've helped establish three edu-based movements, instead of simply supporting one.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">When I saw the 'Couldn't handle the breakneck speed' comment in early Feb I wondered to myself:</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.4px;">"Can I create a new movement between now and the end of the month when the first 'Be More Pirate' meet up by the 27th Feb"</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Didn't quite manage it... it took six weeks instead of four and, thanks to an amazing friend, the idea was </span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">presented the idea at ISTE last month.</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Also, when people saw me hurting when they asked me where I went, and rallied round... Including the guys at Be Yonder, who I single out here because I first met them as a direct result of a conversation with Michael Sinclair (@FillTheGapLearn) during #ECGlobal. <br /><br />I don't change the story of how I am connected with people and am extremely grateful to both Michael and ECGlobal for being the 'catalyst' to us connecting.</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">And, just like my youngest son's Pirate Spy Guy Super Hero </span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Lego Mini Figure, connecting with those guys might have made all the difference going forward too.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><b><span style="color: blue;">"Be the Bridge... Be the Person Who Connects"</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">That's the best Christmas PD that I've ever had! Watching Marc Smith's #OCTribe presentation on Christmas day at 4am last year cause I couldn't sleep due to stress. Check out my Be More Pirate hack on Marc's comment on Twitter.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Even with the really, really sore parts like the social rejection and ostracism from something that you put a lot of thought, planning, time and effort into has it's positives... And I'll find a way to put even the most painful parts of this to good use.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">That's me all done. Those who might still be following all the way to the end of the next adventure, you'll see how this post will become a single sentence 'Blackbeard style Tell Tall Tales'... as well as how, where and why I was right to suggest that we need to make a return visit to The Well four years ago. <br /><br />(H</span></span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">ere's the </span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/12/digcit-ship-ships-log-and-pirate.html" style="line-height: 18.4px;">Ships Log and Pirate Articles</a><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"> from the #DigCitSummitUK event and my <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2016/01/digcitsummituk-closing-remarks.html">#YOYOW closing remarks</a>... How's that for consistent over the last 4 years?!)</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">I wonder if this is a little too much radical transparency for the New Power guys though? </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">I guess time will tell... </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">If you can't always rely on positive messaging and 'Radical Transparency' is one of your values, then hopefully I've done OK, always keen to improve personally and professionally so happy to discuss.</span><br />
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<b>In Conclusion...</b><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Social Media is still new and, while I've helped create a few education movements now, I'm learning all the time and if I had any advice to the people who are going through this like the AUOBScot crew it would be </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.4px;">"Dust yourself down, regroup, work on your core values and align with a 'noble cause' and find a new crew"</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">If there was advice to educators who have found themselves putting lots of effort in only to find they were furthering the career of others... Don't quit on social media and/or sharing the gift/idea/talents with the world... Give us a shout <b><i>ALL VOICES WILL MATTER</i></b> and we will look to build projects that are 100% win-win and mutually beneficial!!</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">I am still Tweeting and blogging because of the kindness of a handful of people... and am keen to 'Pay it Forward'</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Pirate crews jump ship and mutiny, and people in all walks of life fall out... Go into any coffee shop, workplace or playground and you'll hear and see people either falling out and/or talking about others.</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">As for the #CEduAD crew? I do my best to live my <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/09/using-core-values-to-find-brands-voice.html">core values</a>... And feel I have done in 2018 with #CEduAD:</span><br />
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<li><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">I had empathy about how tough building movements is and pitched in. I also appreciation that there may have been some misunderstandings... and that 2018 was particularly challenging for me.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">The post about how this idea came together was not accurate; and I'm not a fan of being ignored</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">I have 'shown my friendship first,' 'Did some 5 min favours (And then some!!), 'I have collaborated,' </span></li>
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">I am open to having a discussion either about the content of this post and changing it and/or to see how we can best make the best of the situation</span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">...To #BeTheDigitalChange, to model the kind of behaviour we'd like our kids to demonstrate if and when they collaborate online (Or offline) and things go awry. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">If this doesn't appeal and/or you don't have the time and/or is too much hassle, no problem... I won't lose any sleep over it. I always! <b><u><i>ALWAYS!</i></u></b> Try to plan for the best... but prepare for the worst ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.4px;">"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them" Plato</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;">"God Himself</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;">, sir, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;">does not</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;"> propose to </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;">judge a</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;"> man </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;">until</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;"> his life is over. Why </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;">should you</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;"> and I?" </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;">Samuel Johnson</span></span><br />
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<b>Some #CEduAD posts</b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">21<sup>st</sup> Oct 2013: <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-connected-edchatmoderator.html">The
Connected #EdChatModerator</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2<sup>nd</sup> Apr 2015: <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/04/edchats-getting-competitive.html">EdChats Getting Competitive</a></span></div>
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26<sup>th</sup> Sept 2015: Scottish Learning Festival and Chris van der Kuyl’s
“Educators need to collaborate more” keynote</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> 28</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">th</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Sept 2015: </span><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-pace-of-change-and-online.html" style="font-family: inherit;">#SLF15
Pace of Change & Online Collaboration</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">26<sup>th</sup> Oct 2015: <a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/Angela_Constance_DigiLearnScot.pdf">Education Secretary DigiLearnScot Reply</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">27</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">th</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Nov 2015: </span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/11/connected-educator-appreciation-day.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Connected
Educator Appreciation Day</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">29<sup>th</sup> Nov 2015: <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/11/ceduad-thank-you-connected-educators.html">#CEduAD Thank You Connected Educators</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">30</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">th</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Nov 2015: </span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/11/mad-learning-with-connected-educator.html" style="font-family: inherit;">MAD
Learning with a Connected Educator</a></div>
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30<sup>th</sup> Nov 2015 <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/11/ceduad-we-are-better-together.html">#CEduAD:
We are Better Together</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">1<sup>st</sup> Feb 2016: <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2016/02/cmad-2016-reflections-of-newbie.html">#CMAD16:
Reflections of a Newbie</a></span><br />
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24<sup>th</sup> Nov 2016: <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2016/11/ceduad-skype-supplier.html">#CEduAD:
Skype an Educator</a></span><br />
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5<sup>th</sup> Jan 2018: <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/01/dyw-digital-consumers-or-digital.html">DYW…Digital
Consumers?…Or Digital Creators? #AppsthatMatter</a></span><br />
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2<sup>nd</sup> Feb 2018: <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/02/oh-places-youll-go-scottish-edu-projects.html">Scottish
Edu Projects</a></span><br />
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1<sup>st</sup> May 2018: <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/05/edcampuk-dyw-tech-companies.html">Edcamp
UK – DYW & Tech Companies</a></span><br />
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16<sup>th</sup> June 2018: <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/06/edcamp-uk-newpower-storm.html">Edcamp
UK – New Power Storm</a></span><br />
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23<sup>rd</sup> July 2018: <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/07/edcamp-uk-getting-organised.html">EdcampUK
– Getting Organised</a></span><br />
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22<sup>nd</sup> Sept 2018: <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/09/what-if-you-dont-have-voice-keep.html">What
if you don’t have a voice? Keep telling your story</a></span>William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-29842487249574252262019-06-26T09:49:00.001-07:002019-06-26T09:49:25.133-07:00#SeaTurtlePirates... The Story So FarEarlier in the year I saw a post that highlighted that both myself and a colleague were not able to keep up with the breakneck speed of creating a global movement that we'd spent a considerable amount of time developing.<br />
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So a few weeks before the first @BeMorePirate meet up, I wondered if we could create a new movement while sharing our experiences of playing at pirates... Which I think we've successfully done.<br />
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I am a huge fan of knowledge transfer and am massively collaborative too.<br />
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To give just one example, anyone that takes the time to read all the resources in my <a href="https://declara.com/collection/8b9606cc-7109-4d19-b856-4d4ffd90f9b5/post">Community Management Resources</a> Declara collection you'll know as much as I do on the topic.<br />
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Despite the quality of this content or the importance of this role to organisations I'm aware of how busy people are.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Even if you try to give good ideas away, people are still so busy with their day jobs, that it just doesn't happen" </span>Nicole Yershon via #RoughDiamond<br />
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I am all too aware that:<br />
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1) We have an attention span of 8 seconds<br />
(Which is why visual data is so important... Love them Zeemaps & NodeXL maps!)<br />
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2) Jason Fried is onto something when he highlights that the future belongs to the best editors.<br />
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So I started posting some of my favorite resources on the #SeaTurtlePirates hashtag to see if it would encourage people to check out the amazing resources. Why Sea Turtle Pirates?<br />
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<li>Turtles because of Yertle the Turtle, as one of the things I hope we achieve is to give quiet people a voice.<br /></li>
<li>We changed this to Sea Turtles when we met a real life Pirate as David Scott at @BeYonderLtd is a bona fide Pirate through his work with the Sea Shepherds<br /></li>
<li>And Pirates because we're hoping to share everything we've learnt with Sam's @BeMorePirate community. </li>
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The first Tweet includes the Walking Dead's Bad Lip Reading to remind us that social media is still relatively new and that 90% of our communication is non-verbal, so things can get lost in translation when it's text only. </div>
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I wanted each Tweet to be knowledge transfer in it's own right, the content to be compelling enough for people to click on the link and read the article/watch the video</div>
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...I also hoped that any gifs/pictures would be relevant to the article and, at the same time, appeal to young people in the hope that kids could learn along side the grown ups (Whether parents or educators)</div>
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Have I been successful with these aims? </div>
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The feedback that I've had from people who have checked out the tweets have been that it all reads well... whether reading from the first tweet and scrolling up; or the last tweet and scrolling down.</div>
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I think some of the content works better than others and, just like our earlier attempts at story telling as a business skill, this is a first attempt... So we'll improve with practice. If... </div>
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<li>Story telling will be the #1 business skill</li>
<li>The future belongs to the best editors, and</li>
<li>Professional rule breaking will be in demand</li>
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Why not try your hand a publishing your favourite disruptor/rebellious article with content that is relevant and might appeal to adults and students in a tweet and include the #SeaTurtlePirates hashtag</div>
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We've just wrapped up a story that started in 2015 and knew the end before it started <br />(AKA That Twitter and Skype are key tools that help people to connect in meaningful ways).</div>
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Things that we hope this pirate adventure achieves with any crew(s) we might collaborate with includes</div>
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<li>If a 7 year old can break a little rule to help people connect and it lead to a new movement, why
can’t you?<br /></li>
<li>Raise awareness of community management as a career option with educators and students<br /></li>
<li>Organize events including #NewPower & @BeMorePirate book clubs and Twitter/Skype events<br /></li>
<li>#Cmgr knowledge transfer and empowering educators to become ‘Crowd Leaders’<br /></li>
<li>Looking to help a little Turtles like Mack to let quiet people know that
they can have a voice... and that they can make a difference.<br /></li>
<li>Implementing ideas from the early online community The Well and following the advice of
people like Stewart Brand (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/opinion/stewart-brand-hippie-silicon.html">The Man who Changed the World Twice</a>), Howard Rhiengold (<a href="http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html">VirtualCommunities</a>) and Marc Smith (<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/voices-from-the-well-the-logic-of-the-virtual-commons/">Voices from The Well</a>), among others.<br /></li>
<li>Assisting with Tim Berners Lee’s call to action with #ForTheWeb</li>
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William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-38359209445679384812019-06-26T03:55:00.001-07:002019-06-26T23:14:30.623-07:00DigCitSummit @SpyQuest Mission - Part II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At ISTE this week my good friend Andrea Tolley (<a href="https://twitter.com/tolleya">@TolleyA</a>) wrapped up an awesome story that started in 2017 on a Spy Quest Mission (@SpyQuest)... And, hopefully, started a whole new story:<br />
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A Skype Master Student one</div>
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If anyone would like to see the background and/or the amount of time and effort that went into this particular adventure check out this link:<br />
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<a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/TEDxGlasgow.pdf"><b>The Power of Introverts & The Ripple Effect of the #SeaTurtlePirates</b></a></div>
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I have just finished reading Nicole Yershon's book 'Rough Diamond' and <b><u><i>LOVED</i></u></b> reading about the story telling 'Semester of Learning' where the research became the story... that's kind of what has happened here.<br />
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The data I pulled together in 2015 highlighted where the 'bright spots' were with technology integration in the classroom in Scottish education... I proceeded to do what I could to connect people with purpose.<br />
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The 2015 Scottish Learning Festival<br />
-> Led to exploring what Falkirk schools were doing differently<br />
-> Led to the first international Digital Citizenship Summit<br />
-> Led to me writing the Pokemon Go in Edu report<br />
-> Saw an introduction to SpyQuest and a<br />
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HOWEVER!<br />
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...As you can see from the Power of Introverts link what's missing from the DigCit Spy Quest Mission is the amount of time and effort that went into connecting different groups... <b><u><i>AND</i></u></b> another <span style="background-color: white;">part of this story that people didn't hear too much about at the time was just how instrumental Andrea Tolley was in making this happen. I SAID </span>ELEVEN YOU COW <- Lol!</div>
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Now that this particular Spy Quest Mission is declassified, what was really going on when Agent Piggy skipped school so he could travel 25 miles so he could Skype almost 3,000 more?</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br />Shane Snow highlighted that Story Telling would be the #1 Business Skill of the next few years in 2013.</span></div>
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Isaac and I set out on November 2017 with the aim of putting 'social proof' to work and shine a light on a few people working on some interesting things and the ambitious goal of telling five separate stories at once:</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><b>1) DigCitSummit</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">On the first Skype call with the DigCitSummit Founders I asked what they wanted to achieve with their movement and the reply was they wanted kids to 'Act Locally, Connect Globally'</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Twitter founder Biz Stone advocates that you should 'look for the bright spots,' and when I mapped out Scottish Schools on Twitter the data screamed that there was an interesting story to be told at Falkirk.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">To quote one of Nicole Yershon's colleagues from her awesome book #RoughDiamond, Nicole can see a good idea before it becomes a good idea.</span>When I first met David Goutcher in 2017 I asked </div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">"Spy Quest it's 'Ingress for kids' would that be an accurate description?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;">"Yep! Pretty much"</span> </span></span>was the reply<br />
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The two Spy Quest books got my youngest son reading more and we immediately saw the potential in the books and game to help encourage reluctant readers.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Mary Jalland and the DigCitSummit Founders connected in 2016 when Mary made her first Classroom Skype call during the #Skypeathon's 'Three Nations Challenge'</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">...Two years later they met IRL at the #DigCitSummitIRL event, and three years later they collaborated on the Edu Match DigCitKidz book.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Evidence that, with time, the 'shallow engagement' of that first Skype call become deep engagement and meeting F2F IRL. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">NB It was also a Skype call with @Stanbridge in April 2015 that set me on this crazy, twisting journey too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">A regular mantra from me at home to my kids is that</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">'They can do anything they set their mind to...</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><b><u><i> IF</i></u></b></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"> they prepare and do their best'</span><br />(This is said a little less often given recent events... But we plod on regardless!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I saw an opportunity to tell that story to a wider audience... so, with a great deal of reluctance we </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Felt the fear and did it anyway </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">As we both set out to make our first (and only) Classroom Skype call.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">My leg was physically shaking as I shared my story on camera (And was </span><span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><b><u><i>delighted</i></u></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> when it was over with!)... Agent Isaac had no such issues, he took to the camera like a duck to water... or should that be like a pig in muck? Lol. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">This is evidence enough to me that a 7 year old who is so used to this tech could and should be leading the way as it's second nature to them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Last May I picked up Sam Conniff's book @BeMorePirate and saw an opportunity to add another story, as we've been exploring the Pirate Code since 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">So if story telling will be the #1 Business Skill of the next few years... Then that's our first attempt at it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">This story certainly took longer to tell than it should have to tell... It also had some twists and turns that it shouldn't have had! </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">But as with all things, if we keep at it... we'll improve (Esp if we get the Pirate Code 2.0 right!)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">If Sam Conniff is right and rule breaking will be in demand... then, at 7 years old, Isaac is ahead of the curve</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">(Biz Stone asks a similar question with 'When was the first time you stood up to authority... Kids check out his 'No Homework Policy' in Things a Little Bird Told me... It's hilarious!) </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">And as for the future belongs to the best editors... a</span>nd given Trumps use of Twitter who'd argue with that statement!<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">...Here's just one of @BeMorePirate @SpyQuest adventures that some #SeaTurtlePirates will be planning next (More on that crew in the next post), which includes seeing if we can breath some life into telling an awesome Skype Master Student (#SkypeMS) story.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Know any young Spy Guys or Pirates that might want to join us on some fun Skype adventures? Give us a shout.</span><br />
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William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-64854133727555763392019-05-15T03:56:00.001-07:002019-05-15T03:56:41.980-07:00#SeaTurtlePirates Recruitment - @TolleyA and Serious Fun<span style="font-family: inherit;">This post is about my dear friend Andrea Tolley and the awesome and extremely important role she plays in any group conversations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In June 2017 when planning a #FlipgridFever pre-ISTE celebration (Which, as a direct result of group dynamics, didn't happen), I met a truly remarkable lady for the first time but who, today, I am fortunate enough to call a very dear friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You won't see a great deal of engagement on social media between us... But privately on Skype and in private group text and 1:1 conversations, you should see the fun we have while getting stuff done!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek it's perhaps worth highlighting how tough </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">EdTech is (Check out how the first cohort of Imagine K12 companies have faired)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Startups are (<a href="https://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/jessica-bruder/psychological-price-of-entrepreneurship.html">The </a></span><a href="https://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/jessica-bruder/psychological-price-of-entrepreneurship.html">psychological<span style="font-family: inherit;"> price of </span>entrepreneurship</a>), and<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Life in Scotland can be at times (Some areas, including Nicola Sturgeon's own constituency, have big child poverty issues) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Add them all together and it can be a pretty lonely days and can tend to go through some rather miserable experiences too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you'd like an example of how confusing and contradictory this all can be... The Scottish Government's Education Secretary is praising the London EdTech scene in a document that praises the use of Skype. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The 'Scotland's Voice Will Not Be Ignored' party has been studiously ignoring projects that would address issues like 'Empowering Educators' and plans for a Skype Edcamp and Connected Educator Appreciation Day for well over a year now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of the informal, loose collaboration groups that I've been involved with have been great fun... others less so, all have managed to 'Get Stuff Done!'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of the people in these groups say publicly and privately that #YouMatter or that 'We are life long family friends' only for you to find out they are no where to be seen when you need a friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the things that make these groups especially fun while getting stuff done, is when my dear friend @TolleyA has been active in these group conversations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She has always been there when I've needed a friend to speak to. Anyone who is organising an Edcamp or Teach Meet, needs a @TolleyA on their team, and I now have the article to prove why this is key.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was never able to articulate why this was until I read this article on a recent visit to Levendale Hospital... Miss out having a @TolleyA in your team at your peril.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/what-roald-amundsens-polar-exploration-comedian-can-teach-us-about-a-mission-to-mars/">What Roald Amundsen’s polar exploration ‘comedian’ can teach us about a mission to Mars</a></span></h1>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white;">Adolf Lindstrøm, the cook;
he was a key figure. If you read Amundsen’s diary, he writes that Lindstrøm was
basically the most important person on the expedition.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background: white;">Why Was That?<br />
</span></b><span style="background: white;">Lindstrøm was the comedian. He didn’t
actually go to the South Pole, but you’ve got to remember that the walking
expedition was a small component of the overall time that they were on the ice.
They were there for well over a year, waiting to walk to the Pole. They had to
wait during the winter and it’s a very tense time when people are idle, without
a lot to do. Lindstrøm played an essential role in keeping the peace in the
group when there were tense moments.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>What makes people like Lindstrøm different from the
rest of us?<br />
</b>People like Lindstrøm have a high social intelligence. It’s hard to know
exactly what went on – diaries are not necessarily a good indication because
people may want to portray a different version of events – but I do know that
during tense moments, Lindstrøm would do something funny to get everybody to
laugh, which would break the tension.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">If we’re trying to select this type of person for a
mission to Mars, what sort of qualities would we be looking for?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">There are individuals who have these certain innate
abilities that you want to be able to recognise and include when you’re putting
together groups that are going to be isolated, such as those going into space.
There’s a number of different roles that we’ve discovered are important, but one
of them is somebody who has humour. That’s clearly important.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">So, you’d want to have somebody like Lindstrøm, somebody
who is not only good at what they have to do (he was a very good cook) but who
also has another skillset over and above what’s in the job description. You
would want the same thing to be true for any kind of expedition to
space. It could be comedians, it could be story-tellers, it could be
peace-makers… It has to do with the emergent properties of groups.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">We can put people together thinking that they’re going to
work together in a certain way, but over the course of time we get these
emergent properties, particularly with these informal roles, that are difficult
to predict, particularly when there’s a crisis. I think we can do a better
job of putting people together that will do better over the long run.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Some of these things are latent in the sense that they
don’t come out and surface until they’re needed. That’s what happened in my
research with the fishermen when the strike happened. The comedian role emerged
and it went away when the strike was over. These are the kinds of things that
make groups more adaptable and help them function better, and I don’t think
enough attention has been paid to them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">You can think about it in terms of atoms: when you put
different elements together, they produce different kinds of things. It’s the
same with people. They may have their own characteristics, but when you put
them together, they’re going to create a different kind of situation and we
want to have a better idea of what that might be.</span></div>
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@TolleyA will you join the #SeaTurtlePirates on an adventure?</div>
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The King of the Sea Turtle Pirates recently got 2 people to join his crew... Not to be out done I added another two people and one more so our friendly recruitment competition is at 3-2 to me.</div>
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We'll be racing to Skype with you to see who can reach you first to see if Agent Hamburger will help this crew to have some serious fun.</div>
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In the week that Natalie McGarry pleads guilty of embezzling £25,000 and Glasgow University talks about Govan becoming some kind of 'Silicon Valley' with nanotechnology (Wonder how many people from the deprived estates that one will generate jobs for?!).<br />
<span style="text-indent: 4ex;"><br />This post looks at the realities of the RBS Sponsored #GoDo and 'Can Do Scotland' from my perspective, using the work of Ayn Rand and hero/anti-hero Howard Roark meeting fellow innovator, artist, disruptor, original thinker Steve Mallory.</span><br />
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I've written about Rand's work a great deal in my blog and a relevant extract to frame today's post is at the start of this post <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-i-met-your-awesomeness-pledge-cents.html" style="color: #5f5f5f; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 4ex;"><span style="color: #5f5f5f; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 4ex;"><span style="text-indent: 4ex;">How I met Your Awesomeness - Pledgecents</span></span><span style="color: #5f5f5f; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 4ex;"> (March 2015)</span></a><br />
<span style="text-indent: 4ex;"><br />One of the reasons this is relevant is because in 2013/4 I heard Nicole Yershon speak and said to myself:</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; text-indent: 4ex;"><br />"I'm going to collabrate with that formidable lady one day,"</span><span style="text-indent: 4ex;"> and having just read her awesome book Rough Diamond, I'm convinced that this will happen and that it's not too far away either</span><span style="text-indent: 4ex;">. </span><span style="text-indent: 4ex;"><br />Nicole highlights how tough being original and a disruptor in business can be, I have found this to be true in my case and have found that being a JAM in The SNP's Scottish Government's #GoDo Scotland to be a tough place to operate in EdTech... So much so that there was something of a breakdown recently. <br /><br />While I'd prefer not to go into the details, I feel that I owe it to the people who are looking to collaborate with me on a project that's in the planning stages to know this has happened and feel that Roark meeting Mallory is a fitting example to highlight how this has come about (And to detail the impact that the second-handers and/or Takers/Fakers can have on innovators)</span><span style="text-indent: 4ex;">.</span><br />
<a href="https://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/jessica-bruder/psychological-price-of-entrepreneurship.html" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; line-height: 55px; text-align: center; text-indent: 4ex;">The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship</a> highlights the cost of startups/innovation can be high.</div>
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<span style="color: blue; text-indent: 4ex;">If 'We the Living's Leo had been born in America, he would have become Francisco D'Anconia of Atlas Shrugged; that is, the measure of his heroic potential. In Russia however, he is crushed"</span><span style="text-indent: 4ex;"> Afterword of Ayn Rand's 'We the Living' <br /><br />Here's the extract of when innovative Architect Howard Roark met sculptor Steve Mallory in The Fountainhead.</span></div>
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At the beginning of January, while the first steel columns rose from the excavations that were to become the Cord Building and the Aquitania Hotel, Roark worked on the drawings for the Temple.</div>
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"Get me Steve Mallory."</div>
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"Mallory, Mr. Roark? Who ... Oh, yes, the shooting sculptor."</div>
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"The what?"</div>
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"He took a shot at Ellsworth Toohey, didn't he?"</div>
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"Did he? Yes, that's right."</div>
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"Is that the one you want, Mr. Roark?"</div>
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"That's the one."</div>
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For two days the secretary telephoned art dealers, galleries, architects, newspapers. No one could tell her what had become of Steven Mallory or where he could be found. On the third day she reported to Roark: "I've found an address, in the Village, which I'm told might be his. There's no telephone." Roark dictated a letter asking Mallory to telephone his office.</div>
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The letter was not returned, but a week passed without answer. Then Steven Mallory telephoned.</div>
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"Hello?" said Roark, when the secretary switched the call to him.</div>
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"Steven Mallory speaking," said a young, hard voice, in a way that left an impatient, belligerent silence after the words.</div>
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"I should like to see you, Mr. Mallory. Can we make an appointment for you to come to my office?"</div>
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"What do you want to see me about?"</div>
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"About a commission, of course. I want you to do some work for a building of mine." There was a long silence.</div>
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"All right," said Mallory; his voice sounded dead. He added: "Which building?"</div>
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"The Stoddard Temple. You may have heard ... "</div>
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"Yeah, I heard. You're doing it. Who hasn't heard? Will you pay me as much as you're paying your press agent?"</div>
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"I'm not paying the press agent. I'll pay you whatever you wish to ask."</div>
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"You know that can't be much."</div>
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"What time would it be convenient for you to come here?"</div>
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"Oh, hell, you name it. You know I'm not busy."</div>
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"Two o'clock tomorrow afternoon?"</div>
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"All right." He added: "I don't like your voice." Roark laughed. "I like yours. Cut it out and be here tomorrow at two."</div>
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"Okay." Mallory hung up.</div>
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Roark dropped the receiver, grinning. But the grin vanished suddenly, and he sat looking at the telephone, his face grave.</div>
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Mallory did not keep the appointment. Three days passed without a word from him. Then Roark went to find him in person.</div>
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The rooming house where Mallory lived was a dilapidated brownstone in an unlighted street that smelled of a fish market. There was a laundry and a cobbler on the ground floor, at either side of a narrow entrance. A slatternly landlady said: "Mallory? Fifth floor rear," and shuffled away indifferently. Roark climbed sagging wooden stairs lighted by bulbs stuck in a web of pipes. He knocked at a grimy door.</div>
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The door opened. A gaunt young man stood on the threshold; he had disheveled hair, a strong mouth with a square lower lip, and the most expressive eyes that Roark had ever seen. "What do you want?" he snapped. "Mr. Mallory?"</div>
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"Yeah."</div>
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"I'm Howard Roark."</div>
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Mallory laughed, leaning against the doorjamb, one arm stretched across the opening, with no intention of stepping aside. He was obviously drunk. "Well, well!" he said. "In person."</div>
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"May I come in?"</div>
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"What for?"</div>
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Roark sat down on the stair banister. "Why didn't you keep your appointment?"</div>
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"Oh, the appointment? Oh, yes. Well, I'll tell you," Mallory said gravely. "It was like this: I really intended to keep it, I really did, and I started out for your office, but on my way there I passed a movie theater that was showing Two Heads on a Pillow, so I went in. I just had to see Two Heads on a Pillow." He grinned, sagging against his stretched arm. "You'd better let me come in," said Roark quietly. "Oh, what the hell, come in."</div>
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The room was a narrow hole. There was an unmade bed in a corner, a litter of newspapers and old clothes, a gas ring, a framed landscape from the five-and-ten, representing some sort of sick brown meadows with sheep; there were no drawings or figures, no hints of the occupant's profession.</div>
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Roark pushed some books and a skillet off the only chair, and sat down. Mallory stood before him, grinning, swaying a little.</div>
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"You're doing it all wrong," said Mallory. "That's not the way it's done. You must be pretty hard up to come running after a sculptor. The way it's done is like this: You make me come to your office, and the first time I come you mustn't be there. The second time you must keep me waiting for an hour and a half, then come out into the reception room and shake hands and ask me whether I know the Wilsons of Podunk and say how nice that we have mutual friends, but you're in an awful hurry today and you'll call me up for lunch soon and then we'll talk business. Then you keep this up for two months. Then you give me the commission. Then you tell me that I'm no good and wasn't any good in the first place, and you throw the thing into the ash can. Then you hire Valerian Bronson and he does the job. That's the way it's done. Only not this time."</div>
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But his eyes were studying Roark intently, and his eyes had the certainty of a professional. As he spoke, his voice kept losing its swaggering gaiety, and it slipped to a dead flatness on the last sentences.</div>
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"No," said Roark, "not this time."</div>
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The boy stood looking at him silently.</div>
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"You're Howard Roark?" he asked. "I like your buildings. That's why I didn't want to meet you. So I wouldn't have to be sick every time I looked at them. I wanted to go on thinking that they had to be done by somebody who matched them."</div>
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"What if I do?"</div>
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"That doesn't happen."</div>
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But he sat down on the edge of the crumpled bed and slumped forward, his glance like a sensitive scale weighing Roark's features, impertinent in its open action of appraisal.</div>
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"Listen," said Roark, speaking clearly and very carefully, "I want you to do a statue for the Stoddard Temple. Give me a piece of paper and I'll write you a contract right now, stating that I will owe you a million dollars damages if I hire another sculptor or if your work is not used."</div>
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"You can speak normal. I'm not drunk. Not all the way. I understand."</div>
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"Well?"</div>
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"Why did you pick me?"</div>
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"Because you're a good sculptor."</div>
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"That's not true."</div>
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"That you're good?"</div>
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"No. That it's your reason. Who asked you to hire me?"</div>
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"Nobody."</div>
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"Some woman I laid?"</div>
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"I don't know any women you laid."</div>
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"Stuck on your building budget?"</div>
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"No. The budget's unlimited."</div>
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"Feel sorry for me?"</div>
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"No. Why should I?"</div>
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"Want to get publicity out of that shooting Toohey business?"</div>
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"Good God, no!"</div>
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"Well, what then?"</div>
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"Why did you fish for all that nonsense instead of the simplest reason?"</div>
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"Which?"</div>
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"That I like your work."</div>
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"Sure. That's what they all say. That's what we're all supposed to say and to believe. Imagine what would happen if somebody blew the lid off that one! So, all right, you like my work. What's the real reason?"</div>
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"I like your work."</div>
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Mallory spoke earnestly, his voice sober.</div>
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"You mean you saw the things I've done, and you like them — you — yourself — alone — without anyone telling you that you should like them or why you should like them — and you decided that you wanted me, for that reason — only for that reason — without knowing anything about me or giving a damn — only because of the things I've done and ... and what you saw in them — only because of that, you decided to hire me, and you went to the bother of finding me and coming here, and being insulted — only because you saw — and what you saw made me important to you, made you want me? Is that what you mean?"</div>
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"Just that," said Roark.</div>
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The things that pulled Mallory's eyes wide were frightening to see. Then he shook his head, and said very simply, in the tone of soothing himself:</div>
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"No."</div>
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He leaned forward. His voice sounded dead and pleading.</div>
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"Listen, Mr. Roark. I won't be mad at you. I just want to know. All right, I see that you're set on having me work for you, and you know you can get me, for anything you say, you don't have to sign any million-dollar contract, look at this room, you know you've got me, so why shouldn't you tell me the truth? It won't make any difference to you — and it's very important to me."</div>
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"What's very important to you?"</div>
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"Not to ... not to ... Look. I didn't think anybody'd ever want me again. But you do. All right. I'll go through it again. Only I don't want to think again that I'm working for somebody who ... who likes my work. That, I couldn't go through any more. I'll feel better if you tell me, I'll ... I'll feel calmer. Why should you put on an act for me? I'm nothing. I won't think less of you, if that's what you're afraid of. Don't you see? It's much more decent to tell me the truth. Then it will be simple and honest. I'll respect you more. Really, I will."</div>
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"What's the matter with you, kid? What have they done to you? Why do you want to say things like that?"</div>
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"Because ... " Mallory roared suddenly, and then his voice broke, and his head dropped, and he finished in a flat whisper: "because I've spent two years" — his hand circled limply indicating the room — "that's how I've spent them — trying to get used to the fact that what you're trying to tell me doesn't exist ... "</div>
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Roark walked over to him, lifted his chin, knocking it upward, and said:</div>
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"You're a God-damn fool. You have no right to care what I think of your work, what I am or why I'm here. You're too good for that. But if you want to know it — I think you're the best sculptor we've got. I think it, because your figures are not what men are, but what men could be — and should be. Because you've gone beyond the probable and made us see what is possible, but possible only through you. Because your figures are more devoid of contempt for humanity than any work I've ever seen. Because you have a magnificent respect for the human being. Because your figures are the heroic in man. And so I didn't come here to do you a favor or because I felt sorry for you or because you need a job pretty badly. I came for a simple, selfish reason — the same reason that makes a man choose the cleanest food he can find. It's a law of survival, isn't it? — to seek the best. I didn't come for your sake. I came for mine."</div>
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Mallory jerked himself away from him, and dropped face down on the bed, his two arms stretched out, one on each side of his head, hands closed into fists. The thin trembling of the shirt cloth on his back showed that he was sobbing; the shirt cloth and the fists that twisted slowly, digging into the pillow. Roark knew that he was looking at a man who had never cried before. He sat down on the side of the bed and could not take his eyes off the twisting wrists, even though the sight was hard to bear.</div>
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After a while Mallory sat up. He looked at Roark and saw the calmest, kindest face — a face without a hint of pity. It did not look like the countenance of men who watch the agony of another with a secret pleasure, uplifted by the sight of a beggar who needs their compassion; it did not bear the cast of the hungry soul that feeds upon another's humiliation. Roark's face seemed tired, drawn at the temples, as if he had just taken a beating. But his eyes were serene and they looked at Mallory quietly, a hard, clean glance of understanding — and respect.</div>
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"Lie down now," said Roar. "Lie still for a while."</div>
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"How did they ever let you survive?"</div>
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"Lie down. Rest. We'll talk afterward."</div>
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Mallory got up. Roark took him by the shoulders, forced him down, lifted his legs off the floor, lowered his head on the pillow. The boy did not resist.</div>
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Stepping back, Roark brushed against a table loaded with junk. Something clattered to the floor. Mallory jerked forward, trying to reach it first. Roark pushed his arm aside and picked up the object.</div>
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It was a small plaster plaque, the kind sold in cheap gift shops. It represented a baby sprawled on its stomach, dimpled rear forward, peeking coyly over its shoulder. A few lines, the structure of a few muscles showed a magnificent talent that could not be hidden, that broke fiercely through the rest; the rest was a deliberate attempt to be obvious, vulgar and trite, a clumsy effort, unconvincing and tortured. It was an object that belonged in a chamber of horrors.</div>
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Mallory saw Roark's hand begin to shake. Then Roark's arm went back and up, over his head, slowly, as if gathering the weight of air in the crook of his elbow; it was only a flash, but it seemed to last for minutes, the arm stood lifted and still — then it slashed forward, the plaque shot across the room and burst to pieces against the wall. It was the only time anyone had ever seen Roark murderously angry.</div>
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"Roark."</div>
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"Yes?"</div>
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"Roark, I wish I'd met you before you had a job to give me." He spoke without expression, his head lying back on the pillow, his eyes closed. "So that there would be no other reason mixed in. Because, you see, I'm very grateful to you. Not for giving me a job. Not for coming here. Not for anything you'll ever do for me. Just for what you are."</div>
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Then he lay without moving, straight and limp, like a man long past the stage of suffering. Roark stood at the window, looking at the wrenched room and at the boy on the bed. He wondered why he felt as if he were waiting. He was waiting for an explosion over their heads. It seemed senseless. Then he understood. He thought, this is how men feel, trapped in a shell hole; this room is not an accident of poverty, it's the footprint of a war; it's the devastation torn by explosives more vicious than any stored in the arsenals of the world. A war ... against? ... The enemy had no name and no face. But this boy was a comrade-in-arms, hurt in battle, and Roark stood over him, feeling a strange new thing, a desire to lift him in his arms and carry him to safety ... Only the hell and the safety had no known designations ... He kept thinking of Kent Lansing, trying to remember something Kent Lansing had said ...</div>
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Then Mallory opened his eyes, and lifted himself up on one elbow. Roark pulled the chair over to the bed and sat down.</div>
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"Now," he said, "talk. Talk about the things you really want said. Don't tell me about your family, your childhood, your friends or your feelings. Tell me about the things you think."</div>
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Mallory looked at him incredulously and whispered:</div>
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"How did you know that?"</div>
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Roark smiled and said nothing.</div>
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"How did you know what's been killing me? Slowly, for years, driving me to hate people when I don't want to hate ... Have you felt it, too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you — except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them, nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. You mean, you want to hear? You want to know what I do and why I do it, you want to know what I think! It's not boring to you? It's important?"</div>
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"Go ahead," said Roark.</div>
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Then he sat for hours, listening, while Mallory spoke of his work, of the thoughts behind his work, of the thoughts that shaped his life, spoke gluttonously, like a drowning man flung out to shore, getting drunk on huge, clean snatches of air.</div>
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Mallory came to Roark's office on the following morning, and Roark showed him the sketches of the Temple. When he stood at a drafting table, with a problem to consider, Mallory changed; there was no uncertainty in him, no remembrance of pain; the gesture of his hand taking the drawing was sharp and sure, like that of a soldier on duty. The gesture said that nothing ever done to him could alter the function of the thing within him that was now called into action. He had an unyielding, impersonal confidence; he faced Roark as an equal.</div>
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He studied the drawings for a long time, then raised his head. Everything about his face was controlled, except his eyes.</div>
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"Like it?" Roark asked.</div>
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"Don't use stupid words."</div>
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He held one of the drawings, walked to the window, stood looking down the sketch to the street to Roark's face and back again.</div>
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"It doesn't seem possible," he said. "Not this — and that." He waved the sketch at the street.</div>
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There was a poolroom on the corner of the street below; a rooming house with a Corinthian portico; a billboard advertising a Broadway musical; a line of pink-gray underwear fluttering on a roof.</div>
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"Not in the same city. Not on the same earth," said Mallory. "But you made it happen. It's possible ... I'll never be afraid again."</div>
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"Of what?"</div>
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Mallory put the sketch down on the table, cautiously. He answered:</div>
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"You said something yesterday about a first law. A law demanding that man seek the best ... It was funny ... The unrecognized genius — that's an old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one — the genius recognized too well? ... That a great many men are poor fools who can't see the best — that's nothing. One can't get angry at that. But do you understand about the men who see it and don't want it?"</div>
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"No."</div>
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"No. You wouldn't. I spent all night thinking about you. I didn't sleep at all. Do you know what your secret is? It's your terrible innocence."</div>
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Roark laughed aloud, looking at the boyish face.</div>
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"No," said Mallory, "it's not funny. I know what I'm talking about — and you don't. You can't know. It's because of that absolute health of yours. You're so healthy that you can't conceive of disease. You know of it. But you don't really believe it. I do. I'm wiser than you are about some things, because I'm weaker. I understand — the other side. That's what did it to me ... what you saw yesterday."</div>
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"That's over."</div>
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"Probably. But not quite. I'm not afraid any more. But I know that the terror exists. I know the kind of terror it is. You can't conceive of that kind. Listen, what's the most horrible experience you can imagine? To me — it's being left, unarmed, in a sealed cell with a drooling beast of prey or a maniac who's had some disease that's eaten his brain out. You'd have nothing then but your voice — your voice and your thought. You'd scream to that creature why it should not touch you, you'd have the most eloquent words, the unanswerable words, you'd become the vessel of the absolute truth. And you'd see living eyes watching you and you'd know that the thing can't hear you, that it can't be reached, not reached, not in any way, yet it's breathing and moving there before you with a purpose of its own. That's horror. Well, that's what's hanging over the world, prowling somewhere through mankind, that same thing, something closed, mindless, utterly wanton, but something with an aim and a cunning of its own. I don't think I'm a coward, but I'm afraid of it. And that's all I know — only that it exists. I don't know its purpose, I don't know its nature."</div>
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"The principle behind the Dean," said Roark.</div>
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"What?"</div>
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"It's something I wonder about once in a while ... Mallory, why did you try to shoot Ellsworth Toohey?" He saw the boy's eyes, and he added: "You don't have to tell me if you don't like to talk about it."</div>
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"I don't like to talk about it," said Mallory, his voice tight. "But it was the right question to ask."</div>
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"Sit down," said Roark. "We'll talk about your commission."</div>
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Then Mallory listened attentively while Roark spoke of the building and of what he wanted from the sculptor. He concluded:</div>
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"Just one figure. It will stand here." He pointed to a sketch. "The place is built around it. The statue of a naked woman. If you understand the building, you understand what the figure must be. The human spirit. The heroic in man. The aspiration and the fulfillment, both. Uplifted in its quest — and uplifting by its own essence. Seeking God — and finding itself. Showing that there is no higher reach beyond its own form ... You're the only one who can do it for me."</div>
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"Yes."</div>
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"You'll work as I work for my clients. You know what I want — the rest is up to you. Do it any way you wish. I'd like to suggest the model, but if she doesn't fit your purpose, choose anyone you prefer."</div>
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William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-83203090617878661712019-04-09T05:22:00.000-07:002019-07-28T06:02:33.936-07:00#YOYOW You Own Your Words... Or Do You?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The best way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release... Seems to be what political types do.<br />
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This post details why I think that the Governments new #OnlineHarms is a lot of rubbish and questions<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Who is it that 'Owns Your Words' online?"</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Is it you? </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Those you talk to and/or about? </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Twitter? </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">The Government?</span><br />
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<b>A summary of my #DigCit Efforts</b><br />
I am <b><u><i>NOT</i></u></b> a digital citizenship expert, but when looking to reskill from sales to Community Management, I have found myself getting involved with both politics (Yuck!) and Digital Citizenship initiatives (Can also be Yuck at times! That is if you're a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creative-power-misfits-adam-grant/">Misfit like I am</a>, and get ignored even in a small group).<br />
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<b>2014 Scottish Independence Referendum</b><br />
The cultural conditions for the Scottish Independence Referendum were special!<br />
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In that space and time if people like Jamie Hepburn wanted to implement the Fair Start Scotland initiative... it would NOT have taken £96 million and 3 years... could have happened within weeks, as I've said numerous times on this Ev Williams created space (Blogger) as well as the space he and Biz Stone created with Twitter:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">'Jane Jacobs ideas could have spontaneously erupted all across the SNP's 'One Scotland'</span></div>
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I wrote extensively about what The SNP should do to keep the culture positive... and shared my Cmgr/OU Human Geography insights with them from as early as the night of the result at the end of September 2014. The insights have been continually accurate... and continually, studiously ignored.<br />
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(This post from <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2017/05/ge2017-from-voteyes-to-no-thanks-lesson.html">#VoteYes to No Thanks</a> includes some of the ways that I've offered to help the SNP and Mr Salmond's 'One Scotland').<br />
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I wonder if I've done more than his #Cybernats have done... or my SNP MPs for their constituents, <b><u><i>STILL</i></u></b> waiting for my reply to Margaret Ferrier in 2015. Found it yet?<br />
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<b>GE2015 2015 Politicians and DigCit </b><br />
In the run up to #GE2015 General Election ...I also watched in disbelief as MPs complained about online abuse <b><u><i>AND</i></u></b> threw their hands up and said<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">'But what can we do about it?'</span><br />
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(That's as well as predicting months earlier <a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/05/freakonimic-politics-why-snp-domination.html">why SNP domination was inevitable</a> as a result of the #IndyRef 'Network Effects' and 'Feedback Loops')<br />
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While they threw up their hands a few years ago... here's what I was writing about:<br />
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<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/03/online-abuse-i-blame-politicians.html">Online Abuse... I Blame the Politicians</a><br />
<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/03/digcit-vs-trolls-im-student-friendly.html">#DigCit Vs the Trolls I'm a Student Friendly Social Media Educator</a><br />
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Last year I was to find out just how insightful my 2015 ideas were as I read about<br />
<a href="https://mosaicscience.com/story/why-good-people-turn-bad-online-science-trolls-abuse/">Why Good People Turn Bad Online</a> as well as New Power<br />
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Four years on and Sajid Javid has a shiny launch and<br />
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1) Does what these idiots do best (And is <b><u><i>ALL</i></u></b> they do! #Brexit!), blame someone else, and says<br />
2) "Tech companies can no longer turn a blind eye"<br />
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Meanwhile his colleagues, if either the fake news and/or Steve Bannon are to be believed... are speaking to Bannon!<br />
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And the SNP are studiously ignoring how the Cybernats are wrecking some people's lives.<br />
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<b>DigCitSummitUK</b><br />
I fell for the whole 'Stand up give a speech with a call to action' in 2015 by getting involved when Chris van der Kuyl gave his Scottish Learning Festival keynote in 2015 where I curated some data and this lead to:<br />
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1) The then Education Secretary asking me to help with the Digital Learning Scotland Consultation<br />
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2) Sharing an article about Digital Citizenship and Twitter in Scottish Schools with one of the Digital Citizenship Twitter chat moderators.<br />
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3) Me organizing the first international Digital Citizenship Summit in January 2016 (Within 2 months and on a zero budget).<br />
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This event also saw lots of criticism from people (Some saying that getting US educators over here was a money grab,' but the same event in 2018 and it's a case of 'Let's do it!' the day after the #DigCitSummitIRL event).<br />
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Scottish educators seemed more than happy to connect with US educators at last years' #CEduAD event too.<br />
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Nor was there <b><u><i>ANY</i></u></b> help from people like<br />
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Chris-lets-make-Scotland-the-most-entrepreneurial-country-in-the-world van der Kuyl or<br />
Angela-it's-your-democratic-right-to-be-snarky-about-political-types<br />
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So the ideas that I have about this #OnlineHarms would, like the UK Govt's EdTechStrategy last week, be years ahead in some ways... but why should I give my ideas to such a hypocritical, nasty, self interested group of people who do anything <b><u><i>BUT</i></u></b> 'making a difference' to people's lives, regardless of what they think or why they got into a sector with £75,000 a year + expenses + second jobs etc and claim to be 'humble crofters'<br />
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They don't even help their own supporters who distributed thousands of leaflets for #Team56 when they are having a hard time by the 'cybernat' SNP/IndyRef supporters?<br />
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Or when Javid's colleagues - <i>if</i> they <i>are</i> talking to Bannon - are part of the problem but he blames the work of people like @Biz and @Ev who gave me a voice? A sold and steady argument? Erm #NoThanks!<br />
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<b>GE2015 Declara & Ian Blackford</b><br />
In 2015 I had a call with Ian Blackford and told him that he and his colleagues should create a collection of good news stories and have their advocates create 140 character 'insights' on <a href="https://declara.com/collection/c5496f05-48a2-48a1-9819-f0ebc62551e6/post">Declara</a> so they could be tweeted and drown out the Cybernats when 140 character politics arrived properly.<br />
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He didn't follow up on this... And yet what do we have today?<br />
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Well just look at how Trump bypasses the 'Fake News' today by using these same tactics with the Alt Right folks who have been on platforms like Reddit for years? Go figure!<br />
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<a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/MP_MSP_Ideas_for_2016.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #007cbb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Ideas for 2016 & 2019 Candidates</a><br />
<a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/If_Tech_Stories_Did_Politics.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #007cbb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">If Tech Stories did Politics</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span><br />
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<b>#YOYOW... Or Do You?</b><br />
My <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2016/01/digcitsummituk-closing-remarks.html">#DigCitSummitUK Closing Remarks</a> were around The Well's mantra of 'You Own Your Own Words'<br />
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After reading The Well in 2015, I felt that big social media would head in the same direction as some of the Well Beings, like Howard Rheingold, did...<br />
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Through a conversation on Twitter with Howard and the call to fight #ForTheWeb last month, it would appear that I wasn't wrong!<br />
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<a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/03/fortheweb-ffs-digcit-cybernat-mission.html">#FortheWeb? #FFS #DigCit #Cybernat Mission to Help Recruit Elle</a><br />
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<a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/03/edchatmod-google-forum-thank-you-see.html">#EdChatMod Google+ Forum... Thank You and See You at @GiveandTakeInc Givitas</a><br />
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The hope was that this #DigCitSummit community in 2016 would become a 'Swarm' that could help in exactly the way that US Counter Terrorism suggests with tacking Scottish School girl Asqa Mahmood (As detailed at the end of this post <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/06/aceing-made-to-stick-extensible-new.html">ACEing Made to Stick</a>).<br />
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However, in 2015 I was not aware of Mahmood or of these 'swarms' or the book New Power.<br />
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I read New Power last April. Reading the book was not my idea, it came recommended by someone who suggested I read it... I'm glad I did. You know who you are... And the person who recommended it has been thanked. To use the cryptic language like the <a href="https://www.ceduad.com/blog/cooking-with-gas">#CEduAD Cooking with Gas</a> post and other messages.<br />
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Through New Power I saw that my ideas were sound... So I set about building upon the #DigCitSummitUK work by sending an email to see about a #DigCitSummitScot last February, as some DigCit experts where 'across the pond' for the #DigCitSummitIRL event in April 2018.<br />
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David Ryan Polgar moved on from the #DigCitSummit movement after a few years. And when the other co-founder and 'Life Long Family Friend' did not reply... I 'pivoted' to the idea of a Skype Edcamp.<br />
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There was so much interest from around the world that @TolleyA and I decided to plan for a physical Skype Edcamp on the same day as trying again with a #CMAD inspired 'Connected Educator Appreciation Day' idea (But had <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-connected-edchatmoderator.html">24 hour EdChat-a-thon idea</a> before I knew about CMAD in October 2013).<br />
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But the problem with this attempt at building a community of educators who might 'Swarm' with positive messages and an alternative narrative, and perhaps protect others like Shamina Begum was that<br />
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'We were the wrong kind of people, with the wrong kind of purpose... and/or @TolleyA and I were not able to keep up with the <a href="https://fillthegaplearning.co.uk/connected-educator-appreciation-day-all-wrapped-up">breakneck speed of the #CEduAD team</a>'<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Words on a screen hurt people. Although online conversation might have the ephemeal and informal feeling of a telephone conversation, it has the reach and permanence of a publication" </span><span style="color: blue;">Howard Rhiengold</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><br /></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">That extract is from </span><a href="http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html">The Heart of The Well Chapter of Virtual Communities</a> </span>regarding the suicide of The Well member Blair Newman.<br />
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The permanence of the written word is something that toxic Facebook is now realising too, 26 years after Howard and Marc Smiths observations from the Voices of The Well... Facebook is looking at having impermanent messages, according to an article that features in a recent CMX update.<br />
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I can confirm that those 'Wrong Kind of People' comments do indeed hurt!<br />
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Especially when they came from people you admired and looked up to, and/or come from those who you 'Empowered' (Apparently) by encouraging to make that all important first Skype call, and introducing them to people in your network #ConnectWithPurpose!<br />
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<b>Quitting Twitter</b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">"Get on social media it comes with the job today if you want to be in EdTech"</span> was the advice I was given by a Microsoft exec in 2010... Something I was ready to quit on in September 2018.<br />
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Since looking to reskill from sales to community management since 2014... there hasn't been a great deal in terms of a steady income.<br />
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After my voice not being heard <u><i>and</i></u> being rejected from <i><u>yet another</u></i> group!<br />
This time for an idea that was my own!<br />
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(Well, when I say my own idea - see below - I mean was generated from 'Slow Hunches' and making links to: #EdChatMods + a great source of #Cmgr PD for me + listening to Educators concerns about Crowdfunding and their districts PD).<br />
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But it was something I had worked on (off and on) over a 3 year period!<br />
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My personal life was a mess - moving house, terminally ill family member, kids playing up because of all the adjustments - and I was ready to hit delete on my Twitter account... So why am I still here?<br />
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<b>Words on a Screen Hurt People... But A Kind Word Can Make ALL the Difference!</b><br />
"I said something and the internet spoke back, no way!" @CordyM at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL0XZsxYeKw">ISTE 2016 Closing Keynote</a><br />
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Someone noticed.<br />
Someone said they would miss me.<br />
Sarah has also acknowledged my contribution with other projects over the years too.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"That's nice I thought"</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">"I said something and the internet spoke back, no way!" </span>(To borrow from Michele's awesome keynote)<br />
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<b>Delete... You Own Your Own Words... Or Do You?</b><br />
The Well's Mantra was #YOYOW: You Own Your Own Words and was the subject of my 2016 DigCitSummitUK Closing Comments.<br />
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In 2019 with<br />
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1) The Government's #OnlineHarms White Paper<br />
2) Twitter shutting down more accounts because of copyright and complaints<br />
3) Online hatred now affecting people IRL <br />
(Shamina Begum recruited by Asqa Mahmood, Molly's suicide, New Zealand mosque far right killings)<br />
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Whether it is anyone that you have paid a compliment to - or hurt badly - with your words, who is it that owns your words in the confusing spaces that is the online world in 2019?<br />
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<b>Fake Friends and Lost Words</b><br />
I have had a few 'Life Long Family Friends' not only block me and had people that <i><u>I introduced them to</u></i> make me out to be a horrible person... but also delete every kind thing they ever said about me.<br />
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I have people who told me that 'You have a voice' and that 'You Matter' but have blocked me... for the same reasons that I'm beyond sick and tired of hearing Ian Blackford for! His<br />
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"Scotland will not be ignored"<br />
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But never seems to hear this particular Scot.<br />
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That group didn't hear me... in a space with 4 'friends' to discuss an idea that I worked on for 3 years and they couldn't/wouldn't hear my voice. They took the ideas, my time and effort and didn't look back?!<br />
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So I can't reference some 4 years worth of kind words, conversations and the contribution I made to discussions. Who owns the<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">'It's William Jenkins that got me started on the Connected Educator journey?'</span><br />
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The person who said them? And has blocked me from accessing those kind words?<br />
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Me because they were about me? And the way that I impacted their personal and professional development, and could benefit my career in job interviews but can't use without the possibility of an awkward<br />
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'But they have blocked you' conversation?<br />
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Twitter because they own the platform? What about my time? 50,000 tweets at say 2 minutes per Tweet = 3 months of my time, not to mention the ideas I've shared and the connections that I've made that have proved productive (rasing money and helping new ideas take off) and/or anything I did to see the next DigCitSummit take place at Twitter HQ?<br />
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Or is it now the government? Which is a worry and so hypocritical it beggars belief... Old Etonian arrogance!<br />
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Whether the SNP who have continually ignored me when I've been <b><u><i>NOTHING</i></u></b> but supportive of their #SLF15 'Educators Need to Collaborate More' and empowering educators rhetoric.<br />
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Or the Conservatives with their 'Tech companies can't turn a blind eye"<br />
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But Steve Bannon can say that he's talking to Letter Box Boris and Lunatic Gove (What David Cameron called his former Education Secretary).<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.tes.com/news/scottish-schools-urged-embrace-twitter">Don't be a Twitter Quitter</a></b><br />
In 2015 the data that I curated directly after Chris van der Kuyl's keynote (After having met with 5 senior MPs on 5 different projects - one even included a visit to Downing Street with John McAlaney re Social Norms), my attitude was<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">'I know what to do here... and I'm not going to bother with the pointless politicians'</span><br />
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At a 2014 #UKFEChat meet up the question was posed<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">'What are we supposed to do William ignore the goverment?' </span><br />
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YES! I said regarding FELTAG... Followed by the sounds of laughter and disagreement at the crazy misfit in the room.<br />
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Where is 'FELTAG Friday rocket boosters on' Matt Hancock today?<br />
Where is his predecessor as FE Minister, Nick Boles, today?<br />
Where the heck is the 100% of FE Course material online?<br />
And if FELTAG has <b><u><i>NOT</i></u></b> delivered... then where is all the money that went into it?<br />
Where is Every Child Matters?<br />
Where is the Attainment Gap at?<br />
Where is David Cameron's Big Society?<br />
Where is David Cameron?<br />
Where are the consequences for Vince Cable and his 2007 banks are #TooBigToFail, to I should have let them fail?<br />
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Mr Cameron and Mr Cable, do you have <b><u><i>ANY</i></u></b> idea what scrapping <b><i>ECM</i></b> and bailing the bank had on me personally? Or more crucially for politicians across the spectrum... do you even care?<br />
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Mr Hancock and Mr Boles do you have any idea what <b><u><i>ACTUALLY</i></u></b> listening to me might have done for the FELTAG agenda in 2014 as well as with the original 'FELTAG Friday' 2020 goals?<br />
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But I am still here on Twitter today... and am so because<br />
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1) Of a kind word<br />
2) I was confident that the lessons from The Well would be important<br />
3) I felt that something like the fight for #TheWeb would need a Well reboot<br />
(We're using #YOYOWJOI)<br />
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But I'm now going to do something really, really painful here... I'm going to disagree with someone I admire because he changed the world (twice), with regard to The Well Reboot #ForTheWeb<br />
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Mr Brand, I don't Own My Words!<br />
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And I'm glad I don't because otherwise I would have quit social media because of all the political types, the takers, the fakers and the hate that - with the exception of moaning - the politicians have done nothing about since 2015.<br />
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The words: the good, the bad and the ugly, were said by me... and I do indeed <b><u><i>OWN</i></u></b> what I say, <u><i>but</i></u> they are not just mine alone anymore.<br />
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These words are the result of the amazing space that Biz Stone and Ev Williams built (And are two people who's work have given me a voice... Thank You!! I'll be 'paying it forward' on the #SeaTurtlePirates adventure and it's going to be Bliss too!)<br />
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<b>They are shared words!</b><br />
I own my words but they are shared... they also belong to the people I spoke about, and it was my choice to speak about them on a platform for the world to hear what I had to say about them.<br />
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To take those words from them by deleting my account? That would have been wrong of me!<br />
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@Sfm36 @TolleyA @BeYonder @MichaelJGaston and the 23 people who helped with my desperate 2018 crowd funder (As well as those who provided moral support too)... you were and are<br />
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<b>'Love in Action'</b><br />
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The start of the #SeaTurtlePirates adventure began with a 7 year old boy turning pirate by breaking a little rule with a bunch of Donkeys (Their contribution at the end of the adventure will be acknowledged!)<br />
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... But the @BeMorePirate adventure will be continuing through whatever #NewPower storms that Twitter and collaborating with people with different views, personalities, career aims, personal challenges in a loose informal context brings.<br />
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Go into any house with kids where David Cameron's 'Young Aspirational Families' are now Theresa May's 'JAMs' and see if you can find parents who love their kids dearly but <b><u><i>DON'T</i></u></b> let their frustration of life in a country of the bailed out banks get the better of them and shout at their kids... It's probably a regular occurrence.<br />
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Go into any school, workplace, coffee shop or neighborhood and you'll find people falling out.<br />
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Just look at the bickering at Mr Javid's place of work and the 'Hallowed Halls with it's no clapping traditions' and 'Right Honorable People' that are his colleagues: Theresa May is hardly getting on with her team, and the person responsible for 'ORDER! ORDER! speaker has faced accusations of bullying?<br />
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So what if you are in the same space and collaborating with passionate people who have opposing views? For example:<br />
'Yoons' + IndyRef supporters?<br />
Corbyn supporters + people affected by Northern Ireland's 'Troubles?'<br />
People who support Colin Kaepernick's Black Lives Matter + people who see this disrespectful to the US military?<br />
Vegans + people who earn a living through the farming industry?<br />
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You could <b><u><i>EASILY</i></u></b> be one wrong conversation and/or misunderstanding away from a falling out and maybe even seeing the group/community falling apart!! There are also introvert Vs extrovert mis-communications, and making sure that takers/fakers and/or assholes don't poison the well being of the group.<br />
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Getting the right people with a shared purpose is one thing... finding the right core values and community guidelines is another thing entirely #YOYOWJOI!<br />
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But whatever happens, it's an adventure that would not be happening for me if it was not for the kindness a few people showed me online in 2018.<br />
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Mr Blackford go compare that to the 6 Cybernats that are making some people's lives a misery online and IRL. 'Scotland's Voice Will Not Be Ignored!' The same kind of Westminster dramatics as Mr Javid yesterday with his #OnlineHarms noisy launch?<br />
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Here's to a kinder 2019... Here's to a #YOYOW 2.0 reboot that brings JOI... and here's to The Misfits!!<br />
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<b>What If... They are not your Ideas? What if the Idea Picks You?</b><br />
Last August at the end of my first ever meeting with Chrissy MacKay at Be Yonder (Who I connected with because of a #ECGlobal conversation with @FillTheGapLearn) and she recommended a crazy book which had also been recommended about 10 years ago... but looked a little too crazy for me a decade ago! But I read it this time.<br />
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After reading it I asked James Stanbridge and Ayelet Baron (Who hosted the awesome 2016 CMAD <a href="http://communitymanagerappreciationday.com/schedule/building-relationships-to-ignite-movements/">Building Relationships to Ignite Movements</a> session) if they had read it, they had... this led to Ayelet recommending another (Which hurts my head!) and this concept jumped out at me.<br />
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The idea of a Skype Edcamp developed as a result of Ian's Tweet above and the Post BETT 'Capes and Kilts' Microsoft visit to Sarah Clark and Malcolm Wilson's schools.<br />
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If it is the case that 'The idea picks you' and that 'New Power' is like a current and 'Crowd Leaders' are interested in empowering others... and if empowering Scottish Educators is something Mr Swinney want's to encourage then...<br />
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There is <b><u><i>A LOT</i></u></b> more to this story! @GibsonI encouraged me to submit a Tedx Glasgow presentation and helped to improve the application, but the talk was rejected + the story would be left unfinished if I had deleted my Twitter account if it wasn't for @Sfm36.<br />
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So if anyone wants to see the content of the presentation, which includes ideas around #OnlineHarms and potential aims and outcomes of the #SeaTurtlePirates... give them a shout.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">We need digital leaders to connect with educators and schools locally and globally. Help Ellie (And Elle!)</span><br />
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Something our politicians appear to have caught up with the idea of! Perhaps in 12 months time people like Business and Skill Minister Jamie Hepburn will be agreeing with this objective.<br />
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the mean time, hey @Sfm36 & @GibsonI There really should be a #CEduAD
panelist on as many 2020 #CMAD hangouts as possible to further the CMAD
business objective… Just a thought and a random idea.<br />
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I'll leave the last word on Twitter in 2019 with the person who gave me these insights:<br />
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<a href="https://medium.com/@hrheingold/twitter-literacy-knowing-how-to-use-it-is-key-ae8dc1a2fc6e">Twitter Literacy Knowing How to Use it is Key</a> by Howard Rheingold.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>12th April 2019 Update</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well! I 'get' what commentators say when they observe that</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>'A week is a long time in politics!'</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This time last week I was being extremely angry and exasperated on here about the Skills Minister Jamie Hepburn (@JamieHepburn). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It would appear that I was not only wrong but, perhaps also <i>in the wrong</i> too! Unfortunately, I've also been here before (and that's <b>AFTER</b> telling someone just yesterday boasting that I don't make the same mistakes twice as well!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The last time I was here I changed an #IndyRef post that had the title 'Declaration of War' to <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2014/09/the45plus-make-love-not-war.html">'Make Love Not War'</a> after #CmgrHangout/#CMAD Founder and #CEduAD organiser Tim McDonald had a quiet 'Love in Action' kind of word.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The relevance to the content of that post both for me personally after the week I've had <b><u><i>AND</i></u></b> online in general with the UK Government's White Paper #OnlineHarms... Is a just bit spooky!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: blue;">"Trust the Currents"</b> Indeed!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">...As he and </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">A</span>yelet Baron (@<span style="font-family: inherit;">A</span>yeletb) might say.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So what changed in a week? <br /><br />After some private email exchanges with Mr Hepburn, his staff and Routes to Work South... I went along to my first Job Club meeting and did so with a willingness to hear all the ways that they might be able to help. No barriers! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>No</b> 'Because I had a bad early experience.' chip on my shoulder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>No</b> 'Politicans are all idiots' because I was less enthusiastic about a political view I was once supportive of.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>No</b> Anti-authoritarian 'Bankers this...' and 'Vince cable that' <br />(But IMHO The Vince Cable view IS justified!...but was absent from the conversation, all the same).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just "I need a bit of help!... I'm a little bit stuck... Can you help me to 'lower the barrier' and 'flatten the path'"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't know how long the Job Club normally runs for but not only was I there for hours! But I had a number of staff who dropped everything and supported me... and with some bespoke solutions too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Man! Did we get a lot done! I highlight that it feels like </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">'Some of the ideas I have can sometimes feel like they are ahead of their time... and this can be frustrating as I feel mis-understood when trying to help'</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">'There is no EdTech industry here in Scotland, but the UK Government have just published an #EdTechStrategy' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Add to this that I am also aware that I am what @ThisIsNewPower calls a 'Crowd Leader' according to Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans' books' quiz (Which Tim McDonald is involved with).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I read New Power I recognised what Kony2012 CEO Jason Russell did with the grassroots movement for Invisible Children (@Invisible) by visiting schools to raise awareness of Kony's use of child soldiers (Dexter Dias highlights how the practice of forcing children to fight creates formidable killing machies).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Siara's dad told her book loving daughter that 'Anything is possible' but, living in CAR and faced between staying where she was and turning to violence, a perilous desert crossing like The Alchemist's Santiago, or a migrant boat... It's a lot harder to do anything you set your mind to when those are your choices... It feels like as dangerous a message as whatever tactics Scottish School Girl Asqa Mahmood used to encourage Shamina Begum and others to lose her UK Citizenship. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">@Invisible's Kony2012 strategy is what I thought Marialice Curran (@Mbfxc) and David Ryan Polgar's (@TechEthicist) #DigCitSummit movement was going to do but... as I discovered it's freaking hard - in fact near impossible! - to get right!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jason Russell got <b><u><i>SOOO MUCH</i></u></b> right! He got <b><u><i>SOOO MUCH</i></u></b> done! But then disaster struck!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jason suffered a nervous breakdown: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7MCh19igW4">What Jason Russell Remembers about His Breakdown</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />New Power highlights how tough being a 'Crowd Leader' can be! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Equally Ayn Rand highlights how hard it can be to try to bring new and original ideas to life, check out tough Howard Roark, Hank Rearden, Dagny Taggart, John Galt and Kira Argounova (Most definitely <b><u><i>WON'T</i></u></b> be spoiling the end of what happens to the heroine in We the Living!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">...I'll be including the extract of when Roark met Stephen Mallory in my next post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Can you imagine my surprise when I saw a quote from The Fountainhead on one of the notepads of one of the people who was helping me yesterday?! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've got no idea if that was a quote they wrote, one of their mental health partners who can provide a life link to people who are having a hard time...or one of their clients who's ideas are also a little bit new and crazy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, perhaps a little bit like a former collaborator, and the person who gave me my first paid experience in Community Management, Ramona Pierson... I found in Routes to Work (South!) Job Club yesterday, an <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/ramona_pierson_an_unexpected_place_of_healing">Unexpected Place of Healing</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u><i>BUT</i></u></b> (obviously!) I hasten to add <b><i><u>NO WHERE</u></i></b> near as painful as her experiences... Both physically or of with the kind of makeovers she had to endure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But <b><u><i>MAN! </i></u></b>does the idea of cuss (swear) scrabble sound fun! I wonder if *SIGH-Grrr-Argh!* counts as a swear word in cuss scrabble. I would go along to a Routes to Work swear scrabble club!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Words on a screen hurt people" Howard Rhiengold (@Hreingold) in <a href="http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html">Virtual Communities</a> after Blair Newman committed suicide just before scribbling (deleting) all his posts on the early online community, The Well 26 years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Howard highlights how this event affected the 'Well Beings' </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">"There was the real-life funeral, where we brought our physical bodies and embraced each other and Blair's family. We were learning how fond we had grown of Blair, and how his death put a milestone in cyberspace. Marriages had happened and others had unraveled. Businesses had started and failed. We had parties and picnics. But death seems somehow more real, even if your only participation is in the virtual funeral"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">26 years later, weeks after Tim Berners-Lee's call for people to fight #ForTheWeb followed a few days later by the New Zealand killings where online hate spilled into the real world and Molly Russell's suicide is a new milestone in Cyberspace... People are telling us before they hurt themselves or others and we are not noticing... we are not replying... We are not offering people the same virtual hugs that EDL member Ivan Humble (@NewDayStarts) got IRL. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My last post details how I almost quit Twitter and why I didn't! Because I had learned the lessons of The Well and the importance of #YOYOW.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The value that a kind word can have never ceases to amaze me... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Whether the words that launch people on a journey, as mine started with James Stanbridge (@Stanbridge) via Sarah Thomas and her #DigiDiversity #SXSWEdu session, as well as Education Scotland's Ian Stuart (@IanStuart66) and Bob Baldie (@BobBaldie) </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">taking the time to listen to my ideas at the Developing the Youth Workforce launch at the 2015 Scottish Learning Festival in 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">...Or Sarah Clark (@Sfm36) telling me that I would be missed if I <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/04/yoyow-you-own-your-words-or-do-you.html">quit Twitter #YOYOW</a>-> Or people like Bev Cripps (@BCripps078) & Ritu Sehji (@Rsehji) noticing when I wasn't around -> Or </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ian Gibson (@GibsonI) encouraging me to submit my own Tedx Presentation -> Or my dear friend Andrea Tolley (@TolleyA) for <b><i><u>EVERYTHING!</u> </i></b></span><i>Eleven</i> times over!! <br />
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And Chrissy and David for trying to help me @BeYonderLtd since we met last August as a result of an Edchange Global (#ECGlobal) conversation with Michael Sinclair (@FillthegapLearn)... I've tried to be a Courageous Follower, but being courageous sometimes means you get it wrong too.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">...Or Routes to Work (@Routes2Work) yesterday to being there when a weary traveler needed a rest!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But </span>Sairah (Pronounced Sigh-ra, I believe), if you do refer me to any services to try to thow me a life line, please <span style="font-family: inherit;">don't do to me what The Alchemist author Paulo C</span>oelho's parents did when he was following his dream to be a writer... and put him in a mental institution.<br />
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...At least not without a good internet connection and a decent library!<br />
I promise not to do a 'Julian Assange' to get my internet access revoked!<br />
There's a guy that needs some help!<br />
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(Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!! Something for anyone who is going through a rough time and gets taken in by a 'fake friend' and decides to flee Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, The United Kingdom, Great Britain - or however you identify your nationality - only to moan a few years later when your Citizenship is revoked!)<br />
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Why would I need an internet connection if anyone thought I was nuts? <br />
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Because as @BeMorePirate highlights in their Tedx Talk... there are a lot of problems out there to be changing! And... as the Think Differently advert goes:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Sometimes the people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do" </span><br />
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Here's to the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creative-power-misfits-adam-grant/">Misfits (And their creative power)</a> helping other rebels at @Routes2Work to find their own route to work.<br />
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Happy Birthday #FairStartScotland for #FSS Sake.<br />
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Apologies to Mr Hepburn and Ms Haughey and all staff doing good work on this new initiative.<br />
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It's tough out their folks! So Be Kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle!<br />
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...Oh yeah and 'Check your premises' too!<br />
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">6th April 2019 Update</b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The post below was written yesterday in line with Jay Baer's comments from the<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stPb0KgqnzY"> 'Hug Your Haters' #Cmgrhangout</a> regarding how:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: blue;">"Haters are not your problem... Ignoring them is"</span></b> </span></div>
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I had raised a number of concerns offline and heard nothing back, so took my complaint, grievance and frustrations online. <br />
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As Jay highlights, if people have tried calling, emailing etc and got no response they already have 'one foot out the door' as a customer, so the content of response and speed of response are key!<br />
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To his credit, Mr Hepburn, came back to me immediately after I posted the content below... and with a satisfactory response, which was (and is) appreciated!<br />
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With the EdTech Strategy being launched earlier in the week + hearing about others in Scotland in the EdTech scene who are struggling (Doing innovative work... but are looking to leave), I created a moment of conflict in order to make sure I was heard.<br />
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I leave the post unedited and raw (Although will tone down a little), so that others can see how I am exploring and dealing with #NewPower storms and Be More Pirate 'Tell Tall Tales'<br />
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...And what I hope will be the #SeaTurtlePirates compass if/when encountering any @BeMorePirate #NewPower Storms = The #YOYOWJOI compass.<br />
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I don't like being in snarky mode, but if it helps in any way for those who are <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/lost-ghetto-12261.html">Lost in the Ghetto</a>, I will!<br />
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But kudos to Mr Hepburn for addressing this the way that he did, and my apologies for any and all snark below...Including to the service providers who are doing good work<br />
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(But a little more joined up thinking and collaboration though, Yes? No? Maybe?)<br />
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<b>5th April 2019 The Original Angry Post! (But edited and toned down a little)</b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This post details my experiences as an unfortunate victim of Jamie Hepburn's flagship skills program 'Fair Start Scotland' (I've already suggested an alternative name for the initiative).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is written in the hope of either</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1) Warning others of the dangers of trying to innovate in a backward looking place and/or</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">2) The challenges that can come from your ideas being ahead of their time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you like the sound of the latter do yourself a favour and read about Henry Cameron's experiences in The Fountainhead... It sure ain't easy!!</span></div>
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<b>Not the Tories Fault... Not this time ScotGov/TheSNP</b><br />
If there are two things that will wind the Scottish Government up it will be to either say:</div>
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1) That things are no different after 17 years of SNP being part of the Scottish Government than under Margaret Thatchers Tory Government<br />
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And yet, with parents struggling to make ends meet because of banks, mortgages and decisions made by the Bank of England, the economy tanking and educator moral being pretty low, what's really changed? <br />
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Only politicians could go from 'celeb rock star status' to 'Meh! no different to Thatcher years' within 4 years!</div>
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2) That the current Conservative Government are <b><u><i>NOT</i></u></b> to blame for at least one area of the economy and/or Scotland's issues. <br />
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Not when the EdTech industry is both thriving south of the border <b><u><i>AND</i></u></b> is getting support by the Education Secretary and the UK Department of Education with the launch of the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/791931/DfE-Education_Technology_Strategy.pdf">EdTech Strategy</a> document this week.</div>
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There is not much of an EdTech sector in Scotland and, in my experience - and the experiences of a few others - there isn't anything by way of support.<br />
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I have been fortunate enough to be connected with people where I've seen very clearly where the future of work is headed.<br />
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This is not always a benefit when you don't have a voice, when you share your ideas with the wrong kind of people and/or when you're trying to pay the bills.<br />
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A few years ago the UK Government Education Departments would tell you<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"We can't be seen to be recommending any particular company or product... even those doing good work"</span><br />
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Compare this with the ideas I had in 2014 and with their shiny new EdTech Strategy (Which, just like Gazelle and FELTAG did, has some key flaws)... and the differences in the kind of response the suggestions got.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>9th January 2014 Vs April 2019</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0pt;">Email to EdTech Suppliers<br />"I am writing to you
today to see if you thought it would be useful if there was a regular Twitter
Chat where suppliers to the education sector could share ideas, collaborate and network with each other. A PLN for Edu suppliers.
Please find more details on this idea in this blog post;<br />
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StartUpEduChat - <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/startupeduchat.html" target="_blank">http://edutechstories.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/startupeduchat.html</a>"</span></div>
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Example reply from suppliers<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Thanks for
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">It feels overly utopian. Most successful edtech
suppliers may feel a conflict of interests sharing their hard won
formulae.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Twitter is poorly used and understood (IMHO) by most
Educational suppliers, and not monitored regularly enough by those that do
to develop any meaningful conversation<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Company twitter accounts are often staffed by
marketing advisors, juniors, or similar who may not have the
product/business experience to contribute in a way that delivers value to
the stream<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">When would the conversation happen? Can't be in the
day as people are working, and wouldn't work in the evening as that's when
(most) have clocked off for the night.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">If staff are going to spend time on Twitter I
suspect most companies would prefer they were talking to customers, or
supporting the brand.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Many followers of edu suppliers Twitter accounts
will not be overly interested in seeing tweets of this nature and short of
blocking the hashtag, won't be able to avoid them<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Hashtag spam, dull promotional tweets, commercial
agenda driven tweets<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Those are
mainly probs with using edu suppliers </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">branded </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">twitters. If
it's down to individuals, then the problems are less. But most still apply.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Startups are
naturally more open and willing to share, by definition. But those they seek to
learn from (those that have made it) may ironically fall into the issues above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I promise I
am not trying to be negative (BrainPOP is one of the most open and socially
savvy edutech brands out there) but it might simply be that trying to achieve
the aim of sharing best practice on Twitter might be the wrong tool to choose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course,
this should not stop you from trying, I could be completely wrong.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Then either compare with a few months later when I ceded the idea to Katya Hoyt and Steve Isaacs and supported them with their #SXSWEdu #EdTechBridge idea... <b><u><i>OR</i></u></b> (more crucially) with the #EdTechStrategy that pretty much is doing what I suggested that #FELTAG should be doing (See <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-problem-with-feltag.html">The Problem with FELTAG</a>)</div>
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<b>My Fair Start Scotland Journey</b><br />
Only having the good and the great connecting with you when your ideas are ready for them to make a name for themselves has two consequences<br />
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1) It has a negative impact on those who are truly collaborative... The edu data informs me that social media is <b><u><i>FULL</i></u></b> of these kind of relationships (And that those who are truly collaborative are adjusting for this!)<br />
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2) Helping others in their career and with their personal brand doesn't pay the bills very well.<br />
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And trying to reskill to an EdTech Community Manager in a land with no EdTech industry and who have no clue what Community Management is... That has been an error of judgement on my part, who knew geography mattered so much today. <br />
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Indeed, the UK EdTech Strategy really should be called the London EdTech Strategy.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">As I will state a number of times in this post, there is absolutely <b><u><i>ZERO</i></u></b> criticism of the people I am in contact with - especially those at Rutherglen Job Centre and Routes to Work Cambuslang.</span></div>
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Conversely, there's nothing but scorn for the pointless politicians that have done such an abysmal job that they have seen a former advocate become so disillusioned by the sheer level of their incompetence in a few short years... Is nothing short of astounding!!<br />
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It beggars belief and is a marvel to behold (Go check my Rah! Rah! Rah! IndyRef/SNP posts... they're all still there! #IfIKnewThenWhatWeKnowNow!)</div>
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November 2018</span></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><b><br /></b></span>Coming to the end of one of the worst years I've had in a very long time (If not ever!) With my job search going nowhere and me being desperate to find anything at all... my work coach suggested Fair Start Scotland and Routes to Work. </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">The aim of going onto this program being so I can ‘dumb down’ my CV as there is no EdTech industry here and no #Cmgr roles.</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">I met a Routes to Work rep at the Job Centre and agreed to get referred
to this voluntary program.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">I had a letter and initial meeting scheduled
with Laura Sloan, this then changed to Fiona Davidson between the appointment
being made and the actual meeting. At the end of the interview Fiona
recommended Routes to Work and I spoke to Maureen (Who was absolutely freaking </span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><i><u>AWESOME!</u></i></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">)</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">A letter came through for Remploy. I thought that I was with Routes to Work? Must have been referred on to them? That's a shame! I liked Maureen. Oh well fine! They know best (Yeah right!) <br /><br />An
induction set up for the 12</span><sup style="text-indent: -18pt;">th</sup><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> November.</span></div>
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<b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #0000cc;">12<sup>th</sup>
November 2018</span></b></div>
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<b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><i><u>Totally Unimpressed</u></i></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> with the induction! <br /><br />It felt like I was a name and a number - after seeing the £96 million over 3 years I can now see why this was the case - The induction was held with Craig in the main
reception (All the meeting rooms had been taken, apparently). <br /><br />This was a day after my mother-in-laws funeral and I left
feeling underwhelmed when I got the hard sell to fill the form out there and then... </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: blue;">'Don't let any of these walking £6,000 mugs leave without signing up' </span><br />You can almost hear in the weekly team meetings from the 'Just fill it in... No you can't take it with you'</span></div>
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November 2018 </span></b><br />
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Tell my Job Centre Work Coach how underwhelming the whole thing was and a ‘What have you got to lose’ convo with her sees me agree... "Yeah you're right. I'm pretty desperate"</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Remploy’s apprentice followed up with a call asking if I’d like to arrange a
meeting following the induction, a meeting was arranged.</span></div>
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November 2018 </span></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">I went back and filled out the application with Chris </span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><i><u>AFTER</u></i></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">
I asked </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue; text-indent: -18pt;">"Will me signing up to this </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: blue;">exclude me from
any other initiatives" </span><br />And made a point of referencing the challenges with being on Working Links and New Enterprise Allowance</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">‘</span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;">NO!’</b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></span></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Was the reply... This turned out to be a lot of shit!! Thanks Chris!! Hope you got your commission or whatever you get for signing me up!</span><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #0000cc;">28</span><sup style="color: #0000cc;">th</sup><span style="color: #0000cc;">
November 2018 </span></b><br />
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">On my second appointment with Chris where we were going to go
through my CV after complementing me on my CV and saying how he thinks he can help, he logs on and gives it: </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: blue;">"William you’re not on our system... We went through all the paperwork last time didn't we?" </span><br /><br />Went away and came
back and said </span><br />
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><br /><span style="color: blue;">"You're supposed to be with Routes to Work"</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; text-indent: -18pt;">"Right OK! Well if I’m not impressed
with Routes to Work, can I come back to you?"</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: blue;">"No!"</span> was the reply </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: blue;">"Here we go
again" </span>thinks I!</span><br />
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November 2018... Later that Day</span></b></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">I stopped off at Cambuslang after this meeting and asked to speak to
Maureen who said </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; text-indent: -18pt;">“William where have you been? I wondered why you’d been taken
off the system. You’re supposed to be with me and with Routes to Work” </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Helen at
Rutherglen Job Centre confirmed this.</span></div>
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tonnes to try to help, including meeting with the guys at Be Yonder to assess how they both might be able to find funding for a role they were exploring and looking into Community
Jobs Scotland.</span><span style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Progress was made as I would be eligible for Community Jobs Scotland... but the age had changed from anyone of any age is </span><span style="text-indent: -24px;">eligible, to under 29. #FFS #FSS!!</span></div>
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February 2019 </span></b><br />
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Maureen had been off so I was referred to one of her colleagues, who has also been super friendly, supportive and helpful.</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">They've also been extremely patient and understanding as they've had the shitty end of the stick as I've been in</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: blue;">"I'm getting fucked about by this Fair Start Scotland shit"</span> mode (Not a pretty picture, I can tell you!). </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">I have met with this advisor once or twice and have dropped in for updates a few times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span></span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #0000cc;">21<sup>st</sup>
February 2019</span></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> <br />I asked Helen at Rutherglen job centre if I was
eligible to go back onto New Enterprise Allowance as Fair Start Scotland had, in spite of any good intentions and some really helpful people, not actually much has been done since Nov
2018 </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">The reply was that I was eligible for NEA but </span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><i><u>NOT</u></i></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">
if I was on Fair Start Scotland (#FSS? Most def should be changed to #FFSS For Fuck's Sake Scotland!!) <br /><br />So if I was </span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><i><u>NOT</u></i></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> on
Fair Start Scotland I would have been referred to NEA* 6 weeks ago.</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">*Not that NEA is much better, ask about VC funding and you get laughed at! Their slide and advice on credit rating = "If you have a bad credit rating... Do something about it." No shit sherlock! We are not all NRAM and RBS with Vince Cable on speed dial and billion pound bail outs within 24 hours mate.<br /><br />[*Waves*] To Vince '#TooBigtoFail' Cable... </span><br />
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">How are your buddies at NRAM and RBS getting on there? </span><br />
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">9 Consecutive years of losses and numerous fines... and their business is what's that? Money? Interesting!</span><br />
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Are the execs enjoying their bonuses while they close all the branches? </span><br />
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Or are they still sending 'Give 'em rope' memos? Still shafting their customers?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #0000cc;">21<sup>st</sup>
March 2019</span></b></div>
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9am<br />
Go to Fair Start Scotland/Routes to work to ask a <b>Question) </b>"Am I
eligible for NEA?" <b>Answer)</b><br />
<span style="color: blue;">"Yes but you’d need to come off Fair Start Scotland"</span></div>
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10am <br />
Stop in on a critical friend to have a complete <b>RANT!</b></div>
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11am <br />
Rutherglen Job Centre <br />
Evidence is based around
EdTech business plan<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"But you’re not on that yet… and Helen tried to
call you (Phone and internet had been cut off) to let you know that Fair Start Scotland has
something similar"</span><br />
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12pm <br />
Back to critical friends place to rant some more... Poor souls!<br />
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2pm <br />
Back to Fair Start Scotland/Routes to work <br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"Yes we do
have something similar but NEA would be better for you"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small; text-indent: 0px;"><br />God love these people for treating me like a human being and thinking of my best interests over their <br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">"Get them signed up these guys are worth £6k to us" </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small; text-indent: 0px;">mentality</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span></span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #0000cc;">1<sup>st</sup>
April 2019</span></b></div>
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Routes to Work are not taking me off Fair Start Scotland until they know that I have been referred to NEA as if I leave I can't go back to them, again thinking of me as a human being more than anything else. TY!<br />
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Called Rutherglen Job Centre to see if anything had
been progressed and there was nothing on the system (My work coach has been off).</div>
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Called People’s Plus to see if I could go back onto NEA and he said the only way
to get referred onto this is via the Job Centre</div>
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If I was <b><u><i>NOT</i></u></b> on Fair Start Scotland I would have been referred to NEA some 6
weeks ago and my business plan would not be being
scrutinized as part of my claimant agreement.</div>
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That’s 8 people across two organizations where the majority
of the scheduled meetings has been me saying in triplicate what my work aims are and at <b><i><u>NO POINT</u></i></b> has anyone
sat down to do what I had originally signed up to this program for… to ‘dumb
down’ my CV to get any old job as well as get assistance to get through
interviews for whatever mundane jobs might be out there.</div>
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In a week that sees the EdTech ecosystem down in London getting more support and my being aware of others in Scotland involved in EdTech who are also having a rough time? #GoDo #ScotlandCan... Fuck Off!!<br />
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My ‘Fair Start Scotland’ experience has not been a good one!<br />
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I detail this in the hope, however slim the chances, that others don’t have to go through any of this.<br />
<br />
Ian Blackford "Scotland Will Not be Ignored" <- What a lot of shit!<br />
Nicola Stugeon "Scotland is open for Europe and their talent to come here" <- That comment is right up there with Chris van der Kyul's "Scotland lacks talent" shit<br />
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Perhaps stop with all the Tory bashing and Brexit obsession and fix the Attainment Gap and/or unslum the many deprived areas and believe in the workforce with a £100 million upskill package like the Tories are doing instead of a substandard Fair Start Scotland offering<br />
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...Or perhaps simply get Andrew Mawson's book to see how what he and Jane Jacobs did that has worked.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>"The customer is not a moron. She's your wife"</b></span> David Ogilvy.</div>
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Would you send your kids to some of the services that you run - whether the schools, housing or services like this? Or is it Eton for Boris, Gove, Cameron etc and sod the JAMs?<br />
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17 years and the 'It's the Tories fault' is wearing a little thin... What's the point of Holyrood if you're this ineffective?! Just go back to having one Parliament that does nothing but bicker rather than two.<br />
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And btw my business plan could kick the Tories EdTech Strategy ass! Their ideas are 4 years behind my plans! All you need to do is look at my blog posts from 4 years ago. Here's just one (of many!) examples<br />
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<a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/10/edtech-is-tough-welcome-to-scotland.html">EdTech is Tough... Welcome to Scotland</a><br />
(Taxi for one to California... Perhaps one day!)</div>
William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-29037671270657742162019-03-29T06:28:00.001-07:002019-03-30T04:13:15.294-07:00#ForTheWeb? FFS! #DigCit #Cybernat Mission to Help Recruit Elle... The Jambo?<div style="text-align: center;">
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In 2017 my 7 year old son went on a mission as a #BeMorePirate spy guy to help recruit a P1 teddy called Ellie to go on a #DigCit trip to support a number of people and organisations that I was connected with at the time.<br />
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As the saying goes there is no 'I' in team (But there is a me), so we've dropped the I in Ellie... and with people like Asqa Mahmood encouraging young people like Shamina Begum to leave home to join ISIS, it might be an idea to call in some grown ups to help keep our kids safe online from the kind of threats that Begum faced. But who we gonna call?<br />
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Ghost Busters to help with all the people who hide behind anonymous accounts who dress as ghosts IRL?<br />
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Will we wait for superman? As the documentary about school reform highlights... He ain't coming.</div>
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<b><u><i>A LOT</i></u> </b>has changed in both mine and my sons life since that Classroom Skype call <u><i>and</i></u> in the world of social media today... </div>
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This includes the definition and nature of how we keep young people safe online. </div>
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This post looks at some of these changes and is written in the hope that either politicians and/or people in my network will help to recruit <a href="https://twitter.com/ellethejambo">@ElleTheJambo</a> to see if she can help address some of these rather serious issues.</div>
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On the week that the web celebrated it's 30th Birthday and Tim Berners-Lee encouraged people to fight #ForTheWeb... by the end of the week a far right extreme hate group video'd their attack on mosques in Christchurch. </div>
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The far right have been in the news almost every day since (Anna Soubry court case, Birmingham Mosques etc) </div>
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<b>#DigCit 2015 Vs 2019</b></div>
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In 2015 #DigCit was all about </div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>'Be the same person you are online as you are offline'</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>'If you've nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all'</b></span></div>
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In 2019 we have:<br />
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<li>The US President surrounded by advisers who are going to jail</li>
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<li>The far rights online hate spilling onto our streets days after Tim Berners-Lee calls for people to fight #ForTheWeb. </li>
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<b>#DigCit & Politicians Part of the Problem? ...Definitely! </b></div>
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You might expect politicians to be doing something about this, but they are not.<br />
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During the 2015 election the MPs were throwing their hands up saying 'What can we do about it?' (See <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/03/online-abuse-i-blame-politicians.html">Online Abuse I Blame the Politicians</a>)</div>
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In 2019 not only are parties like The SNP doing nothing to reign in #Cybernats like 'Wings Over Scotland' (Rah! Rah! Rah! IndyRef...all the way from Bath?!)<br />
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...But Alex Samlond's <b><u><i>support</i></u></b> make people like this front page news by jumping to this 'kind, well mannered and model SNP supporters' (Bear in mind he's suing Ms Dugdale, so I'll err on the side of caution... Great guy!) defense by claiming that You Tube is politically biased.</div>
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The tribalism of groups like the 'Cybernats' Vs 'Tthe Yoons' not only suits these political parties <b><u><i>BUT</i></u></b> the (so called) political 'Leaders' seem to be following Mr Trumps playbook, according to the #FakeNews at least, as Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Jacob Rees-Mogg and other contenders for taking over Theresa May's role are speaking to Steve Bannon... who is openly declaring what his intentions are.</div>
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And even if #Cybernats like Wings Over Scotland were not being defended by the SNP and Bannon wasn't being courted by self interested Old Etonians like Boris & Gove... given the obsession (and MPs uselessness) with finding solutions for Brexit =<br />
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I would not expect any solutions regarding cleaning up 'The Wild West of the Internet' from this group any time soon. </div>
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That is, of course, if they were even to accept the facts regarding what is going on... which they are not! <br />
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On the BBC's This Week last night Frank Luntz highlighted the dangers... Only for Michael Portillo to dismiss the concerns and the threat out of hand. And <b>YET!</b> at the time of writing Tommy Robinson is trending as he is speaking at Nigel Farage's Ukip Brexit leave march.<br />
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(Scotland is Now 'Scotland is Open' message gets 2,000 Retweets... Tommy Robinson 16,000 and rising)</div>
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In 2015 I made an arguement where the politicans could be blamed for some of the problems associated with online abuse. </div>
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In 2019 there is no change with this view... but with tragic situations like Shamina Begum and Christchurch, it's a lot more serious today!</div>
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Upon reflection, I realise that I wasn't even writing in support of The SNP/IndyRef... but was writing posts to detail what they needed to do to maintain the positivity of the extremely powerful 'Network Effects' and 'Feedback Loops' where a single event (The night the BNP came to town to celebrate the #NoThanks result) delivered record results for the SNP during #GE2015.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">New Power highlights that after a number of false starts in creating a solution to effective ISIS recruiters like Asqa Mahmood includes educators who 'Connected Connectors' and 'Crowd Leaders' to build a network of positive messengers who create alternative narratives drawing people away from more extreme positions and amplifying messages of groups like religious leaders and their schools.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><b><u><i>HOWEVER!</i></u></b> Taking on people with opposing views and getting into a heated debate in the hope of 'dialing the conversation down' a little and looking for common ground (Even, as happened with one conversation I had the 'Let Begum rot' protagonist I was chatting to declared 'I wasn't looking for any common ground!' once we'd established some), is <b><u><i>NOT</i></u></b> easy! But it can be done.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">If MPs are not actively adding to the problem with the future UK Prime Minister speaking to Steve Bannon... they are certainly doing nothing by advocating for people like 'Wings Over Scotland' and/or not calling out their own supporters who look to troll those who have a different political view. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Social Media does not come with the job for educators (Yet!) today. There is no remit for them to try to 'swarm' in an attempt to prevent people like Asqa Mahmood and protecting vulnerable people like Shamina Begum with the same 'sense of belonging' online that Mahmood clearly did.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Taking on Far Right groups, ISIS recruiters and political trolls like the #Cybernats could affect the educators digital footprint and end up getting them into trouble with their employers... even though a virtual hug could help them before it was too late: Imagine an educator providing an 'Alternative Narrative' in the way that a Muslim did with Ivan Humble (@NewDayStarts) to turn him away from The English Defense League.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">When experimenting with engaging with the 'Cybernats' (Engaging with them because I made a data prediction that - based on the data - The SNP were in trouble at the next election), I connected with someone who also got excited about the 2014 Yes/IndyRef/SNP movement for the same reasons that I did:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've revisited this community this week to share some thoughts about how social media and #DigCit has changed with the rise of hate groups etc ...and to encourage people to send our friends at<a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1106765302023491585"> #INZspirED a Virtual Hug</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2014 I curated lots of Edchat information and added all the Twitter Education Chats to Chat Salad and advocated for Twitter chat platform Nurph (Which I found out about from #CmgrHangout). I wrote this </span><a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/EdChat_Resource_Plan.pdf">EdChat Resource Plan</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />After writing this report I created a G+ forum for EdChat moderators to share ideas on all aspects of hosting Twitter chats and working towards 4 main aims:<br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" />1) That we will do what we can to help promote everyone's EdChat<br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" />2) To curate information that will add value<br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" />3) To collaborate and co-ordinate on some EdChat admin<br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" />4) Drive the EdChat Agenda Forward</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As with all first attempts this was a learning process and the forum has been quite quiet recently, but it was lovely to revisit one more time to share some posts in the hope of supporting our friends at #INZspirED with a <a href="https://twitter.com/EdTech_Stories/status/1106765302023491585">Virtual Hug</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">...And to try to raise awareness of how I feel #Digcit has changed since organising the UK </span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">#DigCitSummit </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.5;">for the movement's Co-Founders David Ryan Polgar and Marialice Curran</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.5;"> in 2015 compared to social media today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My 7 year old son's first blog post was about why he turned @BeMorePirate by breaking a little rule by skipping school to model the DigCitSummit Co-Founders aim that students 'Act Locally, Connect Globally'</span></div>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-isBvse9L0m4/XJbotsgwGxI/AAAAAAAAD4M/tVHgtQoiZD0vGnw1qNIM9luvg2J6dmnCgCLcBGAs/s1600/EdChatMod%2B-%2BElliePrimary1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="897" data-original-width="592" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-isBvse9L0m4/XJbotsgwGxI/AAAAAAAAD4M/tVHgtQoiZD0vGnw1qNIM9luvg2J6dmnCgCLcBGAs/s320/EdChatMod%2B-%2BElliePrimary1.JPG" width="211" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm glad that was the reason and it wasn't because he'd been recruited to join like Scottish school girl and ISIS recruiter Asqa Mahmood did with 15 year old Shamina Begum.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We need, as educators & parents, to model </span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588235294118);"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Digital Leaders for kids everywhere</span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588235294118);"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">To connect classrooms on Twitter and Skype</span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588235294118);"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">with educators & policy makers w</span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588235294118);"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">schools locally but we need to learn </span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588235294118);"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">& globally kids at Westquarter </span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588235294118);"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Help Ellie</span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588235294118);"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">"Reddit also has a big impact on politics - research has shown that Reddit was one of the most important online spaces for Alt-Right Trump supporters to congregate and coordinate as they successfully wages the so called "meme wars" on social media during the 2016 elections...Reddit Co-Founder Steve Huffman estimated that users they looked to silence, the 'toxic 0.2%' who polluted the space for everyone else. " </span><span style="color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;">New Power</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" /></span></span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588235294118); font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I've made an attempt at sharing New Power case studies in a way that might engage even the youngest of audiences by wondering how the Toy Stories characters would fair without any </span><a class="ot-hashtag aaTEdf" href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23DigCit/posts" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2962ff; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">#DigCit</a><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> guidance, it was fun to write: </span><a href="http://www.tech-stories.co.uk/reports/Tech_Story2.pdf" style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tech Story 2: </span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Wild West of the Internet… And the Digital Citizen Ship</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"After these false starts, the United States began to realise it needed to take a different approach. CSCC coordinator Alberto Fernandez laid out a new direction, speaking to Congress in 2015:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"You need to find a way to form loose, open source communities of interest or swarms that can swarm back and push back against the ISIS message. It's not an impossible thing to do. It can be done"</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;">The new inter-agency Global Engagement Centre is trying to make this happen. Discarding the top down hectoring tone of the Think Again Turn Away campaign, the centre is trying to build a "Network of positive messengers" to share not just counter narratives, but alternative narratives drawing people away for more extreme positions, amplifying the messages of its partners, from religious leaders to schools." </span>New Power extract at the end of<span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588235294118);"> <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/06/aceing-made-to-stick-extensible-new.html">this post</a>
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<span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm a fan of High Impact/Low Cost Vs High Cost/Low Impact ideas and interventions. Compare how a hug is all that it took to turn Ivan Humble (@NewDayStarts) to turn away from the English </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Defense</span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> League.<span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588235294118);"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588); line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But, at the same time, note how Ivan was recruited... his life wasn't in the best place -> he posted a racist tweet -> and someone was on the phone within 15 mins providing him with a sense of belonging</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">From the Suffolk coastal town of Lowestoft, Ivan was back
in 2009 a stay-at-home single dad of two.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“At that time my personal life was a bit erratic,"
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<span style="color: blue; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I was a single dad with two kids, I had bad
depression and a break down a few years before. I was on benefits, I had normal
struggles with everyone else.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He posted a comment online and within 15 minutes had been
contacted by someone from the EDL and soon joined, rapidly becoming the
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<span style="color: blue; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I felt a sense of belonging with them and when I got
into the secret groups, that was when the magic happened, not that you call it
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<span style="color: blue; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“No one person radicalised me. If I blame any one for my
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interpretation of Islam, just like many other people.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This a fun quiz... if you do take a moment to complete it and decide to share the result on Twitter, feel free to share on the thread below. </span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are some policy makers in the Tweet and, you never know, the engagment might see them reply and join the conversation.
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">My<span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588235294118);"> </span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2016/01/digcitsummituk-closing-remarks.html">closing remarks at the 2016 #DigCitSummitUK</a><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.870588235294118);"> </span>event was based on The Well's mantra of You Own Your Words. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">After spending 10 years on The Well Howard Rhiengold </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">found the place predictable... when I read Katie Hafner's The Well in 2015, I felt that social media would be heading in the same direction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">H</span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">is reply = I wasn't wrong, which is why I'm exploring @GiveAndTakeInc Givitas</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This was one of my first attempts to create a community space and it will be closing in a few weeks. Thank you to all the EdChatMods who spent their time on this G+ Community.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wanted to let people know where I will be going next and also wanted to post some thoughts on the terrible events in New Zealand and elsewhere with the rise of the far right and provide some suggestions that Educators might want to consider.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'll be using @AdamMGrant's @GiveAndTakeInc 'Givitas' platform and posted my first '5 min favour' request recently and has led to meeting some great new contacts and interesting links and resources.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588); line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://granted.givitas.com/request/5163">My First Request on @GiveAndTakeInc's Givitas... Hopefully See You There</a>!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">This is a day that four years ago, through being connected with Sarah Thomas (@SarahDaTeechur) and her #SXSWEdu Minority Women in Tech #DigiDiversity session, I connected with some people that I might not otherwise have met, who helped me to continue supporting the first international #DigCitSummit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">Her #SXSWEdu session saw me connect with Declara CEO Ramona Pierson and VP James Stanbridge (@Stanbridge)... and led to my first paid role as a Community Manager.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">Being connected with James and Ramona meant that I was able to remain involved UK Digital Citizenship Summit in 2016.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">A question that I have posed to James since then is:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">As someone who many in my network tell me I'm a great connector, seeing how some of the introductions I've made have had an impact, reflecting on my involvement with 'Connected Educator Appreciation Day #CEduAD... and having just read my <a href="https://www.mindtime.com/archetypes/connector/">Mind Time Connector</a> profile, this remains an unanswered question. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">A lot has changed since the <a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2015/12/digcit-ship-ships-log-and-pirate.html">'First Pirate Council Meeting'</a> that established this event and my closing remarks.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">However, if we look at the past we can see that some of the rocks that were hit were not only predictable (Perhaps even inevitable)... but can also help inform what the future of Digital Citizenship and how the Wild West of the Internet will either </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">(Laugh all you like at the second point but before you do... Ever heard of Ames or Inktomi? Or take a look at Friends Reunited, MySpace, RedditRevolt, <a href="https://declara.com/content/L5yYq852">Blue Note Jazz post-Nora Jones</a> etc).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">My last post, </span><a href="https://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2019/03/biz-stones-new-rules.html" style="line-height: 18.48px;">Biz Stone's New Rules</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">, included examples from Stewart Brand (@StewartBrand) and Larry Brilliant's (@LarryBrilliant) early online community 'The Well' and looked at Digital Citizenship along with Twitter founder Biz Stone's (@Biz) 'New Rules' from his fantastic book </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Things-Little-Bird-Told-Co-Founder/dp/1455528722" style="line-height: 18.48px;">Things a Little Bird Told Me</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">This post looks at some articles and books that I've read that confirm their findings through the projects and movements I've been involved with... as well as how digital citizenship and collaboration today appears to be following the trajectory of the Well Beings' experiences.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;"><br />I've been involved with a few movements with loose informal collaboration with people I met by chance encounters and shared interests online. <br /><br />I hope some of these experiences might help some of the Be More Pirate (@BeMorePirate) groups out there... Even the misfit crews!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><br />My closing comments with one of these movements was completely, totally and utterly inspired by The Well's mantra of You Own Your Words: </span><a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2016/01/digcitsummituk-closing-remarks.html" style="line-height: 18.48px;">#DigCitSummitUK Closing Remarks</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">Since 2014/5 anyone I've 'collaborated' with have indeed had their core values on their website... but, as part of the learning curve, these values turned out to be nothing more than cat posters.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">Some of these organisations went so far as to make financial agreements and other assurances... but were broken. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;"><br />Try calling people out on this on social media and/or to explain things from your perspective and have people see you being the one in the wrong?! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">"So you said you'd pay me for my time... But didn't, and I'm the unreasonable one? Really?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">Well f**k off social media and the 'Fake Friends' you find there! Little wonder growth for these platforms has slowed!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;"><br />As I highlight in my last post, it was actually heartening to see the reaction on social media with Brendan Rodgers making a career decision...as it highlighted how unreasonable & illogical social media has become. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue;">"You traded immortality for mediocrity. Never a Celt. Always a fraud"</span> Was the banner at a recent game<br /><br />This from fans about someone that some football commentators are suggesting </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">My hope is that the next project I work on will be a neighborhood that the Takers/Fakers won't be wanting to visit 'Here Be Dragons' for that group is what I hope the NodeXL map will say. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">But how to deal with and internalise a couple of projects that, while they did get results (And others benefited from)... but either it was the wrong people or the core values and mission didn't quite stand up to a @BeMorePirate adventure and #NewPower storm? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just after I read Be More Pirate (@BeMorePirate), the book New Power was recommended to me.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During the inaugural <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7uwo5bnztgx9ht7/zoom_0.mp4?dl=0">New Power Virtual Gathering</a> (at </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">7:29secs) last July, the authors</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"> highlighted that New Power is like a muscle:</span></span></div>
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sometimes more important than the victories… use it to refocus. Do you go
back to core values… or get de-motivated? Chase those storms… Being grounded in
the community. You know, the collaboration. Think about those kids in the cave.
Those kids got through that because of that solidarity and that sense of
community. Those New Power models, when done right really enable and that can
get you through those periods in the wilderness”</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span>Jeremy
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<span style="color: blue;">"It feels like a very big defeat if you try
something new and it doesn’t work out… We all have defeat after defeat after
defeat…New Power is like a muscle you have to strengthen it again and again and
again, and that’s how you become more resilient" </span>Henry
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">So defeat is to be expected and the previous two movements were simply workouts. Fine! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">If/when disagreements or different narratives crop up with people who have collaborated through loose association/affiliation the past (In education this could be with Twitter chats or organising Edcamps/unconferences) then, as </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil points out, it's no wonder there's something of an </span>adolescent period... Especially if there was little/no digital citizenship taught in school.</span><br />
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of years to hone our person-to-person interactions, but only 20 years of social
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language to pitch… whereas online we discuss things only through text. I think
we shouldn’t be surprised that we’re having so much difficulty in finding the
right way to discuss and cooperate online.”<br /><br />As our online
behaviour develops, we may well introduce subtle signals, digital equivalents
of facial cues, to help smooth online discussions. </span></div>
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for dealing with online abuse is to stay calm, it’s not your fault. Don’t
retaliate but block and ignore bullies, or if you feel up to it, tell them to
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media as we know it is going to survive, the companies running these platforms
are going to have to keep steering their algorithms, perhaps informed by
behavioural science, to encourage cooperation rather than division, positive
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to this new communication environment so that civil and productive interaction
remains the norm online as it is offline.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><br />“I’m optimistic,” Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil says. “This is just
a different game and we have to evolve.” </span><a href="https://mosaicscience.com/story/why-good-people-turn-bad-online-science-trolls-abuse/" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">Why Good People Turn Bad Online</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">My issue with collaborating with people online has not been one of bullying but I have felt up to questioning their words Vs their action and have encouraged the takers/fakers to stop - online and in private communications!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">So it has involved a good deal of fakery, whether people saying one thing... but doing another and/or simply being 'Fake Friends.' The data suggests this is affecting collaboration everywhere online.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">The data I've explored suggests my experiences are not isolated... and the impact could be significant with issues like educators and burnout.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">The difference as far as I'm concerned is that I am willing to exercise some #NewPower muscle - as well as the New Power Value of 'Radical Transparency' - not to be intentionally controversial, but as I have a feeling this is will be a necessary skill if 'The Wild West of the Internet' is going to get settled. (More on this in the next few posts). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">As far as the future of digital citizenship and online collaboration is concerned I found myself (unsurprisingly given who the author is) agreeing lots to this statement... And the entire article!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue;">"Community forming - Twitter is not a community, but it's an ecology in which communities can emerge" </span>Howard R</span><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">heingold via his fantastic </span><a href="https://medium.com/@hrheingold/twitter-literacy-knowing-how-to-use-it-is-key-ae8dc1a2fc6e" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">Twitter Literacy: Knowing How to Use it is Key</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">I can't help how others react but I can decide how I choose to react to their actions and behaviours... and my #NewPower 'Radical Transparency' and #BeMorePirate rule breaking muscles are developed enough to not 'play nice' by quietly move on... only to hear about others who fall into the same trap (And hope that I'm able to deal with the consequences!)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">At the same time I am learning all the time and have to accept the challenges that appear to come from being one of Myers-Briggs #INFJ's... which truly is an insane learning curve!! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">The books and articles I've read have helped lots recently (old and new) last night I read Adam Grant's (@AdamMGrant) '<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creative-power-misfits-adam-grant">The Creative Power of Misfits</a>'</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue;">"Gather some people together to give their frustration a voice. Put them on offense, not defense, by asking them to attack the problems they see. And then invite them to run with their best ideas"</span> Pixar's Brad Bird via Adam Grant.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">There are a number of ways that I hope that all these experiences and articles will come together.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">Adam Grant's article is full of rebellious Black Sheep, Misfit Pirate types... Which brings me onto a huge lesson I learnt from Sam Conniff Allande's (@SamConniff) book 'Be More Pirate' when I read it last May:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">"In the workshops we run, the second stage is where things really get started, we break into crews and a sense of mutiny begins to fill the room. Making new rules can be complex, but that's not where we start; the first thing to do is get a crew to choose the one rule they collectively most want to break, and then begin the task of remaking it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">In this challenge, we've seen things get pretty heated; crews fight, split, re-form and commit to actual rule breaking there and then. We find when you really reconnect with that rule you know needs breaking, and actual alternatives begin to emerge, with a crew ready to try to change them, pirates begin to get serious.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: -24px;"><b>IWD2019 Eureka Moment (via Adam Grant) </b></span><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: -24px;">...With a dash of Be More Pirate's Make Shit Up!</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: -24px;">This post was written and published... Then I was looking for a quote by Suffragette Lucy Stone in Adam Grant's book 'Originals' for International Women's Day, and was reminded that Lucy formed collaborations and alliances with other marginalised groups - like ethnic minorities and the temperance movement. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: -24px;">Not all of these alliances worked out as the values, ideology and methods for affecting change differed greatly... Some had a negative impact on Stone's reputation as well as the momentum of the movement.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: -24px;">But she eventually succeeded when the movement formed alliances when the values were aligned as well as the mission.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: -24px;">A topical IWD2019 example from history about the importance of getting the 'Core Values,' 'Pirate Code,' as well as the mission, purpose, manifesto 100% right!! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 24px;">"Adam Grant labels this tendency of change agents to fight each other as the narcissism of small differences" via @RebelsAtWork </span><a href="https://www.rebelsatwork.com/blog/2016/04/20/rebels-at-work-and-the-narcissism-of-small-differences" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: -24px;">Rebels at Work and the Narcissism of Small Differences</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: -24px;">I was also dealt (Yet) another blow earlier in the week... (I </span><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: -24px;"><u><i>REALLY</i></u></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: -24px;"> don't know how many more I can take!!) but, for the third time this week, an article shared by Adam Grant helped - which highlighted the huge difference a kind word can make. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: -24px;">Scrolling through the #IWD2019 tweets and it's full of people who took a stand for what they believed in and faced resistance. So just like #IWD2015... #IDWD2019 <b><u><i>*Just Might*</i></u></b> have made <b><u><i>ALL</i></u></b> the difference!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px; text-indent: -24px;">Which brings us nicely onto another question that Be More Pirate asks and, as students are set to break the rules on the issue of Climate Change on the 15th March, an example that they might like from Biz Stone.</span><br />
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<b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="color: black; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; text-indent: 0px;"><br />For me it was:<br />1) Telling an employer his company was in latter stages of Jim Collins '5 Stages of Decline'<br />2) To tell Matt Hancock and Nick Boles that FELTAG wasn't going to achieve it's goals</span></b></span></span></b></b></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone... and The No Homework Policy</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.48px;">All three of my kids have now stood up to authority and for any rebellious young Pirates and/or any Twitter addicts out there here's a conversation that Twitter founder Biz Stone had as detailed in "Things a Little Bird Told Me" (Chapter 13):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">"Matt was loading his backpack up with books. I was dumping all my books from my backpack into my locker, not to be seen again until the next day.<br /><br />As I closed my locker and it was apparent to Matt that I had no books, not to mention a backpack, Matt asked me how I was going to do my homework.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">"Oh" I said "I have a no homework policy"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">Matt looked incredulous. He laughed nervously. "You're joking"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">"Matt," I said, having a little fun with him. "This is America. We can do whatever we want. Freedom. I have a No Homework Policy and it's great.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">I shut my locker with unusual emphasis and headed to lacrosse practice, unencumbered.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 18.48px;">I wasn't against rules per se; I just liked to look at the big picture. Staying up until 4am wasn't realistic. Something had to give.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, as the inaugural Be More Pirate meet up took place last month, I hope my taking the time to detail some of these experiences and sharing these awesome links might prove of some use with their #BeMorePirate 'good trouble' star wars style rebellions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The rest of this post... For no reason in particular ;) Includes Sam Conniff Allande's suggestions for his Pirate Code 2.0 from Be More Pirate. <a href="https://giveandtakeinc.com/blog/culture/the-give-and-take-manifesto/">Give and Take's Manifesto</a> is worth a read too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All captains and crews profoundly expect, respect, celebrate and appreciate
the art of strategically, structurally, intuitively and instantly making shit
up. Not irresponsible imaginings, reckless reimaginings and certainly not false
or fake news. We champion creative solution finding and positive problems
solving based on available facts, the moment of opportunity and the power of practiced
intuition. When indecision is not an option, when change is constant and
nothing is normal, we’re proudly comfortable to rationally and rapidly develop,
test and implement solutions on the spot. We learn from our mistakes, even if
we don’t celebrate them, and use them to make making it up better.</span></div>
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Plans Are Dead</span><br />
</b>We challenge a century old static format as the best structure for the
fluid future of our organizations, projects, dreams and schemes. We believe in
motivating manifesto that makes clear our vision and we follow a concise but
responsive roadmap with agile measures of accountability. We believe in
collaborative ‘working’ and adaptive formats that are regularly used and
reviewed in collaboration with not just the whole crew but even our customers,
beneficiaries and stakeholders, to openly evaluate success, failure and future
scenario planning. No captain will produce a ‘plan’ for only a narrow audience,
or a moment in time, only for it to gather dust in an inbox ignored or unused
by the crew.</span></div>
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Profit -> Purpose<br />
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Controlling -> Empowering<br />
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Citizen Shift</span><br />
</b>It’s time to evolve the human race beyond the mindset of solely a
‘consumer’ and the dangerous, destructive and limited relationships it has
created. We will perform a forced reset on the language of consumerism that in
turn will help us to develop more interesting, involved, interactive, mutually
respectful and naturally more beneficial, respectful and rewarding
relationships between our organizations, our audiences and finite resources of
our world. All pirates undertake to advance the evolution of the idea of ‘the
citizen’ as the dominant defining thought of our audiences and communities, and
of our future.</span><br />
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</b>We take happiness seriously, and give deep happiness the place and
importance it deserves. We see happiness as a strategic driver for success,
productivity and creative output, but also as a strategic objective in and of
itself. We do not believe happiness is a nice-to-have, we believe it is a
need-to-have. We make happiness a starting point, not just an end point; we use
our intention to achieve happiness to inform the decisions we make, the
environments we create and the projects we undertake. We endeavour to measure,
manage and share the proof we accumulate that happiness is symbiotic with great
work, great impact, great relationships and greater effectiveness. We do not
conform to a one-size-fits all happiness, nor expect to be happy every day, but
accept and respect the right to make happiness the goal.<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Article 5 – Adopt the New Work Manifesto
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</b>We demand to love work, we demand to lean as we work, we demand to be proud
of what we do and demand to have the tools and support to give us every chance
to do it well. We demand that our work make us and the people in our community
better, not worse, we expect to be rewarded for our creativity, to establish
friendships, fulfillment and knowledge and the financial compensation we are
worth and expect this to cover our needs. We want life/work balance, not the
other way round. We intend to live up to the promise of technology, efficiency
and flexibility. We commit to understanding our own inner engineering for
effectiveness and refuse to submit to conditions, clocks or cultures that don’t
get the best out of us. We expect the people and organizations we work with to
involve us in created the core values and that we then align them to a “Noble
cause.” We will break the tyranny of emails, meetings, to do lists and any
other anachronistic trappings of an old way of working, if they don’t work for
us, and we won’t stop until we’re judged on our output, not input.<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Article 6 – Embrace Diversity to Raise
Your Game</span><br />
</b>We believe diversity of thought, background, experience and understanding
is a driver of competitive advantage, creativity and productive cultures. We
who desire to create projects, products, content and campaigns for the future,
know the importance of reflecting the future we want to see, one of interconnected,
collaborative, communicative, creatively colliding cultures. We commit to
recruitment that opens doors to more than the usual suspects, we will go the
extra mile to find the talent that might not have found us. We commit to
accepting we all have prejudices, and then commit to challenging them, along
with expanding our own filter bubbles and stretching our unconscious biases to
breaking point.</span></div>
William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-92134747086410045542019-03-05T06:07:00.000-08:002019-03-05T14:19:30.746-08:00Biz Stone's New Rules<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This post looks at Digital Citizenship a few years since writing a post suggesting that 'swarms' of educators could help with some of the toxic conversations and some of the fantastic lessons learnt and resources discovered via the early online community The Well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In March 2015 I published a post called </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">This was before finding out about and reading Katie Hafner's book about The Well. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Last year Community Manager and org culture guru Scott Moore (@ScottMoore) shared this post, and I saw that my ideas from a few years ago were not far off the mark: </span></div>
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<a href="https://mosaicscience.com/story/why-good-people-turn-bad-online-science-trolls-abuse/">Why Good People Turn Bad Online</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Before starting any new projects I always revisit some of The Well's resources. Last December I re-read Howard Rheingold's (@</span>hrheingold) <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">book '<a href="http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html">Virtual Communities</a>' </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">At the end of July 1992, Flash Gordon reported that Elly was in a hospital in New Delhi. In a coma. She had severe hepatitis and reportedly suffered liver failure.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Within hours, people started doing things in half a dozen directions on their own initiative. The raw scope and diversity of the resources available to us by pooling our individual networks was astonishing. People who had medical connections in New Delhi were brought in; airline schedules and rates for medical evacuation were researched; a fund was started and contributions started arriving. Casey used the net to find a possible telecommunications site in New Delhi where they could relay information for Frank, Elly's ex-husband, who had flown to Asia to help with what was looking like a grave situation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">After a tense few days, the news made its way through the network that she did have some liver function left and might need access to special blood-filtering equipment before she could be moved. Within hours, we knew how to get such medical equipment in New Delhi and whose name to mention. We knew whom to call, how to ask, what it cost, and how to transfer funds to get Elly delivered to a hospital in the San Francisco region. "It gives me goosebumps," reported Onezie, as the topic unfolded on the WELL. "This is love in action."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">(Did you spot similarities with this 'Love in action' with the potential that the post-vote Scottish Independence #The45 movement had for a week or so in 2014 when food was donated to food banks etc).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">When reviewing Howard's book I discovered Marc Smith's (@Marc_Smith) 1992 college dissertation '<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/voices-from-the-well-the-logic-of-the-virtual-commons/">Voices from The Well</a>,' which is not only awesome... but seemed extremely relevant to life online today. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">W</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">hether looking at </span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Early online communities like The Well</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Data with informal education collaborations like Edcamps </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My own experiences with projects and movements </span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">(I found Brendan Rodgers experiences with Celtic heartening regarding some of my </span>experiences<span style="font-family: inherit;">) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The world of politics <br />(whether </span><span style="background-color: white;">Steve Bannon and Donald Trump, May/Farage's Brexit or Salmond/Sturgeon's #IndyRef),</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Reading books like New Power, Be More Pirate (@BeMorePirate) or Twitter Founder Biz Stone's (@Biz) 'Things a Little Bird Told Me'</span></li>
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<b>#DigCit and Politicians </b><br />
The world of social media and digital citizenship has clearly changed since Twitter's early SXSW appearance... some are calling social media today 'The Wild West' of the internet.</div>
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During the 2015 UK general election politicians where throwing their hands up saying: </div>
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When they are responsible for education policies!! Lunatics! </div>
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(David Cameron's words about his Education Secretary... Not mine!) </div>
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Today politician's line regarding social media is their favourite game (Blame!) and</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">'Tech Companies need to do more'</span></div>
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When some of the people responsible for the tech companies who need to be doing more are former politicians like Nick Clegg, I don't fancy the 'Wild West of the Internet's' chances... Do you?</div>
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I think you'd get more answers from </div>
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1) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/opinion/stewart-brand-hippie-silicon.html">The kind of people who changed the world twice</a> and those involved with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kZJF_44Fwg">Circle the Schools</a></div>
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2) "Identify the right core values (Or Pirate Code 2.0) and <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_on_tribal_leadership?language=en">Tribal Leaderships</a> 'Noble Cause'"</div>
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3) Add people like <a href="https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/edl-member-reveals-how-turned-14874552">Ivan Humble</a> (@NewDayStarts) and brave educators like Justin Schleider (@SchleiderJustin)</div>
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...And you <b><u><i>*JUST MIGHT*</i></u></b> have the kind of solution that would prevent the kind of extremist recruitment that radical groups employ and rely on and - some would argue - that the political classes have created!</div>
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For no reason in particular ;)... The rest of this post includes the 6 points that Biz Stone considers in the 'New Rules' chapter of his awesome book 'Things a Little Bird Told Me'</div>
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<li><b><span style="color: blue;">We Don’t Always Know What’s Going to Happen</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="color: blue;">There are More Smart People Out There Than in Here</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="color: blue;">We Will Win if we do the Right Thing for Our Users</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="color: blue;">The Only Deal Worth Doing is a Win-Win Deal</span></b></li>
<li><b style="color: blue;">Our Coworkers are Smart and They Have Good Intentions</b></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;">We can Build a Business, Change the World, And Have Fun</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">We Don’t Always Know
What’s Going to Happen</span></b><br />
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If we think we know what will come next, we’ll fail. Instead, we need to
leave the door open for unknown developments and surprises. Some of Twitter’s
most popular features – hashtags, @ replies, retweets – were by and large
created by users. We didn’t know they were going to emerge. By being open to
the unknown, by not forcing our will or vision just because it was ours, by
watching what people were doing and looking for patterns, we were able to build
a service whose function matched the way people wanted to use it.<br />
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</b>The core element of this assumption is humility. Just because you work for
a successful business doesn’t mean you know everything. As individuals and as
companies, we see our fortunes rise and fall. Neither success nor wealth makes
you omniscient. The ability to listen, watch, and draw lessons from obvious and
unlikely places breeds originality and growth.</div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">There are More Smart
People Out There Than in Here</span><br />
</b>This assumption also speaks to a core humility – don’t think you’re a
genius (even if your business card claims you are). But it also considers the
sheer fact that, at the time we came up with these assumptions, there were
forty-five people in the offices of Twitter and six billion people outside its
walls. It was an absolute truth that there were more smart people outside than
inside.<br />
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What this implied was that we shouldn’t look only internally for answers to
challenges. I instructed our employees to look elsewhere. Ask people. Look
around. Research. Keep a level head. Don’t think you’re so great. Don’t assume
that we’re the only people who can solve our problems. Should we build a data
centre, or has someone already built a better one?<br />
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There are corollaries to this belief. Your first idea isn’t always the best.
Your idea isn’t always the best. Our group’s ideas aren’t always the best. It’s
easy to agree with this notion in concept, but it’s much harder to swallow your
pride when you have to let go of an idea you’ve championed. I wanted our
company to acknowledge and appreciate those sacrifices as much as we applauded
the great ideas.</div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">We Will Win if we do
the Right Thing for Our Users</span><br />
</b>I don’t love the word users, because it sounds so software-y, but the
Twitter staff was pretty software-y, so I was speaking their language. I wanted
them always to keep in mind what would make the service better for the folks
who used it. It was the positive spin on Don’t Be Evil. Every time we made a
decision about what to add, change, or take away from the product, the big,
simple question was: Does it make the experience better for people?<br />
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After I left, Twitter acquired Vine, a mobile video sharing service. I thought
it was a great acquisition. If the question is: Will this make the service
better for people? The answer is obviously Yes – sharing videos through Twitter
makes it more fun, more engaging, and easier for people to express themselves.<br />
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Often, when product managers are hashing out whether a product should do a
certain thing, if they can’t come to a decision, they make that thing a setting
that users can turn on or off. But this is wishy-washy. We know – all
developers know – that more than 99% o people just leave the settings on
default. How often do you go to your TV settings and increase the contrast?
Making a feature optional is like throwing it into the junk drawer. You’re
keeping it, but it’s essentially useless and lost. Instead, it’s our
responsibility to decide what makes the most sense. If we’re going to build it,
let’s use it.<br />
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The place where companies most frequently lose sight of what’s best for their
customers is when it comes to monetization. Should we make ads 50% bigger so we
can make more money? It makes the page ugly and hard to read. Is that good for
users? No. Should we split our company into two separate buildings because we
can’t afford one building? It leads to confusion and poor decisions on the
product end. Is that good for our users? No. Should we deceive the users into
clicking on an ad? Obviously not. Should we trick our users into clicking on
anything? Hell no! These can be tough choices, especially if you really need
the money. But there’s got to be another way. Creativity is a renewable
resource. Don’t sell out your product. Keep thinking. Consider whether the
average person is going to benefit. Measure every decision against that
requirement.</div>
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Our failure surrounding the release of our platform for
developers in 2007 is a perfect example of this. If we’d kept the user
experience foremost from the start, we would have saved ourselves, users and
developers a lot of trouble.</div>
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However, when we launched sponsored Tweets, we did it right.
Our ads were monitored by an algorithm that used starring, retweets, and
clickthroughs to measure how interested people were in a given ad. If an ad
wasn’t getting a positive response, it could be pulled. This meant we could
give our users ads they liked. Ads were good for our users, because if Twitter
made money, then Twitter would continue to exist.</div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">The Only Deal Worth
Doing is a Win-Win Deal</span><br />
</b>There’s no such thing as a good deal in which one party gets the short end
of the stick. Deals are like relationships. We want deals that are going to
last. I’m not just talking about acquiring another company. I’m talking about
partnering with another company, or divvying up tasks within your group, or
getting married. Think of the toll that derivatives took on this country in the
mortgage crisis. Derivatives are a zero-sum game - when one party wins, the other loses. There’s
no net benefit. It’s win-lose. This is of course oversimplifying, but generally
markets rely on gains and losses. However, in a business deal, if the terms
aren’t mutually beneficial, a short-term win will turn into a long term loss.
You lose that company’s faith in you and its willingness to do another deal.
You lose your colleagues willingness to stay late and help you out on a
deadline. To some extent, in every deal your reputation and your business are
at stake. Think of it like scuba diving. There has to be equal pressure inside
and outside your body, or your lungs and eardrums will start exploding. <br />
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Kevin Thau, a colleague at my current company, Jelly used to run all things
mobile for Twitter. While there, he did all the deals with the carriers. He
recently got a message from someone who runs a major mobile carrier in the UK.
It said, “I don’t know what Jelly is, but if you want us to pre-install it on
our new phones, call me,” Nobody gets that kind of thing unless they have a
history of doing fantastic deals together.<br />
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Another example of this would come later, when I left Twitter and started
Jelly. Two of the people who helped me develop the idea left their company to
join me. One of them happened to be on his company’s list of engineers they
couldn’t lose at any cost. When the engineer told them he was leaving, they
offered him the moon regarding stock and salary. They told him he could work on
any project and have any team. Then one of the most important executives from
Twitter joined me. I didn’t set out to poach anyone – it happened by accident
– but when this happened, Dick Costolo, Twitter’s CEO (And my friend) had a
professional obligation to meet me for a drink and chew me out.</div>
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When he was done busting my chops, I said, “Can I offer you
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He said, “Oh, geez. What?”</div>
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I said, “If you have a list of people that you don’t want to
lose at any cost, don’t wait until they quit to offer them more money and more
stock options” He agreed. Then we ordered another round and made up.<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Our Coworkers are
Smart and They Have Good Intentions</span></b></div>
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This is the fifth assumption I presented to our employees at orientation. I
made up an example: Imagine there’s a guy named Scott in marketing who lays out
a plan for a product you’re developing. He says it will take three months to
execute. Three months later, the product is ready to launch, and Scott comes
forward with a different, scaled back plan. It’s not as good as the one he
presented to you. Instead of assuming that Scott is lazy or a stupid jackass,
why not go up to him and introduce yourself? Hi, I’m Biz. How can I help?<br />
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You don’t know how it all unfolded. There were certain turns
in the road, decisions that had to be made. You went through the same process
with the product you developed. It was supposed to have features w,x and y, but
now it has x and z. You had to pare it down, but you’re still proud of it. You
don’t want Scott to think you’re an idiot, either. In big, unwieldy companies,
everyone starts looking like an idiot at some point.</div>
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The unknown is scary. That’s why a caveman would rather not
walk into a pitch balck cave. Who knows what might lie ahead? He opts to throw
his spear in first, or to bolt. In a business scenario, this fear manifests
itself in the assumption that your colleague is doing it wrong. Communication
is equivalent to flicking on the anachronistic lights in that pitch black cave.
This is especially true when you’re the CEO. If investors and board members
don’t hear from you, they get worried that you’re doing a bad job. And they’re
not going to come down to the offices to design a new product. The only power
they have at their disposal is to fire the person in charge.</div>
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As Twitter grew, we had to go on faith, assuming that our
coworkers, who had all gone through a careful hiring process, were competent
and driven. Maybe Scott is a jackass – hey, it happens – but that shouldn’t be
the assumption. Maybe we would live in an environment of overinflated optimism,
but people shine when you give them the benefit of the doubt.</div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">We can Build a
Business, Change the World, And Have Fun</span><br />
</b>It may sound like a lofty goal, but I want to redefine capitalism. What
better place to start thatn in my own company? Traditionally, companies are
driven by financial success. But I want the new world definition to include
making a positive impact on the world – and loving your work. I want to set a
higher bar for success. If any one of these three tenets is missing, then you
shouldn’t be considered successful by your own terms or those of society. I
told every incoming employee, “Here’s a new bar. Let’s reach for it.”</div>
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Evan and I were now running an incredibly successful
company. We could have sent the new employees who joined Twitter to HR and
called it a day. Or we could have said “Welcome to the amazing world of
Twitter. We’re awesome. Good Luck” We had a different approach. The company
culture was introduced to our newest employees as one in which we listened to
one another and the people using our system. New employees saw that we cared
about the approach they took not just to their work, but to one another. They
realised that we weren’t all about the bottom line. Not only did our new
employees have an introduction to what the company was about, but they also
learned something about their leaders. We were level headed. We had theories
about not being arrogant and selfish. We weren’t jerks. These things matter.
The whole of this orientation was greater than the sum of its parts.</div>
William Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16712533304067260030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208109486968332441.post-68563487749263924322019-03-05T04:44:00.000-08:002019-11-24T04:46:08.964-08:00Biz Stone's New Rules - Modelling the #SeaTurtlePirates @BeMorePirate Manifesto JamIn February I wrote the script for a #SeaTurtlePirates adventure and what I hope we might achieve with a @LiveQuiet Revolution to help a little turtle named Mack.<br />
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One of the things that's needed before setting sail is Manifesto Jamming our @BeMorePirate 2.0 Code. We'll be discussing Sam Conniff Allende's suggested Pirate Code and have already written that post:<br />
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<a href="http://edutechstories.blogspot.com/2018/05/be-more-pirate-pirate-code.html"><b>Be More Pirate - The Pirate Code</b></a></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">If we think we know what will come next, we’ll fail. Instead, we need to leave the door open for unknown developments and surprises. Some of Twitter’s most popular features – hashtags, @ replies, retweets – were by and large created by users. We didn’t know they were going to emerge. By being open to the unknown, by not forcing our will or vision just because it was ours, by watching what people were doing and looking for patterns, we were able to build a service whose function matched the way people wanted to use it.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b>The core element of this assumption is humility. Just because you work for a successful business doesn’t mean you know everything. As individuals and as companies, we see our fortunes rise and fall. Neither success nor wealth makes you omniscient. The ability to listen, watch, and draw lessons from obvious and unlikely places breeds originality and growth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>There are More Smart
People Out There Than in Here<br />
</b>This assumption also speaks to a core humility – don’t think you’re a
genius (even if your business card claims you are). But it also considers the
sheer fact that, at the time we came up with these assumptions, there were
forty-five people in the offices of Twitter and six billion people outside its
walls. It was an absolute truth that there were more smart people outside than
inside.<br />
<br />
What this implied was that we shouldn’t look only internally for answers to
challenges. I instructed our employees to look elsewhere. Ask people. Look
around. Research. Keep a level head. Don’t think you’re so great. Don’t assume
that we’re the only people who can solve our problems. Should we build a data
centre, or has someone already built a better one?<br />
<br />
There are corollaries to this belief. Your first idea isn’t always the best.
Your idea isn’t always the best. Our group’s ideas aren’t always the best. It’s
easy to agree with this notion in concept, but it’s much harder to swallow your
pride when you have to let go of an idea you’ve championed. I wanted our
company to acknowledge and appreciate those sacrifices as much as we applauded
the great ideas. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>We Will Win if we do
the Right Thing for Our Users<br />
</b>I don’t love the word users, because it sounds so software-y, but the
Twitter staff was pretty software-y, so I was speaking their language. I wanted
them always to keep in mind what would make the service better for the folks
who used it. It was the positive spin on Don’t Be Evil. Every time we made a
decision about what to add, change, or take away from the product, the big,
simple question was: Does it make the experience better for people?<br />
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After I left, Twitter acquired Vine, a mobile video sharing service. I thought
it was a great acquisition. If the question is: Will this make the service
better for people? The answer is obviously Yes – sharing videos through Twitter
makes it more fun, more engaging, and easier for people to express themselves.<br />
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Often, when product managers are hashing out whether a product should do a
certain thing, if they can’t come to a decision, they make that thing a setting
that users can turn on or off. But this is wishy-washy. We know – all
developers know – that more than 99% o people just leave the settings on
default. How often do you go to your TV settings and increase the contrast?
Making a feature optional is like throwing it into the junk drawer. You’re
keeping it, but it’s essentially useless and lost. Instead, it’s our
responsibility to decide what makes the most sense. If we’re going to build it,
let’s use it.<br />
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The place where companies most frequently lose sight of what’s best for their
customers is when it comes to monetization. Should we make ads 50% bigger so we
can make more money? It makes the page ugly and hard to read. Is that good for
users? No. Should we split our company into two separate buildings because we
can’t afford one building? It leads to confusion and poor decisions on the
product end. Is that good for our users? No. Should we deceive the users into
clicking on an ad? Obviously not. Should we trick our users into clicking on
anything? Hell no! These can be tough choices, especially if you really need
the money. But there’s got to be another way. Creativity is a renewable
resource. Don’t sell out your product. Keep thinking. Consider whether the
average person is going to benefit. Measure every decision against that
requirement.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Our failure surrounding the release of our platform for
developers in 2007 is a perfect example of this. If we’d kept the user
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">However, when we launched sponsored Tweets, we did it right.
Our ads were monitored by an algorithm that used starring, retweets, and
clickthroughs to measure how interested people were in a given ad. If an ad
wasn’t getting a positive response, it could be pulled. This meant we could
give our users ads they liked. Ads were good for our users, because if Twitter
made money, then Twitter would continue to exist.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>The Only Deal Worth
Doing is a Win-Win Deal<br />
</b>There’s no such thing as a good deal in which one party gets the short end
of the stick. Deals are like relationships. We want deals that are going to
last. I’m not just talking about acquiring another company. I’m talking about
partnering with another company, or divvying up tasks within your group, or
getting married. Think of the toll that derivatives took on this country in the
mortgage crisis. Derivatives are a zero-sum game - when one party wins, the other loses. There’s
no net benefit. It’s win-lose. This is of course oversimplifying, but generally
markets rely on gains and losses. However, in a business deal, if the terms
aren’t mutually beneficial, a short-term win will turn into a long term loss.
You lose that company’s faith in you and its willingness to do another deal.
You lose your colleagues willingness to stay late and help you out on a
deadline. To some extent, in every deal your reputation and your business are
at stake. Think of it like scuba diving. There has to be equal pressure inside
and outside your body, or your lungs and eardrums will start exploding. <br />
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Kevin Thau, a colleague at my current company, Jelly used to run all things
mobile for Twitter. While there, he did all the deals with the carriers. He
recently got a message from someone who runs a major mobile carrier in the UK.
It said, “I don’t know what Jelly is, but if you want us to pre-install it on
our new phones, call me,” Nobody gets that kind of thing unless they have a
history of doing fantastic deals together.<br />
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Another example of this would come later, when I left Twitter and started
Jelly. Two of the people who helped me develop the idea left their company to
join me. One of them happened to be on his company’s list of engineers they
couldn’t lose at any cost. When the engineer told them he was leaving, they
offered him the moon regarding stock and salary. They told him he could work on
any project and have any team. Then one of the most important executives from
Twitter joined me. I didn’t set out to poach anyone – it happened by acciedent
– but when this happened, Dick Costolo, Twitter’s CEO (And my friend) had a
professional obligation to meet me for a drink and chew me out.</span></div>
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a little advice?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">I said, “If you have a list of people that you don’t want to
lose at any cost, don’t wait until they quit to offer themmore money and more
stock options” He agreed. Then we ordered another round and made up.</span></div>
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Smart and They Have Good Intentions<br />
</b>This is the fifth assumption I presented to our employees at orientation. I
made up an example: Imagine there’s a guy named Scott in marketing who lays out
a plan for a product you’re developing. He says it will take three months to
execute. Three months later, the product is ready to launch, and Scott comes
forward with a different, scaled back plan. It’s not as good as the one he
presented to you. Instead of assuming that Scott is lazy or a stupid jackass,
why not go up to him and introduce yourself? Hi, I’m Biz. How can I help?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">You don’t know how it all unfolded. There were certain turns
in the road, decisions that had to be made. You went through the same process
with the product you developed. It was supposed to have features w,x and y, but
now it has x and z. You had to pare it down, but you’re still proud of it. You
don’t want Scott to think you’re an idiot, either. In big, unwieldy companies,
everyone starts looking like an idiot at some point.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">The unknown is scary. That’s why a caveman would rather not
walk into a pitch balck cave. Who knows what might lie ahead? He opts to throw
his spear in first, or to bolt. In a business scenario, this fear manifests
itself in the assumption that your colleague is doing it wrong. Communication
is equivalent to flicking on the anachronistic lights in that pitch black cave.
This is especially true when you’re the CEO. If investors and board members
don’t hear from you, they get worried that you’re doing a bad job. And they’re
not going to come down to the offices to design a new product. The only power
they have at their disposal is to fire the person in charge.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">As Twitter grew, we had to go on faith, assuming that our
coworkers, who had all gone through a careful hiring process, were competent
and driven. Maybe Scott is a jackass – hey, it happens – but that shouldn’t be
the assumption. Maybe we would live in an environment of overinflated optimism,
but people shine when you give them the benefit of the doubt. </span></div>
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Business, Change the World, And Have Fun<br />
</b>It may sound like a lofty goal, but I want to redefine capitalism. What
better place to start thatn in my own company? Traditionally, companies are
driven by financial success. But I want the new world definition to include
making a positive impact on the world – and loving your work. I want to set a
higher bar for success. If any one of these three tenets is missing, then you
shouldn’t be considered successful by your own terms or those of society. I
told every incoming employee, “Here’s a new bar. Let’s reach for it.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Evan and I were now running an incredibly successful
company. We could have sent the new employees who joined Twitter to HR and
called it a day. Or we could have said “Welcome to the amazing world of
Twitter. We’re awesome. Good Luck” We had a different approach. The company
culture was introduced to our newest employees as one in which we listened to
one another and the people using our system. New employees saw that we cared
about the approach they took not just to their work, but to one another. They
realised that we weren’t all about the bottom line. Not only did our new
employees have an introduction to what the company was about, but they also
learned something about their leaders. We were level headed. We had theories
about not being arrogant and selfish. We weren’t jerks. These things matter.
The whole of this orientation was greater than the sum of its parts.</span></div>
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