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This video, by the "amazing" but otherwise anonymous Valerie, is posted to Nancy White's Full Circle website on Dec 13 2011. Nancy presented on change, social artists, and social artistry at a Change MOOC. This video attempts to both summarize and apply what Valerie learned from Nancy's presentation.

What do you think of the term "social artistry" to describe KPI? Or "social artists" to describe the work of the KPI team?

This bookmark came from delicious, where we had bookmarked the Social Impact Investment Prospectus (pdf). However, the site as a whole seems very relevant to KPI current work. One project is a new report, College Access and Success. They also sponsor an annual Social Innovation Forum.

This site, a favorite resource of KPI staff, is billed as "Australia's free online network for educators." The site also offers a great e-newsletter.

Blog post by Paul Farol in the Blog Herald, published July 20 2011. The post describes how one might keep regularly scheduled blog posts interesting. While the focus is on writing posts for a corporate client, the ideas should apply equally to the posts we (eventually) write for our KPI readers.

Published by the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET), March 2012. This paper argues that, based on two recent studies, "job-embedded PD can be highly effective, but only when there is a sufficient infrastructure in place to support it." NIET's own program, TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement, is such a program. Cited studies: Biancarosa, G., Bryk, A.S., & Dexter, E.R. (2010, September). Assessing the value-added effects of Literacy Collaborative professional development on student learning. The Elementary School Journal, 111(1), 7-34. -- and -- Saunders, W.M., Goldenberg, C.N., & Gallimore, R. (2009, December). Increasing achievement by focusing grade-level teams on improving classroom learning: A prospective, quasi-experimental study of Title I schools. American Educational Research Journal, 46(4), 1006-1033

While this analysis seems somewhat biased (clearly written in support of NIET's own program), many of the characteristics of their program match work that KPI has done in PD.

By sleslie on edtechpost (blog), Feb 14, 2012. In this post on authoring "open textbooks," the author looks at the process of book sprints, which were borrowed from coders in the open source and hacker communities. In a book sprint, a group of interested participants come together with the goal of creating a book (or book-like) project. In addition to a very general outline of the process, the post recommends some tools that a group might use, as well as a link to some sample books.

Both the tools and the process seem interesting. How might this process be applied to a KPI project...in lieu of a Jam? In conjunction with a Jam? As the Jam take-away?

This is a commercial site that offers "integrated open source learning services." Of particular interest to KPI are some of the Moodle-related offerings incuding ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite). The company offers a variety of services (hosting, learning services, webinars), as well as blogs.

By Rose Holley, in D-Lib Magazine, March/April 2010, vol 16(3/4). This article looks at crowd sourcing -- more than "social engagement," the author defines crowdsourcing as individuals collectively working towards a common goal (e.g. correcting a news article) -- and how libraries might direct engagement in crowdsourcing.

In many cases, "crowdsourcing" (as per author's definition) is what we (KPI) are trying to accomplish with our Jams and other online engagements. The author offers a great checklist (with examples) for how to engage your "crowd" in your project. SM

Blog and business site for Nancy White, a leader in "online group facilitation of distributed work, learning and community groups." The site includes both a blog that speaks to White's current work and interests, and also resources for online communities and related work.

White is a favorite of the KPI team.

By Seth Godin. His self-described topics of interest are "post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything."

A favorite of KPI

By Michelle M. Kazner in The Electronic Library vol 20 (5) 2002, p 395-400. This article looks at the library support that is required by the students of LEEP, the distance learning option at University of Illinois-Champaign.

Many of the ideas expressed here might be helpful as we navigate the role of digital librarian supporting the various existing KPI communities as well as any courses/new communities that might develop in the future. Part of SM's Instructional Design course 7/11.

OTAN--Outreach and Technical Assistance Network for adult educators may offer ideas for KPI to consider in working with national membership organizations of educators.

Under the auspices of the US Department of Education, discussions are held via a listserve about professional development. This wiki contains an organized multi-day discussion on using video in teaching and staff development carried out through the list-serve. The list-serve is subscriber based but I guess both the discussion and accompanying wiki are open to the public. Issues for me: Should KPI consider offering the organized Jam transcript in the form of a wiki? Should it be open for discovery or only available to Jam participants?

On the topic of data visualization, this tool enables users to build a "visualization" of their resumes.

I think that this is an interesting idea, though I'm not sure that the few samples (created by employees) take the visualization concept far enough. I wonder if/how we could create a data visualization resume to reflect the 10-year experience of KPI.

Edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004 (digital edition).

While the focus is primarily digital texts and the humanities, there are some underlying concepts here that are of interest. Electronic Texts: Audiences and Purposes (Ch 18) is of interest.

Posted in Wikipedia. Wikipedia describes sensemaking (also sense-making) as "the process by which people give meaning to experience."

SM - need to pursue add'l research on this topic

Statement of purpose: "Data Conservancy is devoted to developing institutional solutions for the challenges of data collection, preservation and re-use." Developed at Johns Hopkins University, but available for use by other large institutional data collections, this site explains one large-scale data repository model.

By Karon Kelly, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Colorado State University, Research Data Management Workshop, March 24, 2011. This is a PDF of a powerpoint describing the significance of data curation in the hard sciences.

By Matthew S. Mayernik, G. Sayeed Choudhury, Tim DiLaurio, Barbara Pralle, Mike Rippin, Ruth Duerr in D-Lib Magazine, Sept/Oct 2012, Vol 18 (9/10).

Trapit is a tool that assists with discovery of new resources and also provides a framework for presentation of resources, thus making it a potentially useful tool for content curation. Fall 2012, they are promoting educational applications as well.