School Scrabble is a big thing in the USA.
You can buy specially designed starter kits to start your school clubs:
The kit contains 6 boards, 6 sets of tiles, 6 tile bags, 12 racks and as a bonus The Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition.
Great idea, superbly presented.
Delightful.
The above image was taken on Majoribanks Street, Wellington, NZ.
There is always intrigue in words written on the wall for passers by.
Google Translate said it was: “I’ll say it is the calculation”…
A little more searching revealed the lines come from a superb Erich Fried poem and this site offered the full translation (see first two lines of the second verse):
Es ist Unsinn
sagt die Vernunft
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Liebe
Es ist Ungl’ck
sagt die Berechnung
Es ist nichts als Schmerz
sagt die Angst
Es ist aussichtslos
sagt die Einsicht
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Liebe
Es ist l’cherlich
sagt der Stolz
Es ist leichtsinnig
sagt die Vorsicht
Es ist unm’glich
sagt die Erfahrung
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Liebe
Rationality says
It’s nonsense
Love says
It is what it is
Reckoning says
It’s doom
Fear says
It’s nothing but sorrow
Sense says
It’s hopeless
Love says
It is what it is
Pride says
It’s ridiculous
Caution says
It’s reckless
Experience says
It’s not practical
Love says
It is what it is
Random words in another language leading to a fantastic poem. Do you do stuff like this or is it just me?
This is what I believe in.
My ‘why‘…
To create an intellectual and emotional response in people.
Making folks think and / or smile.
Sometimes I fail.
Sometimes I achieve.
What do you believe in?
The above video is a feast for the brain / heart and introduces the conditions for creativity:
For me the most compelling idea in the whole presentation is that creativity is not an in-built-DNA-traceable-disposition.
It’s something which can be learned.
Cultivated.
Encouraged.
So, do the organisations / companies we create / work for foster the above conditions so creativity / innovation can blossom?
The above are the images recently used in the internal social media strategy I wrote for the executive team at CORE Education—all courtesy of the fab Hugh Macleod, Gapingvoid.
The focus of the strategy was on:
The vision provides an horizon line. A goal. An outcome focussed narrative.
The training, which all staff will take (managers first of course), attempts to bring everyone up to the same educational mark of social media and digital literacies (even if it’s not what they do).
These two things I’ve been doing for the past six years.
The last point is where the fun and new stuff is. Utilising gamification we’re going to develop in in-house system for tracking and rewarding social (media) participation. We (meaning others with bigger brains than I) might even write a paper on it all.
How do you do yours?
Honoured to have delivered some training for Otautahi Youth Council (OYC) (who are supported by the fab Christchurch based White Elephant Trust).
“DK’s training not only opened up a new world of social media to us but motivated and empowered the young people participating to take action in their community with their new found tools.”
Netta Egoz, Project Coordinator—Otautahi Youth Council/ WE Care White Elephant Trust
The focus of the day was on several social media platforms as well as the strategic side of implementing their use. The following were the fundamentals (Golden Rule, Storytell, Digital Takeaways, Process):
If you’ve ever had the privilege of working with young people you will know of their quick adoption of these online platforms—the button theory in action—was a fun day.
Pay me to do something similar.
Getting the product right is half the story, the overall brand experience and even the process of checking out needs due care and consideration.
Taking notes and learning from inspiring folks such as generalassemb.ly and:
“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”
Jeff Bezos
A fan made video with words from Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson—remixed from this interview.