Taking and Making Notes- Craig

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My class notes from the first 2 meetings are under my group-mate's section.

[CraigRigoliosi]

3rd Class Notes

• It is important that our work is constantly being put onto fishbowl
• When he writes us a short letter and attaches our work underneath
• Fishbowl was created in a circular office room with all glass walls that replicated a fish bowl
• We are learning to construct meaning
o Not searching for truth, construct meaning for ourselves
• You can’t just read stuff and reproduce it without knowing what it means
o This is how we construct meaning
• Approach is deconstruction when it comes to letters
o deconstruct each word going into the dictionary and looking at the options to substitute that word to reframe the sentence.
• Do not underestimate the importance of this concept
• Each person thinks individually, in different ways by choosing different words
o Main difference is in the words we select
• Identify our differences Is to show how we are innovative and creative
o Can only innovate if we are open to different ideas(words) different substituted words
• A word is also simple, what is your text symbolic of- select a word from the text and choose a word to say what the text symbolizes
• Have to take the action in the typing and in the head
• Head is the mic
o Typing is the material
• Social meeting exercise is meant to break the ice and is the first step in this process.
• It is good to help each other, and even if you are not in the same group.
• Friendship in the workplace- things get done better, faster, easier
o Break the ice to become an identifiable group
• Intersubjective spaces
o Your selective words, symbols, ideas are making an impact on the group
o Looking each other’s symbols, becomes a symbolic space
o Eyes looking at eyes – that’s what subjective space is
• We are learning nonlinear thinking
o Not about being confused
o Thinking in ways your mind is working and showing it
o Craftsman of words,
o Critical(different perspectives) making
• Can’t do a thing without critical thinking
• We are phenomenologists – all that confusion we are looking for and at phenomenon
• When you see something confusing you are creating a point of view, how you see it
• Integrated networking structures
• We are the center of the world- fascinating
• You want your words to change the reality in a work environment
• Learning through association
• Meditation is getting rid of thoughts and keeping your mind blank
• Contemplation- focus on word and associations, then focusing it down
o Associations should come from the tune box (dictionary)
• Use creativity to relate words symbols ect.
• Learning to abstract and the better you at it the more powerful you will be
• Felt Experience.
o FE
o Proceeding upside down

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345 Class 4 Notes

• 3 interacting within the context
o creating a social within the context
• We understand that diversity helps
o Answer to productivity and success
• Looked at Global businesses and research from Harvard
o Bartlett & Ghoshal
• Develop a knowledge and knowing of each of the successful factors of a global business
• 4 characteristics
o integrated networking structures
o complexing active systems
o dynastic decision making
o h

1. structure
a. integrated networking structure
i. entering the unknown with a given structure
ii. born with a DNA structure
2. Word Pool
a. Gathering words, going through dictionary, the bigger the better.
b. Every time you go into the library find the biggest one
c. Writing down all the words carefully
d. The more you write down the greater the possibilities
i. Gather like a squirrel
3. Re-structuring (abstraction) be the teller not the told.
a. Rewriting the sentence by substituting words you learned from the word pool
b. Must be a good and simple sentence
c. RELATIONAL
d. Cant rush the process!
4. Felt Experience
a. In the first person, your story
b. Describing an incident, explaining it, coming from your memory that you experienced.
c. It will take Thinking, interpreting, imagining, and visualizing
d. 3 and 4 must fit together
5. Interaction (group members)
a. Reading group members work, and give reduce it to one word.
i. Reductionist technique, reducing to a symbol
b. Give yourself and members one word after reading the paragraph
c. Don’t want to be told what to think, think for yourself
6. Interactively, Jointly determining which 2 words form a dichotomy out of the 9 words
a. Dichotomy- 2 words should be unrelated as possible, no connection
b. Each person should throw In their pairings
7. Do a word pool for the 2 words above
8. Inflection Point
a. Creating a Jointly structure (with other person/groupmates)
b. Write your own compare all of them, and then adjust them
9. (On your own) Felt Experience
10. Perceptual Categories
11. Insight and Realization
a. Final Paragraph

• Dynamic Decision Making, don’t travel too fast
• Steps are a crystallization of all that
• Human need to connect
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• Catch up to move on
• Learning to learn
• Shift your attention in this course
• When creating knowledge, you’re on your own
• Creating a social organization and understanding society between the 3 of us
• Learning to create a better society
• Sharing your knowing
o Through self reflection- what goes through your mind when you read a symbol, word, text, ect
• Social constructivism
• Participant observation
• Symbolic interaction
• Action research
• looking at connectedness
• experience yourself as a hub
• practicing being a team leader through fishbowl
• looking at diversity differently, selections in the symbols that we make
o we are all unique
o we are all footnotes but we are at the center of the page
• disclosing and adding value to the larger group
• empower your text
o through felt experience
• creating value through words
• praise/enhance each other
• sentence structure we create is an abstract
• how symbols interact with each other
• know how to make a dichotomy
• vocab is important
• journey is inwards
• take the risk yourself
• learning to self-organize yourself
• the work Is never finished


• integrated networking structures
• forming a word pool
• 9 perceptual categories
• read each-others stuff
• sharing perceptions to help a person
• extending the word pool
o jointly come up with the second statement
• never put pen down until you take your last breath.
• Realization & insight
• Mastering the steps
• Next Week completed 10 steps
• Peter Senge

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345 Class 6 Notes

• We decide what structure we are going to create
• The product is always now digital
• You should like your work
• Don’t want to just get 3 credits from taking this course
• Market has become singular
• Fishbowl is a caricature of you
o Reflection of who you are and who you can become
• Experiential learning
o Learn through experience
• Learning to theorize
• Theory and Practice are the yin and yang
• Work is sublime because it is generated.
• Social spaces of visual reality
• CNC- google it
o Computer Mediated Communication
• Fragmentation of societies
o Fragmented in groups of 3, society of 3 people.
o Network society and visual reality
• 10 steps are a way of seeing and being in the world
• responsibility
• full of possibility
• gender is fundamental
• communication technology has changed
• where are the dollars?
• Life is all about learning, even from day 1
• Leader today is also a teacher
• Key manifestation of a networking society
o What is the way of seeing your world
o Visual reality of your networking society
• Network reflect distinctive that are individuations outside of any academic or state
• Complex adaptive systems
• Dynamic decision making
• Unique innovative capabilities
• Characteristics of successful global businesses/organizations
o The way we do business today
• Integrated network structures
• Has to be relevant and for your group
• Have to have peripheral vision
• Deep thinking
o Open up every word your group-mates send you to help bring difference into the picture.
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345 Class 7 Notes

• Moments are fragile
• Have to find out when the boding happens in your felt experiences
• Always revisit what you’ve written
• Underline phrases and answer how so in your self reflection
• Don’t cut yourself short
• Always take it further
• Don’t use words like system and structure, makes felt experience easier
• Learning is proceeding in leaps and bounds
o Brings the house down
o Relate to the anecdotal stories
• Empower your text
• Learning to do deep thinking and learning- google it
o Once you learn these methodologies you can put it on your resume
• Reflexive leadership
o This is what we are doing in the fishbowl and in our groups
• Complex adaptive systems is next- my group already finished
• Keep these activities ongoing
• Viewer is thinking about their own business or situation onto your text, which finds it useful in their own life
• Abstract expressionism – google term
• Get the understanding and then lose it- always come and go
• As long as our work is original it will be fantastic
• Captured and configured spontaneity
o Did it very consciously
• Performative writing
o Action writing
o Acting writing
o Performing writing
• Started with an empty canvas
o Entered with a structure
o Started creating a “painting”
o Followed something intrinsically American
o Freedom and individuality
♣ Free to select whatever word you wanted
♣ Selection and paper was clearly individual self
• Developed each paper as a free individual style
• Papers aren’t intellectual they are action oriented
o Not philosophical
• Developing a form of writing
• Can take any form you want
• We are not representing something else we are representing something totally different
o Our Singularity
• We become the multitude
o Ex: China
• We have all become singular
• The movement of ideas in paper, trajectory is happening in our subconscious
o Manifestation of our psyche
• Paper is really a signature of your mind
o Imprint of your mind
• How do you think?
• Prototype on how your mind works
o anybody can do it
o they didn’t but you did
o EX: abstract paintings
• Change the way you think
o Going into the inner self
o The journey is inwards not outwards
• Not analyzing statistical data
o Going inwards to change the way we think
• Not a psychology class
o Talking about writing these papers
• Layers of depth in our papers
o Looks like chaos
o The outcome of a deliberate process
o The process is the product
o That’s the process that we are selling
• We are selling OUR process
o If you follow the process this is what’s going to happen
• Ideas are all over the place- compositions (look up)
• Papers are all over the place
o Doesn’t have a clear focus point
o Has sweeping statements that embody and elicit emotions
• Tangled messes of words bouncing around in every direction
o It’s all good
o Random fields of chaos
o Anyone can do it
• Paradox: only you could have made/written that paper
• Have to empower yourself
• We are smart and ahead of the game internationally
• Configure business
• Taking business imposing on it and saying what happened with it
• Undergoes a perceptual shift
• Nobody can reproduce your paper
• Developing in a professional way
• Deconstructing the words
• Action writing
• Performative writing
• Action learning
o Writing your unconscious and revealing hidden truths
• Your paper has a signature technique
• Not looking for hidden messages
• Letting viewer determine their own message
• Sharing your technique and inviting your viewer to do the same
• Jackson Pollock
o Spatters paint on the floor

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• Letters are feedback
• Learning in different ways
• This class is just the tip of the iceberg
• Learn to do it ourselves
• Raising the how so question
o Forces to think deeper
o Changes the audience’s life
• Deep thinking takes time
• Don’t talk about other classes group assignments
• How so must go right down to the moment to what happened
• When the feeling of a great team happened
• Should change the viewer’s life
• 2nd abstract
o read letters
o keep up with work.
• If the organizations and country is rich
o Work trips are paid for
• We want to get our name into the conference
o Up comes the abstract and the paper
o To show employer you attended
• In class we do our studies we are doing real stuff
o Current, cutting edge, got our foot in the door
• Peter Senge- the learning organization
• Don’t wink in the dark
• Stay with the abstracts
• Constructing meaning and expressing our self through engagement
o Engagement and expression
o Important for building meaningful knowledge content
• Engagement with outside world
• Expression with the inside world
• Recreating meaning, try to make sense
• We show ourselves to ourselves in the fishbowl
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Class 9 Notes

• For the final video make a (not more than) one-minute clip per person in your group about all the 4 assignments---- DUE DEC 17th By 2PM
• Can do a textual version not only a video. Or 3 page paper about the same thing.
o Optional, can choose between the two
• Have until the 17th to do the final and keep up with the posts
o Vocab is important

• Selling the concept
• Not publishing in a journal
• We are selling/explaining our steps
• Speaking them out explaining them and providing our outcomes
• Internet makes learning and knowledge cutting edge
• $500 is nothing, it is undergraduates that need to be recognized
• tell it in the interaction in the fishbowl (interaction in our group)
• through that interaction we shared our story about our integrated network
• give anecdotal
• already written out the structures
• speak at a certain level where we are speaking with experts at our same level
• generated knowing and knowledge in our experiences
• Creating knowledge, went from being a student to being a somebody
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• Written option- 3 pages, written experience, reflection on the doing.
• Not more than 3 pages.
• Write it out like this then do the selfie
• Try to do all 3 at the same time
• Look up anecdote -a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
• Working friendship
• Be very careful in choice of words
o But speak the truth
• We learned to frame the structure of the text
• Entering the unknown of the syntax
• Alain Badieu
• Does require solitude no distraction, focus, and practice.
• At the heart of everything is vocabulary
• Every time you use a word look up its definition
• Have to get in touch with our images
• Take a word and bring up the image it creates in your mind
• Be ready to share the images
• If we don’t share we can’t make value together
• We all have to learn to share our images.
• Just go out and do it.
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