INTERACTIVE ASSIGNMENTS
Posted: 30 Oct 2019, 08:59
Fishbowl 10+1 Steps
Niklas Middrup, Luke Mackenzie, Nathan McGowan
Niklas
1. Opening: Integrated Network Structures
Integrated – bringing separate things together and create a single entity
Networking – the exchange of information among people or a group
Structures - something put together by arranging and connecting all the different parts
2. Word Pool
Integrated: combined, linked, united, joined, unified, assimilated, included, incorporated, connected
Networking: interacting, exchange, communication, organization, channels, system, conversation, cooperation, together
Structures: construction, arrangements, configuration, formation, alignment, creation, production, making, build
3. Re-structure
A UNITED organization is capable of creating value.
Building a system full of CONNECTIVITY.
INTERACTIVITY is the foundation of success.
4. Felt-experience
UNITED, CONNECTIVITY, INTERACTIVITY
I have been playing soccer all my life because I love the competition and to work hard within a team. When I chose to come to the US over 3 years ago, I challenged myself as I forced myself to leave my comfort zone. A different continent, a different country, a different language. But the same sport. It didn’t take long since I felt a high level of CONNECTIVITY with some of my new teammates/roommates that were in the same situation. As a team we are a UNITED group of guys that have the same passion and share the same goals. We are INTERACTING with each other all the time. On the field and off the field. We are learning about each other, we are learning from each other. We are evolving and growing together.
NATE
Original Words:
Integrated- meld, fuse, coalesce
network- matrix, web, society
structure- design, composition, form
New word pool:
meld- to blend to things together using heat or pressure on objects that don't easily combine
fuse- to affix objects together so that they become one
coalesce- to condense or bring together several different points
matrix- an overall design where the individual points contribute to the whole
web- a communication structure
society- the biggest network that applies to humans
design- the picture or idea that something must apply to
composition- the whole picture which comprises all of the individual notes coming together
form- a solid structure
Sentence:
New hires at a company will coalesce into the cultural web of the organization composed of all of their talents and abilities
Felt Experience:
My felt experience reaches back to my time working at McDonalds in highschool. A bunch of new workers all came together from different backgrounds and experiences to become a cohesive unit. It was important that, despite our differences, we bought into the new web because we needed to work incredibly fast. Teamwork and tuning into your co workers was very important because the assembly line would fall apart if one unit lagged behind.
Luke:
Original Words
Integrated- with various parts or aspects linked or coordinated
Network- a group or system of interconnected people or things
Structure- the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex
Word Pool
Integrated: combine, amalgamate, merge, unite, assimilate, homogenize
Network: system, nexus, grapevine, grid, system
Structure: Construction, form, composition, constitution, arrangement
Restructuring
When forming a team, we amalgamate members from different demographics so that they may form a nexus and create a group identity based on their composition.
Felt Experience
My felt experience comes from my experience last summer working as an orientation leader for the university. Even though the composition of our team was very diverse and we didn’t all collectively share anything in common, we were able to amalgamate as a group to serve the purpose that our job demanded. To this day we still network with each other, and I easily consider it one of the most valuable experiences of my time here at the University of Rhode Island.
5. 1/2/3
Niklas: Different, Cohesive, Diverse
Nate: coalesce,matrix, composition.
Luke: amalgamate, nexus, construction
6. Dichotomy (jointly)
Thought process: Different/Coalesce -> Diverse/Cohesive -> Diverse/Amalgamate
7. Word pool (jointly)
Diverse: different, dissimilar, unlike, sundry,
Amalgamate: merge, join, combine, unite, integrate, mingle,
8. Re-structure (jointly) New combined sentence using these words
Surprisingly, the DISSIMILAR can MERGE quite well into comprehensive creations.
9. Felt-Experience -regarding this sentence
Nate- You would think that typically individuals who are similar would form the best units, but this is not always so. When we came up with this sentence it reminded me about my time playing on a basketball team. We had players short and tall, shooters and dunkers, passers and ball hogs but this diversity lead to a great offensive scheme. This diversity lead to many options for the team. Puzzle pieces are all dissimilar but their differences allow them to fit in with each other much better than if they were all identical squares. The differences allow for the adhering process to take place.
NIKLAS - Usually, when we encounter people that are different or dissimilar, we experience that there is more value created compared to if everyone is rather similar. Our differences make us unique and special. I experience this often when working in a team or group. When the group members are more diverse with different backgrounds and different ideals and beliefs, there might be more discussions because we don’t agree right away but from my experience in the end after we merged and combined our ideas, the final outcome is of higher value.
Luke- When I think about this sentence, I think a lot about the relationships in my life. I find that as I get older a lot of my most valued relationships were made in an unexpected and serendipitous occurrence, and that these people and I most times shared nothing in common. Whether it was working collaboratively as members of a team or just a chance encounter, I’ve found that the most dissimilar people can merge into comprehensive creations and accomplish great things.
10. 1/2/3
Nate: adhering, identical, valued
Niklas: diversity, special,
Luke: serendipitous, accomplished
11. Final paragraph
Realization: To come to an awareness of something
Insight: The ability to understand inner qualities
Niklas - Through this exercise, I learned how creating word pools can alter and enhance my understanding of the initial word. I learned about myself through my selection of words and we created more and more value within our group as further we took our words. The felt-experience is of great importance as it gives us the opportunity to empower our restructured text. As a group, we created something as a unit by bringing together our individual work (INTEGRATED) as we exchanged information (NETWORKING) and put it all together by arranging and connecting all of our individual thoughts (STRUCTURES).
Nate- I’ve learned that the Integrated Network Structures require the fusing of different perspectives in order to be successful. The differences in perspective isn’t a problem which must be circumvented for the company, but rather is an asset which adds to their ability to solve complex problems. The degree to which the individuals are different requires a proportionally strong integration of those individuals and that makes the structure stronger. Successful companies will work off of this and keep the connections and bonds within their networks alive and robust.
Luke- Through this exercise I have learned that Integrated Networking Structures is a term for bringing unlike things together in a cohesive manner. I was surprised to find that through all of our restructuring and searching for synonyms I was able to find a deep and profound meaning to a concept that was foreign to me not even a week ago. I can not speak enough on the value of the felt experience. Real life application of our words adds value to them and makes us attach meaning to things in a profound way. Though the individual exercise was indeed interesting, I feel that this exercise has done a lot for our groups’ overall development.
Niklas Middrup, Luke Mackenzie, Nathan McGowan
Niklas
1. Opening: Integrated Network Structures
Integrated – bringing separate things together and create a single entity
Networking – the exchange of information among people or a group
Structures - something put together by arranging and connecting all the different parts
2. Word Pool
Integrated: combined, linked, united, joined, unified, assimilated, included, incorporated, connected
Networking: interacting, exchange, communication, organization, channels, system, conversation, cooperation, together
Structures: construction, arrangements, configuration, formation, alignment, creation, production, making, build
3. Re-structure
A UNITED organization is capable of creating value.
Building a system full of CONNECTIVITY.
INTERACTIVITY is the foundation of success.
4. Felt-experience
UNITED, CONNECTIVITY, INTERACTIVITY
I have been playing soccer all my life because I love the competition and to work hard within a team. When I chose to come to the US over 3 years ago, I challenged myself as I forced myself to leave my comfort zone. A different continent, a different country, a different language. But the same sport. It didn’t take long since I felt a high level of CONNECTIVITY with some of my new teammates/roommates that were in the same situation. As a team we are a UNITED group of guys that have the same passion and share the same goals. We are INTERACTING with each other all the time. On the field and off the field. We are learning about each other, we are learning from each other. We are evolving and growing together.
NATE
Original Words:
Integrated- meld, fuse, coalesce
network- matrix, web, society
structure- design, composition, form
New word pool:
meld- to blend to things together using heat or pressure on objects that don't easily combine
fuse- to affix objects together so that they become one
coalesce- to condense or bring together several different points
matrix- an overall design where the individual points contribute to the whole
web- a communication structure
society- the biggest network that applies to humans
design- the picture or idea that something must apply to
composition- the whole picture which comprises all of the individual notes coming together
form- a solid structure
Sentence:
New hires at a company will coalesce into the cultural web of the organization composed of all of their talents and abilities
Felt Experience:
My felt experience reaches back to my time working at McDonalds in highschool. A bunch of new workers all came together from different backgrounds and experiences to become a cohesive unit. It was important that, despite our differences, we bought into the new web because we needed to work incredibly fast. Teamwork and tuning into your co workers was very important because the assembly line would fall apart if one unit lagged behind.
Luke:
Original Words
Integrated- with various parts or aspects linked or coordinated
Network- a group or system of interconnected people or things
Structure- the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex
Word Pool
Integrated: combine, amalgamate, merge, unite, assimilate, homogenize
Network: system, nexus, grapevine, grid, system
Structure: Construction, form, composition, constitution, arrangement
Restructuring
When forming a team, we amalgamate members from different demographics so that they may form a nexus and create a group identity based on their composition.
Felt Experience
My felt experience comes from my experience last summer working as an orientation leader for the university. Even though the composition of our team was very diverse and we didn’t all collectively share anything in common, we were able to amalgamate as a group to serve the purpose that our job demanded. To this day we still network with each other, and I easily consider it one of the most valuable experiences of my time here at the University of Rhode Island.
5. 1/2/3
Niklas: Different, Cohesive, Diverse
Nate: coalesce,matrix, composition.
Luke: amalgamate, nexus, construction
6. Dichotomy (jointly)
Thought process: Different/Coalesce -> Diverse/Cohesive -> Diverse/Amalgamate
7. Word pool (jointly)
Diverse: different, dissimilar, unlike, sundry,
Amalgamate: merge, join, combine, unite, integrate, mingle,
8. Re-structure (jointly) New combined sentence using these words
Surprisingly, the DISSIMILAR can MERGE quite well into comprehensive creations.
9. Felt-Experience -regarding this sentence
Nate- You would think that typically individuals who are similar would form the best units, but this is not always so. When we came up with this sentence it reminded me about my time playing on a basketball team. We had players short and tall, shooters and dunkers, passers and ball hogs but this diversity lead to a great offensive scheme. This diversity lead to many options for the team. Puzzle pieces are all dissimilar but their differences allow them to fit in with each other much better than if they were all identical squares. The differences allow for the adhering process to take place.
NIKLAS - Usually, when we encounter people that are different or dissimilar, we experience that there is more value created compared to if everyone is rather similar. Our differences make us unique and special. I experience this often when working in a team or group. When the group members are more diverse with different backgrounds and different ideals and beliefs, there might be more discussions because we don’t agree right away but from my experience in the end after we merged and combined our ideas, the final outcome is of higher value.
Luke- When I think about this sentence, I think a lot about the relationships in my life. I find that as I get older a lot of my most valued relationships were made in an unexpected and serendipitous occurrence, and that these people and I most times shared nothing in common. Whether it was working collaboratively as members of a team or just a chance encounter, I’ve found that the most dissimilar people can merge into comprehensive creations and accomplish great things.
10. 1/2/3
Nate: adhering, identical, valued
Niklas: diversity, special,
Luke: serendipitous, accomplished
11. Final paragraph
Realization: To come to an awareness of something
Insight: The ability to understand inner qualities
Niklas - Through this exercise, I learned how creating word pools can alter and enhance my understanding of the initial word. I learned about myself through my selection of words and we created more and more value within our group as further we took our words. The felt-experience is of great importance as it gives us the opportunity to empower our restructured text. As a group, we created something as a unit by bringing together our individual work (INTEGRATED) as we exchanged information (NETWORKING) and put it all together by arranging and connecting all of our individual thoughts (STRUCTURES).
Nate- I’ve learned that the Integrated Network Structures require the fusing of different perspectives in order to be successful. The differences in perspective isn’t a problem which must be circumvented for the company, but rather is an asset which adds to their ability to solve complex problems. The degree to which the individuals are different requires a proportionally strong integration of those individuals and that makes the structure stronger. Successful companies will work off of this and keep the connections and bonds within their networks alive and robust.
Luke- Through this exercise I have learned that Integrated Networking Structures is a term for bringing unlike things together in a cohesive manner. I was surprised to find that through all of our restructuring and searching for synonyms I was able to find a deep and profound meaning to a concept that was foreign to me not even a week ago. I can not speak enough on the value of the felt experience. Real life application of our words adds value to them and makes us attach meaning to things in a profound way. Though the individual exercise was indeed interesting, I feel that this exercise has done a lot for our groups’ overall development.