Taking and Making Notes (class notes)

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Sharing what we see when we read

Vocabulary:
THEATRE:a building, part of a building, or outdoor area for housing dramatic presentations, stage entertainments, or motion-picture shows. Dramatic performances as a branch of art: the drama.
METAPHOR:a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.
SEE: to perceive with the eyes, look at, to view; visit or attend, as a spectator.
IMAGE: a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculpted, or otherwise made visible. An optical counterpart or appearance of an object, as is produced by reflection from a mirror, refraction by a lens, or the passage of luminous rays through a small aperture and their reception on a surface.
MOVE:to pass from one place or position to another or to go from one place of residence to another:
PLAY: a dramatic composition or piece; drama or a dramatic performance, as on the stage. To exercise or employ oneself in diversion, amusement, or recreation.
FRAME: a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror. A rigid structure formed of relatively slender pieces, joined so as to surround sizable empty spaces or nonstructural panels, and generally used as a major support in building. To betake oneself; resort.To prepare, attempt, give promise, or manage to do something.
STRUCTURE: mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents. To give a structure, organization, or arrangement to; construct or build a systematic framework.
SCENE: the place where some action or event occurs. An incident or situation in real life.
For example an embarrassing outbreak or display of anger, strong feeling, or bad manners.
ACROSS: from one side to the other of something. Expressing position or orientation.
AISLE: a walkway between or along sections of seats in a theater, classroom, or airplane. A longitudinal division of an interior area, as in a church, separated from the main area by an arcade or the like.
SYNTAX: the study of the rules for the formation of well structured grammatical sentences in a language. The study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words and the rules or patterns so studied.
CONJURE: to affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell. To effect, produce, bring, by or as by magic.

RELEVANT: closely connected or appropriate to what is being done or considered. Bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand; pertinent.
READING: the action or practice of a person who reads. Speech is the oral interpretation of written language. The interpretation given in the performance of a dramatic part, musical composition.
INTERPRET: to give or provide the meaning of: explain, explicate, elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable. To construe or understand in a particular way: to interpret a reply as favorable. To bring out the meaning of (a dramatic work, music) by performance or execution.
PROCESS: a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk. A continuous action, operation, or series of changes taking place in a definite manner. Aseries of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end/goal.
HUB: a center around which other things revolve or from which they radiate; a focus of activity, authority, commerce or transportation. The central part of a wheel, rotating on or with the axle, and from which the spokes radiate. The effective center of an activity, region, or network.
NETWORK: an arrangement of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines. A group or system of interconnected people or things. To cultivate people who can be helpful to one professionally, especially in finding employment or moving to a higher position.
Gilles Deleuze: was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co-written with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. Deleuze claims that standards of value are internal or immanent: “to live well is to fully express one's power, to go to the limits of one's potential, rather than to judge what exists by non-empirical, transcendent standards. Modern society still suppresses difference and alienates persons from what they can do. To affirm reality, which is a flux of change and difference, we must overturn established identities and so become all that we can become—though we cannot know what that is in advance”.
BECOME: to come, change, or grow to be. As Deleuze and Guattari explain, the process of "becoming-" is not one of imitation or analogy, it is generative of a new way of being that is a function of influences rather than resemblances.
SINGULARITY: the state, fact, or quality of being singular. A singular, unusual, or unique quality; peculiarity.
DIFFERENCE: the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity. An instance or point of unlikeness or dissimilarity. A significant change in or effect on a situation.
CONNECT: to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind. To establish communication between; put in communication. To have as an accompanying or associated feature.
DESTINY: something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune. The predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events.

Through reading and interpreting text and image we are in a continuous growth of becoming. Every text and image can be interpreted in various ways.
The relevant question is what do you see when you read, what images are created in your mind and how does this differ for every individual. Reading can allow for each and every one of us to create a different state of mind, an illusion of reality where character, text and images are created.
“Connectivity” is our destiny, meaning the state or quality of being connected or connective. By connecting the different images created through reading, a hub of sharing is created.

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“You are trying to maximize the return for your money”
“It is like a gymnasium, you do not want to just see your and others post, you want to exercise too”
When you enter the fishbowl you are exercising and you are trying to figure out how your mind looks, you are working with yourself and the last sentence you have written

You are using your eyes, your mind and the words you are typing.
Do not emphasise for your grade, keep up the work and you will be fine.
Not a you vs me, we are trying to create a society.

“Connectivity is big, because of technology”. Communicating with email, does not mean you are connected. We are learning to connect with each other.
You are committing to yourself, to read everything my group members are writing.
Connection with other people will happen in my head, it happens through the exchange of symbols. Values and symbols are words. We lead symbolic lives, we lead textile lives. Nothing exists outside words.

“In the Bible, “in the beginning is the word and the word is with God” - we can not comprehend it.
You are writing posts to add value to the group, which means you should carefully select words.
The purpose of this class is to change the way we think, it is going to take words. Us as a group making a selection of the words we are choosing.

Make sure you are looking at everyone else text, the process of how others are posting and change this to how it works for you. Post and make reflections to other group members posts.

“Restructuring creates value” and we are learning how to restructure text to create value.
“Every time you are putting things in sections and sub sections, you are creating knowledge”

The interaction is always in the head, you are doing it from a point of view where your group members should be taking advantage of it. Stop in your tracks when you are in the fishbowl and focus.
“Distractions means I am not slowing down, I am not focusing and I am not selecting my words, no substituting them to create value”
Everything is entertainment, if you out all that away and decide you will only be creating value. It is a habit, it takes discipline and structure to do this. Everyone needs reminders.
You are making entries, to create value in your group.
It is an act of courage to post, you are helping each other in the group out.
What creates value for someone, and how to give them that.

Our differences are realized in our mental structure and we want to get at that. These differences in our mental structure are created in the words we are selecting and the meaning of words. We are trying to connect across these differences.
You need to use your dictionary, get in the habit of opening and using it every time you post. We are all participating in a word game.

Matt Erickson - get in touch with him, teaches at PC and he used to work with Sanjiiv.

The goal is developing your own fishbowl, raising questions like, always: “How so”. If you do not get anything out of this class, you will get your money back.
Look up definition of: agast,
He went the route of difference, and we want to discover this difference. The fishbowl is an empty space, that we are changing. Your difference is everything.
You want to be different and think different.
Google: “Creating history as possibility” - Polo Ferreira
Going after nuance - when you change the words
You do not want to copy someone else, you want to experience it through connectivity and experience.
You look for differences in the other person's work and how you differ from this.

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We are trying to create a social environment within a context
3 of us interacting with content and how are we going to do it

Diversification is great and creates a good fishbowl and environment


Bartlett and Gouchard - research on successful global businesses

We are going to develop and knowledge and the knowing of the four factors these researches found

Integrating networking structure→ succeded

We enter the unknown with a structure
You are gathering words in a word pool
The words have to be in context and relevant
Reconstructing text and substituting the words
This is an abstraction
You are now in the first person when typing
You are describing an incident and explaining it
It is coming from your memory and you experienced it
It will take thinking, imagining and visualising and it must be grounded and reality
You want to create knowledge and a noid
Step 3 and 4 must fit together
Now you are starting interacting and you need your group members here
Here is interacting
You are going to make a pool with the two words -- ducotomi
Inflection point
You are on your own and doing your felt experience
Perceptional categories
Final paragrap and includes insights and relazation

Dynamic Decision Making
Travel fast in your mind


We need to learn to share our pre narrative

Words:
Relate: make or show connections between

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Make the 6 different topics in the fishbowl and keep posting under each topic. DO NOT create a new posting every time, but keep posting and responding to the already made folder.
When responding to his letters, the topic should be the letter. “You want to create it as a setup where everyone can understand”
You are not suppose to post in Sanjivs fishbowl.

1. VOCABULARY: UNDERSTANDING CONCEPTS
2. TAKING AND MAKING NOTES
3. GOOGLE SEARCHES
4. REFLECTIONS ON LETTERS
5. INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENTS
6. INTERACTIVE ASSIGNMENTS

“You are trying to maximize the return for your money”
“It is like a gymnasium, you do not want to just see your and others post, you want to exercise too”
When you enter the fishbowl you are exercising and you are trying to figure out how your mind looks, you are working with yourself and the last sentence you have written

You are using your eyes, your mind and the words you are typing.
Do not emphasise for your grade, keep up the work and you will be fine.
Not a you vs me, we are trying to create a society.

“Connectivity is big, because of technology”. Communicating with email, does not mean you are connected. We are learning to connect with each other.
You are committing to yourself, to read everything my group members are writing.
Connection with other people will happen in my head, it happens through the exchange of symbols. Values and symbols are words. We lead symbolic lives, we lead textile lives. Nothing exists outside words.

“In the Bible, “in the beginning is the word and the word is with God” - we can not comprehend it.
You are writing posts to add value to the group, which means you should carefully select words.
The purpose of this class is to change the way we think, it is going to take words. Us as a group making a selection of the words we are choosing.

Make sure you are looking at everyone elses text, the process of how others are posting and change this to how it works for you. Post and make reflections to other group members posts.

“Restructuring creates value” and we are learning how to restructure text to create value.
“Every time you are putting things in sections and sub sections, you are creating knowledge”

The interaction is always in the head, you are doing it from a point of view where your group members should be taking advantage of it. Stop in your tracks when you are in the fishbowl and focus.
“Distractions means I am not slowing down, I am not focusing and I am not selecting my words, no substituting them to create value”
Everything is entertainment, if you out all that away and decide you will only be creating value. It is a habit, it takes discipline and structure to do this. Everyone needs reminders.
You are making entries, to create value in your group.
It is an act of courage to post, you are helping each other in the group out.
What creates value for someone, and how to give them that.

Our differences are realized in our mental structure and we want to get at that. These differences in our mental structure are created in the words we are selecting and the meaning of words. We are trying to connect across these differences.
You need to use your dictionary, get in the habit of opening and using it every time you post. We are all participating in a word game.

Matt Erickson - get in touch with him, teaches at PC and he used to work with Sanjiiv.

The goal is developing your own fishbowl, raising questions like, always: “How so”. If you do not get anything out of this class, you will get your money back.
Look up definition of: agast,
He went the route of difference, and we want to discover this difference. The fishbowl is an empty space, that we are changing. Your difference is everything.
You want to be different and think different.
Google it: “Creating history as possibility” - Polo Ferreira
Going after nuance - when you change the words
You do not want to copy someone else, you want to experience it through connectivity and experience.
You look for differences in the other person's work and how you differ from this.


You should be meeting with your group in a social setting, “social meeting exercise” (no class, meet with group)
Pre individual
Write down notes before the meeting, your feelings about the meeting
Now you come to the meeting
You are talking about everything besides the class, talking about yourself
Ethnographic notes
Then write out what happened in the meeting from memory what happened in conversations and physical (he said, she said)
You are circling 6 words, a word is a concept and a symbol
Then pair the words up in 3 pairs, making a (3) dycontomies
In dycontomies, The 2 words are not adjectives, the words need to be opposites
The meaning of these dichotomies
Look up the meaning of these words and their connections
Create a simple sentence from the words you now have
Create 3 sentences
Under each sentence you will be writing a paragraph (3 paragraphs) where you describe the social meeting.
This paragraph should be connected to the three words, the sentence is an abstract sentence, but the paragraph relates to the social meeting (what you talked about, what happened)
The sentence is made independently from the social meeting





Fredship letter
Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is a British sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29 languages, issuing on average more than one book every year. In 2007, Giddens was listed as the fifth most-referenced author of books in the humanities.[1][2]
Giddens illustrates how two consequences of Globalisation, namely the rise of a ‘risk consciousness’ and detraditionalisation, undermine the ability of institutions such as the Nation State, the family and religion, to provide us with a sense of security and stability. These institutions are no longer able to offer us a clearly defined norms and values that tell us how we should act in society. This situation has far reaching consequences for how individuals experience daily life and for how they go about constructing their identities.
‘There is a global revolution going on in how we think of ourselves and how we form ties and connections with others.’ The Social Meeting Exercise is about ‘friendship.'


Theory of assemblage Letter

Your 'social entity' is unique by the flow of information (structures, dichotomies, symbols, expressions) that forms your Assemblage. Please google Deleuze and Guattari and Assemblage Theory.
Assemblage theory is an ontological framework developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, originally presented in their book A Thousand Plateaus (1980). Assemblage theory provides a bottom-up framework for analyzing social complexity by emphasizing fluidity, exchangeability, and multiple functionalities.Assemblage theory asserts that, within a body, the relationships of component parts are not stable and fixed; rather, they can be displaced and replaced within and among other bodies, thus approaching systems through relations of exteriority.




TED TALKS

How megacities are changing the map of the world
"I want you to reimagine how life is organized on earth," says global strategist Parag Khanna. As our expanding cities grow ever more connected through transportation, energy and communications networks, we evolve from geography to what he calls "connectography." This emerging global network civilization holds the promise of reducing pollution and inequality -- and even overcoming geopolitical rivalries. In this talk, Khanna asks us to embrace a new maxim for the future: "Connectivity is destiny."
We are in a position of building a new and better world, by changing the spending structure in order to advance developing countries
We need to change the spending structure, due to increasing population
We need to change the idea of completing charity work, but by connecting cities we will have more stability and increased trade.
By building more connectivity and by wrapping the world together we can evolve into a better world, where geographical constraints no longer exist.

Mapping the future countries
Many people think the lines on the map no longer matter, but Parag Khanna says they do. Using maps of the past and present, he explains the root causes of border conflicts worldwide and proposes simple yet cunning solutions for each.

Catch up to move on, it is not about numbers, it never was
Shift your attention
He will collect the papers based on the steps we went over in class
You are learning to create a better society because the need is there, by sharing our knowing, through self reflection
Self reflection is what goes thwough your mind when you see particular picture etc

The social construction of reality
Symbolic interaction
Action research
Autobiography

Looking at the connectedness emanating through you

We are looking at diversity differently, we are all unique, we are all footnotes, but at the center of the page

→ we need to write a self reflection, based on the steps he went over in class

You have to empower your text

You are empowering each other

You can not live in a digital world without abstract

The journey is inwards, if you want an A you need to be in the fishbowl every day

The Personal paper
What did you learn and what insight did you gain from the 9 steps?
Last step: relazation and insight → pick out two to three words and then try to link them togehter with each other and you did not know they could be connected → back it up with a felt experience

Next week: we will turn in the 10 step paper individually, and together

Peter senge google him the learning organization

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Class Notes 10/18

Need to post regularly and on time
Looking to see your patterns for posting at the end of the semester, so develop that pattern
Post concept of letters
We're trying to create a social environment
3 of us
3 interacting within a CONTEXT
How are we going to do it
The class as the universe

Diversity helps
Fishbowl work will be better
You don't want people who think just like you

Looking at social through transnational corporations (global business)
Bartlett and Ghosal looked at these and did a study into what made them successful
Going to develop a knowledge and knowing of a successful global business

4 Characteristics
Integrated Networking Structures

1. Structure
Entering the unknown with a given structure

2. Gathering Words
Word pool
Going to the dictionary (the bigger the better)
Writing words down carefully - the more you write down the greater the possibilities
Be contextual and relevant
Doing gathering at this point

3. Re-Structure
Rewriting sentences and substituting/simplifying words
Make it as simple as you can
Want to be using all three concepts
RELATE RELATION RELATIONAL
Take these words further so there's no stopping you
Not about meaning,it's about the substitution

4. Felt-Experience
Now in first person "I" comes into this
Your felt experience is your story
Describing an incident, explaining it, it's coming from your memory
You experience t
Need to match it to 3 (3 and 4 must fit together)
We are becoming a workless society so you need to bring your experience
Takes thinking, interpreting, imagining, and visualizing
Grounds you in reality
Learning to be the teller not the told

5. Now you're starting interaction
Work with your group the 3 people
You work for the other people in your group
Give one word to the groupmates work
Reduce it t one word and you will give yourself one word
Reductionist technique to one symbol
You don't want to be told what to think
You'll ideally have 9 words

6. Step 6 is also done interactively
Forming a dichotomy out of 9 words
Make them as unrelated as possible (look at opposites)
Do not use adjectives
Each person throws in their pairings and you develop it

7. Word pool
Back to being on your own

8. Structure creation
Doing this JOINTLY
Bring both your separate structures and edit it
INFLECTION point- your ideas are changing
Contingent on the dichotomy you created

9. Felt-experience
On your own again
Will have tree felt-experiences

10. Perceptual categories
INSIGHT and REALIZATION
When you get to step 10 you learn to do it

Dynamic decision making
Travel fast in your mind
Don't just follow steps

Abstract on friendship in the workplace for conference

The limits of your mind determined by your dictionary

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Emily and I met for coffee and bagels in the morning for our social meeting. We had spoken one time briefly in class prior to our meeting. The conversation had a natural flow and I got to learn more about Emily throughout the meeting. We had to move four different times because we kept getting attacked by bees through the meeting. We spoke about school, life and what we wanted to achieve in the future. Emily made it easy for me to talk about myself, which I do not do very often on a personal level and it was a pleasurable conversation. I got the impression from the meeting that Emily is kind, open minded and forceful. She is also a woman of many difficult words, which made it interesting for me to talk to her in the matter of expanding my own vocabulary. Personally English is not my first language and it is always nice to get educated through casual conversation.
Emily also told me about her major and why she chose it, this gave me the impression that Emily puts a lot of thought into her decisions, where as I tend to make decisions rapidly and not always think things through as much. It is always nice to be around people who open your eyes and make you think about life and decisions in a different way than you do. I used to be extremely close minded and think that I did everything right and that everyone else was doing things in an odd manner, but I have come to understand that if you choose to open your eyes and be accepting of other people's perspectives, you can learn a whole lot. The social meeting with Emily was overall truly pleasurable and I am glad I had the chance to sit down and talk to Emily outside of the classroom setting.
Overall our social meeting was in my personal opinion a success and I look forward to keep learning from Emily through this class. Perhaps my vocabulary will advance to a new level from interacting with Emily and I hope I can teach some things to Emily too, besides vocabulary.
It is important to talk to your classmates and start building your network pool of people now, you never know when or who you will be working with in the future, so having an open mind and being accepting to the fact that people are different and have certain opinions based on their background or upbringing is important.
Openness is defined as a lack of restriction and being accessible, I choose to believe I have come to a point in my life where I hold these qualities, but one can always improve their behavior and actions. One thing that is difficult for me to change, as briefly mentioned, I jump to conclusions a lot and this can both benefit me in the matter of thinking on my feet, but also hurt me in the long run when I do not think situations all the way through.
I am excited to keep learning and advancing both my own writing, vocabulary and openness through this semester and going into the future.

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Catch up to move on, it is not about numbers, it never was
Shift your attention
He will collect the papers based on the steps we went over in class
You are learning to create a better society because the need is there, by sharing our knowing, through self reflection
Self reflection is what goes through your mind when you see particular picture etc

The social construction of reality
Symbolic interaction - s a sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and alludes to people's particular utilization of dialect to make images and normal implications, for deduction and correspondence with others.
Action research -
Autobiography

Looking at the connectedness emanating through you

We are looking at diversity differently, we are all unique, we are all footnotes, but at the center of the page

→ we need to write a self reflection, based on the steps he went over in class

You have to empower your text

You are empowering each other

You can not live in a digital world without abstract

The journey is inwards, if you want an A you need to be in the fishbowl every day

The Personal paper
What did you learn and what insight did you gain from the 9 steps?
Last step: realization and insight → pick out two to three words and then try to link them togehter with each other and you did not know they could be connected → back it up with a felt experience

Next week: we will turn in the 10 step paper individually, and together

Peter Senge: Peter Senge was born in Stanford, California. He received a B.S. in Aerospace engineering from Stanford University. While at Stanford, Senge also studied philosophy. He later earned an M.S. in social systems modeling from MIT in 1972, as well as a PhD in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1978.
He is the founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL). This organization helps with the communication of ideas between large corporations. It replaced the previous organization known as the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT. According to Senge 'learning organizations' are those organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to see the whole together."[6] He argues that only those organizations that are able to adapt quickly and effectively will be able to excel in their field or market. In order to be a learning organization, there must be two conditions present at all times. The first is the ability to design the organization to match the intended or desired outcomes, and second, the ability to recognize when the initial direction of the organization is different from the desired outcome and follow the necessary steps to correct this mismatch. Organizations that are able to do this are exemplary.

We are trying to create a social environment within a context
3 of us interacting with content and how are we going to do it

Diversification is great and creates a good fishbowl and environment

Bartlett and Gouchard - research on successful global businesses

We are going to develop and knowledge and the knowing of the four factors these researches found

Integrating networking structure→ succeeded

We enter the unknown with a structure
You are gathering words in a word pool
The words have to be in context and relevant
Reconstructing text and substituting the words
This is an abstraction
You are now in the first person when typing
You are describing an incident and explaining it
It is coming from your memory and you experienced it
It will take thinking, imagining and visualizing and it must be grounded and reality
You want to create knowledge and a noid
Step 3 and 4 must fit together
Now you are starting interacting and you need your group members here
Here is interacting
You are going to make a pool with the two words -- dichotomy
Inflection point
You are on your own and doing your felt experience
Perceptional categories
Final paragraph and includes insights and relazation

Dynamic Decision Making
Travel fast in your mind

We need to learn to share our pre narrative

Words:
Relate: make or show a connection between.

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The final is a video explaining our felt experience in this class and in the fishbowl. How have we developed relationships, learned new vocab and made a society togheter.

The paper is the abstract and there can be an outcome from this initiative.
In the video use professional language and speak to the camera with your group or individually.
One entry will be the acceptance of the abstract and the second is the journal publication. Talking about the outcome.
You have to complete the vocab before the letters, it will all fall into place. Our structures will be analyzed carefully.
The video selfie will be sent to Mike and he will post and this is the final. Here we will be talking about the 4 global phenomenon. Make it antidotal. Integrated networking structure, interactions we had in the Fishbowl. We share our story about our integrated networking. Send Mike your text too. Not more than 3 pages, reflecting on the doing in this course.
Look up antidote.
Send the video and text to Mike and Sanjiv.
You are entering a letter of syntax and thoughts of the unknown and look up the meaning of syntax and Alain Badiou.
Playing with words you are creating things. The heart of everything is words. Vocabulary and image is key in life. Always look up the meaning of words. There is text and images and you have to get in touch with your images. Every word brings up an image in your mind, share them.

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Give hard copies of social media exercise and then upload it to Fishbowl as well
Try to keep up, as not to let your group down
Not strict about deadlines but it extends for a day or two or three
These things will be cleared up as time goes on

The social exercise itself
Students described it as easy, interesting, effortless
It’s supposed to be easy and fun

Take one step in and determining where to go from there
The words you’re selecting are being picked carefully before you go into the market
Responses are equivalent to lecturing you on it
That’s where the learning is going to be

You’re learning to construct meaning
Constructing meaning for yourself
Not searching for the truth of the letter

URI students don’t know what the presentations they’re making mean
Can’t read and reproduce, you won’t understand
You’re constructing meaning
Deconstructing the meaning (Derrida)
Looking at the options to substitute that word, and then you reframe the sentence from the letter
One substituted word can change results from the meaning
Each person thinks individually from the selection of words
That is where our difference builds from

Identifying our differences shows how you’re innovative and creative
Can only innovate if you’re open to different ideas
Different words
Different substituted words
Must be open to all views

When you select a particular word you presented a particular idea
Select a word and show what it symbolizes
No right or wrong, just take the action
Action is in the typing and in the head

The social media exercise breaks the ice between the three people
It gives a human view to each other
You are able to change your groups
It’s good to help each other, but you don’t have to be together
Look at the word friendship
Friendship in the workplace
Work is then done much better, happier, easier, and faster
Creates intersubjective spaces
You want your selected words, symbols, ideas are making an impact to the group
Looking at each other as symbols and creating a symbolic space
Eyes looking at eyes

We are learning non-linear thinking
It’s not about being confused but about thinking in ways where your mind is working and you’re showing it

We are craftsmen of words
Critical making
Making things but making them critically
Critically means different perspectives
Can’t do a thing without critical thinking
Working to be a phenomenologist
Phenomenologist means that you are looking at phenomenon
Come up with a point of view and you’re always sharing how you see it
Comes down to the word/symbol you’ve selected

When you Google something you pull out something you want to hang your hat on
Have to know these names being in higher education and what they’re saying

There is no judgement, but there is a lot of work
You’re looking at your process and you’re sharing it
Making your process useful to other people and to yourself and your careers

Going to look at the friendship in all of this
Coming up is Integrated Networking Structures
The Algorithm has 10 steps and is similar to the friendship exercise
You own your text
Come into that sense of ownership with your text
Ownership means that nobody can copy your text without citing you
In a knowledge economy the exchange of information and the ownership of your text is the key currency
That’s what makes you rich

Our text moves things and turns them upside down
You want your words to change the reality
Make sure your vocabulary means something to you
Do it very carefully
Learning through association
That is what contemplation is
Meditation is when these thoughts keep coming and you’re getting rid of them
Keeping your mind blank
Contemplation is focusing on the words and the associations and you’re focusing it down
The dictionary is the tool box
American Heritage is a good dictionary to have a hard copy of
Learning to ABSTRACT
Creating RELATION to make an abstract sentence
FELT-EXPERIENCE is a feeling that you experience
The felt-experience has to fit the abstraction
Abstract from the confusion around the felt-experience (how we typically deal with this)
How far can you tweak until it becomes FICTION
We are proceeding upside down


Catch up to move on
It’s these kinds of dichotomies in our speech that we are learning
It’s not about numbers
We are learning to learn
Shift your attention (in this course)

Integrated Networking Structures
Make sure that there are hard copies given
You will receive feedback on them
Creating and constructing knowledge
Creating something through text and images
Creating a sociality
Learning to create a better society
Sharing your knowing is how you create a better society
This is through self-reflection
Self-reflection is what goes through your mind when you look at a specific word, symbol, or text
Add value to the group

Doing this all through social constructivism
The social construction of reality
Symbolic interaction
Action research
Auto-ethnography - looking at the connectedness emanating through you

See and experience yourself as a hub
As a node in a network
How to become a team leader… you’re practicing it now
Looking at diversity differently
Looking at our differences in the selection of symbols that we make
We are all footnotes, but we are now at the center of the page
We are unique, and that affects the group
You’re in the group to add value to the group
In a way that adds value to yourself and the larger group

You have to bring the self-reflection up to par
Weaknesses have to be pointed out to you in order to do better
Little errors can be corrected
You’re learning to empower your text
We are learning through felt-experience
Learning to send a text where the other person finds value
You’re learning to create value through words
Words are backed up with felt-experiences
Otherwise computers can do it better than you
The world wants to know about the American felt-experience
Learning how to say it well
It’s a world connected thing
You need to tell what’s going on in a way that creates value

It’s important to praise each other
It has to be done in a way where you’re enhancing each other
Your connection with each other is between the three of you
Creating an archive of your interaction
It’s not about the professor and me, it’s about me and my group

Giving a hard copy helps you get to the A-category because you can get the needed feedback
Must know how to abstract
Know how symbols interact with each other
There is an importance with dichotomies
Playing it safe does not make you innovative
Vocabulary is important, but it’s important to throw in reflections too
You need to tune in everyday to get an A
The journey is inwards
You’re learning to write a textbook
You’re abstracting from your personal experiences

When do you put the pen down
Learning to self-organize yourself
Must always return to the site
The work is never finished

Starting with an opening structure
Integrated Networking Structures is the first
Forming a word pool-the wider the better
Substituting words for integrated, networking, and structure
You can put together a statement for each
Your pithy statement is a snapshot that is abstract without the person
You give a felt-experience to it
Changing INS to a pithy statement that makes sense humanly
Then write a felt-experience that fits it
Felt-experience should fit the abstraction
Then read each others and give each other your perceptual category, your own included (9)
Can be arbitrary
Stay in-tune with each other
Sharing your perceptions to let the other person know
Perceptual categories should be shared
You open each other’s eyes
Then you create a dichotomy from the nine words
Link two random words to jointly create another pithy statement
Create a word pool
Take the dichotomy words and take them further
Jointly come up with the second pithy statement
Then do next felt-experience alone
Joint-abstraction with individual felt-experience
Then you do 9 perceptual categories again, and that’s the end
Never-ending story
The tenth step is realization and insight
Just look up those words and write them down then relate both words to the 9 steps
One way to do it is to pick out two or three words
Link these words and realize that they could be linked, I now have insight
The steps are the same, and you’re linking 2 to 3 word images together
You can only create it when you create a sentence and back it up with a felt-experience
Next week we owe a completed ten-steps as a group

A felt-experience is related to an incident that happened to you
A personal story that fits the sentence
Write the sentence really long, then break it down small, changing it
You must be in-touch with yourself
Theorize a lot and the feeling and story will pop up in your head
Don’t try to copy the letters, you’re learning the ten steps
Create an abstraction with a short, past, interpreted felt-experience
They are part fiction, as in you are interpreting it a particular way and making it fit
Get a hard copy to class by Tuesday of next week
Don’t worry about getting it right, the hard copy will help you find your errors
“You’re blinking when the ball is coming at you”

Make sure you’re staying on task with everything in the class
November 21st is the day for the conference in Spain
You must do your work to be put on the abstract
The motivation is that very quickly the work becomes astounding

Can’t be dependent on feedback and affirmation in this class
You have to know when you feel satisfied and communicate that
We are calibrating each other’s minds
Calibration is meaningless without felt-experience
Add a felt-experience with letter reflections
You should be taking things further with a word or phrase in the letters

It is about people
Value can’t be outsourced because it’s inside your head
It has to do with cognition
Expressions are important
AGHAST
Power dynamics are very important
Give the evidence that you learned something so you can be given a grade
We need students know how to learn
Google: Peter Senge “The Learning Organization” (“The Fifth Discipline”)
Recruiters are looking for people who have good ideas
In the Fishbowl we are developing ideas
Ideas are words (they must be relevant)

Letter reflections should be short
About a paragraph
Write the theory and then add felt-experiences
The deadline is coming up to write the abstract
It is evaluating the text
Good, bad, and ugly
We are all a part of this
Make sure that you are caught up
We expect to get our abstract accepted and if we do, we will have 6 students to be paid
Three girls and three boys to go to the conference
Creating authorship and a digital footprint
We will be connected for life based off this digital aspect

We are all the same people, and we have to turn the tide
Not a great legacy
This can’t continue like this

The syllabus applies directly to what we’ve done
We are emphasizing the integrated one

Society has become fragmented
We live in a liquid society
We have multiple personalities, but if we take it too far it’s a disorder
In the Fishbowl you are a different persona
It is selective and democratic
You decide what structure you’re going to create
It is strategy and cognitive, it’s mental
The product is now always digital
The product is our fishbowl
You need to take ownership
If you don’t want authorship, reach out and say so

You are not necessarily trying to understand what is said
You are taking it down to figure it out later
You have to like your work
You want to get real about each other, talk to each other as equals, and enhance each other
We are leveraging each other
This class is more than just three credits
We don’t want to just check off these boxes
We will fill the boxes, but that’s not who we are
Who we are is in our singular fishbowls
The market has become singular
Fishbowl is a caricature of you
It’s idealistic because you make the selections and choices
We calibrate ourselves accordingly
It’s your life, you’re making it
Your fishbowl is a reflection of who you can become
It is rooted in your felt-experience
It’s experiential learning

We are learning to theorize
Nothing happens without theory
You don’t see it, but you must be able to identify it
Theory and practice are the yin and yang
You go to school for the theory
Then you live your life practicing it
Then there is process

Visualize the syllabus as an abstract
Think about your ten steps in reference to the Toni Morrison quote
Transformed your experience of space and time
You’re communicating your images, stories, and selections to each other
Social spaces of visual reality
Stay connected to words and to text in a meaningful way
Fishbowl is CMC Computer-mediated communication
GOOGLE: Computer-mediated communication
Individualization of work and fragmentation of societies
Our ten steps are a way of seeing and being in the world
The abstract is telling the reader what we are doing
We want to be reviewed by experts, peers, and to be told it’s interesting
If this abstract passes through, it can take you a lot of places
The text is a responsibility
Don’t shortchange or underestimate yourself
You represent possibilities
Sanjiv represents history
It is only history that give you perspective
Perspective means distance to see the whole picture
Gender relations are fundamental
Need to know feminist theory or you’re behind

Use communication technology to create value
This will make us money
Learning how to create value
Is this of value to the people at the conference or not?
What do we get out of it?
It’s all about learning from day one
You’re going to be the team leader
A leader today is by definition, a teacher as well
When you graduate you will be looked at as a leader

We are the network society
We have to get into images
Visual reality
We have gotten the first bit of how these structures create a social space
It’s about a way of seeing

Read your syllabus again with ten steps in mind
You are doing this again for complex adaptive systems
The third is dynamic decision making
The fourth is unique innovative capabilities
These are due ASAP they are a moving target
These are the three opening structures and you’re going to finish these with the ten steps
They constitute 40% of your grade
These are the characteristics of successful global business/organizations
They are the way we do business today
They come from the research of Bartlett and Ghosal
By the time you finish all 4 you’ll have an idea of what these characteristics are and what they entail
By the time you finish it, you’ve got your foot in the door about it
As you start doing the second, third, and fourth, there will be more information coming on each of them
We will still be meeting on Tuesday, but we are on our own with the remaining three
An A only goes to someone who isn’t making life more difficult
Can’t ask fundamental questions anymore
Ask each other your questions
When you ask questions Sanjiv will you move down to and A-

Hard copies are only if you want to
Attendance is important
Show up in class, even if not much is being said
It is the only time you will meet as a group
Everyone in the B+ and A- range based off what is handed in

Regularity and reflections are very important in the Fishbowl
Self-reflections need examples
Don’t talk about another class’ group examples
Must be in the nitty-gritty of it all
Push your mind further
All of these moments are fragile
Then a shift takes place in your learning or perception
The shifts are what you want to capture
Shifts empower your texts
Underline theory in your paragraphs and raise the question: how so?

Structures are all very good
Take it further
Re-structure is meant to be in a single sentence
Always take it further
The further you take these words the simpler they become
This makes the felt experience easier
Learning is just proceeding in leaps and bounds
When you present it people will relate to you
Anecdotal stories
Experiences are very powerful

Do not use adjectives for dichotomies
Learning deep thinking/deep learning
Deep thinking: Google Search this
Google it and pull out a sentence
Hang your hat on the sentence
Anecdotal theory Jane Gallup: Google Search this
What you pull out shows how serious you are
REFLEXIVE LEADERSHIP

Next is Complex Adaptive Systems
Give a hard copy next week
Finish all four as soon as you can
Keep working on them
Building four short papers interactively
Keep these ongoing always
The viewer is thinking about their own business or situation onto your text
Abstract Expressionism: Google Search this

As we finish these, we are on the home stretch of this class
The understanding comes and goes
Revisit and get to know these terms
You’re approaching these terms from several levels
Don’t be stuck on some textbook definition
Develop it yourself
Keep informed where you’re at with these papers

Abstract expressionism in regard to papers
Captured and configured spontaneity
Did this consciously
Performative writing/action writing/active learning
You performed it when you acted on it
That is the choice you made, the selection
Started with an empty canvas (page)
Entered with a structure
Started creating something
Followed something intrinsically American: Freedom and Individuality
Free to select whatever word you wanted
Your selection and your paper were clearly your individual self
Tune into intrinsic American
Developed each paper with fee individual style
Papers aren’t intellectual
They’re action-oriented
They’re not philosophical
Developing a form of writing
Form is structure
You can take any form you want (American)
Your work is appreciated because it is your creation
You’re not representing something else
You’re representing something totally different
The concept of singularity is what you’re representing
We become the multitude
We all become singular

The movement of ideas in your paper, the trajectory/development is all happening in your subconscious
They’re manifestations of your psyche
Paper is a signature of your mind
You’ve made an imprint of your mind
Giving a prototype of how your mind works
They didn’t, but you did
You changed the way you think
Done by going into your inner self
The journey is inwards, not outwards
Only you can change the way you think

Layers of depth in your papers
And it looks like chaos
It is the outcome of a deliberate process
The process is the product
It’s your process that you’re selling
Selling your process
The process is in your 10+1 steps
Your ideas are all over the place and they’re compositions
COMPOSITION
Without clear focus points
It has sweeping statements
They embody and elicit emotions
You’re making statements which embody and elicit emotions
It’s a tangled mess of words bouncing around in every direction
It’s all good
Random fields of chaos and anyone can do it
The technique is simple
The paradox is that only you could’ve written that paper
Being global means, you want to configure your business in a way that the flow of money comes to you
Conceptualizing of your business undergoes a perceptual shift

Your privilege as a student is to deconstruct what the professor is saying and turn it into yours
Learning to take ownership
Can only take ownership when you deconstruct the other person
Nobody can write your paper
Nobody can reproduce what you’re doing
Tune into what you’re saying
Developing it in a professional way
Bottomline is that you’re deconstructing the words then adding your felt experience
PERFORMATIVE WRITING: Google Search this
ACTION LEARNING: Google Search this
Writing directly from your unconscious and revealing your hidden truths
That is where our differences lie

Yours is a signature technique
Your paper has a signature technique
You’re not looking for a hidden message
Letting the viewer determine their own message
You’re sharing your technique and inviting the viewer to do the same

Jackson Pollock: Google Search him
Abstract expressionist
Developed his own technique
He used the canvas on the floor and flung paint on it
Quintessentially American