Re: providing information

2002-08-03 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
Romy-- << >Michel Grief has written a very interesting book, The Visual Factory: Building Participation Through Shared Information >> I see that I have misspelled the name--should be Greif. Published in English, 1991, by Productivity Press; originally published in French as L'Usine S' Affiche,

Re: providing information -- (long from Ed Ball)

2002-08-03 Thread Edward Ball
Good morning, Julie After about 26 years on various university campuses I would like to ask that you 1. take off the traditional "professor/instructor/teacher" hat, 2. leave behind the constructs that go with "teaching/sharing information/testing/skill set demonstrations/grading," 3. challenge

Re: Space Invader at the Inviters Meeting

2002-08-03 Thread Ralph Copleman
On 8/1/02 10:01 PM, "Douglas D. Germann, Sr." <76066@compuserve.com> wrote: > He has an agenda different from mine (it's good to > admit I have one too, yes?) Doug, It's CRUCIAL that you admit you have an agenda. That way he and you (and anyone else) can gauge if you're various agendas can

Re: providing information -- (long from Ed Ball)

2002-08-03 Thread Julie Smith
Ed, I just realized one more thing. One of the aspects of mediation that always appealed to me was the complete lack of authority I had in my role as mediator. I reveled in that aspect of my role. It is that same lack of authority that appeals to me in the role of OST facilitator. The concept o

Re: Space requirements for 400?

2002-08-03 Thread Michael Herman
well, let's see how my math holds up in light of this spreadsheet of yours, koos... 100 feet by my 40% rule would leave perhaps 85 feet circle with some space around it, that's an outer circle of 215 chairs (my range was 200-250 i think) and if you squeezed it to 90 feet, leaving just 10 feet on t

Re: providing information -- (long from Ed Ball)

2002-08-03 Thread Julie Smith
Gosh, Ed! Thanks! What a great story. This part of your story is especially useful to me: >> Visualize, if you will, a university course on intercultural communication. 37 upper division students taking a required course. The first class meeting was devoted to sharing the departmental and univ

Re: Space requirements for 400?

2002-08-03 Thread Michael Herman
hi doug, can't recall the formula just now... but do know that i've reduced it all to 40%. that is, if you want a circle of 100 chairs, it'll be 40 feet across. since you don't need all 400 in a single row, perhaps run 40% of 200-240 and figure there is room inside of that for another couple of r

Re: providing information

2002-08-03 Thread romy shovelton
Message text written by OSLIST >Michel Grief has written a very interesting book, The Visual Factory: Building Participation Through Shared Information, about putting an organization's information in visual form and posting it in an accessible place, so anyone in the organization can go and get nee

Re sharing contacts and opening more space

2002-08-03 Thread romy shovelton
Message text written by OSLIST >Hi Romi' Good to hear from you again Aproppo 'providing information' I will be very glad to learn what ever happened with that client I referred to you. Was there an OS, how was it? (sorry but I do not have your address, my computer address book was erased and I am

Re: providing information

2002-08-03 Thread romy shovelton
Message text written by OSLIST > Is it possible to use OST to facilitate learning about a specific and limited skill-set, like mediation?< Julie my sense would be that it might be best to teach the skill-set separately - in a way that fits with those skills (and perhaps mindful of OST p