My apologies for the short notice, but due to unforeseen circumstances I won't be available for todays hangout. Hangout #93 will be postponed until Thursday 10th December at 4pm GMT/UTC.
https://plus.google.com/events/ctvcat9o8l7l0rd72vpuvibbd20 Best wishes Jeremy. On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Alex Hough <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeremy > > I hope to make it to this week's hangout > > I was very interested to listen to Steve Schneider talk about hypertext > and Carlos mention discourse analysis - it a shame the two didn't meet. And > the brainstorming conversation, great stuff! The hangout gave rise to day's > brainstorming. Hangout 92 was a truly inspirational hangout. > > To cut a long story short, while on the edges of academia I thought I saw > an opening for TiddlyWiki. Back then I had very little joy, Steve's > TiddlyWiki initiative looks very exciting. > > Below comes with a TL/DR notice.. > > !! Hypertext and discourse analysis > > I am not a specialist in either hypertext of discourse analysis, but can > see great potential in hypertext and discourse analysis. A while back > Niklas Wagner was using a particular methodology with TW: "Grounded > Theory". Reading the thread [1] a few years later is quite interesting. Its > also great to see well populated TW Classic [2] - I miss the animations -- > especially the way the tiddlers close and the zoom from the MainMenu (I do > so much prefer the main menu on the right - we read right to left) > > I was on the edges of academic research at the time, the standard tool > used in the institution (a business school) at the time was NVivo [3] - I > briefly looked at it and found it to be the kind of software which makes me > love TiddlyWiki all the more. > > !! Creativity, Brainstorming, SUNY > > I was working as a consultant / research assistant - I wanted to use TW in > research. I produced a prototype tool for conducting Thematic Analysis (TA) > 4] another way of coding text. The tool combined TA with creativity > techniques, I was working with Tudor Rickards, a "creativity in business" > professor. > > We called it TAMPER. At the time it don't occur to me, but looking at one > of my professor friend's books, I see "Scamper" [5], a creativity technique > from Alex Osbourne [5.1], one of the people with a claim to inventing > brainstorming and an influence on creativity in education. > > At the time we were interested in making digital creativity tools for what > could be classed as "creative problem solving" [6]. > > The spiritual home of brainstorming and creativity techniques (for us in > Manchester at least) was the Creative Studies Program at Buffalo State [7], > Rickards had studied there in the late 1960s. > > (In 1960 Alex Osborn won the SUNY Chancellor's Medal [7]. SUNY > Connections? I assume that the creativity studies program is in SUNY, the > same SUNY Steve works for) > > We had several visitors from the centre: creativity in Manchester Business > School is a part of psychology department, Gerald Puccio had studied in > Manchester [7.1] > > At the time we were exploring Second Life. To the creativity people, it > seemed to offer an interesting environment for creativity, but one of the > master students was a big fan of VUE [8] - an open source tool. > > !! Dance and hypertext > > A few year later I was working with video and thinking about coding > movements. It's interesting that Jeremy mentioned the notation dancers use. > As I student I was on a course with dancers, it was fascinating to see them > in the corridors reading the notation and see them transform them into > movements. Unlikely as it may seem, I hypertext and dance are not unknown > to each other. > > The Compendium Institute also had a tool, it was used to help shape > internet choreography [9]. This was an Open University organisation, into > hypermedia discourse, dialogue mapping, it lives on on the form of > Knowledge Media Institute (KMI). Simon Buckingham-Shum [10] interests could > be said to include discourse analysis and hyper text, but his title is > professor of "learning informatics" > > In industry Laben's dance notation [11] was used to help workers in > factories move more efficiently. I also worked on a project with a HR guy > who was into Action Profiling, a type of personality profiling based on > analysis of movement [12] > > !! Informatics, Management information systems > > A professor of informatics at Manchester Business School introduced me to > Compendium. At the time, in "Academic Windows Land", Java based Compendium > enabled you to bring Word, Excel and Powerpoint into knowledge maps, it was > really quite a good tool. One of its uses was to help with Wicked Problems > [10] and decision making sciences. > > There seemed to be a lot of very clunky big software programs being > investigated by the informatics and management information systems people. > Then along came Web 2.0 and Open Source. I think this caused a shock to > many academic institutions..... > > !! Art thinking > > A big trend in industry is now "design thinking", I am using "art > thinking" as a perspective on all this creativity, hypertext, discourse > stuff. I use paper along side TiddlyWiki, the next step is to bring them > both together in a physical space as a kind of art installation. > > Yesterday my intention was to convert my paper maps into TiddlyWiki and to > do a "show and tell" at todays hangout: of course I was over estimating the > time I have to dedicate to this.... but I hope to share something / add to > the discussion later on today > > > > > > best wishes > > Alex > > [1] > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/BcH7tz2BFj8%5B1-25%5D > [2] http://nikiwiki.wagnern.de/ > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVivo > [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematic_analysis > [5] > https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7bh56o9m8vwC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=matrix+crawling+creativity&source=bl&ots=jKo5PPbV_A&sig=IB04mIYobhjGSPqq6LrjJj-EKh0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjcru7q2MvJAhVD2BoKHW_VAa8Q6AEINjAC#v=onepage&q=scamper&f=false > [5.1] > http://creativity.buffalostate.edu/alex-osborn-pioneer-creativity-education > [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_problem-solving > [7] http://creativity.buffalostate.edu/history > [7.1] http://creativity.buffalostate.edu/faculty/gerard-j-puccio > [8] http://vue.tufts.edu/ > [9] http://compendiuminstitute.net/news/rostra/news.php@r=55&t=2&id=31.htm > [10] http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/member/simon-buckingham-shum > [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labanotation > [12] http://www.limsonline.org/applied-laban-communication > [13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_thinking > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem > > > On 4 December 2015 at 17:32, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> TiddlyWiki Hangout #93 will be on Tuesday 8th December at 4pm GMT/UTC. >> >> Find out more and post questions: >> >> https://plus.google.com/events/ctvcat9o8l7l0rd72vpuvibbd20 >> >> As usual, I’ve created a TiddlySpot for the agenda: >> >> http://hangout-93.tiddlyspot.com/ >> >> I hope you can join me, and do please let me know if there are any topics >> that you’d like to see covered, >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8FDF71C5-C291-4A51-AD3A-5C813D878F40%40gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8FDF71C5-C291-4A51-AD3A-5C813D878F40%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CALc1hYeGp%3D1aN0u-AFFf630TakLrFUmRyPyzRHZiTjWPbG-kow%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CALc1hYeGp%3D1aN0u-AFFf630TakLrFUmRyPyzRHZiTjWPbG-kow%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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