Category: Workshop
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Workshop: Headline Ideation at Client Executive Retreat
Today I conducted a workshop for 60 people at the offsite retreat of a large Civic Elevator customer. The purpose was to gather a wide set of objectives at the local business level in order to map efforts to the larger corporate strategy, which Civic has helped develop through extensive technology consulting.
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Arte Agora Lessons at SAE
Today I did my first Arte Agora lessons at Morgan Sayer’s art class st the SAE Institute Chicago. Two weeks before the session, introduce the concept of Arte Agora to the students. Define the term using the first portion of the book, provide a PDF of book, assign reading, and have a general discussion that…
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Workshop: Too Much Data?
Today I participated in a workshop with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs for the Pritzker Forum on Global Cities called, “Too Much Data?”
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Workshop: Evaluating Emerging Technologies
Today I helped Sharon Kennedy Vickers, Chief Information Officer for the City of Saint Paul to conduct a 4-hour workshop at the Code for America Summit: Evaluating Emerging Technologies. Here’s documentation, including notes on all table discussions.
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WORKSHOP: Philadelphia Connect Project for Code for America
Today I participated in a workshop in Philadelphia focused on brainstorming for one of the inaugural projects of the exciting new CodeForAmerica project. Really great stuff they’re working on.
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Workshop: Finding Yourself in Stuff: Identity in Found Poetry and Collage
Here’s a workshop I conducted today at 826CHI. WORKSHOP CHECKLIST: 1. Detailed explanation: see below 2. Syllabus: see below 3. Sessions: One session of 1.5 or 2 hours (see below for timing) 4. Dates/ times: I can do Monday or Wednesday weekday evening or any weekend afternoon 5. Age range: workshop can accommodate any of…
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Training: Poetry Lesson Plans Galore
Over the last few years, I’ve developed a number of poetry lesson plans and delivered them to schools all over the Chicago area. Here they are, for sharing and safe-keeping. FOUND POEMS Objective: Students will be introduced to the idea of found poetry– poetry that they find, isolate, and elevate. –We start by talking about…
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Training: Week-Long Computer Camp for Kids at Wright College
This month I taught a course of 15 elementary and high school students in a week-long “computer camp”. We had a great set of people who were eager to learn and well-behaved. On the first day of class we learned about our backgrounds with computers and the rules that we all followed at home about…