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I asked ChatGPT to create a Monster List of how Visual Thinking can help in the workplace. It seriously overdelivered.

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Like many people, I’ve been watching the fast-moving landscape of AI tools with equal parts excitement and horror. Will it put us all out of a job? Will it make us all better at our jobs? Who knows? I back my team and myself on our ability to bring a human touch to the work we deliver, but I guess t

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Shape Your Thinking is my talk at TEDxWindyCity 2013. Please do watch my "idea worth sharing," and scroll down for more about the experience.

First, a huge THANK YOU to Shannon Downey of Pivotal Production and the phenomenal Dream Team who crafted a beautiful event.

Plenty of folks dream of doing a TED/TEDx talk, and I know many smarties who have. You may pour your all into your 18-minutes-or-less. Yet. the production day itself and the video that follows may range from stellar to sucky. My experience was ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.

It was my great pleasure to be the first speaker, and was extremely generous to donate a marker and notebook kit to every person in our 700+ person full house.

Left: a participant draws as they listen. Right: Co-emcee Fazia Mirwa guides a giddy audience to unwrap their idea shaping kits.

Nothing beats giving each person beautiful tools to take action on what I share in my talk.

Every TEDx event has a theme, and our was Contrast. Our logo was a vibrant take on the train lines of the city.

I'm much more of an and person than an or person. I wove in the days contrast by sharing two types of thinkers.

Licensed clinical and counseling psychologist Linda Kreger Silverman assessed 6500+ students over her career, and found two types of learners. On the left, the auditory-sequential learners who:

Learn step-by-step

Think in images

Focus on details

On the right, the visual-spatial learners:

Learn all-at-one

Think in pictures

Find the connections between the details

This slide from the talk shows that two-thirds of us are visual-spatial.

, educational systems and workplaces!

I drew a third type in between that is the green hybrid.

This was my favorite moment from the stage. I asked the audience to raise their hand if they wanted to learn 5 steps to shape their thinking.

Hands shot up!

In the middle section of my talk, I walked us through the five steps of shaping your thinking:

Step 1 | Chunk: Pulling out the most useful chunks out of your big pile of info.

Mrs. Andrew blew my mind wide open in 6th grade when we learned how to write papers using index cards. These are recent stacks:

Step 2 | Sort + Group: Start moving around those chunks into groupings meaningful groupings

I share my Tangible To-Do List with sticky notes sorted and grouped three ways:

Update: You can learn more about this technique on pages 159-164 in . I describe the Tangible To-Do List at the end of the chapter on The Cluster.

Step 3 | Connect + Contain: Use line between ideas and around idea to represent relationships and qualities of your ideas

Plenty of knowing laughter from the audience when I shared my family tree drawn from my POV.

Step 4 | Scale: Changing the size of your canvas and the size of your ideas

I love massive shift in scale between the size of my hand on screen and my two Brandy-sized actual hands.

Below is the foamcore board I used to organize my talk. Going BIG to see all the ideas at once.

I'm pointing to the three 1" pins (from Chicago's own Busy Beaver Button Company) that distilled the 3 types of thinkers. Everyone got a set in their schwag bag.

Notice the timeline along the bottom? That's ticking off the 18 minutes of my talk. One sticky note per minute.

Step 5 | Grasp: Once you've worked the first four steps, you can grasp your thinking in new ways.

The third and final section of my talk was about creating "LibLabs" which blend the best of libraries and laboratories. Spaces, tools, and resources to shape thinking.

Three suggestions for LibLab-success:

1 | Give yourself permission to draw.

It only takes 1 comment to turn that drawing switch off. It can be switched back on now.

2 | Build an Idea Shaper Station

An example station full of supplies to grab and get thinking:

3 | Watch what you reward

My second favorite moment was contrasting the pretty, product-focused flipchart on the left against the messy one on the right where so heavy mental lifting happened.

More often the pretty one gets the praise. I take the process-focused one any day of the week. That's progress right there.

Done and done.

On the first break, I was in a sea of people in the lobby. A woman approached me and told a story about how she noticed her young son was always arranging blocks as he played. The next time she returned to her work she saw the brilliant parallel with the diagrams she would draw to shape her complex work.

She had a boss who asked, "Why are you always drawing boxes?" She lit up sharing this with me because she so clearly saw how she and her son thought in contrast to how her boss did.

The best.

Co-emcee Danny Bernardo, I swear unprompted by me, came to the stage and shared how he was using the sketchbook.

Also, the best.

Yet another best was the day concluding with The Dance Team synthesizing each of the 10 speakers' ideas in one piece. Collaborating with Christopher Knowlton at Metropolis Coffee in preparation was a perfect Grade A nerdfest.

I was delighted that our thinky TEDx day started and ended with kinesthetic methods.

Shout out to Jenni Grover who supported me throughout the lead up to the event. She's wearing the Snazzy Green person pin. And our smiles say it all.

July 2016 update: Christopher Knowlton is a contributor to our anthology Drawn Together Through Visual Practice . His article is "Dancineering, Researchals, Bodystorming, and Informance." It was pure pleasure working with Christopher.

November 2016 update: I knew the seeds of my next book were planted at TEDxWindyCity. The five steps you see in the video organize the 24 idea shapers in my book The Idea Shapers: The power of putting your thinking into your own hands .

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Shape Your Thinking is my talk at TEDxWindyCity 2013. Please do watch my "idea worth sharing," and scroll down for more about the experience.

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Drawing in class: Rachel Smith at TEDxUFM

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Geef jouw carrière een visuele boost! Wil jij communicatie naar een hoger niveau tillen? Vergaderingen organiseren met meer én blijvende impact? Ontdek het plezier en de kracht van zakelijk tekenen! Dan heb ik goed nieuws... Op grote vraag, organiseer ik op 6 september een ééndaagse training: Start-to-draw, visuele communicatie op het werk. dus... SAVE the DATE! Met de ééndaagse opleiding Start to Draw leer je de belangrijkste technieken en krijg je de tools in handen die je nodig hebt om aan de slag te gaan met visuele communicatie. Wat ga je leren? - In enkele seconden ingewikkelde concepten visualiseren - Zelfzeker mensen en emoties tekenen - Duidelijk en leesbaar je boodschap schrijven - Diepte, hiërarchie en structuur brengen in een visueel verhaal - Live verslag maken tijdens een meeting of gesprek - Templates maken om meetings beter voor te bereiden en te begeleiden - En nog veel meer Wat neem je mee naar huis? - Een pak technieken, tools en héél veel inspiratie en goesting - Mijn boek 'Start to Draw' visuele communicatie op de werkvloer - Een set professionele stiften van Neuland - Een jaar abonnement op Drawify en alle bijhorende webinars Succes, plezier en impact gegarandeerd! Wil je meer weten? reageer met 'Ik wil tekenen' en ik zorg ervoor dat je als eerste op de hoogte bent wanneer volgende week de inschrijvingen starten. En als opwarmer... alvast dit filmpje om heel veel zin te krijgen. Tot snel!! Ik heb er al keiveel zin in!

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Loosetooth.com - Brandy Agerbeck introduces The Essential 8

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Creating Clarity: In Conversation with Holger Nils Pohl

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Rev-thought: how do you value your time and your work? A man hired some workers early in the morning, saying he would pay them a silver piece for the days work. The following hour he found more workers, and made the same offer. Throughout the day he did the same thing every hour, with the same offer of a fair wage. Right up until the last person was hired and they only had an hour to work. At the end of the day, starting with the last worker, he paid everyone. He paid everyone a silver piece! Now the ones who started at the beginning of the day were seriously unhappy. Afterall, they had put up with a whole days work! This story flags up two sides: the attitude of the workers and the attitude of the business owner. And the angle we could explore is value. (There are others, but I'll stick to this for now) As creatives, counsultants, designers etc it's too easy to measure what we do by the hours we spend doing it. We look at our outgoings, calculate the amount we need to live on. Break that down into how many hours a day we need to work OR how much we need to charge per hour. And then it can become a race to the bottom to undercut the other people in the field. The result is we could end up working all day and finish with a feeling of having to have 'put up with' doing the work. Work is supposed to be fulfilling. If so, you DON'T want to end up with that kind of feeling. Here's what you might do. 1) find the people who firstly are generous. The man in the tale was generous. They do exist. 2) you'll find them as you are generous. What is it that isn't part of your core charge for offering that you can offer alongside? You'll never believe what people have recently been telling me they like about me... it's my enthusiasm! So I try and be generous with that. What's yours? 3) find the people who don't put a price on your time, but in the value that you can bring them. 4) you're the one who decides if you will accept the 'wage' they are offering or not. Do not be cross or jealous if someone else gets the same for less hours. To wrap up the story, The business man asked the grumblers and complainers one more question. He asked them why they were jealous of his generosity. That's madness. #business #work #people #wagesandsalaries #jealousy #biblewisdom

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We're thrilled to welcome our friend, Dan Roam, (author of Back of the Napkin, Draw to Win, Show and Tell, and Pop Up Pitch) to DC on July 20 for a one-day Pop-Up Pitch MasterClass! The class will teach thought leaders across business and government to create their most persuasive presentation using visual storytelling methods. Check out the video below, and hit our website for details and to buy a ticket. https://lnkd.in/e7hyk5dc And if your interested in sponsoring this event alongside LINK shoot me a message here!

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Dan Roam: Examining the Future of US Healthcare Reform
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Dan Roam
Author of Back of the Napkin

The World Technology Summit & Awards, presented by the World Technology Network in association with TIME, Fortune, CNN, Technology Review, Science, and Kurzweil Technologies, among others, at the TIME Conference Center has been called a gathering of "the people creating the 21st Century" -- the most innovative people in the world in science and technology and related fields. The conference theme this year is "SURVIVE 2012, PREPARE FOR 2021." Speakers ranging from Ray "Singularity" Kurzweil to Dan "Back of the Napkin" Roam to James "The Information" Gleick to Susan "President of the ACLU" Herman to Art "Scenarios" Kleiner take on the toughest issues facing us today so we can figure out how to navigate to tomorrow. An assortment of on-stage "demos" by Finalists from this year's World Technology Awards ensures that the audience has its finger on the pulse of current technological innovation. Culminating in the World Technology Awards gala ceremony from the United Nations Delegate's Dining Room, the overall experience is a concentrated peek at the future.

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Remote collaboration is hard. Good facilitation helps. The facilitator plays an important role in bringing people together and accomplishing the intended work.

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Rachel S. Smith knows. She's an expert on remote collaboration and facilitation and a Senior Consultant and the Director of Digital Facilitation Services for The Grove Consultants International in San Francisco, CA.

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Rachel develops ways to integrate technology into visual practice. She has a deep understanding of new media and its application to education. Rachel is a skilled visual facilitator and recorder and works with groups both both face-to-face and virtually. She blogs at Digital Facilitation and tweets under @ninmah.

I caught up with Rachel in an interview via email. Here’s what she has to say.

JIM: Tell us a little about yourself and your company, The Grove. What's your secret sauce and what role do you play in the company?

RACHEL: The Grove Consultants is a small company, with only 12 employees. We're a consulting firm and publisher in the area of organizational change. Our secret sauce is that we work visually, and all of our work is graphically facilitated, which means that we use words and images to capture what happens in the meeting.

All group activities are supported by visual tools like templates, sticky notes, and so on. Using visual tools transforms group work in amazing and wonderful ways. We also offer workshops on graphic facilitation, large-scale organizational change, process consulting, strategic visioning, and facilitating remote collaboration.

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JIM: So what's your role at The Grove?
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RACHEL: I have a dual role at Grove; I'm a consultant and trainer, so I work with clients and lead workshops, but I'm also involved in research and development. My background is a mix of art, teaching, facilitation, and technology, and I'm really curious about the ways we can work visually with people at a distance.

I've seen over and over how much it changes the way people work, the amount they are able to do, and how much they enjoy doing it, when they are able to work visually; and I've also seen over and over how painful it is to try to do complex collaborative work with people who are not in the same room together.

Bringing visual tools to remote work makes a huge difference in the experience of working at a distance, so that's my area of R&D: I play with technology, imagine and explore how it can be used to support remote visual work, and teach people about it.

I also have a personal mission, and a message, that ties into what I do. A lot of people deeply believe they can't draw, because a long time ago when they were young, an adult told them they couldn't in one way or another. My personal mission is to help everyone I work with unlock the door in their head that got locked the day they started to believe they can't draw. Everybody can draw. Not everybody is going to be a great artist, but everybody can draw well enough to communicate. So I help people realize and experience that.

My message has to do with technology, and it's pretty simple. Everyone who uses technology for anything has experienced it failing on them. A lot of people are afraid to use it, especially for work, because of this, and they think that there is a magical level of competence that experts have, where technology never fails. My message is this: Nope, it fails for everybody once in awhile. That's just how it is. The experts just know they need to have backup plans. People find this very comforting :-)

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Rachel's TEDx talk on drawing

JIM: Remote collaboration and remote facilitation can be interpreted in many ways. In your opinion, how do we best understand and define those concepts?
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RACHEL: In the work I'm doing, remote collaboration and remote facilitation are different but related activities.

Remote collaboration is working interdependently with other people who are not co-located; that is, on a team engaged in remote collaboration, the work can't be done by only one person, and the work that each person does feeds into and pulls from someone else's work also, but those people don't go to the same office or building to work every day. It can be ongoing work or temporary, project-based work, and it's usually complex. Often, when I talk about remote collaboration, people think I mean virtual meetings, but meetings are only a part of remote collaborative work.

Remote facilitation is making it easier for people to do work, without being in the same room they are in. Although there are professional facilitators (I'm one of them), there are lots of ways to be facilitative that anyone on a remote team can employ.

The model of facilitation that I'm working with was developed here at The Grove by David Sibbet and Laurie Durnell. It breaks group dynamics into seven stages:

Orienting to purpose

Connecting people

Drawing out information

Getting closure on agreements

Supporting action

Monitoring progress

Leveraging learning

The sequence isn't strictly linear, but it's useful to think of it as a process.

At each of those stages, a facilitator can do specific things to help a group or team work better together, be more efficient, and achieve its outcomes. Remote facilitation calls for special considerations, special tweaks and adjustments, because the setting is so different. Again, people tend to think of remote facilitation as belonging to virtual meetings, but one of the things I'm exploring is how people can be facilitative in between meetings, when ongoing work is actually happening.

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JIM: Lets just focus on remote collaboration for a minute. What are the biggest challenges you see people facing when engaging in remote collaboration, as you describe it?

RACHEL: We actually surveyed people and asked them this question. The responses fell into three broad categories:

People-related challenges, including online behavior, lack of experience with tools, and feelings about working remotely

Technology-related challenges, which are usually about tools being hard to use or not working properly or the infrastructure not supporting what people were trying to do

Setting-related challenges, such as real life events or sounds intruding into virtual settings, or having to be sitting down at a computer in order to do the work.

The most-cited challenges were in the people group, and I think this is reflective of how hard it is to connect with and be in the flow with someone who isn't in the same room you are in. Once you get to know someone well, it gets easier; but it takes a lot longer to get to that state when you're working remotely.

Another challenge that I personally experience as a facilitator in this space is that a lot of my clients can't access the emerging tools that would let them work visually, because they are working within fairly restrictive company IT policies. They may be using an outdated web browser, or they may be unable to access certain websites or install client software on their own workstations. Policies like these are in place for reasons of security and workforce management, which I understand, but they also make it very challenging to use current approaches to working collaboratively.

There are a host of other challenges, but those are the ones that are top of mind for me right now.
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JIM: What are the top two or three recommendations for overcoming the people-related challenges?
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RACHEL: I think a lot of the people-related challenges stem from a failure to grasp that meeting remotely actually takes more preparation than meeting face-to-face. There's often an assumption that we're just going to pick up the phone, maybe click a link to get into a web conference, and after that everything is the same as if we were meeting in one room; but it isn't the case.

It takes a lot more effort to handle the basic things that people need in order to function well in a group setting. People come in to a group setting with a common set of questions: why am I here? who else is here? what are we supposed to do? how are we supposed to behave together? when can we leave? If those questions aren't handled, people disengage and feel dissatisfied.

So my top recommendation is to handle those questions right from the start.

Make sure everyone understands the outcomes of the engagement.

Make an opportunity for people to introduce themselves in a graceful way that makes sense and doesn't involve people talking over one another.

Create and share a clear agenda and establish ground rules.

Make sure everyone understands how the tech works, and/or have someone on hand who can help.

And be clear about how long the meeting is going to last.

Just handling those few, obvious-seeming things will go a long way toward eliminating a lot of the issues that were listed under 'people problems' in our survey.

JIM: We touched on remote facilitation briefly earlier. Is this were the facilitator then needs to come in -- to make sure everyone understands the outcomes and logistics? What else does the facilitator do?
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RACHEL: The facilitator often designs the process and outcomes in partnership with the meeting sponsor or steering committee, and then either the meeting sponsor or the facilitator will orient the group to the agenda and outcomes at the start of the meeting. The facilitator usually is responsible for the process during the meeting -- what we would think of as the flow -- although sometimes this is shared with the meeting sponsor.

The facilitator is also responsible for creating and maintaining a safe space for participants to contribute, which encompasses quite a lot of behaviors.

A graphic facilitator will also be capturing and organizing the content of the discussion, or orienting the group to an online tool like MURAL and helping them contribute and make sense of the contributions. A facilitator may also serve as a moderator for discussions when that role is needed, help the group transition from one topic or activity to another, close the meeting, and provide or assist with follow-up materials. There are a lot of other things the facilitator might do; too many to cover comprehensively here.

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JIM: Let's talk tools for minute. How should people best approach the technology in remote collaboration? What are the important things to keep in mind when selecting and using tools?
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RACHEL: When people ask me what tools they should use for remote collaboration, I advise them to first get really clear on the outcomes they want to achieve in a given session or workflow.

Then I ask them to design a process to support the outcomes, and only then look for a tool or tools to support the process. I recognize that this is a little tricky since there are so many different options out there, and it's hard to know what's even possible if you don't have time to research collaborative tools yourself.

However, people tend to get excited about a tool and work forward from there (the tool determines the process, and the process determines the outcomes), and that's a little backwards.

When someone is at the point of picking tools to support a process, I advise them to list the must-have and the nice-to-have features for the tool, if they can.

Then it's best to try two or three, if possible, because different people will prefer different interfaces or look-and-feel combinations. This is also not easy and takes a lot of time, and sometimes the first choice doesn't end up being the best one.

I have very few 'best tool ever' recommendations, and I always try to find out as much as possible about a given situation before recommending anything.

I wish I had a better answer for this question, but for now, I don't. One of the pieces that I'm building to complement the book is a source of reviews for online collaboration tools that are linked to practices in the book, so if you want to do practice X, you could look at the reviews for a set of tools that support it. Hopefully that will help narrow down the field a bit for people.

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JIM: So what are those situations in which you'd recommend using MURAL? What remote collaboration processes benefit from that tool?
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RACHEL: I'd recommend MURAL when the outcomes include any of the following:

Getting everyone engaged: People are more engaged when they have something active to do. MURAL builds that in because everyone can create and move sticky notes and interact with the material directly rather than watching someone else do it.

Getting input from everyone: Whether it's in a synchronous session where everyone is on a call and using MURAL together, or an asynchronous project where people can drop in and make changes when it's convenient, using a tool like MURAL lets everyone contribute. This is particularly useful in situations where it's hard for some people to speak up because of the awkwardness of taking turns talking in a remote meeting, or because they are more reflective thinkers, or where the team is separated by wide time zone differences.

Generating and sorting lots of ideas: One of the things I love about MURAL is that everyone can generate ideas and then everyone can work with them, because you can see each idea and move it around. Once it's out there, it's easy to deal with the idea independently of the person who suggested it, so teams can focus on the merit of each idea rather than always following certain people or discounting others. Having people generate and then cluster ideas is a quick way to show where there is a lot of interest -- you'll see right away where there are a lot of variations on a given theme.

Making sense of complex systems or processes: Process diagramming is incredibly useful when you have a large team and not everyone knows what everyone else is doing, which tends to happen with remote teams. Getting everyone together to collectively diagram a process gives the whole team access to the big picture when parts of it are stored in different people's heads. With MURAL, each person can create notes that show the part of the process he or she understands, and then everyone can arrange all the pieces into the full process. Working through this process can reveal where work is duplicated or where there are opportunities to increase efficiency in other ways, too.

Comparing different choices and making a decision: Using a very simple high-low grid or a 1 to 10 agreement scale, groups can quickly sort choices to get a visual sense of relative difficulty vs. expense (for example), or see whether there is agreement around a proposal or not. MURAL makes this really easy; just drop in a framework template, write ideas on stickies (for the grid) or people's names on stickies (for the agreement scale), and drag the stickies to show where they fall.

JIM: Thanks, Rachel!

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Research has shown that creating a faculty presence can greatly enhance the learning experience in any course. The use of video and multimedia is an excellent way for instructors to build a faculty presence and increase student engagement. To that end, Instructional Technology and Design Services (ITDS) offers support for the integration of video and multimedia into Montclair State University courses. The ITDS Team can assist faculty in the creation of high-quality video in our professional studio and editing facilities.

The University has also adopted Panopto as a tool for creating engaging and accessible video. Panopto is an all-in-one video platform. It not only provides desktop lecture recording and automatic captioning services, but also offers pedagogical features to add learning interactions within a video. It is seamlessly integrated with the Canvas learning management system, and Montclair State's solution of choice for recording lectures.

More information on the tools available for your next video project may be found below!

Lightboard

A Lightboard, also known as learning glass, is a writable glass board, most commonly used for recording video lectures. Lightboards function exactly as chalkboards or whiteboards, except lightboards allow the instructor to face the camera while writing. They are also equipped with LED lights to illuminate your work, which is drawn with neon markers. Lightboards provide an innovative and intuitive way to engage your students with video.

Studio IT!

Instructional Technology and Design Services (ITDS) has a professional recording studio for faculty to create course introduction videos or record screencasts using Panopto. The studio provides a quiet space for recording, and professional resources to provide you with high quality video and audio for engaging content. Reserve time in our studio or schedule a 1-on-1 consultation with our Multimedia Specialist to discuss your next video project. You can also schedule time to talk about the different production options we offer to create your next amazing video!

Register for a time slot by emailing Rose Lamela at lamelar@montclair.edu.

Examples of Multimedia Options

Below are some examples of the video and multimedia options created in our studio. Contact ITDS@montclair.edu for more information regarding Panopto or to set up a consultation with our Media Specialist.

Introductions

A simple introduction video is a great starting point. It gives the instructor a chance to briefly introduce who they are, what the course is about and what students can expect throughout the term. With a short video of 1-2 minutes, instructors can provide a visual prologue to the course, infusing their personality, much like the first day of class in a traditional face to face setting.

Interviews

Do you have someone you would like to interview to enhance the content of your course? We can record your interview as a two person set up or we can just feature the person of interest. We can also edit the interview to only include the key points you need or in a casual, conversational format. Interviews can be recorded in our studio or at another location on campus.

Animations

Animation is a great way to explain a concept visually. Using simple animations can make course material that is normally hard to understand easier to learn. Research shows that animation can enhance learning, but is not ideal in all cases. Some concepts are enhanced by static images. We can help in deciding what works best, animation or high res images.

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Geri, N., Winer, A., & Zaks, B. (2017, February) Probing the Effect of Interactivity in Online Video Lectures on the Attention Span of Students: A Learning Analytics Approach. Proceedings of the 12th Chais Conference for the Study of Innovation and Learning Technologies: Learning in the Technological Era, Raanana: The Open University of Israel.

Kovacs, G. (2016, April). Effects of In-Video Quizzes on MOOC Lecture Viewing. In Proceedings of the Third (2016) ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale (pp. 31-40). ACM.

Obodo U, Baskauf S (2015). BSCI 111b: Introduction to Biological Sciences Laboratory, BOLD Fellows Project Gallery. (accessed 8 March 2017).

Schacter, D. L., & Szpunar, K. K. (2015). Enhancing attention and memory during video-recorded lectures. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 1(1), 60.

Vural, O. F. (2013). The Impact of a Question-Embedded Video-Based Learning Tool on E-Learning. Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 13(2), 1315-1323.

Burch, B. (2018). Video Length in Online Courses: What the Research Says, Research and Best Practices, Quality Matters, retrieved from: https://www.qualitymatters.org/qa-resources/resource-center/articles-resources, 2018.

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Visit our new website!

The IFVP Institute was formed in 2019 as the 501(c)(3) arm of the IFVP.

The IFVP Institute is formed for charitable and educational purposes. More specifically, the IFVP Institute is organized and operated to promote the development and application of visual thinking and practices, such as graphic recording and graphic facilitation, through sponsored research, public education programs, and related activities.

Visual practice is a rapidly growing field with applications in business, government, nonprofit, and educational sectors. The origins of this field date back to the beginnings of human civilization when cave paintings and hieroglyphics served as the early means for humans to express and spread ideas and to communicate. In modern times, as organizations grew in their size and complexity, there has been a resurgence of interest in the visual practice field, as companies struggled to apply whole system approaches to increasingly complex problems. The broad appeal of the visual practice medium rests in its characteristic combination of visual and verbal elements, which work to support a shared understanding and collaboration.

The IFVP Institute will conduct these activities both domestically in the United States and internationally, particularly in countries in which IFVP has an established presence. The IFVP Institute will bring together students, teachers, and practitioners in the visual practice community.

The current board is composed of a president ( Phil Bakelaar), a secretary ( Raquel Benmergui) and a treasurer ( Renatta Algalarrondo).

On June 15th we received our Letter of Determination from the US Internal Revenue Service which allows us to receive tax deductible donations as well as grants.

You can make a tax deductible donation at this link.

If you would like to become more involved, contact us at institute@ifvp.org.
FAQ
Why do we need a 501(c)(3)? The IFVP was originally chartered in 1995 as a 501(c)(6) organization. This is used for a business promotion association that may do lobbying on behalf of the interests of its members. It does not qualify as a tax deductible organization for donations or grant purposes. As the field has grown, it is clear that we would be well served by being able to offer tax deductions to corporations and businesses that appreciate our practice and would want to be associated with our development as a field. A 501c3 will also allow us to support the yearly annual conference with corporate sponsors and begin to plan research projects and accept applications for charitable grant projects, many of which are already done by our members but either as pro bono or for nominal pay.

What expenses does the Institute have? None of the board are paid. We have basic organizational needs such as DO insurance and bookkeeping expenses for annual filings and audit. There are no paid staff at this time, although we envision a time when there will be an Executive Director and support staff (perhaps a building!).

What can I do to help? There are a variety of opportunities to help.

1. When you are doing GR/GF work, you can have materials on hand to promote the IFVP and the Institute to clients.

2. Consider serving on a committee

3. Consider applying to serve on the board

What is the relationship of the Institute to the IFVP? The Institute is a separate corporation. The board of the Institute is appointed by the IFVP Board of Directors.

What are the tax benefits to non-US donors? We are continuing to research this. It appears that non-US donors can receive tax benefits for any US taxes due.

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Get Everyone Literally on the Same Page for Change!

Charting Change - A Visual Toolkit for Making Change Stick is the new book from Braden Kelley.

This follow-up to Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire focuses on the best practices of Human-Centered Change, published by Palgrave Macmillan, is now available at all of the Amazon online bookstores ( USA, UK, CA, DE, FR, JP) and many other retailers around the world.

BookDepository.com ships FREE to nearly 90 countries.

UPDATE: An Amazon Kindle version is now available in English at various Amazon sites around the world ( USA, UK, CA, AU, DE, FR, JP)!

UPDATE: Charting Change is now available on Google Play as an eBook!

UPDATE: Charting Change is available as an eBook on the Palgrave web site!

What People Are Saying

"There's no denying it: Change is scary. But it's also inevitable. In Charting Change, Braden Kelley gives you a toolkit and a blueprint for initiating and managing change in your organization, no matter what form it takes."
- Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To Sell is Human

"Thoughtful, thorough, and practical is the rare blend that Braden has achieved in this Change Management field guide. Much more than a series of tactics, Charting Change will explicitly, sequentially, and visually help users create a diverse set of experiences for stakeholders that will most certainly increase likelihood of success."
- Eric D. Hieger, Psy.D., Business Transformation and Change Leadership Practice Lead at ADP

"As the pace of change speeds up, the market disruptions and resulting changes can be daunting for all. We all wish we could predict how change will affect our business, our market and our people. No matter what business area you come from, change affects us all and can produce great outcomes when managed well. In Braden Kelley's newest book, Charting Change, he provides a terrific toolkit to manage this process and make it stick."
- Denise Fletcher, Chief Innovation Officer, Xerox

"Braden Kelley and his merry band of guest experts have done a nice job of visualizing in Charting Change how to make future change efforts more collaborative. Kelley shows how to draw out the hidden assumptions and land mines early in the change planning process, and presents some great techniques for keeping people aligned as a change effort or project moves forward."
- Phil McKinney, retired CTO for Hewlett-Packard and author of Beyond the Obvious

"Higher employee retention? Increased revenue? Process enhancements? Whatever your change goal, Charting Change is full of bright ideas and invaluable visual guides to walk you through change in any area where your organization needs it."
- Marshall Goldsmith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Triggers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There

The Opportunity

Innovation is about change, and organizations and individuals resist change. But, if you look around the business ecosystem, you'll see that the companies that successfully innovate in a repeatable fashion and stay at the top of their industries have one thing in common - they are good at managing change.

Research shows that up to seventy percent of all change initiatives fail. Let's face it, change is hard, as is getting an organization on board and working through the process. One thing that has been known to be effective is onboarding teams not only to understand this change, but to see the process and the progress of institutional change. Charting Change will help teams and companies visualize this complicated process.

- Download the sample chapter

The Concept

I developed the Human-Centered Change methodology and the Change Planning Canvas™ to enable leadership and project teams to easily discuss the variables that will influence the change effort and organize them in a collaborative, visual, human way. It will help managers build a cohesive approach that can be more easily embraced by employees who are charged with the actual implementation of change. Charting Change will teach readers how to use this visual toolkit to build a common language and vision for implementing change.

Download the sample chapter and find out more about how they can help.

The Supplemental Book Materials

Book buyers will get access to the Change Planning Toolkit Basic License which includes access to 26 of the 70+ frameworks, worksheets, and other tools (including the Change Planning Canvas™) in a 11″x17″ downloadable PDF format.

Click here to purchase the Change Planning Toolkit Basic License now on this web site and get instant access to the supplemental materials and a digital version of the book.

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Where to Buy the eBook
The Case Studies in Charting Change
Challenge Top Down Change (@NHSEngland, @HSJnews and @NursingTimes)

NHS Improving Quality, a national improvement body of NHS England, working in partnership with the Health Service Journal (HSJ) and the Nursing Times (NT) national healthcare management titles to challenge top down change.
Qualcomm Flux - Babak Forutanpour The Guest Experts in Charting Change Beth Montag Schmaltz (@bethmschmaltz) Dion Hinchcliffe (@dhinchcliffe) Matthew E. May (@matthewemay) Ty Montague (@tmontague) and Rosemarie Ryan (@RosemarieRyan) Tanveer Naseer, MSc. (@TanveerNaseer) Brett Clay (@sellingchange) Ayelet Baron (@ayeletb) Seth Kahan (@sethkahan) Rohit Talwar (@fastfuture) Table of Contents from Charting Change
Babak Forutanpour (@bababinke) is a curious soul, an engineer, a UX Technologist, and a VFX Artist. He is the founder of Qualcomm's FLUX and Co-Creator of Don't Dream Alone. Creator of the @TheAryaBall.

Beth Montag Schmaltz is a Founding Partner at 71 & Change, a strategy and implementation consulting company that designs and implements solutions to address today's workforce challenges. Most importantly, we believe that Your People = Your Success.

Dion Hinchcliffe is a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research. He is a well-known business strategist, enterprise architect, book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, and transformation consultant.

Matthew E. May is a strategy facilitator, innovation coach, and lean trainer. Author of four books (including The Laws of Subtraction and The Elegant Solution), working on a 5th.

Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of co:collective, a strategy and innovation company that works with leadership teams to conceive and execute innovation in customer experience using a proprietary methodology called StoryDoing ©.

Tanveer Naseer is an award-winning and internationally-acclaimed leadership writer, author of the book "Leadership Vertigo", keynote speaker, and founder of Tanveer Naseer Leadership, a leadership coaching firm.

Brett Clay is the Founder and President of Change Leadership Group, LLC and author, "Selling Change, 101 Secrets for Growing Sales by Leading Change."

Ayelet Baron is a futurist helping to build thriving 21st century organizations with conscious leaders who drive shared purpose. Ayelet is a keynote speaker and author whose purpose is to open people's minds and hearts about what's possible when we lifework in abundance.

Seth Kahan is an executive advisor who guides CEOs on leading change and innovation to create powerfully positive impact.
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Rohit Talwar is a global futurist and CEO of Fast Future Research and Fast Future Publishing. He is the editor of The Future of Business - published in June 2015.
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Acknowledgements

Preface

Change Planning Canvas™ (2-page foldout)

Chapter 1 - Changing Change

Chapter 2 - Planning Change

Chapter 3 - Understanding the Current State

BONUS FEATURE - NHS (Case Study - Challenging Top Down Change)

Chapter 4 - Exploring Readiness for Change and Transitions

Chapter 5 - Envisioning the Desired State

BONUS FEATURE - Seth Kahan (Guest Expert - Generating Dramatic Surges of Progress)

Chapter 6 - Picking the Right Target for Your Change Effort

Chapter 7 - The Benefits of Change

Chapter 8 - The People Side of Change

Chapter 9 - Barriers and Obstacles to Change

BONUS FEATURE - Matthew E May (Guest Expert - Reverse Engineer Your Strategy)

Chapter 10 - Not Everything about Change is Wonderful

Chapter 11 - Breaking it Down

Chapter 12 - Now What (The Resource Challenge)

BONUS FEATURE - Beth Montag-Schmaltz (Guest Expert - Change Saturation)

Chapter 13 - Building the Case for Change

BONUS FEATURE - Brett Clay (Guest Expert - Selling Change)

Chapter 14 - Communicating Change

BONUS FEATURE - Ty Montague and Rosemarie Ryan (Guest Experts - StoryDoing)

Chapter 15 - Leading Change

BONUS FEATURE - Tanveer Naseer (Guest Expert - Leading Change)

Chapter 16 - Innovation is All about Change

BONUS FEATURE - Babak Forutanpour (Case Study - Qualcomm Flux)

Chapter 17 - Project and Portfolio Management Are About Change

BONUS FEATURE - Dion Hinchcliffe (Guest Expert - Digital Transformation Best Practices)

Chapter 18 - The Future of Change

BONUS FEATURE - Rohit Talwar (Guest Expert - The Future of Business)

BONUS FEATURE - Ayelet Baron (Guest Expert - Change is Abundant in the 21st Century)

About the Author

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