Come join the new MIIS “Un” book club!
In an effort to continue the dialog started in the engaging in change workshop, a new “un” book club has organically formed through the chatter of yammer. The group has picked Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell as the first book to discuss.
So why is it an “un” book club?
While books are a great way to learn, they are in no way shape or form the only way to grasp a concept. This book club goes beyond the book and encourages everyone to use their own preferred medium to understand the ideas. Anything goes – video, podcasts, books, websites – just come ready to have a discussion about the main concepts presented in the book. Heck, you could even read a different book!
I’m in – how do I join!
We’re trying to schedule our first lunchtime meeting next week. Fill out your available times on our poll and Lynn McDonald will follow up with a personal email with the time and location. At this meeting we’ll discuss how we want to continue – figure out a good group name, meeting or not meeting schedule, food norms, and our main objective. If you can’t make our first meeting, updates will be posted on yammer.
See you next week!
The Digital Media Commons, or “DMC” in campus-speak, was one of fifteen pizza groups established last Fall during the first innovations campaign last year. The DMC is now a part of the Teaching & Learning Collaborative with an emphasis on innovation and project development supporting academic excellence on campus.
Six 20” iMac computers have been purchased with Kade Foundation grant funds for digital media production. These computers were installed in the new DMC space in August and will be a base for project development and production. They each have 500 GBs of storage, 2GB of RAM and support digital video, photo, and audio editing. They purposely do not run Microsoft Office, First Class e-mail or Outlook. Additional Academic Excellence funding has also been allocated for equipment and software resources. We are currently researching the purchase of a couple of digital audio recorders, a digital camera, a large plasma monitor for projection during trainings, a wireless microphone set-up, and a few others.
This year, the Innovation Incubator will challenge groups to design and implement ideas that respect the various cultures we have on campus while at the same time finding innovative solutions to the divisions and silos that get in the way of the effectiveness of the organization as a whole..