reflection: old skool and new skool

December 6th, 2011

Journal

• Handwritten Thought Storage

• Mobile?

Gazebo

• Fixed, specialized location

Meditation Bells• The sonic creation of reflective space

Tarot

• A very likely random portrait of reality

Sand Mandala• Highly ritualized: process, creation & destruction

FourSquare• Location-based social networking for mobile devices

• Users check in to their location, share with friends, unlock badges

• FourSquare can push information to your mobile

Amazon’s Highlighting Feature

• Amazon’s ereader allows users to highlight and share passages

• “Popular Highlights” feature shows what other users have highlighted

• Amazon keeps record of your highlights and notes

Wordle

• Visualization of written text, tag cloud of weighted data

Joe Ergo• Desktop

application that reminds user to stretch

• Demonstrates stretching exercises, user sets intervals for reminders

e-portfolios• electronic evidence collected and managed

by a user

Activity• Choose 2 tools

• What are the qualities of each platform that could allow for or prompt reflection?

• How would one use them for reflection in their everyday lives?

• We’ll take 15 minutes

NEW SKOOL

• FourSquare

• Social highlighting

• Wordle

• Stretching software

• Eportfolios

OLD SKOOL

• Journal

• Gazebo

• Meditation Bells

• Tarot Cards

• Sand Mandalas

Reflection Ideas

• History channel--when folks check in, historical facts are pushed to them.

• FourSquare reminds you what you were doing 1 year ago today.

Group Reflection Tesseract

• What is reflection for?

Group Reflection Tesseract

• What is reflection for?

• How can we value and model reflection in the technologies we create?