Brainstorming+(Archives)

=Brainstorming Archives= To cut down on clutter, all past brainstorming sessions will be moved to here.

=(2010)=

iED Oregon Island Brainstorming

 * Note from Jonathon:** If you have SOMETHING geographic in nature to add - we should start building capacity for that on the Oregon Island -- this Pattern Language could be very powerful as a means to launch collaborative, creative agendas - and for developing K-12 and higher edu curriculum. Let's brainstorm how to arfully and economically do this. We can do that brainstorming on the wiki (e.g. natural resources we might consider? locating our respective institutions - with what spin? any projects that might be interested in giving us "stuff" to link to and/or showcase on virtual Oregon? -- how might people be engaged as they come to Immersive Oregon?, etc.

Group Name Brainstorming:

 * And the winning name is....** Pixel Mountain

Brainstorming Names for the consortium Grid, not related to actual region or place:
 * Mirror Mountain Grid (mirror = conjuring the idea of "reflective practice", mountain = something big and tangible, as opposed to virtual and ephemeral)
 * The Virtual Apprentice Grid
 * Something that conjures the idea or image of wisdom: Owls, Foresight, horizon, etc.
 * An animal that conjures up images from the NorthWest (trying to stay away from college mascots is hard): Salmon, Elk, Mountain Lion, etc)
 * A learning-centric philosophical bent, noting that a lot of grids don't specifically conjure learning to mind and that might help us: "Roots and Wings", "The Owl's Eye Learning Network", or "discovery grid" or something...
 * Chautauqua
 * maybe even "little red schoolhouse" grid would be fun - but the anachronistic thing maybe not so much a good frame in the end
 * Tribe, Team, Group, Federation- something to express our distributed work nature and open collaborative spirit.
 * Exploration, Pioneer, Discovery, Inquiry, pushing the envelope, knowledge-seekers - something expressing that we like to discover new ways of doing things and look at their efficacy & unique affordances.

Additions from 01/12/11 meeting:
 * Pixel Mountain (pixel seems to be a popular word choice amongst the group so far)
 * Do we want to include focus on the region? - Include the term "Northwest" ?
 * collective, hive, tribe - Northwest Pixel Hive, Northwest Pixel Tribe
 * PET: Pixel Education Tribe, PET NW (northwest)
 * learning, instruction, literacy, study, experience, design, scholar, virtual words, immersive, synchronous, social, 3D, avatars, pixels, scripting, network, research, pedagogy/angragogy
 * Pixelated Angragogy Northwest (PAN), Pixelated Pedagogy Northwest
 * Virtual Education Northwest (VENW)
 * Education Immersion NW (EIN)
 * Pixelated Avatar Scholars (PAS)