Stanford Social Innovation Review
Lessons from Inside a Nonprofit Accelerator “Boot Camp”
Overview of how we are bootstrapping peer learning initiatives over at stellar.org.
#InventAnything: Building a Learning Community for littleBits
Four week-long online course to bring folks together to learn from each other. Over 4,000 folks showed up to learn together. Designed in concert with Chloe Varelidi, Director of Global Community at littleBits.
How an Educator Came to <3 Crypto
Money from the Future
Prototype of peer learning activities for Stellar.org.
Presented at the Embassy Network, April 24, 2015
“On the Stack” with Alex Hillman (now on iTunes!)
Session 3 - “On the Stack” with Alex Hillman & Vanessa Gennarelli
Listen at: http://listen.coworkingweekly.com/episodes/5508-session-3-on-the-stack-with-alex-hillman-vanessa-gennarelli
On The Stack for this session:
- Accreditation (wtf is that)?
- How we create goals
- Open governance
Links from the show:
- Emergent Research:
- is a part of
- circa 2008
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- Episode 1 - when he started working for Indy Hall
The Art of the Lovebomb: How to Celebrate Success in Your Community
Presented with pal at MozFest 2014 in Ravensbourne, London UK
Tools for the Bleeding Edge of Open
We know designing a creative, participatory community can be tricky. We’re here to help you craft assignments that rule, build an audience and support you along the way. You’ll even learn a few technical skills in the process. Don’t worry, 1s and 0s wash off pretty easily.
Delivered at #Opened14 Conference in Washington DC on November 21, 2014.
Links mentioned:
Disruptive Technologies to Fix Education and Scale Solutions
Just kidding.
For ’s Learning Technologies course at New York University’s ITP program, I asked the students:
- How do you learn best?
- Describe a time you learned something new.
From there we look at ways to build technologies that reflect how we learn best–via learning projects and helping each other.
Learning Products referenced:
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Resources on Creative Learning and Community
- Mitch Resnick, “All I Really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking)
I Learned (By Studying How Children Learn) in Kindergarten”
- Clay Shirky, “Love, Internet Style"
- Ana Hevesi,
- Alex Hillman, "To build a strong community, stop “community managing”, be a Tummler instead.”
- Vanessa Gennarelli, “Rethinking Assessment, Supporting Diversity"
- Philipp Schmidt, "The Great Peer Learning Pyramid Scheme"
What We Mean When We Talk About “Scale”
It’s a damp evening in Brooklyn, and I’m having dinner with a dear friend who is also interested in online communities. Since we’re both borderline obsessed with the topic, the conversation turns to the difference between the “non-profit” and “for-profit” approaches to community. She dropped the word “scale” and my face drew to a pucker.
“But Vanessa,
I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want your successes to spread?”
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