F.R. “Fritz” Nordengren (beta)

As a strategist and as a creative thinking instructor, one of the tools I share with clients and students is the idea of turning around a problem or statement, to look at it from a new perspective.

So, the here are the 12/10 conspiracy tools examined from a new view. Each of the tools you are invited to explore as part of the 12/10 conspiracy can hep you do the following:
Do you want to?:

1. Improve your presentations with photos but you don’t have the time or money to search stock photo libraries (Flickr)
2. Have someone organize and collect new research articles and put them in one easy to find place (rss)
3. Empower students to work and share their learning collaboratively (wiki)
4. Eliminate (or limit) the amount of information clutter in your email — but still have access to information you want and need (Pageflakes)
5. Make a fun or clever or creative hand-outs without having to learn a complex program like PhotoShop or Illustrator (flickr tools)
6. Find new research colleges and share your insights - or - help your students gain a deeper understanding of your work and course lectures (Blogger)
7. Discover a new was of organizing disparate pieces of information based on your own use or a collective understanding (Technorati)
8. Set goals and have others cheer you on (43 things)
9. Use your drive time or workout time to catch up on current issues, or build student understanding of your lectures outside of class time (iTunes)
10. Create a controlled access point for students to interact with you (Facebook)
11. Find current article and news relating to any topic and have it sorted and categorized for you (Google Alerts)
12. Have your colleagues be able to edit the same document and archive all versions (your students can write a collaborative project, as well, with almost no risk of lost data) (Google documents)

Our initial response to the first 12/10 lunch and learn was impressive. Those who attended have begun to see the time and effort saving uses of RSS in and out of the classroom. I’ve already receive initial blog posts, 43 things lists, and a few pleas for “help” in getting the latest in PubMed searches delivered to desktops on demand!

And for those of you who wanted to see it again, below is the video presentation “What if” (a You Tube feed)