Kwami Ahiabenu,II Knowledge Chief

Happy New Year, 2007!

by Kwami Ahiabenu,II I have used wiki in the past as the tool for teaching basically providing space for my students to do collaborative writing the key here is to give them a practical experience about how the tool works the free tool I use is called http://pbwiki.com/ peanut butter, is that not very sweet this tool enable you to create a wiki within a second, with option for people to contribute to it by providing them with a password you have the option to upgrade to a premium option if you are ready and willing to pay for it basically you get a ad free wiki among others in recent time, pbwiki just added a page for educators http://pbwiki.com/edu.html using this feature you can create a cool online tool for teaching and learning by getting your syllabus online and empowering students with a tool to collaborate online with their instructors I am looking forward to make use wiki in my next class

YouTube is a popular free video sharing Web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. Founded in February 2005 by three employees of PayPal, the San Bruno-based service utilizes Adobe Flash technology to display video. Manage to post some videos online using You Tube recently very easy hope to do more projects with You Tube and use it in teaching as well www.youtube.com

Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches. Visit the site at http://www.km4dev.org KM4Dev community is found at http://www.dgroups.org/groups / km4dev

An After Action Review(AAR) provides an opportunity for a thorough assessment after a project, programme or a major activity with the main focus on discovering what happened and why among all team players. We can group AARs into three types: formal, informal and personal. Usually formal, AAR process has four steps: Step 1. Planning Step 2. Preparing Step 3. Conducting Step 4. Following up (using AAR results) STEP ONE :PLANNING 1. Undertake a preparatory meeting as soon as possible. 2. List and send out invitation to key team members involved. STEP TWO : PREPARING 3. Appoint a facilitator and ensure all the resources for the AAR are made available. STEP THREE : CONDUCTING 4. Create the right climate 5. Revisit the objectives and key deliverables of the project 6. Use questioning : ‘what went well?’. Find out why, and exchange knowledge about what we have learnt for the future 6. Use questioning : ‘what could have gone better?’. Find ou

Appreciative Inquiry is the strive to search and find the best in in people, their organizations, and their environment with focus on what is relevant to them at any point in time. According to wikipedia : n Organizational development (OD), Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a process for engaging people across the system in renewal, change and focused performance. The basic idea is to build organizations around what works, rather than trying to fix what doesn't. A proven benefit of the approach is its reliance on the acknowledgement of contribution at the individual level, which leads to trust and organizational alignment. Since the method creates meaning by drawing from stories of concrete successes and lends itself to cross-industrial social activities, it is enjoyable and natural to many managers, who are thought to be naturally social people focused on the bottom line. Appreciative Inquiry was developed by David Cooperrider of Case Western Reserve University . It is now a commonl