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(I'm visual sense-making at a blog-a-thon.)
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Bryan Mathers
@bryanmmathers@mastodon.ie
mastodon 4.7.3First I listen; then I draw my listen. I’m interested in how we capture ideas visually.
Ulster Irish dissenter - Táim ag foghlaim mo mháthairtheanga.
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Joined November 08, 2022
Founder of Visual Thinkery:
Some Open Thinkery:
The fabulous Remixer Machine:
Sometimes a contrast just presents itself - embedded within a conversation... I enjoyed sense-making with the Mycelial Network at a two-day gathering of people involved in Community Asset Development - distilling out conversational themes as they surfaced. We have a lot to learn from our resourceful fungal friends!
https://www.mycelialnetwork.co.uk/
Happy Birthday Wikipedia - I've always been a fan! Knowledge curated by humans.
#wikimedia25
Image CC-BY-ND Visual Thinkery - https://bryanmmathers.com/wikipedia-is-25/
Make your research come alive with Visual Thinkery - this time using the playful mask of a cartoon character to explore a very serious topic: different types of PhD supervisors!
(created for GO-GN Guide to Doctoral Supervision) with @farrow@hcommons.social.
https://visualthinkery.com/project/making-your-research-come-alive/
It's not unusual for my sense-making cartooning process to produce rhyming triplets it seems...
Created along with some other AI reflections for the Visual Thinker > https://bryanmmathers.com/?mailpoet_router&endpoint=view_in_browser&action=view&data=WzIwLCI1NjMzMzQwNTM5NmMiLDAsMCwyMCwxXQ
#ai #cartoon
A new edition of the Visual Thinker talking about the 4 stages of sunrise...
Sense-making a Blog-a-thon...
(what do those words even mean?)
Well I try to explain here:
Montaigne and the Open Web
Visual Sensemaking from this week's blog-a-thon at Reclaim Open.
https://bryanmmathers.com/montaigne-and-the-open-web/
Making sense of Sensemaking...
The new edition of The Visual Thinker is out - for those that like to make sense of things...
https://bryanmmathers.com/?mailpoet_router&endpoint=view_in_browser&action=view&data=WzIxLCI3YzMyOGUxNGU1YzkiLDEsIjRhMDRhMyIsMjEsMV0
@carpetbomberz@mastodon.online thank you Eric :)
Recently, I've really enjoyed stepping into academic researcher's worlds to bring their thinking and findings to life, like this collaboration with Leigh Wolf and Geraldine O'Neill at University College Dublin, around their work on Educator use of GenAI.
https://visualthinkery.com/project/making-your-research-come-alive/
Monday's webinar on Carbon Finance and Climate Action expertly facilitated by Fauna & Flora, Plan Vivo, and Level was bursting with ideas! — here’s how the visual sense-making evolved in real time...
Delighted to see Leigh, Geraldine and Sheena's work on Assessment for Inclusion published. Here's a visual thought to emerge from the project:
Research https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09650792.2025.2535722#abstract