@steelwagstaff @autumm393 woo another nontraditional student - we’re awesome!
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@jenepher.kinch Hey Jenepher, thanks for this question. Yes Cynefin is often used as a leadership tool but teachers are a kind of leader - they are the leader in their classroom. I use Cynefin when thinking about what the context is that professor has in their classroom and in trying to determine how I can best help them. The domains map nicely onto different learning contexts. If you dig into Cynefin deeper you will also find approaches for dealing with each context. This diagram puts the approaches right in the different domains. Does that help?
For @autumm393: do you think it’s possible to make a very basic Instructional Design template/standard (that could be modified/built upon), or is each resource so specific to its own needs that it’s impossible?
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This one is from Taylor who is travelling at the moment: Is there a story behind why you’re followed on Twitter by Barack Obama?
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@hugh Well I think you can do that but I guess my concern is who is going to be using it. If someone has a broad background and can use it as a template to get creative then I think that you are golden but I’d be concerned with someone with less experience getting blocked in by it.
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@leigh @autumm393 That got me wondering too! Taylor (https://twitter.com/mcgratay) has a sharp eye!
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@leigh (and Taylor) That guy is following me on more than just twitter - I get emails and snail mail from him all of the time - mostly, he wants money. 
I was very active in both Obama campaigns doing lots of volunteer work and donating a bunch. I even got to go to the inauguration in 2009 through some connections that I made but I was a purple ticket holder - and though I did not end up in the Tunnel of Doom I only watched the inauguration from a nearby bar in DC. That night however I did get to go to the staff ball and saw Jay-Z and Arcade Fire play and Obama and Biden spoke.
I’m sure it was a staff member who monitors the account who followed me and that I’m just on a list of active volunteers somewhere.
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@Amanda @autumm393 I couldn’t agree more! I need to introduce the two of you to each other in person at the "E"ffordability Summit later this month …
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@Amanda I would try to introduce them to some of the OER community - maybe twitter - maybe Rebus Community - or some other networks. I think that a lot of this happens in social spaces - try to see if you can create a personal learning network (PLN) of OER folks and then introduce the IDs to them. If you have funding see if maybe you could attend one of the Open Education conferences together.
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@autumm393 Haha, I definitely started it… Great answer, too. That would be pretty remarkable - I’d love to see the effect of that kind of change of perspective. I was reading something just earlier today that touched on ‘experience’ vs. ‘lived experience’, too, so I’m picking up on that distinction - if anyone is interested, it was in a keynote on “Working Towards Open” from Lilian Rigling at eCampus Ontario (the whole piece is wonderful).
For some reason this is converging in my head with some thinking I’ve been doing about editing as ethical work, and other ways in which we try to surface the kind of “other stuff” of publishing, beyond the practical, put-words-on-page kind of publishing. They’re semi-formed for now, but an interesting thread to pursue!
@autumm393 Chiming in with a question from @david-szanto, who unfortunately couldn’t be here today. He asks:
What are some “aha!” moments from your recent professional experience?
@apurva Thanks Apurva (and David). I just had an opportunity to work with some really smart people in the “maker movement” and I was surprised to realize how much of my thinking and experience overlap with it. I didn’t feel going in that I had much experience in that area.
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No magic wands this time, but you have a sense of my kinds of questions by now 
: What is the ultimate goal of good instructional design?
Another question from travelling Taylor: Is there anyone in the open ed community that you really look up to?
@autumm393 @david-szanto It’s so cool that you were able to find these connections and overlaps! Goes to show that no matter our skills or experience, there are always ways that we could contribute and provide value (even if by asking and learning).
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@steelwagstaff Thanks for this question. Yep - I’m a first generation high school graduate and first in family college graduate. I think some of the hardest lessons I learned entering college when I was almost 25 was just the bureaucracy of it all. Dealing with the different offices and forms and all of that. Again, I had a natural interest in how systems worked so some of this was interesting to me but it was hard because I’d just never had to deal with it on that level before. It ended up being persistence and resilience that got me through but I also want to be careful with the “grit” conversation because it can be problematic. As important as it is to persist it is also important to know when to take a break or when to back away - so as important as the “growth mindset” conversation is I’m always careful to bring in those other elements.
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@leigh Oh my gosh so many… I know I’ll forget a ton but: Maha Bali, Sundi Richard, Joe Murphy, Chris Gilliard, Helen DeWaard, Rebecca Hogue, Christian Fredrick, George Station, Bonnie Stewart, Dave Cormier, Sean Michael Morris, Jesse Stommel, Robin DeRosa, Rajiv Jhangiani, Amy Collier, Audrey Watters, Howard Rheingold, Catherine Cronin, Kate Bowles, Steel Wagstaff, Jess Mitchell, Terry Greene, Karen Cangialosi, Martha Burtis, Sherri Spelic, Alec Couros, Doug Levin… Oh gosh there are just so many…
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@autumm393 Coming down to my last few questions here… Can you explain Virtually Connecting and what you’ve gotten out of your involvement with it?
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@zoe I think the ultimate goal is equity for students toward meaningful learning experiences.
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@zoe Just read Lillian’s keynote – damn that was so good! Thanks for sharing, Zoe!
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