The fun theory

What can change our behaviour for better? FUN can!!!

The impact of giant companies

Everybody knows giant companies cause a lot of impact: environmental damages where they produce goods, greenhouse gas emissions while transporting these goods, cultural interferences as they advertise and social issues all along the chain.

German RWE energy company sensitively created a video to question: what if giant companies caused a lot of... POSITIVE impact?

The power of organised individuals

What can a person do to change businesses? Carrotmob brings one alternative. Check it out!

Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.

Sustainability: simple and fun

At work, we just produced a simple and fun video about sustainability, which intends to bring essential contents about personal responsibility and world issues to everybody.

It is part of a 3 chapters' online course and stars Roberto, a black Brazilian guy who has a typical big city routine.

To see it, click here and turn on the English subtitles. Please comment with your feedback.

In Plain English

Today I had the opportunity to listen to Lee Lefever through wikiducacao.

Lee and his wife are the authors of the "In Plain English" videos, which explain complex subjects like money investments and wikis through short simple videos.

Check the video about social media, for example.




Where does all that creativity come from? Well, Lee works from home, chooses his projects and makes sure his company remain small, i.e., he and his wife.

Sustainability Online Games

I'm doing a research for a sustainable business online training I'm designing for the bank's employees and came across some interesting free online courses.

The Vinyl game represents a PVC manufacturer. The player should decide on what industrial plants to invest and what sustainability measures to adopt, while managing the cash flow and suffering stakeholders' pressures. I recommend it.

The McDonald's game doesn't allow as many options, but it has at least two merits: promote a more systemic view of the food chain and bring up the power of democracy and decentralised criticism. There's basically no way one can do well!

Meaning, collaboration and wishes for 2009

In the last couple of days I spent a few hours completely hooked onto the internet, learning more about Professor Michael Wesch's work around education, meaning and collaboration. As an anthropologist and teacher, he realised school and learning were not the same thing (watch the video "vision of students today" for some insight). So he created spaces where his students could be protagonists, building valuable knowledge about subjects they cared about, also using digital tools.

One of his projects is exactly studying the anthropology behind You Tube. Take a look in two popular samples:





As this is my last post in 2009, I'd like to use some of the messages expressed in these videos and uncountable others. Although we often act differently, it seems to me there are some feelings and wishes that we, as humanity, tend to share

contagious GOODNESS

less prohibition

colourblind fairness

more creativity

less criminalization

less war

CONSCIOUSNESS

better future

LOVE

more connections

less authority

TRUTH

collaboration

more engagement

the value of (bio)diversity

various peoples, being able to bring along their uniqueness for an unity

one world, our home


May we be our true wishes in 2009!
Carpe Diem!!!

Education, websites & trends

As I've been developing some e-learning courses, I started to pay more attention to the present/future education features of internet.

Amongst my favorites websites stand the following:

Bestiario Videosphere
Created by the mathematitian Santiago Ortíz, it shows the future of interdependence and intelligent linkage of content in internet, inspired in the chaos theory

Story of Stuff
Great content, brilliant representation. If you haven't seen yet, you're missing!

Backstage at Accenture
The most conventional amongst the 3, it shows a much more interesting, informal and joyful way of passing the information

Do you have other suggestions?