Well, it’s been a long few days. Got back from Auckland last night after attending an extremely long knowledge management course with from Cognitive Edge. Basically this involved listening to Dave outlining theory and practice in the field. And while Dave is personable, funny, and engaging, we’re talking about *a lot* of listening.
Problematically, I’m a socratic learner. I need to converse and thereby reinforce what I’m hearing.
Consequently, I think a lot might have gone over my head. Fortunately I had a colleague there who I can spend the next couple of weeks arguing out the points with… I should have assimilated it all sooner or later.
Other highlights included staying at Quest on Mount, which had the worst internet in creation, and generally being deprived of the interwebs at all for the full three days. This was made up for by the food in central Auckland being much better than Wellington. Even the cheap and cheerful was better quality.
Oh, and checking into the hospital for a morning with a repetition of the heart trouble, and being patronised by all an sundry.
Sorry about that, but it is an intensive course! We have tried variants with a lot less content, but then people feel cheated. Ideas on the agenda for improvement welcome (and Socratic dialogue happily available on line).
17 July, 2008
Tuckered out
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Well, it’s been a long few days. Got back from Auckland last night after attending an extremely long knowledge management course with from Cognitive Edge. Basically this involved listening to Dave outlining theory and practice in the field. And while Dave is personable, funny, and engaging, we’re talking about *a lot* of listening.
Problematically, I’m a socratic learner. I need to converse and thereby reinforce what I’m hearing.
Consequently, I think a lot might have gone over my head. Fortunately I had a colleague there who I can spend the next couple of weeks arguing out the points with… I should have assimilated it all sooner or later.
Other highlights included staying at Quest on Mount, which had the worst internet in creation, and generally being deprived of the interwebs at all for the full three days. This was made up for by the food in central Auckland being much better than Wellington. Even the cheap and cheerful was better quality.
Oh, and checking into the hospital for a morning with a repetition of the heart trouble, and being patronised by all an sundry.
2 Responses to “Tuckered out”
17 July, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Sorry about that, but it is an intensive course! We have tried variants with a lot less content, but then people feel cheated. Ideas on the agenda for improvement welcome (and Socratic dialogue happily available on line).
Hope you are now feeling better
17 July, 2008 at 1:32 pm
afternoon dave. you could be on a hiding to nothing with trying to please all and sundry.
the course was good, and mostly confirmed my suspicion that my approach to knowledge management is already progressive!
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