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Student DNA and Learner DNA are basically the same definition just the name is different.

My brother Marc & I have been working on the visual branding for my SKIL2 social enterprise.

Trying to visually symbolise a complex idea - is not simple - but it's a great exercise in really digging down to the purpose of an enterprise.

Marc and I have a deep love of design and beauty - as well as all things social media.

I'm very lucky to have him as my SKIL2 design and branding mentor (yeh yeh -it goes without saying that I'm lucky to have him as my brother).

He and I developed the SKIL2 visual branding through a series of emails as I live in Ballinamore (Leitrim, Ireland) and he's in Singapore.

I blather on about how I see the core of the business - he sends me a few (usually 4) ideas - I usually pick 2 - and then we go back and forth for a while.

I'm the wordsmith and he's the visual magician - and we kinda overlap as we fine tune it all.

Marc created the visual magic of my words.

I'm loving the colours -particularly the salamander (that's the pinky, orangey .... shades) and the green. Vibrant and warm and ... imaginative.

I wanted the visual branding to reflect the creative and complex nature of SKIL2.

Marc also sent me a pdf of my SKIL2 business card a few days ago.

Folks - it's gorgeous - and it tells the brand story in 1 sentence.

OK - it's a long sentence - but essentially it says what it does on the tin ...

Using open source technology to create beautiful + practical + affordable online learning spaces for collaboration & communication by workers in small to medium nonprofit organisations

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I love it and can't wait to take it to the Sakai (open source learning management system) international conference in Paris at the end of June. Yeh - me and all the IT geeks - I really really need their smarts.

Yeh - bummer about having to go to Paris for a week. I'll be brave.

Other SKIL2 news includes:

Depaul Trust Ireland have agreed to be my national Irish nonprofit guinea pig/partner for 1 year. They will invest 10,000 euro and their whole workforce in piloting SKIL2

Depaul Trust were my first choice as the pilot non profit organisation. I will work exclusively with them until June 2009.

After that I will be further developing and marketing SKIL2 - probably as a charitable foundation. And Depaul Trust will always have a special preference in the SKIL2 future.

They have been on the cutting edge of accommodation and service provision for our most marginalised homeless people In Dublin and Belfast.

They were the first to have wet shelters - emergency accommodation specifically for drug users - supported accommodation for women leaving prison - harm reduction services - low threshold services - the list is long.

They know what it's like to take a risk.

I've worked with them for around 6 years on a range of learning and performance issues and we have developed a strong, mutual and trusting relationship.

They know I will challenge them and bring ideas and visions that make them shake their heads - and - they know I always deliver and we'll have a lot of fun in the process.

I think they are an amazing group of people.

Their CEO - Kerry Anthony - is very excited about the potential for SKIL2 in her organisation - even if she says all the IT and social media stuff I talk about sounds like martian. She's willing to learn.

SKIL2 is a great big leap into the unknown.

Innovation never ever ever happens in a comfort zone ... ever ... ever ... ever

My learning curve isn't just steep - it's vertical folks.

You know one of the best things?

I'm not doing it alone.

I take responsibility for the idea and building SKIL2 -and - there are a pile of intelligent, value driven and risk taking people who are willing to come on this slightly wild journey.

It's very humbling to have people and organisations investing time and money in an idea that's only 8 weeks old.

And in all the hoopla I keep the ultimate focus in mind -

to create online learning spaces that build nonprofit workforces so they can provide the best services to the people they serve.

That's the bottom line.

You know there's an amazing sense of personal power in creating something you're passionate about - it's an energy that stimulates and provides a sense of purpose - a kind of legal high.

Researchers have shown that when we learn new things - take risks - innovate - challenge ourselves and others - that we create new neural pathways.

They've also found that as we learn new things and do all the research, thinking and creating - we stimulate endorphins and natural opiates in our brain.

It's a buzz folks.

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As I am typing this I have a little avatar at the bottom of my screen keeping an eye on me. This avatar is about one inch high and is called a weblin. I have only just discovered weblins (they have been around for a while apparently). I heard about them on Fleep's Deep Thoughts and I went to investigate over on weblin.com to find out more for myself. When I got there I was met by a cheer leader weblin who waved poms poms at me and gave directions on how to make my practice-weblin 'be angry' and wave.

I had been struck by Fleep's Deep Thought's statement about weblin.com: "I think this is something of a paradigm shift, and another transitional step to the fully immersive 3D Web or whatever you want to call the evolution we see happening with online social networks and virtual worlds technology." Fleep further speculates on the use of weblins for education saying in effect they could provide a form of social presence for scattered students.

I think Fleep might be right about this. I recently took a distance education class and missed the relaxed conversations (about the class) that take place during the coffee breaks of face to face meetings. I wrote about this missing element in an earlier blog post 'Virtual Coffee' suggesting Second Life could play a role as a location for virtual coffee breaks. But Second Life is a huge unwieldy beast compared to these diddy little weblins! I can see online class discussions taking place with weblins running around providing a useful additional feature. Weblins are less formal than email as communication can be carried out in chat, and the visual back drop to the interaction would be class discussion threads. This visible prompt would provide a 'social presence of place' lending a context and meaning for the class chat. In fact, I wonder if any educators are using weblins to add more dimension to online courses already?

A swarm of weblins on MSN poised to become my friends!

I downloaded the beta version of weblin and I am now experimenting with it. So far I have discovered that when you sign in for your online email accounts with yahoo, gmail and msn swarms of weblins appear. They announce themselves with heavy foot steps and speak or gesture with bird warblings. It is fun to explore, though I cannot fathom why total strangers want to be my friend just because we both popped onto the same web page. I found myself with only one other weblin called 'Dennis' on the BBC news page, but I couldn't think of anything cheery to say to her considering our backdrop of natural disasters, murder and football stories. I guess I am not a fully fledged social networker?

Cyberloom says 'cheep' in a skirt and jacket (one size too small) standing next to a weblin chap with pointy ears.

Now, it is intriguing to consider that one inch tall pixel representations of humans can inject some degree of 'social presence' (see earlier posts Social presence Theory and Second Life & Social presence and skin deep reality). Obviously size does not matter when it comes to reinforcing the impression of talking with another human being, our minds just need to latch onto the image of another human? (Hence the success of chatting bots?) I also wonder about the social presence of location when applied to meeting on web pages. That is, the web pages will determine weblins behavior and conversation. For example, MSN is a communications watering hole, a focal point for people looking to meet in chat-rooms or simply aiming to email friends. Other web pages will draw weblins with common interests. I was going to take my weblin for a walk across different sites to see how many other weblins I could find but my weblin vanished! I discovered I needed to download a Firefox plugin (for a while there I thought my weblin had run off with the Greek chap with pointy ears to a more 'mature' page... I need to talk to her/it?)

In the meantime, as weblins walk slowly to and fro across the bottom of web pages determining Fleep's possible paradigm shift, I wonder how, when and where my weblin can find clothes that fit will her?

Information är makt och den makten finns tillgänglig via BTHs bibliotek. Jag är en distansstudent och genom mitt studentkonto får jag tillgång till den osynliga webben genom de databaser BTH prenumererar på. Oftast använder jag ELIN i mina studier.

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