Open Transcription of Our Family Journey

True knowledge is gained from experience.  You can’t get from all the school or book knowledge in the world what experience will provide – you must fail to learn, and learn to fail.  Capturing our successes, our failures and all the way-points, helps us personally connect the dots to a bigger picture and can provide others with shoulders to stand on.

Documenting our ideas and experiences also gets us in the habit of sharing and collaborating, which is key in a open-source, creative economy.  Ideas are cheap, making them happen is very expensive.  This real and opportunity cost can be spread across other creative minds and makers to both increase the chances of success and the number of ideas realized.

Digital Portfolio for Our Kids’ Futures

In preparing kids for a knowledge economy, it’s not about report cards and grades as much as it is about what you can do and what are your experiences and passions. I think this is true

Experience Framework for Learning to Learn

We each have our own, unique strengths and weaknesses.  Whether working together on projects, creating content to document our experiences or sharing our personal resources and skills, we all benefit from the collaborative effort to build true knowledge through shared experience.

While mind mapping opportunities for making our family life journey more complete, maximizing our lifetime return on effort and bringing us even closer together, I quickly gravitated toward a digital/web based platform that would allow for both documentation of life and learning through doing.

• Learning from each other through sharing our thoughts, ideas and experiences
• Learning together through collaborative problem-based projects
• Learning the tools, processes and tactics for creating digital experiences
• Learning to always be creating and remixing through our evergreen collection of experiences

Team work makes the dream work.

Sharing Platform for Our Experiences

I’m a data explorer and knowledge hoarder with ideas settling across sticky notes, whiteboards and Evernote pages daily.  I actually do a horrible job of communicating and sharing my thoughts and ideas.  I would say a bit off balance in this respect, with a bias toward input over output. This is a medium for challenging myself to straighten out this imbalance and to start digitizing whats in my head.