Daniel Pink Assignment 1 - Symphony

I chose one of Pink's senses to look into a little further. The first thing I did was to google Symphony. I also did something I read about in the "meaning" topic. I played 6 degrees of symphony through the internet. Symphony comes from a Greek word meaning "agreement or concord of sound" or simply "harmonious". In music a symphony is a composition, often extended and usually for orchestra. Symphony does not imply a specific form. However Daniel Pink puts Symphony into context in his book "A Whole New Mind" saying:
".....Symphony is the ability to put together the pieces. It is the capacity to synthesize rather than to analyze; to see relationships between seemingly unrelated fields; to detect broad patterns rather than to deliver specific answers; and to invent something new by combining elements nobody else thought to pair"

Symphony is focus, specialization, and analysis. It has been a large part of the "information age", but in the "conceptual age" synthesis and the abiltiy to take seemingly unrelated pieces (like music) to form and articulate the big pucture before us is crucial. And even a differentiator. Symphony requires that all of us become better at seeing, truely seeing in a new way. Symphony is not about totally simplifying a presentation or a problem in life, instead utilizing your whole mind (i.e. logic, analysis, synthesis, and intuition) to make sense of our world or in many cases for us, specific situations.

** What is needed is a symphonic approach to our material and our ability to bring it all together for our audience. This will ultimately be greatly appreciated by all !**

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Marritech session

Today I had my Marritech session with Dr. Weston. A lot of important things and ideas were talked about from many different points of view. I did get into the session a little late so I will attempt to get into another session in the near future. I also looked at a tutorial today on CS4 fireworks on youtube. I am trying to do some work in the program. One thing that I would really like to try get off the ground is my efollio but I am unsure of how (if any specific way) it should be formated.

Past Week

This past week I have been working in the Dreamweaver program starting to make a website. It seem like it's going to be fun and I am looking foward to the final product. I also added some sites to my delicious, and am blogging right now. On Monday my coaching season began. Coaching is something I really enjoy and I love doing. Our lacrosse season runs from the beginning of March to the mid May. It really hasn't been as cold as I thought it would be YET, but I know it will get there.

Last week Joe gave a presentation on imovie. I like the presentation because it was helpful and it can be useful to my EEV group. Doug and I think that we will use it for our project, and now thanks to Joe we have an idea of what we are doing when we open it.

SNOW DAY!!

LOVIN' the snow day right now. No school on a Monday is great! Besides the fact that it took us 2 1/2 hours to shovel the driveway. But overall it was a nice relaxing day off. I hope for the same tomorrow.