Welcome to UW-MANIAC!

What is UW-MANIAC? UW-MANIAC (Madison Area Network for Innovation & Collaboration) represents a network of continued collaborative learning and growth. This unique partnership includes a diverse group of UW-Madison departments and academic perspectives, as well as those from the private and non-profit sector. We host several events a year around a wide variety of topics, including the “Innovation and Collaboration Learning Café Series," a creative learning space that teaches creativity tools in an applied manner, a "Breakfast Series" in which members share inspiring ideas and creative approaches to work, and other opportunities to meet and share ideas, both through face-to-face conversation and virtual dialogue. Feel free to utilize this online community to share reflections, ask questions, incubate an idea, and re-connect with those friendly faces from the other events. For additional information, please contact Harry Webne-Behrman, UW Office of Human Resource Development, at 608-262-9934 or hwebnebehrman@ohr.wisc.edu.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Innovative Twitter Fosters Communication

I'm pretty excited about the new project that Adam Wilson is developing, a brain-directed "Tweet" to his Twitter account. Wilson is a biomedical engineering graduate student at UW-Madison who has figured out how to sync his brainwaves to convey brief messages through his computer. The implications of this discovery are vast, allowing those with communication disorders a vibrant way to communicate. I can also envision gaming applications, taking us to a whole new Wii of play!

Read the article... what do you see as some innovative possibilities that emerge?

-Harry
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

"Pieces of String Too Small To Save..." is Focus of Kent Lesandrini Visit on May 5th, 8-9:30AM at Memorial Union

Donald Hall tells the story of a man cleaning the attic of an old house in New England to find a box full of tiny pieces of string. The box was labeled: "String too short to be saved." Perhaps we all have pieces of string too small to save--stored in small boxes and labeled in the attic of our everyday lives. These small questions or observations pop into our minds and then promptly (often, properly) vanish into thin air. From time to time, however, might some of these curios (if carefully cultivated) lead to interesting and innovative responses that make a difference in our lives?

Such is the premise of Kent Lesandrini, our resident Scholar without Portfolio, who returns to UW-MANIAC to share some of his own "pieces of string too small to save." Building on his initial 2006 visit to us, Kent will invite us to consider some of our own small questions or wonders and to transform otherwise adrift daydreaming into innovative insights. Well, at least there will be donuts. Click here to register -- it's free!
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