Getting wow into education

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

A Swedish teacher wonders how to compete with World of Warcraft. Good question the sort we might chat about on Wednesday afternoon at NESTA. There’s room for few more if you’re interested.

Share Post

More Posts

Rambling thoughts on models

I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile

Planning as drowning

Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges

Leadership as holding uncertainty

Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in

Concreting Complexity

I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big

The absurd

In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason

Rewriting history…

Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like

Who says fun is dangerous?

I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe

Yes, and…

A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity

More Updates

Emotional debt

Releasing the hidden costs of pent up frustrations

Aliveness

Finding the aliveness below the surface of stuck

Johnnie Moore

Stuck

That thing where you have this really meaty topic you want to write about. It’s so meaty that you think it will need a really long post. So you never

Johnnie Moore

Upcoming events

I’ve always really enjoyed speaking in public. Don’t know why, just do. So I’m chuffed that a couple of interesting events have come up for me recently. Yesterday I caught

Johnnie Moore

Open for conversation

Earl has a good post about how Obama is continuing to work with his network of supporters. Earl’s highlighted some key phrases that resonate for me emphasising the value of

Johnnie Moore

Easy?

Leadership? Innovation? Knowledge Sharing? There’s so much said about all of these and much of it of the hand-wringing kind. As I’ve said before a lot of those conversations are