When scientists find something totally new–like something alien–they start doing stuff to it to see what happens. Systematically, they are testing its causal properties. Eventually, this effect-to-cause reasoning gets at a pretty good explanation of[…]
Category: Journaling
Week 8: Into the Limelight
On April 25, I presented this “Making Sense” project as an interactive poster at an on campus poster exhibit. If I must be honest, my poster stole the show. Amidst walls of tiny text and[…]
Week 6: Sense making as a type of integration
Time flies when you’re having fun! Classes and conversations have kept me from posting but not from thinking about this project. My ideas have been ripening, like a bushel of berries. Here are the first fruits of the sense[…]
Week 4: An Interview
In a first-ever interview, accomplished flutist Emily Roberts asks how sense making relates to real life. We discuss how I came to wonder about sense making through my learning curve with interdisciplinary research, and then how Emily[…]
Week 3: Sense Making is…
Wow, lots of good thoughts from readers over the past week. I’m trying to digest them. Making a list is usually a good start when I’m confused, so here’s my list of candidate explanations so far.[…]
Week 1.5: Using the Dictionary
Appreciative inquiry believes, “All the answers are in the room,” and I love appreciative inquiry. “Sense making” is a common, street-level idea, and it’s in the Dictionary on my computer! The Dictionary and Thesaurus entries on[…]