Michel Ickx wrote about Networks of Learning for the Knowledge Board last year.

Students are putting together, themselves, the material which will enable them to learn and to create true operative and ad hoc knowledge. [Phil: Sounds like klogging, doesn't it?] ... In our workshops for networking and collaborative work we go one step further. We reintegrate knowledge and action as we go. we call it "Learn-Do". ... The scope is to create ad hoc knowledge in order to control new processes oriented to more creative objectives, selected and agreed by the team.

You remember more of what you do than what you see or hear. 

You get rapid feedback on how well you learned and the quality of knowledge work.

Now, if the group of students develops its own knowledge and puts it into practice, isn't the group the best judge? Shouldn´t it decide which level of excellency has been attained or not? And also the level of performance of its members? Shouldn´t those members express, in all transparency, their level of preparation and success, without the need of judges or "experts", since they did not learn from those masters? This leds us to develop a group C.V., or “Multi-CV”.

A group curriculum vitae! What a brilliant idea!

Some implications:

• Rethink the design of "skills" databases in job boards and performance reviews.
• Rethink what we teach kids to include skills for collaborative learning.  
• Remove obstacles to self organization.
• Devalue and amortize archived knowledge faster. Manuals, documentation, curricula.
• eLearning services must push curriculum development and grading to the students.
• Merge education and action into one process.
• Make Learn-Do a continuous activity.  

Learn-Do. A process for klogging.  

[a klog apart klogs]

hi my name is sam,
i draw pictures, from your titles. send me a title, or any thing else you want to talk to me about to: sambrown@explodingdog.com

Some drawings are silly, others profound. All delightful.

Sam is building conversations in a unique way.

No reason you can't apply this to other media, other work.

CAD drawings. Caricatures.

Singing a song. Narrating a voice over.

Copy editing. Headline writing.

Writing lyrics to a song title. Shooting a video to a song.

Problem assessment. Library reference. Tech support (we've seen stuff like that).

Sam's conversation is short: title and response. Some of his conversations seem to be recursive: new titles that result from earlier drawings.

That's fun. Simple. Like his drawings.

But there's room for more.

Can you see a blog that puts 60 seconds of music to each Exploding Dog drawing?

Another that builds a poem on top of that?

Someone else that finds three news stories that complement the rest?

Another that migrates these to Flash animation?

Make it easy to migrate all sorts of work product into blogs.

To be aware and sensitive to ripples of presence in my social fabric.

[a klog apart klogs]