The following is a creative idea of using Yellowdig by our faculty .
Tag! You are It! Let us try Yellowdig! Do not PERSPIRE, rather, let us INSPIRE!
By Julie Hathaway-Nepple, MA, LPC
- Immerse in conversation, not regurgitate static answers
- Engage those cognitive passion circuits that love novelty variety and challenge
- Let us formulate a new strategy with our conversations and learning process. We are giving our
discussions our STRATEGIC attention where we are focused and targeted with our points. Yes, we need
to see that at times, less from the instructor prompting, is more. We want to be concise and have fun
with discussions. - Review this list of questions for INSPIRATION for your posts in Yellowdig. These questions are to SPARK
creative thinking process. The hope is that you initiate DISCOVERY in your own learning. - This list of roles and questions to help creative conversations and fun within our Yellowdig community.
Boosting executive functions: General questions to ask yourself:
- How do you add a new approach to the conversation or topic at hand?
- How do improve the outcomes of the specific problem in the discussion?
- How do you solve the problem from many perspectives?
Yellowdig Roles to consider
More specific metacognition questions: Do I play the role of......in our discussion posts in Yellowdig?
- Innovative thinker: Do you continually strive to see things from new perspective
- Weaver: Do you take disparate ideas and weave them together, reconciling novel ideas with your basic
ideas - Deep sea diver: Do you take the conversation to a deeper, more meaningful level
- Dentist: Do you extract broad concepts from lots of complex posts
- Music maker: Do you synthesize new meaning from multiple problems
- Practical problem solver: Do you create workable and practical solutions to the problems
- Diversity maker: Do you combine diverse ideas with previous experiences
- Time traveler: Do you take time to pull in themes across the different weeks of class to a generate a big
picture idea? - Assimilator or formulator: complex material into concise summary
- Acronym builder: Construct a short cut or mnemonic or acronym to condense hard topics
- Fruits of the spirit: Convey respect and self-control when persons provide opinions different or in
opposition to my own - Facilitator: Convey a common goal despite opposing viewpoints?
- Visionary: Do you summarize the main points to carry out a vision?
- Execution/Follow through: Do you make sure you have answered all other questions asked of you by
the rest of the team? - Supporter: Do you reflect and adding emotional sentiment to the concept or conversation posted by
someone else? - Re-purpose: Instead of filtering out a post you may not agree with, try to find a way to link that
conversation and EXPAND upon the idea in a novel way - Product reviewer: Do you take a theory or research summary and review it like a product review you
may find on Amazon? - Spiritual guide: If you were taking on the role of examining the topic from a spiritual perspective, what
conclusions would you draw? - Researcher: How would you create a NOVEL research project on the topic going forward?
- Ethics board: How would you respond if you were on the ethics board monitoring the consequences of
this behavior related to the topic at hand? - Coach: If you were a life coach helping a client or friend, what words of wisdom would you impart?
- Referee: If you were balancing out two teams of opposing views, how would you help make it a win/win
scenario? - Team (fill in the blank) If you were on one side of the argument, what would the name of your team be
(think sports reference here) and what would the opposing team name be? - Zombie apocalypse hunter: What would be the main theme you would want someone to remember
before the zombie apocalypse hit? - Wrecking ball/Repair person: If you play the part of a wrecking ball in terms of commenting on “what
not to do” on a particular topic, pair that with the SOLUTION within the REPAIR or “fix it” theme on a
topic and (not a person) - Skeptic or devil’s advocate: Pair this role with how you would MODIFY the topic or solution at hand
