The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU has over 2500 alumni working at the forefront of interactive media, communications, design and art. At long last we are coming together to create a formal alumni association to keep the value of the program alive and vital after we graduated. I graduated from ITP in 2004 and I [...]

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I go to a lot of conferences. The Common Ground conference in Baltimore is hands down one of my favorites. The conference is for educators who want to think about how to provide a great learning experience for kids in the 21st century. I provided graphic recording a couple of years ago when the conference [...]

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The United States Federal Government is without a doubt the most powerful organization on the planet. Between the Department of Defense, the Social Security Administration, the Medicare System, and the other myriad departments that comprise the U.S. Government, US taxpayers spent 3.630 trillion (That’s $3,630,000,000,000,000) for fiscal year 2011 to provide a myriad of services.The [...]

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(Capturing conversation at the community partnership workshop) If you are in any of the photos and would like your name captioned, send me an email jonny(at)envizualize.com, or comment below and I will write a caption for you. Helping plan and run an International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP) conference is a powerful learning experience, once [...]

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Great turnout at Show-n-Tell #3 at CatpultPGH in Garfield/Friendhip. About 25 people got out of the heat and into some sweet AC to learn, connect, and share. Bill Peduto (above) discussed population growth and loss in various parts of Pittsburgh over the last 10 years. Peduto discussed three powerful items that could contribute to a [...]

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(Graphic by Leah Silverman) (Leah Silverman, Emily Marko, Jonny Goldstein at our first planning meeting for the IFVP 2012 Conference) (Jonny Goldstein with brainspill on the topic of the upcoming visual thinking for groups conference in Pittsburgh, AKA the 17th Annual IFVP Conference) The rapid approach of the 2012 International Forum of Visual Practitioners Conference [...]

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(video snippet of graphic recording workshop. 35 seconds) Graphic recording is a technique for turning transforming conversation into large scale visual notes composed of pictures, text, and diagrams as the conversation happens. I had the pleasure of giving 45 Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate design majors a taste of graphic recording with a mini-workshop I led [...]

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