NoviCraft has been developed through academic research on leadership, social interaction, multicultural collaboration, distributed team work, and game development.
SIB, Company Center/ HR circle/ Lagerstrasse 5, Zürich,29.9.2011
Welcome to participate to a seminar focusing on leadership training in virtual teams. In Company Center, Zürich, we will host a two hour seminar consisting of...
Johanna Bluemink, the vice president of TeamingStream, gain her doctor´s degree. She examined collaborative learning in the synchronous discussions of small group problem-solving activities in face-to-face and virtual game settings. The 3D game environment created a strong shared context for the...
On Monday 2nd of May 2011 NoviCraft was presented in the Simulation Day organized by Credit Suisse Business School in Zurich. The invited participants got an opportunity to touch & feel NoviCraft in practice in half an hour lasting demo sessions. NoviCraft was...
Being involved in the Finnish national efforts of exporting Finnish education has launced fireworks in my brains in the past weeks. Not only it is a question of exporting a product, but it is much more - something building on the deep cultural and societal basis.
Yesterday listening inspiring Anne Stenros in Tekes session in Helsinki about Liveable and Loveable Places. Many new insights, for example… Small changes make big differences life. is not about maximising everything. it’s about giving something back.
(04/05/2010 - 10:53) Studies in creativity and collaboration in teams have pointed out that one can get addicted to the flow experience that comes only from group creativity. Conditions for group creativity are rarely found in large organisations, which tend to focus on structure, script and process and limit the... (more)
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Oulu Games Cluster released a new magazine for interest groups at the Game Developers Conference, San Francisco today. The magazine introduces game companies of northern Finland along with some... (more)
(02/24/2010 - 21:05) There are things that you cannot talk about. But it does not mean that the things would not exist.
-thought by Wittgenstein- (more)
(02/17/2010 - 16:36) Did you know that according to marketing consultants at Apply Group, at least 100 of the global Fortune 500 companies will use gaming to educate their employees by 2012. The Entertainment Software Association, http://www.theesa.com/(more)
(02/16/2010 - 12:19) What is learning again? One approach close to my heart and Ph D is to look at it as something that occurs because of our efforts towards shared understanding in social situations. This effort corresponds to the interactions, such as rephrasing and explaining, which are necessary to co-construct a... (more)
(02/03/2010 - 13:37) What is learning?
One way to see it is to think of learning as creating "the new" rather than giving back what is already known.
And learning can be seen in the performative - you have not learned it unless you can do it.
- R. Säljö, Professor of education and educational psychology from Sweden- (more)
(01/19/2010 - 15:54) "Even if no one has ever assigned the adjective "original" to anything you have ever done, you must acknowledge that you have inventive powers."
(Jennifer Schweikert, Psychology Today December 2009 issue) (more)
(01/19/2010 - 15:45) "The real question isn't "How creative are you?" but rather "How are you creative?" Innovation is rarely a one-step deal; the trick is figuring out how you solve problems."
(Donald Treffinger, Educational psychologist,Psychology Today December 2009 issue) (more)
(12/21/2009 - 16:03) "Most of the time, we realize, we do not fully understand what another person says. Indeed, in practice, shared understandings occur only occasionally, if they occur at all. And when they do, it is people testing and checking each other's talk, by them questioning and challenging it, reformulating... (more)
(12/15/2009 - 11:57) "... the implication for the creation of expert teams is that it is not sufficient that members are technical experts - they must also be experts in the social interaction that lead to adaptive coordinated action (i.e., teamwork) within the context of the technical experience."
From The making of... (more)
(12/10/2009 - 16:25) "People may not learn to interact in productive ways just by doing collective work – many times coaching is needed in how to participate in effective collaboration."
(Azmitia, M., 1996, in Interactive minds: Life-span perspectives on the social foundation of cognition.) (more)
(12/02/2009 - 13:58) Leadership has been defined in many different ways, but most definition share the assumption that it involved an influence process.
Leaders need skills in managing conflict, facilitating constructive problem solving, and dealing...(more)
(12/01/2009 - 11:49) Last week, tuesday 25th, TeamingStream hosted a seminar under the theme "Presence in leadership". Meaning, how you as a leader, can foster the sence of presence towards your team and coworkers - even when you are fysically located somewhere else. After all, isn't presence merely a state of mind?... (more)
(11/27/2009 - 15:56) "The challenge is always to situate our knowledge in the living context that poses the 'presenting problem'."
(Jerome Bruner, 1996, in his book the Culture of Education) (more)
(11/23/2009 - 12:38) On Wednesday 25.11.2009 TeamingStream is organising an afternoon seminar in the Restaurant Hilikku in Oulu. All the speakers, Petri Ahokangas, Jaana Kuusipalo, Piritta Leinonen, Johanna Bluemink and Tony Manninen, share their perspectives about "Precense in leadership" and how it can be enhanced... (more)
(11/22/2009 - 23:47) Some weeks ago we were talking with Lotta that we should figure out a better concept for playing NoviCraft. The word 'game' does not seem to grasp everything we want to point out, everything that takes place when a team is engaged in joint problem-solving in multiplayer-game context. That's when we... (more)
(11/22/2009 - 23:17) Lately I have been thinking about creativity and transfer - these two seem to be closely related, partly talking about the same phenomenon.
To put it briefly, creativity could be defined as making unexpected and new combinations of things we know or as wikipedia says it: discovery of new ideas or... (more)
(11/18/2009 - 19:42) Dear all who want to keep on learning and turning to each other to face the world we live in today. This is TeamingStream’s blog “Dive to Learn” where we want to share our thoughts concerning learning, leadership and serious gaming. (more)
Oulu Games Cluster released a new magazine for interest groups at the Game Developers Conference, San Francisco today. The magazine introduces game companies of northern Finland along with some... (
