1. How to build common knowledge? …Brain-Breezing and more. Proposal Poster Theme 1 IKIT Summer Institute 2003, Toronto, August 12-15 2003 Contribution of the Dutch Inspectorate of Education, Carla van Cauwenberghe, c.vancauwenberghe@owinsp.nl

2. Key roles within the Dutch Inspectorate of Education Challenge –Open up and unlock information infrastructure –Access to tacit knowledge –Sharing expertise –Balance central-decentral Organisation –Competent teams Knowledge/Inspection –Context: Dutch school system PE,SE,VET,HE –Complex field: Quality of Education –Content: facts and figures educational field Knowledge –most important asset –research & development –reliable and quick –public function Knowledge as tool for: –management –engineering –monitoring –accountability

3. Abstract Whenever working in a community of professional knowledge workers one of the biggest challenges is to create a ‘map’ of available, common, shared Knowledge, in order to develop a common knowledge base and to learn from each other which ideas, knowledge, information, thoughts, opinions, differences, concepts, views, associations, or images about a topic exist in the community: using the BrainBreezing technique individuals are invited to explain their role and context, to provide their personal ideas and put them ‘on a coat-hook’, to indicate how familiar or important they feel with the item put on the ‘coat-hook’ and to explain further details about their ideas. After scoring all ideas are totalised through a special import utility and printed in order to create the ‘community map’, a start to knowledge building communities.

4. Tool: Brain Breezer Brain Breezing about e.g. Competencies Start the program and up you go… What is my role related to this topic? I am going to brainbreeze: choose a topic I provide more information about my topics

5. Creating one’s associations: Put your ideas on the ‘coat-hook’, e.g. Competency: Vision Having a clear view of the future Knowing where your organisation is heading for Range: Close – Far

6. I give more information about the items/ideas that I associate to the topic put on the coat-hook: How familiar am I with this item? 5 scale: little-much How important this item is to me? 5 scale: little-much Further explanation about the item that I provided

7. Community Mind Map Copy the data of the individual’s brain- breezer to the common database Print …