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Posted in Design on Jul 22nd, 2008
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The WordPress 2.6 upgrade also adds some great functionality [...]
A little piece released in eSchool News on a study released by SETDA (the State Educational Technology Director’s Association) aka “the state level ed tech folks that all play with each other”.
Link to the Full Report
“Planning and implementing for this growth is critical for our education system,” said Mary Ann Wolf, SETDA’s executive director. “We [...]
I believe I’ve come very close to finding The Life Uniform™.
5.11 makes clothing for cops. It straddles that line between casual and work. It’s very utilitarian. It’s comfortable (elastic waistband for all my fellow fatties!) while still maintaining fashion.
@ijohnpederson fashion advice incoming. Buy 10 shirts, 10 pants. Mix and match [...]
We don’t plan to allow students to access home directories or shared drives. This is part of a long-term shift toward not even having home directories for students. This is because I think we are at the point where “the network” no longer means school LAN or WAN, but the entire Internet.
…via TannerVision: ASUS EeePC [...]
Posted in Design on May 29th, 2008
“Posters and PowerPoints are ‘cute’, I suppose. But man, I’m just not satisfied with putting together yet another year of ‘projects’ that remain relegated to the construction paper inspired apple-bordered bulletin board. Time to up the ante. With abandon.”
(Link: think:lab: You Know This Kid. He’s In Your Classroom.)
Video scares me. I’m [...]
Posted in Design on May 16th, 2008
“Here’s how much I like Apple’s Keynote presentation software. I just used it the way I might have used QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign: to create a document intended not for the screen or projection, but for printing, and being held in one’s hand.”
(Link: Subtraction: Keynote for Print)
He’s the Design Director for NYTimes.com.
Many thanks to Dan Gross for passing this along.
“The most important word on the internet is not ‘Search’. The most important word on the internet is ‘Share’. Sharing is the driver. Sharing is the DNA. We use Social Objects to share ourselves with other people. We’re primates. we like to groom each other. It’s in our nature.”
(Link: gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back [...]
Design principles. From Google.
“1. Focus on people—their lives, their work, their dreams.
2. Every millisecond counts.
3. Simplicity is powerful.
4. Engage beginners and attract experts.
5. Dare to innovate.
6. Design for the world.
7. Plan for today’s and tomorrow’s business.
8. Delight the eye without distracting the mind.
9. Be worthy of people’s trust.
10. Add a human touch.”
(Link: Official Google [...]
Posted in Design, Empathy, Meaning, Play, Story, Symphony on Apr 18th, 2008
“at current rates, within 2 weeks the population of my Twitter followers will exceed the population of Alpine, Texas. Dunno what that means. 12 minutes ago from web “
(Link: Twitter / gapingvoid)
Joi Ito (Creative Commons) talks a bit about “amateur”.
“The ongoing expansion of edu-world content in iTunes continues with Friday’s addition of PBS to iTunes U; teaching support videos and instructional content from KQED, WETA, WNET thirteen, WGBH and more. Video clips that illustrate science, geography or history (including segments from Ken Burns’ documentary The War) are accompanied by PDF lesson plans and educator’s [...]
Posted in Design, Empathy, Meaning, Play, Story, Symphony on Apr 4th, 2008
If you’re creative, if you can think independantly, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn’t the case.
From gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back [...]
“I always think of public speaking as being a bit like jazz or the blues,” says Sir Ken. He says that he does not always necessarily know exactly what he is going to say, but he believes in stories and his presentation—like a jazz musician—is telling a story and he is taking people someplace. Yes, [...]
http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2008/01/convergent-v-di.html
This is the adverarticle below this morning’s school closings in southern Wisconsin. I played a game to see how many times “online education” was referenced.
When technology and a high school stock person collide at Toys R Us.
Seriously. My definition of “21st Century Learner” starts with the question “Do you know what to do when you don’t know what to do?”
“While I’m usually a sucker for a good deal, -$10 off just strikes me as odd. Maybe if I [...]
My new favorite out of the Lee Lefever stable.
