Kathy Sierra has a great post entitled Creating Passionate Users: Interactions vs. one way communication. She compares some active learning vs. site and listen conference experiences, and comments on how odd some people find the active learning model.
O’reilly media has two interesting projects — the first is a new magazine called MAKE. The magazine will feature how-to articles on hacking and playing with technology. The first issue has an article on aerial photography using kites — cool. This sample article is available for download. I got my copy, and my kite is ready to fly, so look forward to some aerial photographs coming soon. As a kid I was a Popular Mechanics and Popular Science subscriber, back when those magazines had DIY articles on making airplanes, and boats and all sorts of other cool things. The best way to learn and understand technology is to play with it.
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Here is a cool use of CSS. Rounded corners used to be a pain to create but soooo nice looking. Now you can have your rounded corners AND still have a standards compliant website. I’ve got several web projects in the works, so I’ll need to work in some rounded corners.
Boy, what a month. I can’t believe it has been several weeks since my last post. But I haven’t been goofing off…
In the podcasting world, two recent shows from IT Conversations deal with the subject of simulations and games for elearning. One is an interview with Henry Jenkins, the program chair at MIT’s program in comparative studies. In the interview he discusses his view that the millennial generation is wired differently than us older folks. Read the rest of this entry »
While driving home from NERCOMP in the snow I started thinking, why, at a conference where active learning and technology-enabled learning is all the talk, are we still stuck in the old teaching model. The speakers sit up in the front of the room with their carefully prepared PowerPoint slides and we all sit dutifully in neat rows facing them and taking notes. Isn’t it time for something different? Here is my active conference plan:
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