Learning Aesthetics

I’m teaching a class this semester. “Viral Video”- a title I’m not terribly happy with, but it was christened over a year ago when it seemed a bit fresher. It’s a blended-learning class, which is to say that most of it is going to happen online. In many ways the class is more about learning [...]

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We’re in the midst of reworking the workspace, something like that, and I wanted to contribute:

Leadership and teaching are related.  Worth a read is A Letter to a New NYC Teaching Fellow by Jose Vilson. Also worth a look is the presentation below (if you click the ‘View on SlideShare’ link on the lower right you can view the presentation in full screen mode).
Little Book of Leadership Powerpoint
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While it’s a bit Yves Klein retro it’s still the killer app for the iPhone

While IBM and Linden Labs have teamed up to teleport across virtual worlds, Google has entered the arena with Lively. I’m tempted to say, “Too young,” but then again I’m not sure what ‘old enough’ would look like. There’s not as much depth as Second Life, but on the plus side it’s easier to [...]

It’s a presentation tool, not an ePortfolio. That’s if you use a rather strict definition, but Visual CV is pretty slick. What’s lacking is an underlying framework that encourages you to put together a ‘good’ CV. That may not sound like a technical problem, but stay tuned; I’ll be making the [...]

Over lunch today I suggested, probably naively, the possibility that just as ‘technology’ had made dictation and secretaries pretty much obsolete, and that ‘technology’ might just be in the process of doing something similar to managers and hierarchies. My companion, correctly assuming that I was proposing some sort of program that might be ‘implemented’, [...]

Trent Batson has some good things to say about Desire2Learn’s new ePortfolio system (www.desire2learn.com). As usual he has some interesting thoughts about general systems:
An even more fundamental problem with educational software built as an enterprise system is that no one chooses to use them for fun. This kind of system does not connect with the [...]

Bill Gates on usability…