Learning Aesthetics

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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 [...]

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…

Normally I post links to things I like, occasionally to things I hate, but every now and then I stumble on to something that seems important or maybe useful but I’m not sure whether my reaction is positive or negative. A case in point: Deena Larsen has put together a site for high [...]

Tell us again why you’re worried about standardized testing?

Mark Pesce has a new post ‘Hyperpolitics (American Style)‘ here are a couple of hints, but read the whole thing:
…Last month, The Economist, that fountainhead of Ur-Liberalism, proclaimed humanity “halfway there.” Somewhere in the last few months, half the population of the planet became mobile telephone subscribers. In a decade’s time we’ve gone from half [...]