Monthly Archives: April 2007
Getting on Board
Looking at the articles by James Paul Gee and Niall Ferguson, as well as playing MYST III, it seems we might be witnessing a paradigm shift in the model of education. The trends away from simple textual based learning, as … Continue reading
Design Assignment
My site is going to be pretty image heavy, and I wanted to find away to annotate the images and analyze them. The ideal method would be to figure out a way to pull in images from my flickr page … Continue reading
Also
Some people in class have been wondering about creating tools to allow for user commentary on their sites. Lifehacker highlighted one such free service a couple weeks back. You can find it here. Powered by ScribeFire. Share This
Gaming and Learning
Can video games help people learn? James Paul Gee offers a convincing argument in What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy that they in fact can create positive learning experiences at all age levels. Gee posits … Continue reading
Links
Some of the readings this semester have been so valuable in terms of the simple advice they offer regarding topics I otherwise would have never considered or thought about much. For example Jakob Nielsen’s piece on Visualizing Links was fascinating. … Continue reading