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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
Accessibility
Joe Clark’s idea to discard the term handicapped (or any other generalized term) in favor of words or phrases that specifically target a person’s disability is really helpful. This allows us to better conceptualize the difficulties people have in accessing … Continue reading
Re-Imaging
Photoshop is an incredibly powerful program. From creating the illusion of old and worn images to restoring and reconstructing destroyed objects to presenting historical images in a pleasing and consistent fashion, it quickly becomes apparent how with time and effort … Continue reading
Color
I enjoyed Dave Shea’s comments at 24 ways. These were some problems I was working through on my site last week. I originally had a light tan as a border, The darker color seems to both frame and focus the … Continue reading