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This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations. After this tutorial, students should be able to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of visual representations, to improve their shortcomings, to use them to create and communicate knowledge, or to devise new ways of representing insights. The didactic approach consists of rooting visualization in its application contexts, i.e. giving students the necessary critical attitude, principles, tools and feedback to develop their own high-quality visualization formats for specific problems (problem-based learning). The students thus learn about the commonalities of good visualization in diverse areas, but also explore the specificities of visualization in their field of specialization (through real-life case studies). They will not only learn by doing, but in doing so contribute new training material for their peers to evaluate (peer learning).

Der “LERNET 2.0-Praxisleitfaden” hilft allen, die in einem kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen Verantwortung für das Thema Bildung tragen, sinnvolle Anwendungen des digitalen Lernens zu finden und einzuführen. Er erläutert ausführlich das Web-2.0-Fachvokabular und bietet ganz konkrete Anleitungen, die Schritt für Schritt die Einführung von Blogs, Twitter, Mikroblogs, Wikis und Virtuellen Klassenräumen beschreiben. Der Leitfaden, der im Rahmen des BMWi-Projekts “LERNET 2.0″ entstand, steht allen Interessierten am Ende dieses Posts kostenlos zur Verfügung.

n the midst of a busy project it's all too easy to forget the nuances that distinguish great products. Mental Notes brings together 50 insights from psychology into an easy reference and brainstorming tool. Each card describes one insight into human behavior and suggests ways to apply this to the design of Web sites, Web apps, and software applications.

Zipcast is the new way to meet online It's free and simple. No downloads for anyone. Public when you want your ideas to spread. Private when it's you and a colleague.