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Ben W

IBISEYE.com -- Your 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season Tracking Map Source -- Tracking path... - 0 views

ibiseye.com

hurricane ibiseye map meteorology science tracking tropicalstorm

shared by Ben W on 02 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Ben W on 02 Sep 08
     
    A great interactive map showing current tropical storm activity and TS and Hurricane paths and predictions.
Vicki Davis

Study Finds Big Storms on a 1,000-Year Rise - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...on-a-1000-year-rise-94323.html

education science

shared by Vicki Davis on 14 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The North Atlantic Ocean has spawned more hurricanes and tropical storms over the last decade than it has since a similarly stormy period 1,000 years ago, according to a new study.
  • Vicki Davis on 14 Aug 09
     
    "The North Atlantic Ocean has spawned more hurricanes and tropical storms over the last decade than it has since a similarly stormy period 1,000 years ago, according to a new study." This article would be excellent for some discussions in science about climate change.
Vicki Davis

Past Issues - UI Design Newsletter - 0 views

www.humanfactors.com/...sep08.asp

curriculum education technology

shared by Vicki Davis on 02 Oct 08 - Cached
  • You can ask them what they noticed, but self reporting of this sort is notoriously inaccurate – if you ask people to point to what they look at, and meld that with an eyetracking overlay of where their eyes actually went there is a startling gap.
  • applied eyetracking methodologies to measure the attention-drawing effects of new and newly modified elements of search results pages.
  • there is a strong correlation where people look and where they click on search results pages
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  • They look a bit like hurricane maps. People get most excited about findings where the gaze patterns are highly organized... and look a bit like a well-formed hurricane.
  • The visual design works!"
  • So, the visual design objective of a website is to draw your attention to move around the page.
  • longest looking times may not. In fact, longest looking times can, in some cases, reflect multiple lookbacks and dwell time indicating confusion or uncertainty about a next step, a label or an interaction.
  • If there is no fixation we cannot possibly process the content. If there is no fixation we can't be influenced. Amazing, but the part we should pay attention to in our eyetracking results is probably the area that is NOT highlighted!!
  • Vicki Davis on 02 Oct 08
     
    Article about how people look at web pages.
  • Vicki Davis on 02 Oct 08
     
    As you design web pages for use with your students -- do you wonder why they don't sometimes SEE what you're putting in front of them -- it is because of eye movement. It is design!!! This paper writes about the effect of website design on eye movement. Those who are desigining online curriculum need to understand this. My sister, Sarah, has been an onlien professor for Savannah College of Art and Design for a while, ,and this is something she talks about in her courses and shares with me. This is why I emphasize wiki layout and design w/ my students (like having a table of contents and white space.) If it is not attractive, it just doesn't exist, because it IS NOT READ! Educators will do well to remember that!
Ben W

Michigan, Ground Zero For Sustainability, Struggling To Develop Wind Power : TreeHugger - 0 views

www.treehugger.com/...what_happened_t.php

electricity energy environment michigan science sustainability water windpower

shared by Ben W on 03 Apr 08 - Cached
  • while surrounded by water resources that are the envy of half the population of the US and many arid nations
    • Ben W
      Ben W on 03 Apr 08
       
      Michigan may see a resurgance in vitality as water resources become increasingly taxed elsewhere (i.e. Atlanta). MI is a state mostly free from worry about weather calamities (no hurricanes, flooding happens, but hasn't been horrible, forest fires are rare, and mudslides are unheard of), and may become a "safe haven" in the future.
  • Ben W on 03 Apr 08
     
    Describes MI's problems w/ adding serious wind power to the existing electrical grid. Calls for an improvement of transmission lines to be able to handle new energy sources.
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