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Generate ideas for class topics and open channels of communication.
"Daytum is a project that allows users to construct their own data driven narratives. By tracking and visualizing data from aspects of their lives, users paint a statistical portrait of themselves. The results are surprisingly engaging and reveal the kinds of details you never find on a Facebook profile. The Little Prince famously observed that adults only understand the world via numbers - perhaps we should replace our Facebook profiles with Datum pages?"
When I first used Queneau's Exercices for teaching, I would hand out photocopied passages from nineteenth- or twentieth-century French authors, and students would work on these texts, changing the tense, point of view, sequence of events, and so on, as needed. More recently, I have used practice texts from a single work, Albert Camus's novel L'étranger , whose stylistic simplicity lends itself admirably to the purposes of the course. The students are given a two-paragraph excerpt from the novel for written assignments and a different passage for in-class practice. The advantage of having a single text is that in a short time the student has committed that text to memory, knows it in minute detail. The vocabulary and syntax are not an ever-renewed obstacle, and the student can proceed directly to stylistic modification of the text.
Eyes on Content Experience - slides
"Here are my slides about the special aspect to user experience: content experience. The value for user comes typically from the content, not the interaction itself. It is sometimes hard for us HCI people to remember this. "
"Lassen Sie sich vom Film faszinieren. Erfahren Sie wie Filme entstehen, wie sie mit Fiktion und Realität arbeiten, wie Ideen in Bilder und Töne umgesetzt werden, wie Lebenserfahrungen filmisch ausgedrückt werden können und welche Berufe in der Herstellung zum Zug kommen.
Unser Kursangebot ist ausgerichtet auf Lehrpersonen und alle, die sich für Film interessieren. Vorkenntnisse sind keine erforderlich.
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Der Rathausmann ist ein Wahrzeichen Wiens. Einen erfrischend anderer Blick von Kindern auf Wahrzeichen und Sehenswürdigkeiten bietet der Kinderaudioguide.