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"But there's a couple of problems with the disciplinary focus on teaching and learning. It reinforces the belief that teaching in a particular field is unique, and if you don't know the field you can't possibly know anything about how to teach it. Certainly the content-how knowledge of it advances, how it's organized, what counts as evidence, for example-has implications for how it's taught. Teaching problem solving and teaching themes from a novel are not the same. But there are many aspects of teaching and learning that transcend disciplinary boundaries-you wouldn't be reading this blog if you didn't believe that"

""Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design." This implies, for one, that good documentation does not excuse bad design. You can ask people to RTFM, but it is folly to assume they have read everything and memorized every detail. The clarity of examples, and the software's decipherability and debuggability in the real world, are likely far more important. Form must communicate function."

Faculty Development for Student Success: An Example

"Despite our best efforts, presentations can sometimes turn into one-way communication- us talking and students passively listening. You may be stationed at the front of the classroom, perhaps using PowerPoint slides or showing a video on a screen, while the class follows along silently in their seats. Or, any discussion that is generated might be dominated by the verbal few, with quieter students too intimidated to jump in. Also, when you look at the multiple studies that indicate the brevity of a student's attention span, ranging from two to ten minutes, a lengthy presentation can lose the audience it was designed to teach."

"It's not that my memory improved but, instead, that I started archiving these events and ideas with my phone, as photographs. Now, if I want to research the painter whose portraits I admired at the museum, I don't have to read through page after page of my chicken scratch trying to find her name. When I need the title of a novel someone recommended, I just scroll back to the day we were at the bookstore together. Looking through my photo stream, there is a caption about Thomas Jefferson smuggling seeds from Italy, which I want to research; a picture of a tree I want to identify, which I need to send to my father; the nutritional label from a seasoning that I want to re-create; and a man with a jungle of electrical cords in the coffee shop, whose picture I took because I wanted to write something about how our wireless lives are actually full of wires. Photography has changed not only the way that I make notes but also the way that I write. Like an endless series of prompts, the photographs are a record of half-formed ideas to which I hope to return."

Stunning. Sometimes you just need to push content. This is a great example of how to do it well.

If you haven't seen this, you should take a look. This is a bit old but worth seeing if you like webdesign/journalsim/media http://t.co/yJm4BdPzYH #ds106 - Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 4, 2013

If you haven't seen this, you should take a look. This is a bit old but worth seeing if you like webdesign/journalsim/media http://t.co/yJm4BdPzYH #ds106 - Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 4, 2013

Kind of what I was thinking for #DS106 and the upcoming VCU MOOCs- only using the mother blog for more than just Twitter and thinking through a couple other display options. 

Fun little mashup activity...

Will Sullivan's Engelbart's scholars blog

Modeling a number of things in this post that would have strong parallels in faculty/student blogging.

I really enjoyed Karl Miller's talk and his course is well worth exploring.

"Scott Fisher gets a lot of educational mileage from a postcard."

Is this work effective and why? or Does this effectively fullfill the assignment? or even Is the planning of the work evident?

"If Freire Made a MOOC: Open Education as Resistance"

In the vein of Bret Victor's Explorable Explanations, this site uses several interactive visualizations to explain complex topics

Great example. He even references Victor's Magic Ink essay http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk

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