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"News sites with modular, image-heavy designs receive more pageviews and have stronger user engagement than sites with more staid, newspaper-inspired designs, according to a report"

I'm tempted to make one of those. Also seems like you could skip the mirror and flip w software pretty easily.

Here's the course site for Mia Zamora's #WritingRace course.

Penn State has a pretty slick example blog layout. I'd prefer some more action representation from the blogs but it's a nice start.

Thanks, Tom

I wonder what this would look like as an integrated curricular/thematic element at VCU? I'm not a fan of the video style but certain elements about the whole site are worth noting/exploring.

A tool that tells you stuff about any WordPress site.

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

"The site provides science students and educators, at levels from kindergarten to college, with a free online space to create, collaborate and share their own digital drawings, Wang says. It initially was inspired by Frankel's Picturing to Learn project, where MIT and Harvard undergraduates majoring in science created drawings to explain scientific phenomena to high school students, according to Wang. Excited about the potential for drawing as a tool for students and science enthusiasts in and out of the classroom, Wang saw an opportunity in that space to infuse new energy and greater creativity into science education, he said."

"Here is my grand vision. Imagine with me. What if your syllabi were beautiful? What if they were a pleasure for students to engage with? What if they provided opportunities to not only understand and access policies, expectations, schedules and such, but for our students to meet us?  What if the syllabus became a site where former students could share voices (stories, feedback, words of encouragement) with future students? Isn't THIS what our goal should be as we move into this amazing landscape of mobile, digital media?"

Evaluation is such an important part of designing and developing programs for adult learners. This site may be helpful.

"Users of Social Networking sites frequently discuss events which will occur in the near future. By annotating Named Entities and resolving temporal expressions (for example "next Friday"), we are able to automatically extract a calendar of popular events occurring in the near future from Twitter. "

Site has its problems but the simple frame is interesting: imagine, design, create, deliver, evaluate.

I like the concept- maybe inspiration, creation, evaluation.

"In this portfolio, there are only four pieces so far. I plan on adding to the collection and changing the format of the site around as I get used to blogging like this. I decided the best pieces to showcase how I started out would be the first few things I wrote and then some of the last things I did. So, I posted the first journal we did: Preliminary Self-Analysis. Upon reading it now, I remember how I decided just go for the "type like I talk" format just to see what would happen. It doesn't look too bad, but I can tell I overdid it a little. "

Site to create your own flash cards for students to use with apps.

This is the English version of a French Design publication focused on research and theory.