Designer Kyle Durrie is bringing the joys of old-school graphic design to people across the country, one town at a time. You can read more about Kyle at Fast Company. Or arrange a visit by clicking on Movable Type.
Month: July 2011
WordCamp Boston 2011
Busy weekend. I attended WordCamp Boston. Lots of wonderful speakers and sessions. Once session that stands out to me came from Jay Collier. Jay spoke about Web Strategy in Higher Education his slide show has great examples.
As Jay so eloquently told us, we need to be moving toward the Federated Governance Concept whereas roles are distributed within the system and follow common vision and goals. Teams, teams, teams.
Other wonderful sessions spoke about one of my favorite subjects revolving around online learning-mobile learning. I am still working out my notes on all that was communicated…most important confirmation I heard-the students want it and they will use it.
Would you want to live in this house?
Would you want to live in this house? Check out how the Young Sexy Futuredude gets ready for a date.
QR Codes in a Whole New Way
Now here is a novel way to use QR codes. Forget crop circles! Travelers flying over this wheat field in Germany can look down to find a giant Semacode, mowed into the landscape by Bernhard Hopfengartner. The installation is now captured in Google Earth’s global database. Read more about 12 Brilliant Projects That Explore How Tech Helps Us Talk.
Brimfield, MA 2011
While we visited Brimfield Antique Show in May of 2011, this last weekend was the summer show. Glad we beat the heat. Brimfield is an explosion of unbelievable antiques and other oddities that have to be seen to be believed.
The Fantasic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Check out the future of ebooks….it is astounding!
What do you want to change in the next 30 days?
Ever want to make changes? In this short video Matt Cutts talks about taking 30 days to make changes. This video is less than 4 minutes long and might just give you the ‘kick’ to make a change.
Design Thinking for Educators
I came across this resource from IDEO, the premier design and innovation consultancies in the world today. They have this amazing toolkit which breaks down a design-oriented mindset to problem solving in five steps: discovery, interpretation, ideation, experimentation and evolution. Simplify the exercises and see if you can use them to define and find unusual solutions to a challenge you’re facing in your life or business.
Be sure to watch this video Why Design Thinking? from Design Thinking for Educators on Vimeo.
Coaching eLearners 6-12 Summer 2011
The Coaching eLearners 6-12 Summer Session 2011 opened this week. A very exciting course for developing 21st century habits of mind.
Homework Help Site Has a Social Networking Twist
Today’s NYTimes had any interesting article called, “Homework Help Site Has a Social Networking Twist”. Poojan Nath is the founder of Piazza a website created to help students post questions and get answers.
“The whole idea of Piazza stems from the dynamics that I observed at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, an elite engineering school in India where Ms. Nath went to school. There, she had seen how her male classmates collaborated on problem sets. From the sidelines I saw how effective it was to get immediate help, from peers in the same room,” Ms. Nath, 30, said.
Although there are rival services, like Blackboard, an education software company, Piazza’s platform is specifically designed to speed response times. The site is supported by a system of notification alerts, and the average question on Piazza will receive an answer in 14 minutes.