Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 31, 2008
Illustrations by Leah Buley If you design user experiences for standards-based websites and applications (i.e. those built with XHTML , CSS, and JavaScript), there are several great reasons for adding XHTML prototyping to your UX tool kit. Perhaps you’ve found that traditional wireframes just aren’t sufficient and are looking for more powerful ways to explore and communicate design solutions.
Xplaner
OCTOBER 9, 2008
I was reading this excellent post about groups and networks and I started to think about if groups filter access to networks. I think that all of the readings this week (at least how I understand them ) point to groups being a restricted entity. In other words, there are definite boundaries to a group, access is controlled, there is an accepted language and other norms, etc.
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Bennett Cherry
OCTOBER 29, 2008
The famed design firm, IDEO, has recently released a video of their Incredible Ideo Global Chain Reaction Experience. As a means to show their engineering prowess (as this often gets overshadowed by their well-regarded product design work), IDEO created this experience as an internal exercise in both right-brained and left-brained thinking. I think it worked well.
Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 16, 2008
The “IDEA Conference&# :[link] took place in Chicago on October 7-9 at the Harold Washington Library Center. The speakers pushed the boundaries of what it means to design complex information spaces of all kinds. We can all expand our practice by absorbing their experiences and ideas. In cooperation with the “IA Institute&# :[link] we’re happy to bring you recordings of most conference talks.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.
Xplaner
OCTOBER 1, 2008
Here is the tweet that started it: That twitter conversation was sparked by this Details article about the so-called Playboys of Tech (my daughter calls these sorts of guys hipsters…). Chrissie was annoyed that there are never any articles about hipster tech women. But that sentiment of that tweet - that somehow typical tech women are not gorgeous and hot - really rubbed me the wrong way.
Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 20, 2008
We’re embarking on Week 4 of the Work Literacy learning project. This week it’s RSS and feed readers. Although the thrust of the module is primarily about how learning professionals can learn and manage information by subscribing to feeds, I find that I’m more interested in how we can use feeds as learning tools for the people with whom we’re working.
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Bennett Cherry
OCTOBER 27, 2008
If you were in my Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship class today, you would have remembered that I presented 16 Principles of Innovation. While I still stand behind the 16, I have recently come across a 17th principle: When in doubt, use Origami. Since it is now past 3:30 PST, many of you are probably tired of reading or viewing any more posts today, but I had to share this one with.
Xplaner
OCTOBER 21, 2008
I am going through one of the CCK08 readings for this week, “Cloudworks: social networking for learning design&#. (I would reference the author but I can’t find one on the given materials - only clue is the document title conole_ascilite). The paper provided a quote from Engestrom that really struck me: The term ’social networking’ makes little sense if we leave out the objects that mediate the ties between people.
Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 16, 2008
Blogs and educating the eflective practitioner. View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: elearning professional ). Over at Work Literacy this week, we hosted a great webinar on using blogs for reflective practice. It was run by Paul Lowe , who is a senior lecturer and course director at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 16, 2008
This is the last (for now) in my series of posts on using blogs for learning. Earlier this week, Lee Kraus wrote a post on finding the time to blog. He mentioned that he has a two-hour drive every day, which leaves lots of time for thinking, but not for writing. Time is always a challenge for bloggers, but if you’re in the car two hours a day, audio blogging (podcasting) might be something to consider.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 16, 2008
This week we’re exploring various strategies for using a blog to support personal and formal learning as part of the Work Literacy course’s focus on blogging. Today we’re going to talk about “how to’s&# or instructional blogging. “How to&# posts can serve a few purposes in terms of learning. They’re a great tool for assessing skill development.
Xplaner
OCTOBER 16, 2008
This morning I went to Boston Social Media Breakfast #9. EMC sponsored this edition of SMB Boston, and Jaime Pappas (one of EMC’s Social Media Managers) was one of the featured speakers. She did a great job talking about EMC’s overall strategy. What I’d like to do is talk about the revelations I had from attending the meeting, and try to talk a little about Social Media and Education.
Xplaner
OCTOBER 15, 2008
Today is Blog Action Day , and the topic is fighting poverty. One of my colleagues at EMC has already posted his Blog Action post (go see Steve Todd’s post). I thought I would just tell my story. I grew up in Northwest Florida. My father got out of the Air Force as a conscientious objector when I was 5 years old, right at the end of the Vietnam Conflict.
Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 15, 2008
For this week's Web 2.0 Wednesday activity, we're going to tie in with our ongoing series on using blogs for learning. Your task is simple-- share your favorite blogging for learning activity. You can do so in comments here or write your own blog post to share. If you blog about it, be sure to use the "web2.0wednesday" tag and then leave me a link here in comments.
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Xplaner
OCTOBER 14, 2008
The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for October is about E-Learning, specifically: What advice would you give to someone new to the field (of E-Learning). Where do you start? Particular tools you should explore? Resources you should read? Videos/screencasts you should watch? What would your To Learn List look like? I’m a current grad student in the Instructional Systems program at Florida State University.
Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 13, 2008
This week we’re exploring various strategies for using a blog to support personal and formal learning as part of the Work Literacy course’s focus on blogging. Today we’re going to discuss running a blog challenge. What is a Blog Challenge? In a blog challenge, several bloggers work together on a group learning project over a period of time–a few days, a week, a month.
Xplaner
OCTOBER 13, 2008
After publicly declaring my angst over filters being put in place in the CCK08 class, Stephen Downes pretty much spelled out the rules for engagement in the Daily today when he said: “It is not simply about saying you agree or disagree with the authors and leaving it at that. It is about relating your present experience with your past experience, looking at what you are seeing and reading now from the perspective of things you have learned in the past.
Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 13, 2008
This week on Work Literacy , we’re exploring how to use blogs for personal learning and as part of more structured formal events with learners. I haven’t done a week-long series in a while, so I thought it would be fun to spend this week sharing different kinds of activities that could be used to support learning with blogs. Today we’re going to talk about how we could use quotes as a springboard to learning through blogs.
Speaker: Jamie Eagan
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Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 10, 2008
My post a few days ago arguing that the real value of blogging lies not just in reading blogs, but in commenting on blog posts and writing your own, generated a lot of comments and some great references to what others are thinking. Most people seemed to agree with my premise that while reading blog posts can be helpful to learning, commenting and being a blogger yourself adds even more value.
Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 9, 2008
27 Inspiring Women Edubloggers View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: education women ). A few weeks ago I blogged about Zaid's list of the top Edubloggers and Janet Clarey's observation that out of 25 bloggers, there were only 3 women on Zaid's list. Not one to forego a learning experience, Zaid immediately took our discussion as an opportunity to expand his own learning and set off on a search for women edubloggers.
Xplaner
OCTOBER 8, 2008
I want to start by getting something off my chest. I attended tonight’s Elluminate session, where Terry Anderson was the guest presenter. He had a very interesting presentation which I enjoyed very much. One thing he spoke about is going to make its way into a presentation I have next week. Good stuff! I am very interested in figuring out how the thoughts in this week’s CCK08 discussions (which is about networks and groups) are different than existing group theory produced by sociolo
Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 6, 2008
Week 2 of our Work Literacy course on Web 2.0 for Learning professionals has kicked off and this week we’re exploring social bookmarking. Just as with last week’s assignments, we’ve set up a variety of ways for people to participate, ranging from Spectator, to Joiner/Collector, to Creator. Already the Forums are lighting up with discussions on how to make the most effective use of Delicious (the primary tool we’re focusing on using) and another Forum has started up to exp
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Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 7, 2008
Maybe it's the economy. Maybe it's the nasty turn the American Presidential campaign is taking. Maybe it's that I'm feeling a little stressed out from the different projects I have going on right now. All I know is that I think we could all use a little love this week, so here's your project for Web 2.0 Wednesday (a day early, unless you're "down under").
Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 2, 2008
Lisa Neal Gualtier , Editor-in-Chief of eLearn Magazine left a commen t yesterday on my gender and blogging post that she's writing an article on the Top 100 Women in eLearning and is looking for some suggestions: So far she's had recommendations for Allison Rossett, Ellen Wagner, Patti Shank, Diana Laurillard, Jane Hart and Gilly Salmon. Cathy Moore also chimed in with Ruth Clark.
Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 2, 2008
One of the big questions I'm frequently asked about using social media is whether or not the tools "work." Depending on the questioner, this can mean a variety of things, but underlying everything is one issue--will my department or organization improve if we use social media? Via Shel Holtz and Workplace Learning Today comes yet another "yes," to that question.
Xplaner
OCTOBER 2, 2008
Don’t require your students to purchase books for your class that were last printed over 20 years ago, and are currently out of print. Make the chapters of those books available as pdf’s. Authored by gminks. Hosted by Edublogs.
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Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 1, 2008
Over on the Work Literacy: Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals Ning where we're on day three of the course, one of the more active forum discussions has been on getting value out of LinkedIn. Fortunately for us, Tony Karrer is a whiz at using LinkedIn to find expertise and he's recorded a couple of excellent screencasts to show the rest of us how it's done.
Boxes and Arrows
OCTOBER 15, 2008
The Podcast has moved to a “new page&# :[link] “Getting a Form’s Structure Right&# :[link] Designing Usable Online Email Applications -B&A
Xplaner
OCTOBER 12, 2008
So I am wondering: are there filters being imposed in the CCK08 class? I know I am applying my own filters. I decided early on I would keep up with blog posts and posts from the CCK08 twitter network. I stay away from the Moodle boards because they are very busy, and for at least the first couple of weeks they were also very negative (from my filtered view at least).
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