Tag: Learning

  • Changes with 2.8

    Last week, in addition to the noise around Facebook, there was also another vanity URL oriented geek event. WordPress 2.8 was released and it was the first time since 2.7 that a full .X upgrade was available to users over the new automated update system. In typical WordPress fashion, everything generally went smooth (one install…

  • Colors determined by language

    Well add this to the raft of “things” that get filtered through language – color seems to have some connection to language processing. Just like the Inuit and their words for snow, we all seem to have bias for color. I remember hearing something similar to this a while ago in reference to people who…

  • Idea Sex – yeah the title got my attention too

    Leave it to The Escapist for titles like this now eh? First from the article: No.2 … Keep the classroom, but change it and everything around it. Make the money in education slosh a different way. Have schools, colleges, communities, businesses and all other parts of the education system talk to each other a little…

  • A vision of Students

    This video certainly presents an interesting thought – what is even more interesting are the comments. People thinking that the students are whining, that the profs are too lazy and that nothing works or will ever change. I think the place that we have to make the change is to allow students to have fewer…

  • Match the locals

    The old saying “When in Rome… do as the Romans” seems to have borne fruit again – From the current Innovations – Kavita Rao – Distance Learning in Micronesia: Participants’ Experiences in a Virtual Classroom Using Synchronous Technologies: Researchers also note that instructional design should be based on an understanding of the cultural modes and…