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Category: Change

  • Into the mind of …

    Disaster? I don’t know, but if you want to see what I’m putting into my PhD paper, you can get a preview through my Delicious account. If you want to see what I’ve tagged so far – take a look.

  • Switching from Strike-well to Acme Hammers

    Well, there are many things in my new position, short as it may be, that I wish I could write about, but I can’t. But I think I’ve found a way to express some thoughts in a way that won’t really reveal what I shouldn’t be letting out of the bag. So with that in…

  • What are the new literacies that schools need to teach?

    This came up this weekend talking to my wife. It seems that in her school, there is a cadre of teachers who think that kids need to learn “keyboarding” to be literate in the new reality that will be where they find themselves in the future. This remark was quickly retorted by another teacher who…

  • Connecting the roots to the leaves – initial ideas for my PhD

    Yesterday I met up with Terry Carson in Secondary Education and we went over some ideas and I’ve put them together and put them out there to see what everyone who cares to comment out there thinks. So here it is: Problem that needs exploring: How to get the rank and file of the University…

  • GUI Design – the layer that propogates and prevents stories

    This is something that I remember from my days in grad school taking a look at UI design – what goes into designing an icon. It struck me that even in this new age of increased definition, we are still trying to simplify the interface. This is a challenge that will continue and it seems…