April 2012
8 posts
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Design Deficiency →
While the linked article by the Temkin Group, a customer experience research and consulting group, is focused more on brand loyalty and corporate customers, I think they point of there being a design deficiency applies to many other areas, including education. As we are designing particularly distance education courseware, this might be something to consider. There are three components:...
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Crappy fonts, better recall? →
While the HBR article is intriguing I have to say the idea of using crappy fonts makes me a little sad. But I can’t argue with science. And besides the issues of making people read slower and the disfluency causes a level of mental struggle required for learning, there are a few other reasons I can think of that they may have achieved these results.
The brain seeks out novelty. It likes new...
Watchnolagrrlnyc:
It’s almost time for FIGMENT to spring into action again. If you’ve never heard of it or participated (and it is all about participation), here’s a quick overview of last year.
Full disclosure: Some of the still shots in the video were my handy work.
Check the website for the dates of events near you.
When I’m not doing the learning, presenting, communicating stuff,...
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Five Second Rule ... No Not That One →
Many of us have done the oops I dropped that [fill in food item here] and invoked the “five second rule” when deciding whether to toss it in the trash or toss in our munch-holes. But the five second rule that the linked article refers to has to do with visual clarity not vittles.
Vinod Khosla has likely been subjected to more presentations than most of us. So he knows a lot about what...
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If only all teachers were like this or at least... →
I am reblogging this because it’s the closest I’ll get to having had Jann aka mathcat345 as my math teacher. So much wisdom and fun. Yeah, math can be fun, just read this.
mathcat345:
I was asked what was my favorite part of the job and my least favorite part of the job, and realized I couldn’t fit my answer into a private reply. I’ll use the ever popular bullets and list the good...
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Tuesday Tech Tips – Microsoft Word Default Font
I thought I’d start a new series of Tuesday Tech Tip articles based on questions and comments I’ve seen recently on Tumblr and other social sites about annoyances or confusion with Microsoft Office. It seems that many stem from software being easy to use but not always used effectively, in part, because people don’t know to look for simple fixes that could make their lives easier. If you have any...
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An Audience of One →
One reason I haven’t been around much lately is that I’ve had my nose in the books. Last semester doing some ISD work and now focusing on distance education. Trying to find the balance between work, school, life and posting interesting things here. I think I’m getting the hang of this plate spinning act and so I’m going to try and visit here more often.
This link to an...
