In my first post as a visitor to Michael’s blog I quoted Michael Fullan as encapsulating the motivations behind my research. I’m going to repeat that quote again as this post is going to focus on change:
“The answer to large-scale reform is not to try to emulate the characteristics of the minority who are getting […]
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Change
Published by November 15th, 2006 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype, Higher Education and Guest Bloggers. 4 CommentsConversation with My Own Imaginary Spinmeister
Published by August 10th, 2006 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 3 CommentsMe: Blackboard has an imaginary spinmeister! Oh NO!
Spinmeister: Oh, that guy. I wouldn’t worry too much about him. He was Joe Lieberman’s imaginary spinmeister. He’s not exactly the sharpest imaginary pencil in the imaginary box, if you know what I mean.
Me: But…their imaginary spinmeister said that this will all just blow over if they wait […]
A Good Window Into Information Architecture Trends
Published by November 25th, 2005 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype and Usability and Human Factors. 0 CommentsRashmi Sinha has an outstanding post analyzing the information-finding affordances of Google Base. For people who are interested in learning some of the basic concepts in modern information architecture (IA), she does a great job of illustrating key ideas. (You may want to fire up another browser window and play around with Google Base while […]
The Obligatory Folksonomy Post
Published by January 23rd, 2005 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype, Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management and Folksonomy. 16 CommentsCommenting on a recent post, Beth Harris asks the question of how the tagging system in Flickr could be used for teaching purposes. (Beth, a fellow SUNY-ite working at FIT, is doing some cool stuff with her art history classes using Flickr.) After thinking about it for a bit, I’m afraid the answer I come […]
Designing the Anti-Social Interface: A Rant
Published by September 18th, 2004 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype, Usability and Human Factors and Notable Posts. 2 CommentsJoel Spolsky (of “Joel on Software” fame) has been getting a lot of attention lately for his observation that software designers need to think about the impact their designs have on the way their software mediates between people. In general, I’m all for this, as you might gather from my posts here, here, here, here, […]
