I found this short video on the information aesthetics blog. It’s a great, quick, introduction to typography. Like many tasks that once were the realm of professionals, fiddling with fonts is a skill that many lay users should have. I teach my students about typography in a number of courses. Here are my highlights: Serif [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Seth Godin wrote my two favorite marketing books: Purple Cow and The Big Red Fez. Back when I was working in marketing as a webmaster, I devoured what he had to say. I still do. He writes, “I heard from two people this week (one is 11, the other twice that) who were forbidden to [...]
I’ve started playing with VoiceThread and love it! One class is investigating early animal domestication and are starting to comment on a thread called The Ancient 14. Background the Students Had 14 large, herbivorous mammals were domesticated in ancient times. Of these 14, 12 are native to the areas in and around the Fertile Crescent. [...]
TagMindr is a really cool service: remind yourself on a specific day from any del.icio.us bookmark. Here’s how to do it: Visit TagMindr to subscribe to your personalized del.icio.us reminder feed. Use del.icio.us as usual, adding 2 special tags: “tagmindr” and “remind:YYYY-MM-DD”. Read your own del.icio.us reminder feed in your favorite newsreader. Updates will show [...]
Great comic today on xkcd.com: Speaking of databases, I’ve long considered teaching a SQL class. Even if only so the students get this comic!
Starting November 12, if you donate $399 to the OLPC program, they will send a laptop to a child in a developing nation and send one to your child at home. 10 reasons I like OLPC and this form of buying computers: It’s Linux and Linux rocks (oh yeah, it’s free, too) Hand cranked power [...]
Google offers a free mailing list management tool called Google Groups. You can make a Google Group for any purpose, sign people up for it, and email an entire list with just one email address. This could be really cool for classes to use! Send out assignments & calendar items Engage the group in critique [...]
