Recent CommentsPrompt: “Write an essay that explores the question” Question: “How should a professor evaluate student performance and accomplishment in this course of study?” Stipulations: Write Clearly Write Well Write in a natural, authentic, and effective manner. Use three of the … Continue reading → Continue reading
Embed Test “Those who fear the games often compare them to television. Game players almost never make this analogy. When they try to describe the games in terms of other things, the comparison is more likely to be with sports, … Continue reading → Continue reading
An excerpt from the introduction to Tim Berners-Lee’s The World-Wide Web in “The New Media Reader: “The ACM Hypertext conference was probably right to reject Tim Berners-Lee’s paper about the Web in 1991, reducing the announcement of this earth-shattering system … Continue reading → Continue reading
Is it our vision of the future that shapes what the future becomes? The Cell phone is common Place. The Tricorder is underdevelopment and according some quick Google search results Scotty might (conceptually) be able to beam us up in … Continue reading → Continue reading
This world in which we lived is governed by a set of rules. Or perhaps more accurately two different set of rules. The first set of rules is a set of facts that we have come to understand about the … Continue reading → Continue reading
Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer have some great insights into how the design on an online environment should be structured, organized, and managed. “Detailed central Planning is impossible; don’t even try” The suggestion is to build a framework and … Continue reading → Continue reading
In the widespread discussion of educational reform perhaps something we want to create is “One Buttock Learning” if you don’t know what I’m talking about you should explore Benjamin Zander’s Ted Talk. Ivan Illich in his work Deschooling Society brings … Continue reading → Continue reading
The majority of Humans trend towards comfort. This makes sense. We build houses so we don’t have to sleep outside in a rainstorm. Many houses are elaborate but at their base level their purpose is to provide shelter, one of … Continue reading → Continue reading
…awaken, explore, and question, or perhaps doze, hide, and accept it’s up to your brain and its boundaries. “Time” It is nothing more than a word, concept, or frame within which we as humans can place meaning. Four simple letters … Continue reading → Continue reading
Scott McCloud’s exploration of duration, time, or the fourth dimension and how it can and is represented within comic strips and more generally all types of media brings my mind to string theory and several concepts I am still trying … Continue reading → Continue reading