Canadian programmer Jeff Clark released a new visualization that leverages Twitter content from Summize. The StreamGraph examines the last 200 tweets and parses them into a time-arranged stacked graph.
Dissertating
I’m ready to be a doctor. Mentally ready, that is. There are a few little things like qualifying exams and dissertation, wrapped in various strands of red tape, that are currently preventing me from saying grad school is done.
Future Education
An interactive map, commissioned by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation, itemizing the factors that are likely to influence public education in the next decade. It is divided into five elements—a two-dimensional space listing Drivers and Impact Areas, and the factors classified as trends, hot spots and dilemmas.
What’s a blog?
Boy, when I get untracked, I really get untracked. After helping BlogSchmog post (at least) once per day from late September through Christmas, I’ve had a difficult time getting my writing game on. Holidays … Bloomington Startup Weekend … a School of Informatics Unconference … Catch-up on semester classes … Spring Break trip to Georgia [...]
Co-Creating Education
There is a disconnection between goals for the learning environment and implementation. Everyone wants the classroom to be a place where students are engaged. Jerome Bruner once argued that we should create an atmosphere where students can “experience success and failure not as reward and punishment, but as information.” As theorist and feminist Nel Noddings put it: “There should be no penalty for getting things wrong.” Yet every grade inherently does just that.
Transparency of my recent failure
For the second year, an attempt to join the CHI Doctoral Consortium has been denied. Last year, I was focusing on barriers to entry in joining online communities, and this year I switched to merging complexity and HCI design. I share my reviews and reflection on the new failure.
Sketching and Perspectives
A black sharpie. A white wall. Field Music, and a concept for a music video. All makes for an interesting few minutes to watch, as well as a great metaphor for design.