Resources for evaluating learning technologies

Resources for evaluating learning technologies

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November 26, 2019

Our Learning Technologies Advisory Committee met last week to start to brainstorm what the current issues on campus are, with respect to learning technologies. One of the key themes was a need to systematically evaluate learning technologies to make su...
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On moving my blog to Hugo

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November 22, 2019

After finally deciding to throw caution to the wind and move my webstuff back into a static format, this website finally landed on Hugo. I did an initial migration from WordPress to Jekyll, which looked really promising but took waaaaay too long to gen...
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Moving my blog to Hugo

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November 21, 2019

After many, many, many years running my blog on WordPress, I finally got tired of fussing around with convincing it to do what I want it to do, and trying to get it to perform well enough to not have to wait 20 seconds for page loads. I’m also wa...
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modularizing and disaggregating

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November 14, 2019

At the COHERE 2019 conference, the informal theme this morning was on modularizing and disaggregating1 - breaking out of the traditional 4-year degree program, breaking away from the semester-long course, enabling access to content and resources and pe...
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Gamelog: Hexaflip

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October 5, 2019

I've been playing some casual games as part of the Apple Arcade trial subscription, and have really been enjoying Hexaflip by Rogue Games. One part Q-Bert, one part Marble Madness, one part platform runner. It's a deceptively simple game - there are o...
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progress on the digital-whiteboard-text-markup thing

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September 26, 2019

After quickly (and I mean QUICKLY - it took less than half an hour's worth of fiddling around with code while sitting on the couch watching garbage TV) building a way for people to markup chunks of text using the TIDraw.net -powered digital whiteboards...
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Text annotation via digital whiteboards

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September 24, 2019

We hosted a "TI Instructors Gathering" this morning, where we invite folks who are teaching in the Taylor Institute to come together to share their experiences and we can learn from them about how they use the spaces and technologies. This gathering wa...
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Design thinking, with giant lobsters

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September 13, 2019

Robert Kelly has been hosting his Design Thinking course in the TI for the past several years. I was away over the summer, so missed the latest instance of the course. Giant lobsters! Thankfully, they documented the course and published ...
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Must-play examples of great video game design?

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September 3, 2019

The plan for my PhD is taking a bit of a different tack, to take advantage of an incredible opportunity that will remain cryptically-alluded-to for now. I need to go deep on video game design, and I'll be approaching things from a teachy-learny perspec...
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Snapshots from the poison room

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August 28, 2019

I took photos throughout my chemo/immunotherapy treatment, to document my reactions and the view from the poison room. Photos generates a decent slideshow (complete with Generic Copyright-takedown-avoiding Sountrack #1) ((I spent a few weeks back in 19...
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Best Paper awards in compsci

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August 27, 2019

Jeff Huang compiled a very long list of "Best Paper Award" winning papers in various computer science disciplines. Lots of interesting papers in there… Awesome.
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No guest posts

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August 27, 2019

No, I don't do "guest posts" or ads. Not "full stalker"? Oh, then by all means! Write a post for me!
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I also need more blogs

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August 26, 2019

Ben Werdmuller wrote a post this morning on the value of blogs and regular longer-form writing. I 1000% agree with him. You should start a blog, if you don't have one already. There's nothing better for organizing your thoughts and socializing ideas. Y...
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Apocalypse Chic

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August 23, 2019

Charlie Tyson, in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Anyone can weaponize melancholy; but distinguished older professors who have lived through the declining prestige of the humanities and of humanistic forms of knowledge â€” who have ...
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Lockdown – privacy app for iOS

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August 9, 2019

I was sure I saw a link to this from Daringfireball, but can't seem to find it again. Anyway. I've been running Lockdown on my phone for a couple of weeks now, and it's been working great. It's an app that integrates with the VPN feature in iOS, so all...
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