Posts Tagged ‘design’

Developing an “Expert Plan”

As part of my education technology role at my school, I am a member of our high school “Laptop Leaders” group. A few weeks ago, at the end of our first quarter, the Laptop Leaders were asked to document the work they were doing, to create a shared resource, both for themselves and for other [...]

Teaching Design and Problem Solving

I’m in the throes of reworking my Introduction to Computer Science course for the coming fall. I was thoroughly dissatisfied with how I taught the course this year: I’m at the stage of teaching where I know how I want it to go, but can’t always make it happen. Of course, this may not be [...]

It’s like the joke about teachers…

…you know it: about how those who can do and those who can’t teach.
I just registered a bunch of us to go an Edward Tufte class next month, and to do it I had to wade through poorly designed invitation (difficult to find key information in a morass of identically sized and weighted typeface) and [...]

Compatibility, Forward and Reverse

I just saw two articles with in the space of ten minutes: one on the substantial/frustrating/obscenity-inducing work behind building web sites compatible with different web browsers (and, because A List Apart is so cool, another matching article on the same topic) and another on converting API interface hooks into a filesystem.
What, I hear you cry, [...]