Slideshare on social learning analytics:
This slideshare outlines much of the work that’s already happening in terms of learning analytics. From the CALRG 2011 Conference.… [Read more...]
Lots of interesting work at Carnegie Mellon is happening around the refinement of online learning materials with analytics.
I find the Digital Dashboard Project for Learning (DDL) particularly interesting. This project attempts to model a positive feedback loop between instructors, students, and content in an online learning system.
Publications page here.
Participant Observation Assignment
From the blog i213 User Interface Design and Development
January 26th, 2012
Due: Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at Noon
Objective: In this assignment, you will be conducting a contextual interview with a prospective set of users, and deriving a set of work models and notes based on that experience.
What to Do:
- Identify 4-8 different individual users, covering each of your user / stakeholder categories, and ask each for their permission to
History of the Zipper
From the blog I290 Information-Centric Entrepreneurship & Startup Strategies
January 26th, 2012
It was a long way up for the humble zipper, the mechanical wonder that has kept so much in our lives ‘together.’ On its way up the zipper has passed through the hands of several dedicated inventors, none convinced the general public to accept the zipper as part of everyday costume. The magazine and fashion industry made the novel zipper … [Read more...]
Technology Adoption Lifecycle
From the blog I290 Information-Centric Entrepreneurship & Startup Strategies
January 26th, 2012
From our discussion today:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle… [Read more...]
After a much longer hiatus than I would have liked, I’m back chronicling my learning analytics adventures on this blog. This promises to be an interesting year, and I look forward to sharing more of my thoughts and reflections on these topics on a regular basis over the next several months.… [Read more...]
In Health Dept. Ad, PhotoShop, Not Diabetes, Took Leg
From the blog Visual Narrative & Research Methods Sp 2012
January 26th, 2012
NYTimes:
A poster being put up in the subway system shows a man who lost his leg to diabetes. But he really didn’t.… [Read more...]
Announcements – Jan 23
From the blog I290 Information-Centric Entrepreneurship & Startup Strategies
January 23rd, 2012
My First CollectionSpace Record
From the blog 290. Resource and Metadata Management in Museums, Archives, and Research Collections
January 23rd, 2012
I started out trying to make a record for a photograph, and, my, aren’t there a lot of ways to describe a photograph. For a collection that already has some sort of organizing system, manually entering that much detailed info for each item in a collection is prohibitive. I imagine that there’s some way to batch upload preexisting catalog information … [Read more...]
Dissertation abstract – Making Art, Creating Infrastructure…
From the blog Perkelating
January 23rd, 2012
I officially filed my dissertation in December. It will be available through the UC Berkeley library and ProQuest soon enough, and I plan on having some version of it accessible through my site. But in the meantime, here’s the abstract. If you’d like to read the dissertation, email me and I’ll send you a copy.
Making Art, Creating Infrastructure: deviantART … [Read more...]
