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Archive for September, 2007

Pecha-kucha

Pecha-kucha is a format for giving presentations with a twist: you can only have 20 PowerPoint slides, each is on the screen for 20 seconds — no more, no less — and you don’t control the PowerPoint. Someone else advances the slides. Watch author Daniel Pink explain. It’s kinda fun.
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Simplicity

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful. ~ John Maeda
I’ve spent a week working on a guide to course design for faculty. Yesterday I printed out all 34 pages and put them in order on my office floor to get a sense of what I had and how it all fit [...]

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Massive Multiplayer Online Learning

What happens when you redesign an online learning space from the ground up? I’m not sure but that’s what San Francisco-based Grockit has in mind. They’re flush with cash from a recent influx of funding and they’ve got attitude. While I think learning management systems alone are a pale substitute for the [...]

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The Times (in their Lifestyle section — ugh) says that Facebook is “the 13th most used search engine in the world“. Are there that many people searching for people online?

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