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International Table Top Day observance at the University of Denver
seenontabletop: Where great fun was had by all in attendance. Awesome was earned and shared! More pictures at the link: http://emergentdigitalpractices.tumblr.com/post/46795231837/we-enjoyed-games-and-each-others-company
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Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking soundbites to support it. “Wouldn’t you say,” she asked, ‘that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?” No, I said, I wouldn’t say that. “But…
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Students are not customers | Learning Change
Students are not customers | Learning Change gfbertini: Students are not customers – in the ongoing debate post-tuition fees rise, students are likened, more and more, to customers, but I believe the analogy simply doesn’t ring true. I form this view on the basis that you cannot pay more tuition fee to receive more education,…
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Given how much time I’ve spent reading and thinking about artists’ schedules and working habits, you might expect that I would have some insight into what makes for an ideal daily routine. Is there some combination of sleep, work, exercise, coffee, and focused head-scratching or brow-furrowing that is most likely to lead to creative breakthroughs?…
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Philosophy of Process
As is well known, it was Alfred North Whitehead who, almost a century ago, dealt with the notion of “process” from a theoretical point of view. Recently, there have been attempts to formalize Whitehead’s notion of ‘process’ into the algebraic theory of categories, by Michael Heather and Nick Rossiter (http://computing.unn.ac.uk/staff/cgnr1/ ). But, I do not…
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Alt/Shift 2.1: Creative education for a digital context
jamesbranch: In my experience it is not often that “industry” people and “academic” people sit in a room together and have lengthy talk about design education i.e. what we value, what we think should change and what frustrates us. So the first thing to say is thanks to AltShift / Derek Yates et al and…
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visual-poetry: »a small bouquet by frank o’hara« by natalie czech natalie czech uses calligrams in an attempt to confront and intertwine text and image. she reverses the process established for hidden poems of inscribing a poem into an existing text structure. the source material is not a pre-existing text fragment, but a picture poem. natalie…
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Computer science learning theory CodeSpells was influenced by research that Esper and Foster conducted on how successful programmers learn their trade. They surveyed 30 computer scientists and identified five characteristics that are key to learn programming outside a classroom setting: activities must be structured by the person who is trying to learn; learning must be…
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Boston Globe Columnist Kevin Cullen Says Boston Feels ‘a Mixture of Sadness and Defiance’
Boston Globe Columnist Kevin Cullen Says Boston Feels ‘a Mixture of Sadness and Defiance’ Boston Globe Columnist Kevin Cullen wrote about the resilience of the city of Boston and its people at the site of the bombings. For Cullen, what he saw compared to the scene of the bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland in 1998,…
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I was reminded about Bogotá by yesterday’s news
Colombia Blast Kills 1, Injures 83 : Drug Barons Held Responsible for Attack on Paper September 03, 1989|KENNETH FREED | Times Staff Writer BOGOTA, Colombia — In a major escalation of the already bloody war between the Colombian government and narcotics traffickers, presumed drug barons attacked one of the nation’s most important newspapers, setting off…