Today I had the lucky chance of visiting a lecture of Donald Norman and it was a pleasure. The man is a great orator and he managed to get his point across very clearly, to the displeasure of a lot of the Industrial Design students and staff. But what was his point?
Posted in Inspiration, Random
I found a new blog about devices in education by Kennisnet. Amongst other experiences, it contains posts from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the RijksUniversiteit Groningen about the iPad in education. A nice read, but with predictable results.
iFontys Magazine has blogged about my session with the Fontys iPad students last friday 🙂
Keiharde iPad neglect
Bruno Brainstorm
Can’t believe I missed those.
One thing that always seems illogical to me is the collaboration and group functionality on Blackboard, a virtual learning environment (VLE). Every course in Blackboard comes with its own discussion forum, where students and teachers enrolled in that course can ask questions, give answers and discuss the lesson material. Blackboard also gives teachers the possibility of creating groups of students within a course. Each group gets his own group page with some functionality already embedded; ‘File Exchange’, ‘Group Discussion Board’, ‘Send Email’.
So far, so good, right? Blackboard, which is one of the market leaders in VLE’s worldwide offers collaboration possibilities.
Posted in Collaboration, Random
This may come somewhat late, as I’ve already been graduating for a month, but I’ve finally started my graduation blog. The idea is to create a sort of open diary, where I can write about my progress every couple of days. Why a blog? Well, it’s an easy way for my mentors and chair to keep track of my project. And it provides me with a means of keeping other people in the loop as well and hopefully gain some extra insights from them along the way.
Posted in Random
A Pad Full Of Noodles 