educational web strategy + consulting
The aptly titled “you don’t understand our audience”
Today while I was surfing through the most popular delicious links, I found this article (above). It’s about — well, I don’t actually know what it’s about because the content was locked behind a registration field.
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I think happiness is the ultimate best practice. And it does take practice. TED speakers Dan Gilbert and Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard explain.
(the delightful) Dan Gilbert
Psychologist Dan Gilbert says happiness is not what we think. Sorry VISA, but according to hard science, we really can’t buy happiness. In fact, not getting what you want is the key to your well being. A funny and synapse-firing good TED talk.
(the mindful) Matthieu Ricard
Buddhist monk and former molecular biologist Matthieu Ricard also says happiness is not what we think. Find out why science and Buddhism aren’t so far apart when it comes to definitions of well being. Inspiring, thoughtful and simple wisdom fresh from the Himalayas.
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Thanks to fellow K2 enthusiast Robert Anselm for the wonderful TED plugin!
Depending on where you stand in relation to the technology adoption lifecycle, tagging is either old news or a recent discovery. Regardless of where you’re at, a new PEW report on tagging has confirmed that tagging is on the rise among mainstream internet users. Here’s a great overview of the trend, with explanations, from the BBC:
New to tagging? Read on for some what, why and how-to resources.
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I’m sure PowerPoint was useful at one time but not for me. I associate it with un-creativity and hollow corporate expression. In short, I think PowerPoint bites. And that’s why I say, use a blog instead.
In less than a week I will be teaching a college level writing course in a wired classroom. Being the blogcentric gal I am I have decided not only to have a course blog but to use a blog for presentation purposes. I have talked to a couple of other blog/network-centric educators who have similarly used blogs for presentation and I think it’s really catching on. Why? Well, for one thing, those of us who are doing this see blogs as a viable, more aesthetically rich and more participatory alternative to PowerPoint.
Here’s why …
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As much as I celebrate the revolution of public participatory media I am increasingly frustrated at the apparent apathy of some citizen media makers to properly contextualise their work through tagging (aka folksonomies) which is a form of cooperative catagorization. Without tags, your images, video and/or audio content are not searchable, public or properly “participatory.”
The philosophy of participatory media is simple: participation between viewers and makers in the production and distribution of citizen produced media. Being a citizen media producer isn’t about merely a selfish show and tell but a cooperative process that involves you taking the time to make your media accessible, user-friendly and easy to distribute on a variety of platforms. Given the amount of bandwidth required to host all that citizen media, the least a citizen media producer can do in return for all this free publicity is to properly contextualise his or her work in a meaningful and relevant way.
My recent experiences at Flickr and Ourmedia confirmed that people still aren’t bothering to tag their works. Or those who are, aren’t doing a very good job of it.
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