Still have lots of pages open in my browser, and this morning seems like as good as any a morning to try to clear that:
- From Jakob Nielsen, “Children’s Websites: Usability in Designing for Kids,” which cbd posted a while back. I don’t always agree with Nielsen’s proclamations about all things internets, but this seems pretty interesting and potentially useful for English 444.
- Speaking of which: some of my teaching evaluation reviews from this last summer’s section of English 444 and English 328 were pretty bad, and I think it’s mostly because the 7.5 week summer term makes students kind of crabby, and because this is another short term that comes after the short spring term. I try to warn students, try to repeat often the mantra of “it isn’t half as long, it’s twice as fast,” but often to no avail. Next year/this school year, I’m scheduled for spring term teaching, so we’ll see if that makes much difference, and I am also tentatively scheduled to teach a section of 444 this winter as an overload.
- “Project explores potential for use of iPad in education at Penn State,” which is another story about what the headline suggests. The one thing that’s a little different/unusual is I sort of know a couple of the people involved with this project.
- Tweet Library is a software for keeping a Tweet library on an iPad, which is all fine and good, though I personally would prefer to have it on my desktop.
- Here’s a pretty interesting assignment from Bill Wolff at Rowan University, “wrtf10 assignment 2: mixin’, mashin’, and remixin’.” There’s a couple of different things I can steal/borrow here for stuff students are doing this term in both 328 and 121.
- I don’t know exactly how much this matters, but here’s a link to a blog that links to a site called Haltadefinizione, which has super-duper high resolution/detailed images of some famous paintings.