28 January 2003

Students accused of high-tech cheating with web-accessible handsets Education authorities will no doubt ban mobiles that are switched on in exams. But will this work? Longer-term, if many of our phones, watches, etc get networked, what will happen? It becomes impossible to firewall the exam room (unless we take our exams in Faraday cages?). Instead, maybe exams will need to shift away from measuring what-facts-you-know and towards how-do-you-think/problem-solve. [via IP] 11:41:58 AM     comments

The questions Disneyworld guests ask Many questions are navigational: where are the restrooms? Also this logistics nugget: Custodial rules of engagement: how the dept tackles trash. [via boingboing] 11:41:03 AM     comments

Really useful best of ch-web and sigia-l web design/usability lists Also from UIWeb: Critical thinking in design part 3: project management How to run a design critique The role of project managers in interface design And there's more 11:40:17 AM     comments