Saturday, November 08, 2003|
No, my goal is not to channel the entire spirit of .... No, my goal is not to channel the entire spirit of Peter Merholz into the education realm, but his stuff is a gold mine of connections, and I keep coming back to this one post. Experience Economics has a wonderful pyramid chart showing how people experience different types of birthday parties, starting with the commodity (birthday cake ingredients) and working all the way up to something transforming (birthday at Disney World). As you move up the pyramid, emotional resonance and economic value increase. What's the equivalent for learning experiences? At the bottom would be plain old information, divorced from context. At the top might be learning about space by joining astronauts on a shuttle mission and having them mentor you for a week. In between would be most of the types of learning experiences in education today, probably skewed toward the bottom of the pyramid. Extreme example, maybe, but I feel like this type of thinking might offer some answers to questions about the value of education. I wish someone would translate that visual into something that applies to learning so I wouldn't have to do it when I should be sleeping. Probably something that integrates Bloom's taxonomy, even though I've recently heard references to it being out of style. [Jeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology] 3:01:59 PM 
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Tim Bray on RSS - Anyone in the business of publishing info to an audience should think about implementing an RSS feed by this time next week.. (SOURCE:AIIM E-DOC Magazine - Enterprise Content Management at Work!)- RSSify your org or die! QUOTE AEM: What are some of the more interesting uses of XML? Bray: RSS. It's a syndication format. It's a simple XML tag to describe what's changed about a website recently. Doesn't sound like much, except that there are programs called aggregators that poll websites and read the RSS every so often. For example, I don't go the New York Times' website anymore because I read the paper's RSS feed and I've got a little application that I check back with every so often that tells me when there is new stuff. I don't even really use the notion of the home page anymore because I'm notified when something new pops up on the sites that I like to read, enabling me to keep track of an immensely wider range of information. Anyone in the business of publishing info to an audience should think about implementing an RSS feed by this time next week. It's useful and falling-off-a-log easy. The other one that has me humming is SGV (scalable vector graphics). It's like Flash, but non-proprietary and open and in XML. It's being pushed hard by Adobe and is starting to get some real traction. AEM: Looking out a year from now, what's coming? Bray: My personal and professional bet is the kind of visual applications I'm building now. AEM: So, in a few years, instead of getting text back from Google, we'll get a visual look at our searches? Bray: Yes. The notion of Google, that when you search for anything that the results line up in a one-dimensional row from most to least important, is just bogus. When I'm searching for "stock" am I searching for equities or soup base? There's no one dimensional way to express the richness of what you can potentially find. UNQUOTE [Roland Tanglao: WebCMS]2:52:33 PM
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