Wednesday, December 10, 2003

Floaters Taxonomies, classifications, structure and strategy, navigation, visual clues. These are a few of my favorite things... 2:10:03 PM  permalink

Renaming RSS: IMHO leave it alone My favorite librarian Jessica says: "I couldn't help thinking about other abbreviations that shouldn't have necessarily caught on, too, like maybe WWW, HTML, or even XML." 1:48:04 PM  permalink

Real project based learning Shimon Rura writes: I agree with Dave's sentiment that a long CV does not a good teacher make, but I think he's ignoring another aspect of research, one that is perhaps more closely bound up with learning than even teaching is. The Mark Hopkins/Log ideal notwithstanding, one essential learning relationship is that of the master and apprentice, where the apprentice learns his craft by actually helping the master. This kind of learning relationship happens quite successfully at Williams in the Honors Thesis programs. Generally, a student interested in pursuing research in a field is assigned a project that furthers his advisor's ongoing research agenda. Let's look at how this affects people at Williams from a few different perspectives. ... Added to my blogroll. 1:28:15 PM  permalink