I think it makes total sense and your instincts for how to tap into students ways of thinking to make this activity work are right on. I also think participating in and visualizing connections is a really great way to teach otherwise abstract ideas that you refer to. Unfortunately I don’t know of tools that [...]
Handles, Aliases, Nicknames, Vanity URLs, etc – you know them by many names. They’re our unique identifiers, quick ways to pick each other out in conversation, be it online or offline. Maybe they represent a bit about our personality, or maybe just a shorter way to say a really long name. Whatever the case, people’s [...]
I have to admit, I really enjoy thinking about the experience of a consumer with all this new media we have available to us today. It’s a sort of weird hobby, but I have always enjoyed the challenge of the whole ‘step in someone elses shoes’ mindset that goes into recreating and living that experience. [...]
I’ve been waiting for a while for more research to come out like this, describing how thought, ideas, or (in this case) opinions travel between people. I’ve had a project I’ve wanted to create based on these concepts for about a year now and one of the things that has held me back was the [...]
