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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Do schools kill creativity?
swissmiss: Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize — much less cultivate — the talents of many brilliant people. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online. A typical review: “If you have not yet seen Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk, please stop whatever you’re doing and watch it now.”Education — laura
Friday, October 19, 2007
Teaching users to resize text with browser controls
Accessify: latest news / Teach a Man to Fish (or How to Resize Text)
It got me thinking, maybe it would be best to show the user how to change the font size rather than simply describe it. With that in mind, I put together some video clips, joined them together in iMovie and did a voice-over to explain how it’s possible. Here’s the end result (actually, this is version 2, which takes on board some of the comments in this post)
I’m interested to hear your feedback. Is this useful? Could you see people wanting to embed this on their accessibility page?
Personally, I find parts a little confusing but I’m pretty far from the intended audience. Still, I love the idea.
Education — laura
Monday, October 1, 2007
Dan Rather vs. CBS, and the truth about George W. Bush
Dan Rather vs. CBS, and the truth about George W. Bush | Salon.com
His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush’s National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses.
On Sept. 20, the day after he filed his suit, Rather said, “The story was true.” Rather’s suit may turn into one of the most sustained and informative acts of investigative journalism in his long career. He is not going gentle into that good night.
I haven’t seen anything about this in the librar* circles. I hope I’m not being naive to think that no matter how this turns out the results will be interesting.
General — laura
