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10 Principles for the Future of Learning | Ecology of Education
J. Flom. July 2009. Ecology of Education.
A short history of structured flowcharts
Nassi, I. and Shneiderman, B., Flowchart Techniques for Structured Programming, SIGPLAN Notices 8, 8 (August, 1973).
Need to supercharge your business? Think like a designer.
P. Sloan. BNET, Sep 2009."Mention great product design, and the responses are predictable: You’ll hear about Apple or perhaps BMW, companies that make stuff its customers touch, feel and enjoy. Tim Brown, the CEO of design powerhouse IDEO, is on a mission to change that idea, or at least expand upon it."
From Simple Rules, Complex Behavior
A.S. Brown. ME Magazine, July 2009. "By layering simple behaviors, engineers are creating autonomous robots that can interact with the world around them."
Technology First, Needs Last
Essay by Don Norman suggesting that tools and technology drive design, and not the other way around.
Beyond Romary & Armbruster On Institutional Repositories - Open Access Archivangelism
(Jul, 2009, Stevan Harnad) "Critique of: Romary, L & Armbruster, C. (2009) Beyond Institutional Repositories."
Has Ontario taught its high-school students not to think? | University Affairs
(Sep 2007, by Alan Slavin) "Elementary and high schools spend so much time on the content-laden curriculum that students are unprepared for the analytic and conceptual thinking they'll need at university"
Policy on Marking Teamwork
By J. Radue, Brock University. An example policy for students, explaining how teamwork is to be graded.
How the brain filters out distracting thoughts to focus on a single bit of information
(Nov 2009) Science Daily news article about how the brain avoids distractions - the neurological basis of concentration.
The dark side of the internet | Technology | The Guardian
(Nov 2009) by Andy Beckett. Article discussing some of the unpleasant side effects of the Web. Unfortunately, the pathetic sensationalism inherent in modern day journalism means that this article is meant to spread fear and panic than suggest anything remotely approximating a reasoned, balanced view.
Blogging Innovation: 21 Great Innovation Methods - Latest innovation articles, videos, and insights
(Nov 2009) by Paul Sloane. Staggeringly superficial list of innovation "methods." Worthy of a rant.
Featured Article: Types of Requirements
R. Halligan. 2009.
An overview of some basic types of requirements. The underlying ontology is highly illogical, which makes this a great example of how business concerns can essentially destroy an otherwise perfectly reasonable concept.
Use this to argue for a better ontology of requirements.
Five Visual Search apps - Core77
(July 2009) Article describing 5 search applications based on visualizations rather than text displays.
Homes go from 'superefficient' to zero carbon emissions in Europe
News article from World Business Council for Sustainable Development, posted to ClimateWire, Aug 2009. Case study information about various European programs looking to make zero carbon homes and communities.
Why can't Canada do this sort of thing?
Free SEO Tools : Keyword Analysis Tools, Link Popularity Checker | Kittu K
(June 2009) "19 Handy Keyword & Link Analysis tools"
20 Essential Infographics & Data Visualization Blogs | Inspired Magazine
(Oct 2009) Article listing 20 blogs about infographics and visualization.
I should look into all of them.
Requirements Quality Metrics: The Basis of Informed Requirements Engineering Management
"Available data demonstrates that defective requirements are a dominant cause of cost and schedule overrun in technical programs. This paper presents a structured methodology for measuring the quality of requirements, individually and collectively. It is shown that requirements may be characterized by ten quality factors, each with an associated metric, and by two overall requirements quality metrics. In addition, the requirements engineering process itself can be instrumented by means of five process-related metrics. The paper describes the author’s experience with application of both types of metric to engineering decision making."
6 Ways To Take Your Webdesign From Good To Great
Six guidelines for improving websites, from a graphic design point of view. Not rocket science, but still useful.
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