- My name is Katrin Becker. This is my blog. It is about Digital Games, Educational Technology, Computer Science, Academia, and sometimes Rural Life and other notions. Comments are welcome but will be edited as necessary to maintain relevance.
Quote for the Day
“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. *No one* ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”
by Terry Pratchett JingoPosts Gone By
tags
Academia American Society Anti-Games Artificial Intelligence Becoming a University Bullying & Mobbing cats Computer Science Distance Education dogs Doing it Right on the Web Education Educational Technology Entertainment Environment Ethics Fail Farm Life Games Games in Society Game Studies General Google Docs Higher Education Information Technology Instructional Design Interdisciplinarity Internet Living with Nature lols Methodology Miscellaneous Programming serious games Silliness Society Software Industry stories Teaching & Learning Technology Trouble in River City User Experience Design User Interfaces Violence Virtual Learning EnvironmentsTop Liked Posts
Powered by WP Likes-
Recent Posts
- Choose: Education OR Fun. Apparently, you can’t have both.
- » Top Ten Ways to Annoy a Gifted Child giftedguru.com
- Interesting Take on Gender Stereotyping in Comic Characters
- Why Education Publishing Is Big Business | Epicenter | Wired.com
- The dark side of Apple’s digital textbook utopia | VentureBeat
- Learning Outside the Box: Sweden debuts first classroom-less school | SmartPlanet
- SOPA Supporters
- Note to Faculty: Don’t Be Such a Know-It-All – Teaching – The Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Rise of the New Groupthink – NYTimes.com
- Gamasutra – Features – 7 Things To Know About HTML5
- Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives (Forbes)
- The Value of the Designer Who Codes | Inc.com
- Janice Harper: Top Ten Reasons to Rethink Anti-Bully Hysteria
- My Wish for 2012
- What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success – Anu Partanen – National – The Atlantic
Meta
Worth A Read…
Bullying & Mobbing
Education
Friends & Others
Games
Informatics
Rural Life
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Fail: How NOT to do user experience design (I)
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting really weary of dopey interface design decisions on the web. I’ve got 30 years in CS – I have a pretty good idea about what’s possible, what’s easy, and what’s hard. DO … Continue reading
Posted in Doing it Right on the Web, Fail, HCI, User Experience Design
Tagged Fail, User Experience Design
1 Comment
And Still There’s Trouble in River City… sort of.
It’s the same old same old – human cry from those that have because they fear they might have to share. A Well-written article worth the time to read. 100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words For … Continue reading
Posted in American Society, Trouble in River City
Tagged American Society, Education, Trouble in River City
Leave a comment
Teaching Introductory Programming: We’re Doing It Wrong (still)
I just read Mark Guzdial’s excellent post on some of what’s wrong with how we teach introductory programming courses. Question Everything: How We Teach Intro CS is Wrong The notion that we should be modeling expert behaviour when teaching programming is … Continue reading
