A very Valentine’s Day edition over at the Wonks’ house.
Month: February 2007
Total 30 Posts
Meme Ketchup? Meme Catch Up?
On Physical Space
Click for larger. The meme asks us to ponder our interior design. I cringed. I tried to pretend I hadn’t seen it. I’m terrible at this.
Make it a point to check out Google’s Master Plan as concocted and animated by a couple of undergrads. This here’s an omen, but not about Google. This is it. Between this and that one web 2.0 movie you may have heard about, it’s hard to ignore that the visual representation of your ideas has as much to do with their success and fluency as the ideas themselves. PowerPoint slides just don’t pull down the page views like they used to. ยถ All that to say: this is an exciting time to be a teacher with graphic design and motion graphics in his back pocket.รย [via Motionographer]
I’ve been grappling with that leadership meme that’s floating around (thanks, Christian & Rick, for keeping me up the other night) but until then, can someone tell me what’s the point of podcasting? What’s your game here?
Full disclosure: I’ve listened to maaaaybe a couple of podcasts in my life, so it’s possible I’m simply not the audience. I’m an irregular audience for a photography podcast, NPR’s This American Life, and Slate’s Spoiler Special. Given the comments, I’m not sure what an avid podcast-listener looks like, but I’m pretty sure I ain’t him. Whether this constitutes an informed opinion of podcasting is, as it always has been, up to the discernment of the reader. From my perspective, the medium has offered up a survey of its advantages and disadvantages without much of a struggle.
In return, for the podcasting enthusiasts, here are a few reasons why your podcast isn’t feeding my iTunes jukebox, why I secretly wonder if podcasting is only on the guest list of Educational Tech Initiatives simply Because It’s There, if it’s simply ed-technology for its own sake.
Uh oh. Trouble in paradise.