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Web Tech Conf in Bali

delicious — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:55:14 +0000

A conference in Bali with track on web-based education. Currently in CFP stage, deadline 13 Jan 2012

Plagiarism in the Digital Age – NYTimes

Rich — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:34:16 +0000

Plagiarism has changed since the dawn of the web.

Code Tutorial Blueprint

Rich — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:42:19 +0000

I just watched a nice presentation by Yahoo evangelist Christian Heilmann who opened the show at FF09 yesterday. Whilst there’s a lot of good ideas throughout regarding the maintainability of JavaScript code, one nugget stood out about code tutorials. Christian Suggests a four pronged presentation strategy when writing tutorials for designers – it is equally valid when presenting concepts to fresh geeks:

Say what it does.
Show a working example.
Include the full code of the example.
Explain the example using code chunks interspersed with descriptive paragraphs.

A simple & sensible blueprint!

Four Levels of Competency

Rich — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:36:43 +0000

I was tickled to read in Teaching by Lecture of what N. Whitman calls the four levels of competency. The levels advance thus (my paraphrasing in parenthesis):

Unconscious incompetence (you don’t know you can’t do it)
Conscious incompetence (you know you can’t do it)
Conscious competence (you know how to do it)
Unconscious competence (you can do it, but you don’t know how).