design thinking
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The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman My rating: 4 of 5 stars It’s dry — but if you let ideas percolate, rather than racing to finish it, I think almost everyone would find the intersections of engineering and design really useful to their work. Things I will take away: the product needs…
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Getting on the Train: A Decade of Shifting Culture in the School Library
Students were empowered to use technology for their learning as they were ready, and it was the librarian’s job to be responsive to this need.
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Donde esta Alanna King? At the Jornada de Bibliotecas Escolares
[This article was originally published in December 2019 edition of the Ontario School Library Association’s Teaching Librarian magazine] I am sitting in an auditorium in Buenos Aires, Argentina wearing headphones and a team of translators are converting every Spanish word spoken on stage for my benefit. As exciting as the journey itself has been, to…
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UX/UI Design with Canada Learning Code
I’ve been watching this group Canada Learning Code for awhile and trying to summon the nerve to go to one of their workshops. I worried that I would be completely out of my element and that I’d feel really awkward in a group of people more advanced than I was in the content. I first…
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Rethinking Learning Spaces
Source: Rethinking Learning Spaces A trait that I admire above all things is someone who is a creative risk-taker. When Mark Carbone reached out and asked me to talk live about my experience with redesigning learning spaces, my introvert hesitated for about 15 nanoseconds, before I responded “yes!”! Mark and Jamie and I come from…
threadbare beauty 