December 2007
10 posts
Students 2.0 →
I love what these kids are doing. My suggestion: 1. read a random sampling of posts on this site; 2. re-remember that these are high school students; 3. shit your pants at their articulate passion and engagement.
The Math Less Traveled →
A quick browse found several very nice little pieces, all of which showed a clear appreciation of the elegant side of math.
Post Type: Question
I love the simplicity of a prescribed set of post types. But there’s one I really, really wish was available: Question. I want to be able to post a question, and have it be read/reblogged as a question—complete with dedicated icon/styling/etc. I guess I like the idea of a question floating around, getting people thinking, especially given the “unfinished is ok” feel of...
I like doing design
This summer, I took on my first ever design project: a redesign of the math textbook currently being written by my department (at Park School). It was terribly ambitious. I learned a shitload about design—from composition to typographic color to thousands of Adobe keyboard shortcuts. I’m pretty happy with the results, and, I’m happy to say, so are the students. Now I’m...
The Avett Brothers
(This isn’t new, but it feels somehow wrong to have a blog an not have this posted on it.)
This is a time where playing it cool is the way to be. It is a time where people are taught to hold back, to keep their best tricks up their tightly-buttoned sleeves, to guard their love. The days of sonnets spoken to girls in unreachable balconies are behind us, replaced with the new coldness;...
the true goal of any successful technological... →
[…] just how easy this whole “internet!” thing really is. While I feel that every new technology will have people that don’t just “get it” out of the box, the true goal of any successful technological venture should be to convert anyone who doesn’t “get it” into someone that does.— gentlefeeler Can we have an Nerdish Inquisition for this...
TechCrunch covers "Top 2007 Education Apps" →
A blogger put together a list of the best education apps and TechCrunch covered it. Mike Arrington says, Tumblr is, inexplicably, named the top learning aid. It’s not inexplicable. Tumblr is an incredibly easy and powerful publishing tool. Arrington just doesn’t understand it. — jakoblodwick For what it’s worth, within 2 minutes of seeing tumblr, I was thinking about the...
Hello
I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for several months now (specifically, I’ve been considering it ever since I finished grad school, where I finally learned to write). What stopped me was my intense aversion to being pretentious or self-indulgent. Who the heck cares what I have to say? The dichotomy: It’s pretentious to think the answer is “everyone”, but if I...
Big & Simple Ideas
There are two types of Internet startups…. Those that invent new technology. Those that invent new cultures. Google is an awesome example of #1. Tumblr is a fantastic example of #2. [….]— aaronwhite Apple does both.
“Verbosity when alone, Brevity with company.”
– Adam Conroy (How about if I lamely start my own blog with a reblog?)