What is a Visual Practitioner? - IFVP Community
Welcome to our site and welcome to the world of "visual practitioning". If you've managed to find us, chances are you have some inkling about who we are and what we do. Perhaps you are a practitioner yourself, or perhaps you have worked with one of our colleagues. Or perhaps you have stumbled across this site as you've surfed the web looking for interesting 'graphic' resources. "So", you may be asking, "just what is a visual practitioner anyways?" We are an informal community of like-minded individuals - bound together by our strong beliefs in the power of "visual thinking" … knowing innately that a picture is truly worth a 1000 words, we come together to share our experiences, trade resources, support and encourage each other, and, year by year, raise the profile of our unique and growing profession. ABOVE: Sketchnotes by Heather Willems from 2010 IFVP Conference Ahhhh, perhaps you are scratching your head a bit over that general explanation. Looking for a Visual Practitioner?
Douglas Rushkoff: Why Johnny Can't Program: A New Medium Requires A New Literacy
Ask any kid what Facebook is for and he'll tell you it's there to help him make friends. What else could he think? It's how he *does* make friends. The kids I celebrated in my early books as "digital natives" capable of seeing through all efforts of big media and marketing have actually proven *less* capable of discerning the integrity of the sources they read and the intentions of the programs they use. Amazingly, America - the birthplace of the Internet - is the only developed nation that does not teach programming in its public schools. Just last year, while researching a book on America's digital illiteracy, I met with the Air Force General then in charge of America's cybercommand. As we continue to look at programming as a menial skill to be outsourced to developing nations, we will lose our innovative superiority as well. When human beings acquired language, we learned not just how to listen but how to speak. All systems have embedded purposes.
Methodology tutorial - design-oriented research designs
This article or section is incomplete and its contents need further attention. Some sections may be missing, some information may be wrong, spelling and grammar may have to be improved etc. Use your judgment! Page created by Daniel K. Schneider, 7 October 2008Last modified by WikiSysop, 4 August 2009 This is part of the methodology tutorial 1 Introduction Further complimentary reading: see the design methodologies category for a list of design-related articles in this wiki. 2 Key elements of a design-oriented approach Design sciences existed for a long time, e.g. in architecture and engineering, but only somewhat recently instructional design and educational technology researchers started to making an explicit claim for the necessity of design-oriented research. 2.1 The global picture Typical ingredients or steps of design research can be summarized with the following picture (Pertti Järvinen, 2004) Doing design-oriented research means to investigate at least one of the dotted lines. e.g.
APA Formatting and Style Guide
Note: This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be found here. Please use the example at the bottom of this page to cite the Purdue OWL in APA. You can also watch our APA vidcast series on the Purdue OWL YouTube Channel. Note: For more information about services for the Purdue University community, including one-to-one consultations, ESL conversation groups and workshops, please visit the Writing Lab site. General APA Guidelines Your essay should be typed and double-spaced on standard-sized paper (8.5" x 11"), with 1" margins on all sides. Font The 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual requires that the chosen font be accessible (i.e., legible) to all readers and that it be used consistently throughout the paper. While the APA Manual does not specify a single font or set of fonts for professional writing, it does recommend a few fonts that are widely available.
Best Places to Get Free Books – The Ultimate Guide
When we were reviewing 10 of the best online resources for free books, we had a LOT of readers chime in with their own favorites as well. Thank you for all your helpful contributions! In fact, we had so many suggestions, we have enough to compile a huge list from them, so here they are in no particular order: ManyBooks – Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader – Thanks Tony Bryan & abben BookCrossing – Where real books are released into the wild to be found by others – Thanks EngtechLibraryElf – The perfect companion to a public library system – Thanks EngtechScribd – Open library to publish and discover documents online – Thanks CincauHangus Word Public Library – 400,000 PDF ebooks for download – Thanks EllenFree Tech Books – Free computer science and engineering books (+ lecture notes) – Thanks EllenBookins – Swap real books with other readers – Thanks Jimbob WellToldTales – Free short story podcasts (like audiobooks, but shorter) – Thanks Kevin C. Google+
Project Polymath: Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Education for a New Renaissance
Note taking
1 Definition Note taking (or notetaking) is the practice of writing down pieces of information in a systematic way. DSchneider has the impression that Note taking includes the following: Taking notes in a lecture or a discussionTaking notes in a lecture + processing/annotating/rewriting these notesTaking notes from reading / on the Web in some systematic way. See also: literature review (since before and during a literature review, you may engage in note taking) and Methodology tutorial - finding a research subject 2 Note taking methods 2.1 The Cornell method The "Cornell method" has been designed for classroom note taking and it includes post-processing. According to the TNTT Wiki (retrieved, 17:17, 15 September 2006 (MEST)) The Cornell method is probably the most useful method for students at university. SQ3R is a note taking method from readings According to Note taking skills - from lectures and readings website (retrieved 13:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)): 2.3 Concept maps and mind maps 2.4 Charting
OWL: MLA Formatting and Style Guide
Coming Soon: A new look for our same great content! We're working hard this summer on a redesign of the Purdue OWL. Worry not! Our navigation menu and content will remain largely the same. Summary: MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. Contributors: Tony Russell, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth Angeli, Russell Keck, Joshua M. The following overview should help you better understand how to cite sources using MLA eighth edition, including the list of works cited and in-text citations. Please use the example at the bottom of this page to cite the Purdue OWL in MLA. Creating a Works Cited list using the eighth edition MLA is a style of documentation based on a general methodology that may be applied to many different types of writing. Thus, the current system is based on a few guiding principles, rather than an extensive list of specific rules. Here is an overview of the process: Author Said, Edward W. Number
