http://johnlaudun.org an on-line notebook for John Laudun Wed, 16 May 2012 15:35:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://johnlaudun.org/20120516-4246/ http://johnlaudun.org/20120516-4246/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 15:35:03 +0000 johnlaudun http://johnlaudun.org/?p=4246 Making and learning are moving towards a merger. I don’t know who the person behind the Getting Smart website is, but the post is a useful synthesis of a number of recent efforts, or at least impulses, in this direction. While I wholeheartedly agree that education should be more facilitative, rather than instructional, than it [...]]]> http://johnlaudun.org/20120516-4246/feed/ 0 http://johnlaudun.org/20120516-4243/ http://johnlaudun.org/20120516-4243/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 15:18:47 +0000 johnlaudun http://johnlaudun.org/?p=4243 Glassboard 2.0 is out. I didn’t know about Glassboard before this announcement. I have been using, and liking, Minigroup, quite a bit. On the surface, Glassboard feels more graphic-friendly than Minigroup, but I won’t say anything more until I have test driven it for a while. Glassboard is produced by Sepia Labs, a collaborative, or [...]]]> http://johnlaudun.org/20120516-4243/feed/ 0 http://johnlaudun.org/20120516-what-scientists-read/ http://johnlaudun.org/20120516-what-scientists-read/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 14:56:48 +0000 johnlaudun http://johnlaudun.org/?p=4240 There’s been an interesting series of essays, and now projects, that focus on what scientists read and how it affects their work. While I know it has been an ongoing conversation in various venues for years, to my knowledge, the dialogue took on a new tone, and a new sense of urgency, with Neal Stephenson’s [...]]]> http://johnlaudun.org/20120516-what-scientists-read/feed/ 0 http://johnlaudun.org/20120515-4237/ http://johnlaudun.org/20120515-4237/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 22:02:32 +0000 johnlaudun http://johnlaudun.org/?p=4237 The Machines That Made the Jet Age.. I had decided that after the boat book I was going to get out of the making scene — all the attention in the academy stays focused on language — but I keep coming across articles like this and, honestly, I really enjoy reading them.]]> http://johnlaudun.org/20120515-4237/feed/ 0 http://johnlaudun.org/20120515-4234/ http://johnlaudun.org/20120515-4234/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 22:00:45 +0000 johnlaudun http://johnlaudun.org/?p=4234 We will miss the annular solar eclipse coming up on May 20 — we are too far east and the sun will already have set — but NASA’s map tells you if you are in the right place at the right time.]]> http://johnlaudun.org/20120515-4234/feed/ 0