Archive for July, 2006
Procrastination
This Psychology Today article outlines various causes for procrastination and offers some solutions. Click procrastination for a software solution.
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Loading ...A letter to Calculus students
Mathematician Devlin Angle argues that calculus and particularly the proof of the derivative is beautiful. Click Devlin for more information.
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A recent article lists the top 10 mistakes that Business Week interns make. Most likely applicable elsewhere. Click intern for article.
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After researching about 300 existing learning center websites, I came to the realization a few months back that our website could be much more than an online brochure or bulletin board, as is most of them. It could substantially augment the services that we provide. Well, our new website, the product of this thinking, is up and running, although it needs to be populated with content. One of the drawbacks of having it take much longer than anticipated is that I’m already thinking about what I want for website 3.0. Some ideas in the chute are to make it web 2.0 compliant; designing in a more seamless conceived from the ground up experience rather than accessing several different websites to provide blog, forms, and slideshow, etc., which comes across as clunky; reducing the number of pages by creating accessible pagelets on the homepage; and creating more integration with tutortrac across different pages on the site. We certainly don’t have Amazon cash to throw at web development but I’m not above stealing a few good ideas. For instance, it would be nice to make available dynamic student evaluations of our resource material in the same way that Amazon users rate books and other for purchase items. In any case, please let me know if you come across any websites that impress you or has features you think would be useful here.
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