Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » When you need incompetence fast - Annotated
how NOT to be a good leader/administrator
- Leave training to chance.
- Put training in the hands of supervisors who are not trained instructors.
- Make training unnecessarily difficult.
- Make training irrelevant to the students’ purposes.
- Schedule performance for times when people are not at their sharpest.
- Select people for tasks they have intrinsic difficulties in performing.
- Do not provide response aids (e.g., magnification of difficult visual stimuli).
- Design the job so it has no future.
- Avoid arranging working conditions that employees would find pleasant.
- Give pep talks rather than incentives to promote performance in punishing situations.
Creating Incompetence (individual level)
Knowledge
Capacity
Motives
A professional development course for community college educators.
possible tool for elearning - share an image, everyone in room can see image, can comment on image - what about digital photography?
Learnlets » Like riding a bike… - Annotated
elements of great learning experiences right tools, motivation, support, and environment - good story
- The lesson was that with the right tools, motivation, support, and environment, learning is magic. Are you making your learning experiences like that?
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - Annotated
Eye-tracking software was used to determine on several web pages the pattern people view the pages. Consistently it is in a F-Shaped pattern. Do students do the same with web content?
- Users won't read your text thoroughly in a word-by-word manner. Exhaustive reading is rare, especially when prospective customers are conducting their initial research to compile a shortlist of vendors. Yes, some people will read more, but most won't.
- The first two paragraphs must state the most important information. There's some hope that users will actually read this material, though they'll probably read more of the first paragraph than the second.
- Start subheads, paragraphs, and bullet points with information-carrying words that users will notice when scanning down the left side of your content in the final stem of their F-behavior. They'll read the third word on a line much less often than the first two words.
Implications of the F Pattern
The F pattern's implications for Web design are clear and show the importance of following the guidelines for writing for the Web instead of repurposing print content:- Users won't read your text thoroughly in a word-by-word manner. Exhaustive reading is rare, especially when prospective customers are conducting their initial research to compile a shortlist of vendors. Yes, some people will read more, but most won't.
- The biggest determinant for content usability is how users read online - and because people read differently, you have to write differently.
Friday, April 25, 2008
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