“Design is thinking made visual.“ — Saul Bass This quote cuts to the heart of what good design shows–when everything in a space just “clicks” and feels comfortable, it’s really because the design is just reflecting the philosophies and beliefs behind it clearly. How do we get to that point when redesigning educational spaces? Most [...]
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Good design doesn’t just happen
October 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Design
The evening that the death of Steve Jobs was announced, I was in a hotel finalizing my slides for a presentation ironically called “What Librarians Can Learn from Apple.” As I watched some of the news coverage of his death, read the tributes online at sites like Wired, and saw comments scrolling through my Twitter [...]
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Libraries are “passion centric”
April 10th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Design, Web 2.0
What does it mean to live your passion? Recently, Joel Adkins and I met at Texas State University to hear Sir Ken Robinson, author of The Element, who was speaking there as part of their lecture series. His entertaining lecture was about the importance about schools helping students find their passion. He spoke up against [...]
Creating a culture of caring
February 14th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Design
Think of your favorite bookstore or coffee shop? Why do you go back? Is it the lighting, the warmth, the decor, the people who recognize you? When a place makes us feel cared for–like we belong there, we invest our loyalty in it. At the Educon 2.2 unconference, Bud Hunt, John Pederson and Zac Chase [...]
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A multi-faceted approach
February 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Design, Web 2.0
After seeing Kim Cofino’s presentation on 21st century learning at Langwitches‘s blog, I had to continue to “pass it on” and share it here. Not only is the presentation a clear and concise summary, but Kim’s slides are also beautiful examples of how good design makes a presentation more effective and inspiringly memorable. The 21st [...]
Libraries, schools and third places?
May 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Design, libraries
As the culture outside our schools change, are our buildings changing to reflect the “outside” world? Mitchell Joel’s interesting Six Pixels of Separation blog comments on a fascinating article in the Economist, “The New Oases,” about how people now are much more nomadic in their use of spaces. (I found Joel’s blog via Garr Reynold’s excellent Presentation Zen blog). Wi-fi, mobility, and [...]
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Embedding principles of design
April 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Design
Things of beauty attract our eye, refresh our spirits, calm a troubled moment, and bring joy and inspiration to our lives. I would even posit that good design can encourage us to “do better.” Continuing my thoughts from previous posts about design, I’m contemplating points that Daniel Pink made in Whole New Mind regarding [...]
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For simplicity’s sake
April 12th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Design
Rather than write about ideas for improving presentations that I’ve gleaned from wiser minds than mine, I decided to just “present” them: | View | Upload your own
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Can we help our students blaze new trails?
April 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Design
Design Are we challenging our students enough when it comes to design? A recent article in Library Media Collection by Joyce Valenza, led me to consider how we need to take more leadership to help students improve their presentation skills. With great thanks to Joyce–whose links led me to other links( in the random, yet not so random way that happens online)–I’m [...]
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