Category: College
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envisioning information: escaping the flatlands
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte After the first thirty-five pages, I’m left with a desire to find a connection between design and information. Today, I met with a web site consultant for the University Catholic Center, my employer. If you visit the homepage of the UCC, it conveys a lot of information (we’ll ignore…
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social interaction
If you look at the social interaction styles of UT students today and ten years ago, they are vastly different. In today’s student environment, we head home after a long day and turn on our computers. Almost instantly, IM opens up connecting us to many of our friends who are online at the same time.…
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do i have time for this?
In PA 326, Intro to the Non-Profit Sector, we are supposed to find and work 35 hours over the semester in a non-profit. While 35 hours doesn’t seem like that much, the more I look at my calendar, the more I am unsure how I’ll be able to do that. I’m going to speak with…
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thursday is a dull day
For STS 321, we were asked to record a “media log” of how we interact with media over a course of a day. Here are my results: Thursday is not a good day for me to do a media log. I’m in class from 8 a.m until 12:15 p.m. with no break, except today I…
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Bad Information Design
I have always had problems with Blackboard, the online course content system that UT uses. It contains a great amount of information and can be very useful, it is organized badly. On the home page, they list every class you have taken since they migrated to Bb 6 in the Spring of 2005. There are…
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student office building
I’ve had this idea for some time now and I think it is ready for a public forum. Being a full-time college student is a full-time job. We’re in the classroom between 12, at the least, and 30 hours a week, depending on labs. Plus, we’re expected to study at least an hour a day…