Hello all,
Just some brief thoughts while working on this conference...:
a) Instructional
design as wayfinding. Wayfinding-Atlanta airport
is a great example of wayfinding due to Harding’s work. Álvaro gave already more content to understand this
concept. Now, try to substitute ‘Harding’ for ‘teacher’ on the next quotation, and
get your own conclusionsJ:
“If Harding performs his job perfectly you will
never think of him or his work. Its very success enables us to have our
minds engaged elsewhere. In fact, the only time we tend to be aware of his
craft is when it’s done poorly—when we are frustrated because we can’t find
what we are looking for(…)for Harding invisibility is a mark of honor.”
b) sans serif fonts:
Just
three fonts, Helvetica, Frutiger, and Clearview, are used in more than
three-quarters of airports. It was interesting to me to find out about
serif fonts, I never used Garamond, Times or Courier because they seemed as
complicated or even baroque to me. The article said that “for wayfinding
experts sans serif fonts prevail on every sign for one reason: They are
easier to read, especially so at a distance”. I’d say that it’s not just a question
of distance but of clarity as well and students do really appreciate that. In
fact, when they are writing by hand, we’re requiring for them as well to make
it as clean and clear as possible, right? Maybe using sans serif fonts can
provide more clarity on our task or designs…just and idea.
c) ‘Camtasia’: http://camtasia-studio.uptodown.com/windows
Video app free online just for 1 month and
even for this I paid for the zip decoder app but it seems a great one…,I didn’t
use it yet but for those of you loving doing tutorial, videos, capture stream
videos on the net, etc it seems great (although expensive one).
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