This is an excellent, very informative, thought-provoking and funny speech by Sir Ken Robinson on the question whether schools kill creativity. Very inspiring, indeed… and now I finally know what the function of my body (that thing below the neck) is good for… getting my head to meetings… wow, that’s so strangely true 🙂 Posted […]
I’ve had this idea of designing a new tool/interface for reading/working with scientific papers some months ago… On the left, big part of the screen, one would have the actual paper and on the right there would be several boxes with different kinds of resources, e.g. the papers referenced in the text as hyperlinked PDF […]
In a rich and complex visual environment with informational overload, visuo-spatial cognition needs to be selective when it comes to representing relevant objects and locations in space. Hopefully, the visual world is structured, since objects and events tend to co-occur in predictable invariant ways (Biederman, 1972). Knowledge about such redundancies and regularities in the visual […]
I’ve found a forgotten bluetooth headset… a Plantronics Explorer 320, and wondered how to pair it with the iPhone 3G… and after some googling, I’ve found these instructions: How do I pair the Explorer 320 headset with my phone? Begin with the headset turned off. Press and hold down the silver call control button in for 6-10 […]
The website http://www.yearbookyourself.com/ gives you the possibility to see what you would have looked like, if you had graduated from High School in 1950, 1968, 1978, 1980 or 2000, and so on… Here is a “best of” of myself virtually transposed into different yearbooks… It’s quite funny… I actually look a bit like my dad, back […]
They must be on some serious drugs at MS??!!!??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6amk3P-hY Is MS really paying so much money for an ad that makes you wanna run and buy shoes (and get your stupid clown card with a “i-once-was-an-ugly-teenager” photo) instead of an operating system??? come on! the world must be upside down… best regards and a […]
It took me less then 3 minutes by car to get from the P&R Beggen to the parking in front of the Sandkaul on Campus Walferdange of the Université du Luxembourg. The distance was more or less 1.5km. I’ve checked this track using Google Maps, because they now offer the option to get directions for […]
I’m trying to free up some space on my internal hard-drive and find a lot of funny stuff from the past, that I think is somewhat worth sharing with my readers… Today, we have very short article, with a screenshot from a web site. It was published 28th January 2005 in the FEIERKROP, the only […]
It has become a real tradition with our bachelor in educational sciences students to make the famous “auertest” on our eLearning plateforme, moodle. Since they have to choose their optional seminars online and this activity opens at a certain time (defined by the server’s clock), it’s very important to know whether the server’s time is […]
I’ve been attending a seminar on “portfolio as a tool for professional development” on friday, that was organized by Michelle Brendel, one of my colleagues in the Bachelor in Educational Sciences @ uni.lu. And I’ve learned something (amongst other things, I guess) about how to use colored post-its to find out what topics or questions […]