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Talk w/ Jason Babcock RE Color

  • February 18th, 2006

Matlab color tutorials / Sorting color tables
(Wolfram, mathmatica?)
Palette picking / what people can see, whats the point

Independant Device stuff…

Luminance variations vs color shifts (NTSC)

Von Kris (1907)

Film/camera static vs. humans as adaptive

color coding -> fidelity…

Macbeth color checker

Additive vs. Subtractive

Add UV and IR here? W/ Color

Metamerism

Maxwell (1735) Hunt


Color appearance models Mark Fairchild
1st. principles of color technology roy burns (art museum adjustment )
http://www.cis.rit.edu/people/faculty/berns/about.html

Rec. Outline
History
A vs. S
Universal Color Space (Gamut Mapping)

Flash-5-Programming-for-Designers

  • February 18th, 2006

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Flash-5-Programming-for-Designers/2464

1. Data Types
2. Variables
3. Expressions
4. Numeric Operators
5. String Operators
6. Logical Operators
7. Precedence and Associativity
8. Predefined Functions
9. The Movie Explorer
10. Putting it all together

Design Noir

  • February 18th, 2006

Dunne, Anthony and Fiona Raby. Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects.

What -
Why - Tom Igoe recommendation
Differences -
Ideas -

Excerpts & Notes

Experience Design 1

  • February 18th, 2006

Shedroff, Nathan. Experience Design 1. Indianapolis, IN: New Riders Publishing, 2001

What -
Why - Recommended by Tom Igoe b/c I’m talking about experience design, really.
Differences -
Ideas -

Excerpts & Notes

IML: Designing Subjects & Courses

  • April 21st, 2005

IML: Designing Subjects & Courses

EXCERPTS:

“In designing course programs, it’s important to consider the overall aims for student learning in the course and how the structure of the course and its component subjects enable students to achieve these aims….”
“Designing a subject also starts with considering what and how students are intended to learn, then designing the learning objectives, subject structure learning activities and forms of assessment with this in mind. On this site you’ll find some suggestions and resources for improving subject design, considering student diversity and introducing flexible learning. You may also be interested in the sections of this website on assessment, groupwork and e-learning.”

Teaching Goals Inventory Online

  • April 21st, 2005

Teaching Goals Inventory Online

Test to see if you are meeting your teaching goals.
Took it:

This table contains
your results. The third column contains the
percentage of items within each cluster that you
rated “essential.” The fourth column contains the
average rating you assigned to items within each
cluster.

Cluster
Goals Included in
Cluster
Percent Rated
“Essential”
Mean Rating

I. Higher Order Thinking Skills

1-8

50%
4.25

II. Basic Academic Success Skills

9-17

22%
2.11

III. Discipline-Specific Knowledge and
Skills

18-25

63%
4.50

IV. Liberal Arts and Academic
Values

26-35

30%
3.20

V. Work and Career Preparation

36-43

13%
2.25

VI. Personal Development

44-52

44%
3.89

You identified your primary role as a teacher as
“Fostering student development and personal growth.”

It may be useful
to compare your results to those of a large sample
of teachers. The following table provides mean
cluster ratings and the average percentage of items
in each cluster rated “essential.” The data were
collected from over 2,800 faculty members at 15
community colleges and 17 private four year
colleges. The sample is clearly biased in the
direction of faculty working at institutions with
the education of undergraduates as their primary
mission, and if your institution’s mission differs,
you will want to keep that in mind.

Table 10.3*
Mean Cluster Ratings (M) and Percent (%)
“Essential” Ratings
Four-Year Colleges
Community Colleges

TGI Cluster

M
%
M
%

I. Higher order thinking skills

3.05
43
3.09
45

III. Discipline-specific

2.86
37
2.83
36

VI Personal development

2.28
25
2.41
28

V. Work and career

2.27
21
2.50
26

IV. Liberal Arts

2.16
21
2.02
18

II. Basic Skills

2.12
18
2.29
22

*Reproduced with permission.

CTL: Publications / Teaching at Carolina

  • April 21st, 2005

CTL: Publications / Teaching at Carolina

Course Planning and Teaching

for narrative section…
notes on printout

Constructing a Syllabus

  • April 21st, 2005

Constructing a Syllabus
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Sheridan_Center/publications/syllabus.html

Excerpts:

Linking Effective Teaching to the Course Outline…

“How can I get students to discuss more in class?” “Why aren’t they completing required readings?” “Why did my students do so poorly on the mid-term?” “I’m teaching a class for the first time. What books am I going to use?” “How am I going to assess my students?” Sound familiar? Although these common questions may appear to be isolated issues, they are, in fact, closely related.

The source of the problems giving rise to these types of questions can usually be traced to the manner in which the course has been set up, or, more specifically, to the course outline, that apparently benign document instructors assemble and distribute to students at the start of semester. Whether it is intended or not, the quality of the course outline is a fairly reliable indicator of the quality of teaching and learning that will take place over the course of a semester.

Course Design Tools

  • April 21st, 2005

Course Design Tools

http://depts.washington.edu/cidrweb/DesignTools.htm

Even better.

Learning Tools

  • April 21st, 2005

Learning Tools

http://www.edo.ca/certification/learningtools/learningtools.htm

ROCKING for learning narrative section and delivery section.

From the “Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers” in Canada for certifying Aboriginal Economic Developers talking them through the process of reviewing distance education opportunities.