Living @ the Crossroads of IT & ID

modified from Flickr image by Harshad Sharma

Alan Levine

Maricopa Community Colleges

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Facing The Future

Flickr image by Eisenvater

... with a sense of dread?

Or, Facing The Future

Flickr image by John Pawley

... with a sense of wonder?

I'm Not an Instructional Designer

modified from An American Time Capsule collection image found at Library of Congress' American Memory

... but I play one on the Internet

Design

appears everywhere

Who's Here?

Flickr image by Coolmel

IT/ID Spectrum

Flickr image by Jason Michael

Programming to Pedagogy (and back again)

Good Design

Image from Supreme Court Historical Society

"I Know It When I See It" (á la Defining Porn) or when I do NOT?

Expertise Redux

Knowledge in Head / Knowledge in World (Donald Norman)

No Recipes

Flickr image by Gini

Blogger Experience

• Why Blogger?
• http://itl05.blogspot.com/
• 30 minute activity + reflection + discussion

Technology Trends

Flickr image by Dan O'Brien

The Psychic is in?

»Harry Mudd, Small Pieces, and that not widely distributed future

Rate of Change

Flickr image by Paul Chapman

The Dark Side

Goes With the Light

spam, hackers, porn, phishing, id theft

Web Standards

<blink>...</blink> → XML+CSS+XHTML

» Web Standards Project • Designing With Web Standards (Zeldman) • Web Standards Checklist (Max Design)

Web Content

static / hand coded → dynamic / database driven

The Next Web

Web 1.0 → Web 2.0

» Read/Write Web (Weblogg-ed) • Web 2.0 • WikiPedia

Content/Tools

proprietary / monolithic / locked → open source / small pieces / open content

» SourceForge • freshmeat • OpenOffice
Small Technologies Loosely Joined • Rip. Mix. Feed.
OpenContent • Creative Commons • WikiPedia et al

Organizing Data

Structured / Metadata → Folksonomy

Folksonomy (Wikipedia) • Folksonomy (Many-to-Many) • Ontology is Overrated (Clay Shirky) • SmartMobs

Audience

Clearly Defined → Likely Unknown

Content

Consumers → Producers + ReMix Culture

» ReMix Culture (Wired July 2005) • Remixing Culture: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig • postdigital remix culture (John von Seggern)
Rip Mix Learn

Who's Using? Where?

Geeks + Innovators → Consumer "Best Buyification"

» Japanese Schoolgirl Watch (Wired)

expertise

Individual → Group / Social Software

» Social Software Weblog • Many-to-Many • Social Software and the Politics of Groups (Clay Shirky)

Literacy

Text / Print → Visual / Multimodal

» International Visual Literacy Association • Henry Jenkins (MIT)
Plan a Camping Trip (Wiki)

ID Process?

• Not Always Linear
• They Learn Differently (Natives/Immigrants)
• One Size Fits Fails
• Flexibility for Churn
• Evolutionary
• Participatory
• More Important Than Ever!

The Zen of flickr

• What It Does (blog like):
  • in page editing • upload tools + email + cameraphone • My flickr • Sets • Syndication • Publish to Blog
• Tags and Tag surfing:
  • Mine • Everyone's • Grand Canyon • Eyeball • Iraq
• Groups (Discuss and Pool):
  • Squared Circle • Recipes to Share • Literature Hoedown

More Zen of flickr

• Hotspots:
  • Tarte au citron • Volcano Diagram • Art History Class
• Reuse is Simple:
  • Flickr Creative Commons
• Interesting Uses:
  • Digital Scrapbook • flicktion
• Open API -- Third Party Apps
  • Tag Related Browser • Flickr Graph • Flickr Vancouver aerial map • Flickr Montager • Flickr Album • Spell with Flickr

A flickr-ing Experience

• Instructions
• Digital Creativity
• Note Experience and Design
• 45 minute activity + reflection + discussion

Everyday (Learning) Things?

by Donald Norman (1990)

• Doors • faucets • QWERTY
• Affordances
• Natural Mappings
• Paradox of Technology
• Avoid: aesthetics first • atypical users (designer) • creeping featurism

Business Design?

Fast Company June 2005

• How To Act Like a Designer
• ...Or Just Look Like One
• Strategy by Design by Tim Brown (Ideo)
  • Hit The Streets
  • T-Shaped People
  • Build to Think
  • Prototype Tells a Story
  • Design is Never Done

Interaction Experience

Flickr image by Hajime Nakano

• Instructions
• Sample at least One from Column A, B, and C
• 30 minute activity + reflection + discussion
• What Designs Work? Do Not?
• Translate For Instructional Design?

Getting To Your Crossroads

Flickr image by Caroline Härdter

25 Ways To Beef up your ID
25 Ways To Beef up your IT

Perhaps Not A Crossroads

Flickr image by Dav Coleman

But Parallel Lanes?