New look for BLP
In the true spirit of collaboration (or “emailaboration”), Jonah from TRintuition and I have improved the look and user “feel” of this blog to make it more useful for everyone involved in BLP. Jonah did all the work. I just responded, suggested, and cheered as his changes made it easy for all of us to find what we need and share what we have to say. Then, in the wee hours of this morning his time, Jonah breathed life into the new look by moving it onto the “real” servers. This is the stuff that true geeks and techno-designers thrive on.
So may your students. Never underestimate how much they may be willing to do so their projects have the right “look and feel” to communicate what they want to say. If you ask them to articulate why they are making the changes, you may find that there is far more understanding of the science or social studies or language arts concept they are SUPPOSED to be demonstrating. The visual is more than window dressing, though academia has often forgotten this in its preference for text. Really visual kids need really visual means, and the workBench is a great place to find the tools. That’s why TeachersFirst is happy to be working with them — and with you — to build learners.
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Hey,
This is Jonah
(aforementioned “geek-techno-designer” from TR
)
Shiny new toys are great, but we’re hoping that inside the pretty new packaging, the new organizational and navigational changes will help us all in this collaborative project.
The main menu CATEGORIES directly below the header are there to help you get to the type of content and discussions that interest you. When you make a post, try and file it under the appropriate category.
The SEARCH box is right there at the top of the page as well, and should help you see if someone has already solved a problem you’re having, or if a discussion you’d love to engage in is already going on somewhere in the BLP.
So that’s all. Just trying to help out.
Happy building and sharing:)