finally got to view this video, thanks for sharing.

it is more about the paradigm shift than anything else. students are so used to being either right or wrong in the classroom that they have come to doubt themselves. this is why publishing is so crucial and “thrashing” in the beginning is crucial. getting first drafts is darn near impossible, which is why publishing is so crucial cause we can thrash from the get go and all through the process. I do more work with my scholars in the first half of any project cause i thrash with them every day until finally they “get it.” in pre tech days we had to wait till the scholar finally handed in something anything and reluctantly they would revise. with publishing, we always have something and we can then thrash till an end product is in view earlier rather than later. publishing is good because it lets us thrash.

one of the aspects of publishing on the web that i love is that it is always under construction. just as the software folks have version 1.0 then 1.1, then 2.0, then 2.1 as so on that we constantly revise and it is about finishing lots of times not just once. we are coming out of a paradigm that when we publish we are done until the second edition. now with web publishing our paradigm shifts to publish, thrash, and republish or ship and reship and reship again. so working on the web and publishing from tghe get go allows you and your scholar to thrash from the get go and by the way, they are shipping early, thrashing and revising.

i always hated pre tech days getting a paper from a student a day before it was due to review before revising. publishing on the web circumnavigates the old ways and because it publishes or ships early so thrashing has to happen early.

another block to “yes but” is publishing early so our scholars can see they can do something by doing it and thrashing. publishing, shipping has changed because of the web.

quieting the lizard brain is by making the web page from the get go and working on your work on the web live and saving is publishing so scholar and teacher can thrash early and often.

this is the paradigm shift, pulling the plunger so hard we break it by changing the status quo.

I see my scholars loving to break the plunger and publish their work. when they come in the next day they look forward to finding a print out of their page from me and with my comments so they can make their work better and see that it is appreciated.

once we get them to publish and start and publish once, it is down hill from there.

schools have traditionally encouraged the lizard brain in us. when we decided to publish our scholar’s work online and put them in control we changed all of that, bill.

ted

And like you, I find it really doesn’t matter. Kinda like driving my wife’s Corolla, my Legacy, or our Ford pickup–I have to operate each a little differently, and they all have different capabilities, but I still manage to get where I’m going in any of them. For the most part, it’s all marketing–advertisers try to make you feel you need the newest/best/most original/etc., when all you really need is something to drive down the road.

Thanks for ranting Bill. I don’t know if it made you feel better, but I sure feel better.

As I’ve continued working in this field, I’ve made an effort to get the user involved in the development process regarding interface design.

Good reminder. Cheers.