The Education of Geeks and Freaks
Posted on Oct 14, 2007 05:44:05 AM
I am a teacher.
The official title on my business card is “Professor, Interactive Multimedia”, and I teach at the School of Media Studies and Information Technology at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto. I am willing to bet that a fair few of you reading that title will be thinking: “Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach.” I thought I would deal with that one Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Education, Freaks, GeeksAn Introduction to Client-Side XSLT: It’s Not Just for Server Geeks Anymore
Posted on Mar 17, 2007 12:01:34 AM
Learning XML by itself is a bit like learning Latin. You memorize the vocabulary and some grammatical rules, but it’s not really useful until you are provided with some context and can actually apply it (in medical school, for example).
We know that XHTML is XML, but it’s not used by most Web designers on a day-to-day basis. Its importance and usefulness aren’t even fully understood by most developers. Unless you’re Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Anymore, Client, Geeks, Introduction, Just, Server, Side, XSLTNew Issue: Educating Geeks by Tom Green
Posted on Jan 10, 2007 06:01:37 AM
This week Digital Web is happy to introduce perhaps more thought-provoking fare. Our resident Flash video expert and all-around excellent contributor Tom Green poses questions about academia, technology and hiring in The Education of Geeks and Freaks. Tom brings up salient points about correcting the gap between self-education, school and employable technologists.
While we’re focusing on education, a number of websites recently put new attention to curricula, educators and whether academics hold value for web professionals. WaSP’s Education Task Force recently announced a new focus and task force members. The SVA in New York recently announced a new MFA in interaction design, along with their new design criticism program mentioned here previously. Meanwhile, Ajaxian gets to the heart of the issue by reconsidering the question, What’s the Value of a College Education for Ajax Developers?
Tags: Educating, Geeks, Green, IssueThe Education of Geeks and Freaks
Posted on Dec 9, 2006 01:47:13 AM
I am a teacher.
The official title on my business card is “Professor, Interactive Multimedia”, and I teach at the School of Media Studies and Information Technology at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto. I am willing to bet that a fair few of you reading that title will be thinking: “Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach.” I thought I would deal with that one Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Education, Freaks, Geeks