The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
Great article, and the design short comings are pretty easy to overcome. Via RSS4Lib
Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author.
This is an oft discussed topic on teknoids, so it is interesting to see that are larger issues here than whether or not a CivPro lecture is interesting enough to keep students from bidding on eBay during class.
Laptops in classrooms not working out as hoped
Some professors have responded to the prevalence of networked computers in class by changing their teaching styles. The University of Houston’s Prof. Adams, for instance, now peppers his lectures with enough questions to reduce students’ Web surfing. When he is discussing a particularly complex subject, he says, he tells students to close their laptops.