last august, i borrowed my mom's minivan to visit Eastman Business Park! here is everything i have since learned about invention and failure and nostalgia and capitalism and Rochester, New York. from the july/august issue!

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22/ but, and I cannot stress this enough, this idea of a lone tech hero or band of residents/citizens who will deliver radically better government services for trivial amounts of money is *toxic and harmful*. We'll never get the government services we deserve by relying on them.

We may have learning preferences, but essentialist 'learning styles' are questionable. Variety in content types and course activities supports good UDL principles. poorvucenter.yale.edu/LearningStyles…

TIRED: 'Catching cheaters.'
WIRED: 'Designing for academic integrity.'
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Design guidance to faculty on Making a Better Pivot: rit.edu/coronavirus/pl…

Don't boil the ocean, just get to the end of term. A thread:

Emerging models of peer instruction. #instructionaldesign RIT

Dr. Casey Fiesler It’s an uphill battle, though—our students have come up through an educational system that conceives of an individual student’s value atomistically. We talk about educational communities, but their passage through them is typically competitive rather than cooperative.

Here's something I think people should know more about: concentration fatigue. Deaf people have to use up way more of their brainpower communicating with hearing people: hearmeoutcc.com/concentration-…

I love the way a rare book library continues to provide opportunities for co-curricular engineering projects. Here, progress on a faithful reproduction of Ramelli's 16th Century Bookwheel. RIT Libraries m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

Simple, powerful way to take ownership of your course in the campus LMS: Customize the banner image. Miggi from Figgi at Innovative Learning.

World Interaction Design Day 2018, a collaboration between Upstate UX, AIGA Upstate NY and UxPA Rochester. Diversity and Inclusion is the theme, with talks from designers at @kodakalaris @paychex and REDCOM Laboratories. #IxDD2018

Friendly reminder: go to “settings and privacy” > “accessibility” > turn on “compose image descriptions” so you can make your images accessible to Blind/VI folks. 👍🏻

Nice little nugget of wisdom from Eric Idle: “Writing is like fishing: You have to go to the river every morning, or you won’t catch anything. You can’t predict what sort of fish you’ll catch, but if you’re not *there* you’ll get nothing.”

The good news is that while an academic career is stressful, it’s no more so than being a doctor or lawyer or any other profession. A major cause of stress is randomness. There’s a lot of it in every walk of life. We just have to learn to cope with it. twitter.com/random_walker/…

This collection tells the history of printing through 19 printing presses. It also houses a book woven entirely in thread with an automated loom, every comic book published in April 1956, and a print created from a direct impression of a bat wing trib.al/WFlNsoC

R. Roger Remington's classic 1966 #RIT logo design can still be found in a few locations on campus.

After the century-old oak tree at #RIT 's entrance fell in March, its wood was collected. RIT IndustrialDesign students in @ritcias are using it as a material in T-Minus 151, a week-long design challenge.

#RIT launches #MicroMasters program in #Design Thinking with #edX rit.edu/news/story.php… #RIT News