Scientific American has posted an article on the connections between the spaces we occupy and the way we think. While they focus on how psychologists do these experiments they also offer a few thought-provoking ideas about what particular features work well for certain activities.
You can find the article here.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Show us your stuff!
Adding photos is pretty straightforward for blog authors, so if you've got any experience at all (say, in Blackboard), you can do this. I know you can.
Log in as an author, go to "New Post," and you'll get a window to write in. At the top is a menu of options which includes both an "add image" and an "add video" icon. Click on the icon for adding the image and you'll be given options to upload your photos.
You can also add links from text and change color as you see fit.
Show us what you've got! Good spaces are great but bad ones may be even more helpful.
Log in as an author, go to "New Post," and you'll get a window to write in. At the top is a menu of options which includes both an "add image" and an "add video" icon. Click on the icon for adding the image and you'll be given options to upload your photos.
You can also add links from text and change color as you see fit.
Show us what you've got! Good spaces are great but bad ones may be even more helpful.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
I've been in here.
This is my alma mater....after a major renovation. I visited this building about 4 years ago and got candid comments about it from more than one faculty person. There is a lot I could share about it, but what is notable to me years after being there is the office hallway. Scroll down to see a picture. While the hallway is removed from the lab and classroom spaces enough that the offices are really very private, they have windows and are clearly filled with light and a nice spaciousness. And the space does invite students in for the purpose of studying by putting an area they call the commons (essentially a small unscheduled conference room) at the end of the hallway. I like that idea.
http://www.d4cost.com/pdeliver.cgi?sub_id=free&token=RH596691
You should have seen the VSC before renovation......it has changed dramatically.
http://www.d4cost.com/pdeliver.cgi?sub_id=free&token=RH596691
You should have seen the VSC before renovation......it has changed dramatically.
Do you like this space?
Go here:
http://www.pkal.org/facilities/index.cfm?show=project&P_ID=234
and then click on the picture of the "Laboratory." This space looks to me like it might be suitable for teaching not only biology, but also some less-service intensive chemistry or other science classes. Do you see any reason this sort of space couldn't serve as a "general science" course that could be scheduled across the scientific disciplines?
http://www.pkal.org/facilities/index.cfm?show=project&P_ID=234
and then click on the picture of the "Laboratory." This space looks to me like it might be suitable for teaching not only biology, but also some less-service intensive chemistry or other science classes. Do you see any reason this sort of space couldn't serve as a "general science" course that could be scheduled across the scientific disciplines?
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