Camera techniques for academic film making
This is a resource that I made a few years ago. It is designed for the complete novice, to show how they can use simple techniques...
Design fixation and idea ownership in Design Thinking
Some thoughts on design fixation, and teaching Design Thinking, in response to the article “Whose ideas are most fixating, your own or other people’s? The effect...
Reading – July 2020
“Design anthropology for emerging technologies: Trust and sharing in autonomous driving futures”, Sarah Pink. et al., Design Studies 69, 2020. “Participatory design for sustainable social change”,...
Teams, team-working, and design principles for supporting it
I recently published an article in which I argued that Microsoft Teams is a team-working platform, works well as such, and we should not try to...
Microsoft Teams is not a VLE, and perhaps should never become one
In his book Well Designed, Jon Kolko explores “how to use empathy to create products people love.” We start from understanding real people, both in what...
5 key roles for supporting teachers and students to change educational practice
Changing how we teach and learn is often a messy and inefficient process. In this article, I will describe an ideal change cycle, which I think...
Should we use anonymous discussion and messaging channels?
There are very good reasons for wanting to allow anonymous student participation in discussion forums and messaging channels. Students can feel less inhibited, more open to...
For teaching we must now adopt a connectivist mindset
Education has very suddenly moved to a hybrid and flexible mode, sometimes referred to as “hyflex”. What does that mean? Hybrid: The media in which these...
Use MS Teams like a pro
That’s an attention grabbing headline, but the message behind it is simple: You can use Teams for videoconferencing, and it’s OK. But that’s like using an...
Two (virtual) heads are better than one for online lectures
Bo Kelestyn and I were asked to do an online version of our Introduction to Design Thinking lecture for the Humanitarian Engineering MSc at Warwick University....